I wish Powers had said "Rwanda" instead of "monster"

[julialnyc]

Samantha Power has devoted her life to stopping genocide.... and for people to blindly insult her is ignorant and filled with blind ambition for their candidate to win. She put her foot in her mouth, deal with it.

[tekisui]

1. It was a goof. But, she is a tireless fighter for oppressed and

victims of genocide. She should have stayed behind the scenes.

[malletgirl02]

4. I agree

Power is very smart, and has done a great deal of good, but she isn't good with the media. Behind the scenes working on nuts and bolts foreign policy was the best place for her.

[MrCoffee]

7. She is on her book tour, she's not a paid spokeswoman

The whole interview was predicated on her new book. She's not a paid operative.

[malletgirl02]

20. Thanks, I didn't know that nt.

[Cant trust em]

8. I agree. She's an academic, not a spokesperson

Communications is clearly not her area of expertise.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Yep.

x(

[MrCoffee]

3. Samantha Power is so very much better than any cheap political campaign

Clinton is a fool for attacking her, and Obama is a fool for accepting her resignation.

[julialnyc]

5. I agree

I just wish they would give a little background and respect for this woman while covering her for this lame story

[MrCoffee]

6. AMEN!

From as little as DU appears to know about her, some background would be a very good thing.

[TahitiNut]

12. She's an extraordinary human being. Intelligent, conscientious, humane ... the works.

From the perspective of years, I can wholly overlook the momentary candor of a 30-something youth in the context of some enormous accomplishments and a track record of excellence.

[Phillycat]

9. If she has that kind of background, it's even more surprising that she was

stupid enough to make those kinds of insulting, unthinking comments.

[MrCoffee]

10. Do you have any idea who she is?

I'm really asking, because this is the second time I've seen you respond as if you've never heard of her.


You know i :loveya: you.

[Phillycat]

16. No, I've never heard of her.

And I don't understand how, if she has the background you all describe, she wouldn't know that every word she speaks in this primary, as heated as it is, is going to be printed for all far and wide to read! I thought her comments were very insulting to Hillary supporters. I was insulted.

I :loveya: you too. :hug:

[MrCoffee]

21. She was on her book tour, talking to a foreign reporter

You should read some of her work, especially A Problem from Hell, for which she won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Nonfiction, it's truly inspirational. I've been privileged to see her speak, and she has the kind of intelligence that scares you to see it in action.

She is not a professional politicial operative. Personally, I can absolutely see her getting a bit blindsided by the question/topic of the primaries and letting her passion take over. Regrettable, but completely understandable.

The Obama campaign is worse off without her. She would be a tremendous asset to any Democratic administration.

[WinkyDink]

11. So her understanding of genocide led her to label Hillary a "monster"? Bizarre.

[Beausoir]

13. That's for sure. She has seen the horrors of genocide and she casually throws the word "Monster"

around?

Looks like she didn't learn much from her experiences.

[anigbrowl]

14. Yeah, they give out pulitzers to anyone these days

Then again, maybe she sees something in Clinton that reminds her of what she's seen elsewhere.

[MrCoffee]

17. and let any old yahoo found the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

at the JFK School of Government

[julialnyc]

18. She also remembers the Clintons and Rwanda (not that the words have parallels), but it may go to

show why she was with Wes Clark and then Obama and not Hillary

[julialnyc]

15. Give me a break.... if you are really going to take her that literally

You are trying waaaay to hard to be angry

[elixir]

19. I don't mind. It's her career, which I'm sure will survive, thank you very much.

[nomaco-10]

22. Many good and honorable people will...

become causalities of the clinton style of politics before it's all over. I see karl rove's playbook all over the hillary campaign.
I'm not as mad at the HRC campaign as much as I am the ignorant people willing to buy the "obama is a dreaded muslim poised to take over the country" meme, and the other monumental lies that are spread by billary enthusiasts that will do anything for another clinton saga.

[FrenchieCat]

23. 800,000 Rawandans were left to die by the Clinton administration.....

and "Monster" doesn't do justice to that decision as it was made at the time. If Hillary "cared" so much for women and children, that was her time of red phone crisis that she should have brought her to the fore. It didn't.