Obama adviser resigns after "monster" remark

"I made inexcusable remarks." At least she's finally being honest about it.

called that one.

Well, she is a monster.

With friends/advisers like Rezko, Power and that NAFTA-economic adviser, Obama doesn't need enemies. They're doing more damage to him than the opposition will.

Hey, this is the fight for the Presidency...it will be tough, it will be nasty...get used to it Obama...grow a thick skin.

Ahh..truth claims another victim.

No wonder people hate politics so much.

Why? After all every word of it was true. Hillary rides a broomstick at night I swear it!

I am much more appalled at Hillary's camp referring to Obama as another Kenneth Starr! Give me a break. Heads should roll over that one.

Yes, she is a monster. And a major league liar.

I am so tired of all the negative campaigns -- on the local, state, and national levels.

If those who are running for office are not mature enough to stop their childlike finger pointing and name calling and intelligently address the issues the American people care about, then they should not be running for office.

Are there ANY Republicans or Democrats who can take the high road, and campaign like civilized, educated, adult human beings?!

I agree that the advisor who made the Kenneth Starr comment should resign. By way of full disclosure, I like both Clinton and Obama but despise Kenneth Starr and everything he stands for.

Now if the hostile Michelle Obama would only resign from the campaign also.

Hey, how about a report on how Obama actually won Texas?

He came out of Texas with 3 more delegates than Hillary Clinton, even though on Wednesday it was widely reported that she won Texas.

What gives?

Wow! An adviser for a democrat who apologizes and resigns when she screws up? Maybe there is something to all this "change" the Obama people talk about.

I expected her to go the Dick Durbin route and "apologize if anyone was offended". I wonder how the "Ken Starr" comment will play out?

So this is another example of how ethical politicians--ie, those other than the Clintons--take responsibility for their mistakes.

Here is an eyeopener involving the Clinton library and efforts to keep their misdeeds out of the public eye ...

DISPATCHES FROM THE GROUND WAR ...

Archivists block release of Clinton papers

By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY
LITTLE ROCK — Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.

The archivists' decision, based on guidance provided by Bill Clinton that restricts the disclosure of advice he received from aides, prevents public scrutiny of documents that would shed light on how he decided which pardons to approve from among hundreds of requests...

She should not have resigned. Hillary is a WITCH and HYPOCRITE! Follow this link.

http/deepbackground.msnbc.msn/com/archive/2008/02/29/718285.aspx

Interesting for someone who supports women's rights.

Only Nobama would fire someone for telling the truth.

The truth sometimes hurts.

Sorry she felt the need to resign, because she was right.

Well, well, well, looky what we have here: politics as usual?! Say one thing, do another. Lead by example? You are only as good as your advisors. Ever hear of "top down" management? Obviously the Obama team is talking out of both sides of their mouths and if we listen closely, the deafening sound of hypocrisy is obvious. Transparent government? Only what I want you to see. Give me a break! Obama you have some explaining to do on a number of issues, not the least of which is why you can't control your own staff. The "we have run out of time", or "I was busy" or "that was a boneheaded move" doesn't cut it! Not with the press and not with the American people. If you are going to run for President on the platform of “change you can believe in” or "new politics", then you’d better do it. Actions do speak louder than words.

Go Hillary! A proven, tested, vetted leader ready to go to work for us on day one!

Hillary calls Obama a Kenneth Star simply because he asks her to release LAST YEAR'S tax returns, like she should have already done as Senator and presidential candidate?

What's she hiding?

Why doesn't the media focus on THAT.

Seriously, this Rezko garbage needs to stop. You people sound like a broken record.

Guess what. Rezko and some of his co-defendents gave the Clintons (and a handful of Republicans) more money than he gave Obama. The difference? The Clintons kept it.

Since the name of Chicago defendant Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko has come up in national debate, it seems fair to look at donations from other defendants in Chicago’s "Operation Board Games."

Of the other five defendants, three have donated to the Clintons or to Clinton supporters, three have donated mostly to Republicans, and at least two have donated to Obama’s political opponents. None have donated to Obama.

Citizen X's post that "Hillary rides a broomstick at night I swear it!" raises an interesting issue.

Can someone say Obama "rides in his pimped-out Caddy at night, I swear it" or are statements like "rides a broomstick at night" reserved for the white female candidates only?

