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Ex-Obama Aide Now Helping 'Monster' Hillary

Samantha Power
joined State team
after slamming Clinton

Politico Politico Nov 29, 08 10:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Samantha Power will have plenty of time to tell Hillary Clinton how she really feels. The former Obama foreign policy adviser, who was forced to resign during the campaign after calling Clinton “a monster,” is now working on the State Department’s transition team, Politico reports. With Clinton expected to be named secretary of state any day now, things could get awkward. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • State Department • transition • transition team • Samantha Power

OPINION

 Karadzic Arrest
 Shows the Hague's Value

Even warrants can hurt bad actors

Time Time Jul 23, 08 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - For all those who doubt the effectiveness of an International Criminal Court warrant, just look at Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Samantha Power imagined the arrest differently when she was reporting from Sarajevo in 1995, but his diminished circumstances now show just how crippling and demeaning it is to run from the international community, she writes in Time . More »

More about:  Serbia • Bosnia • Radovan Karadzic • Yugoslavia • International Criminal Court • Sarajevo • Samantha Power

ANALYSIS

Obama's Foreign Policy Would Be Radical Overhaul

Advisers talk up breaking from orthodoxy with 'dignity' doctrine

American Prospect Mar 25, 08 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama provides “the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique” from a presidential contender in decades, writes Spencer Ackerman in the American Prospect —focusing not on fear, but rather on what advisers call “dignity promotion.” Ackerman credits the candidate's brain trust with cutting through “Democratic timidity” to look at the root causes of anti-Americanism and address misery on a global basis. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • John McCain • Hillary Clinton • Iraq war • al-Qaeda • foreign policy • Samantha Power • Susan Rice • Denis McDonough

UPDATED

Mudslinging Obama Adviser Steps Down

Harvard foreign-policy expert referred to Clinton as a 'monster'

Reuters Reuters Mar 7, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - One of Barack Obama's top advisers resigned today, hours after the publication of an interview in which she called Hillary Clinton a "monster." Samantha Power apologized to both candidates, but her remark contrasted sharply with the campaign's take-the-high-road strategy, Reuters reports. "She is a monster, too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything," Power told the Scotsman . More »

More about:  Barack Obama • Election 2008 • Hillary Clinton • negative campaigning • foreign policy • Bosnia • Samantha Power

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