3/7/08

Obama Foreign Affairs Advisor Resigns over making "Clinton is a Monster" comment

Is it just me or was the monster comment kind of 'nailing it'...Anyway maybe it was how I had to apologize to 'everyone' upon using one of those "7-banned words " I see she used in her oft-handed quote after I missed a putt on the 18th-hole many years back in my youth at my parents' country club ....it is what it is...too much honesty....;>))

Obama campaign advisor Samantha Power, a foreign affairs adviser and Pulitzer Prize recipient resigned this morning after it was released she made off-handed personal remarks towards Sen. Clinton and her campaign last Monday. The comments were made to the Scotsman newspaper er in a stroy released today called "Aide blurts out attack in Scotsman's interview"

In an unguarded moment during an interview with The Scotsman in London, Samantha Power, Mr Obama's key foreign policy aide, let slip the camp's true feelings about the former first lady....

..."We f***** up in Ohio," she admitted. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win.

"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.
Ms Power said of the Clinton campaign:
"Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there, too.

"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh'. But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."

Later this morning Ms. Power resigned and released this statement.

"With deep regret, I am resigning from my role as an advisor the Obama campaign effective today," Power said in a statement the Obama campaign e-mailed to reporters.

"Last Monday, I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor, and purpose of the Obama campaign. And I extend my deepest apologies to Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, and the remarkable team I have worked with over these long 14 months,"

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