If Obama gets elected does this mean no one can ever use the words “fairy tale” again, or any other words that might suggest he doesn’t know what he’s doing or what he’s talking about or that he might be full of BS, because that might be shouted down as racially insensitive?

That’s a serious issue, regardless of Obama’s politics, if political speech is going to be curtailed about something as important as the performance in office of the president of the United States, because someone’s feelings might supposedly get hurt. I’m guessing anything remotely resembling any of the delightful remarks about Bush's chimpy appearance, intelligence, preparedness for office and performance in the last seven years would pretty much be out with the prince Obama.

I can't imagine four years of an Obama adminstration's games.

As a conservative and longtime supporter of Senator McCain, I have no horse in the Dem race. But I will agree, Luc, with your assertion---trouble, is, though, that heads won't roll in the Clinton camp over the "Starr" slur. That's the difference between the two Dem camps. One punishes inappropriate behavior, and the other rewards it.

While this was politically the right move the part of the Obama camp, what she said wasn't that off base. The context of her remark was in response to the Clinton "kitchen sink" smear campaign that I think lowered the caliber of discussion in this campaign and serves as a great example of what happens when you cross a Clinton. I agree with other posts that the "Karl Rove" comment was arguably as bad, and also a real sign of desperation from the Clinton campaign. Why not release your taxes? Asking the question is not "Rovian".

Sunny Florida, maybe you could poke your head out where the sun actually is shining? Power spoke on her own and as a consequence was swiftly removed from the Obama campaign - no hypocrisy there.

Clinton's campaign is in a shambles. It ran out of money and she had no strategy post Super Tuesday and had to resort to the "kitchen sink" strategy, which basically means you throw every distorted truth about your opponent you can come up with at anyone who will listen and hope some of it sticks. Do you want her running the country when she can't even run her campaign without going broke?

If the media didn't love a horse race, everyone would know she's already lost the race.

I hope this is a case of a savvy campaign higher-up falling on the sword. Its about time for Obama to take the gloves off.

If Hillary Clinton Got that important phone call at 3a.m. Would it not awaken husband Bill who is sleeping next to her and would she not confide in him and ask him for his advise. I dont believe she would make a snap decision
on her own without his O.K

All staged fainting and plagiarism aside, can’t change the fact that many of his supporters counter with claims of racism when anyone goes after him. If only Obama would condemn the type of media manufactured racial hysteria at Duke University or the motives of those who exploit it.

Monster? What of the new politics of hope? Did Obama first renounce and reject her before she resigned, or maybe just renounce, not reject. Old school politics as usual, no hope kept alive here.
HILLARY 2008

O'Bama would have looked more presidential if he had fired her. Insteadm he just said her remarks were unfortunate, .

This looks more like a staged fainting to demonstrate how Obama is taking the high road.

I don't know that I would have called Hillary a monster. But "Sybil" fits pretty well.

I'm another person disgusted with negative campaining! Why can't candidates just let us know what their mission is and how they will accomplish it - forget the dumb stuff and grow up! We need an ADULT in this election!

Jen was probably forced out by some means concerning Clinton, i bet its something personal you know and i know how the Clinton's operate when they're in the hot seat they will lie and cheat to get her in the White House, i'll be so glad when this mess is over, i'm sick of them

the associated press is reporting that a clinton aide offered assurances to the canadian government about nafta, but clinton manipulated the truth and made it appear that obama was lying about nafta

I am so tired of all the negative campaigns -- on the local, state, and national levels.

If those who are running for office are not mature enough to stop their childlike finger pointing and name calling and intelligently address the issues the American people care about, then they should not be running for office.

Are there ANY Republicans or Democrats who can take the high road, and campaign like civilized, educated, adult human beings?!

Posted by: Bleu | March 7, 2008 12:09 PM

There are Bleu... they lose elections at the district level to someone who sladers their good name. Game over.

Everyone pays lip service to wanting "an end to these negative politics". It'll end when we stop voting for it. You can't blame the politicians, they're just doing what works. The ones who "keep it clean" lose. Until that changes, you're going to continue seeing our highest elected officials acting like 6 year olds on the playground when it comes time to win an election.

The argument that Powers should not have resigned because what she said was true doesn't cut it with me.

I agree that the Clinton camp's disingenious and underhanded campaigning is offensive and harms the chances of Democrats generally in the fall. But the Obama camp needs to get better at message discipline if he means to mount a successful campaign in the fall. Letting go of an advisor and surrogate so boneheaded that she'd make a comment like this one "off the record" to a paper like the Scotsman is a good start. Obama has been careful to adopt a certain tone, and can't allow its surrogates to undermine that with the public.

In addition, personal attacks against Clinton serve no purpose. She missed an opportunity to close the delegate gap on Tuesday, and wrongheaded media coverage nonwithstanding Obama will almost certainly be the nominee now. He will need Clinton's supporters to get behind him, and when his people call her names it does not help that effort.

I was gratified to see Power's resignation tendered so quickly.

What Professor Samantha Power said of Clinton, that she is "monster", has been said saveral times already by some Democrats and even by some highly enlightened women. Obama has denounced the characterization. Why are some readers putting the blame on Obama? Besides, please examine the nature of Clinton's strategies since some few weeks now: she has exploited gender, feminism, racialism, religionism, tears, lies, sarcasm, victimism, self-pitism, and finally fear to stage her comeback. Small wonder that some intelligent and truly liberated women now feel the way Prof. Samantha feels. Why blame Obama? These readers should read Maureen Dowd's "A Wake-Up Call for Hillary" in the March 2, 2008 issue of The New York Times. None of us is angel, so do not expect the moral standard of Obama you do not expect of yourselves. Please don’t drag Obama into this. Hillary could call Obama a Kenneth Star without apology. What is wrong asking a presidential candidare to release her tax returns? Oh, American politics!

SHE IS A MONSTER...

tyranny of the majority

"Go Hillary! A proven, tested, vetted leader ready to go to work for us on day one!"

Yes proven to be a crook (stole from the WH when moving out), vetted leader I think she was a den monster once, but beyond that what leadership has she shown, oh ya that great health care plan during her husbands term, wait that failed. Go work for McCain, oh you already are cutting down your own party. Slash and burn, right out of the Rove & Bush handbook.

All of you who are judging the politics fed to us on a daily basis b/c there seems to be no other news to report...Who are we to judge what the media feeds us? It is sad that people can be so mean, rude and hurtful during these historic times.

Y'know, I'm not nearly as well educated as this lady, but even I know enough to say "Off the Record" to someone when I'm about to say something I want heard in confidence.

People are using the "broom" analogy with Hillary because it fits, not because she's a white woman. We can't forget her cackle, the shrill arguments with Bill, the Machiavellian twists she orchestrated to walk the path that she's on now. Let's face it - Hillary Clinton lures in new voters with her gingerbread house.

If Obama wins there will never be a serious investigation into political corruption in Illinois. Fitz will get a lofty promo to Washinton.

Calling Hillary Clinton a monster is being charitable. She's a vicious back stabbing, bile spewing hate filled nutball. I cringe at the thought of her getting elected. I would pine for George Bush.

I hate George Bush! But I hate the monster more.

I have watched every debate. In those debates, there was one candidate who not only was for change but actually told us what had to change and how to change it. That candidate was Ron Paul. If the people who support Obama are truly for change, why weren't they behind Ron Paul. Let's see. Unlike Ron Paul, Obama doesn't tell us what has to change. Unlike Ron Paul, Obama lets his supporters play the victim card and doesn't ask that they take any responsibility for our country's problems. Unlike Ron Paul, Obama lets his supporters assign blame for the worlds ills to "the other" (in this case, big business, lobbyists, pharmaceutical companies, doctors). Ron Paul asked us to change. He asked that we take individual responsibility. He asked that we stop relying so heavily on government. He asked that we become fiscally prudent, as individuals and as a people. Ron Paul is the anti-Santa Claus, and Obama is Santa Claus. As we all know, Santa doesn't exist. And as we all know, many families go into debt every year to buy their children everything they want. It hasn't worked for those families and it is a prescription for disaster for our country.

Well, as we all know, our country is already declining but we don't need a big spender like Obama to guarantee a sooner demise.

Ok, Ok...Maybe the staff can't call her a monster....but I can. She is a monster. Now, about the Kenneth Starr reference. Since Hillary's camp brought it up, let's go even further and see if Susan McDougal wants to finally answer those three questions she refused to answer about the supposed $300,000 loan the Clinton's knew "nothing about".

Nice of Bill to pardon her in the final hours of his term.

Now if only Obama would resign from the campaign. With Powers, Naftagate, years-long Rezko connections, funding money to Rashid Khadili, Obama is talking out of both sides of his mouth on too many things and would make a horrible president.

The wheels of the Obama bus are falling off, falling off, falling off. The wheels of the Obama bus are all falling off. All gone now. Your facade is showing Obama, and your lead is not "insurmountable" as you state. And that was the wrong thing to say, as even if it is, does that make you the better candidate?

Yes, the bold truth hurts much more than anything else.

After winning more delegates in WY and MS, Barack should come home for a Chicago St. Pat's celebration. That's O'bama for President!

I'd have to say there is a lot of truth in what she called Hillary Clinton and she should have not resigned. That being said, someone in Hillary's camp should be allowed to call Osama Obama an 'empty suit'.

Since Barack's aide compared Hillary to a monster, I think Barack should apologize to all monsters, for that unflattering comparison. And just to be on the safe side, he should apologize to all "Munsters" too (living, dead, or "undead").

as one of the most delicate and powerful aspects of the office of president is the means and opportunity to choose whom to place where, is it clear yet that obama has extremely limited capacity to choose people?

Bleu writes:
"Are there ANY Republicans or Democrats who can take the high road, and campaign like civilized, educated, adult human beings?!"
The answer is yes, Blue. His name is RON PAUL!

Oh, and Hillary is a MONSTER of the worst kind.

Is the Clinton Camp going to ask for the resignation of the person who compared Obama to Kenneth Starr. The references are about equal.

Yes, Hillary is a monster, a hideous creature of mass porportions that must pull out of the race or our planet is doomed!

This thing is over, Obama has won it. The math is clear and it sounds like the Party is in agreement on listening to the people, the primairies.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/119010

Daschele said the same thing last night on the Daily Show.

Of course, Hilary's not a monster! Let's just say, she acts like a monster.

I believe it was Forrest Gump who said, "Stupid is as stupid does." Well, monster is as monster does. Now I think Senator Obama needs to call for the resignation of Wolfson because he called him Ken Starr, even though I think that's a compliment but the only reason her campaign did this was so that she can play VICTIM again. Nevertheless, Obama needs to keep socking it to 'em, keep exposing Hillary and be offensive until the cows come home!

Obama needs to gain back some momentum...and this doesn't help.

Finally Mr.Obama's "Fairy Tale" ride is experiencing turbulence! It's about time that voters are begining to wake up to this almost Jim Jones cult-like phenomenon.From now on Obama and his uppity folks will have to answer and deal with some "down-to-earth" problems. I am a middle aged black man form Wash DC metro area who didn't join that "friendship, all talk train".

Who cares what a lobbyist like Daschle thinks? I thought Obama didn't have lobbyists working for him?

The only math that's clear to me, and I don't have a horse in the race, is that neither can get enough delegates to clinch without the supers. That means dealmaking is what will decide the dem nominee.

p.s. Isn't it funny how Samantha Power went from presumptive SecState in a hypothetical Obama administration to unemployed in three swamp posts?

This is a clear sign of how untested Obama and his advisers are. A serious mis-step and her career is over. More seasoned campaigners know better.

She should not have resigned-

Are we seriously discussing Hillary being called a "monster"? Well, I hope someone in the Obama campaing calls her a "meanie" or "no neck" so I can waste my next Friday afternoon at work reading about that.

Seriously people, let's focus on something meaninful like Hillary's "experience" picking up the phone at 3 a.m. to hand it to Bill.

When my dog ran away I got a call at 3 a.m. from the person who found him. You don't see me posting ads all over town as the most qualified person to find your lost dog.

Doesn't the President have a TON of advisors who are experts in their field to provide sound advice and strategy and whose job it is to be ready at any time (3 am?)? I want a President who can afford to pick the best advisors instead of picking those who financed his campaign and don't have adequate experience. I want a President who won't cry because of a setup question, get angry because things don't seem fair (life's not fair, lady), and can take the facts, remain calm, and make sound decisions. I guess I'm preaching to the choir since we in IL did our job and voted overwhelmingly for Obama.

"Are there ANY Republicans or Democrats who can take the high road, and campaign like civilized, educated, adult human beings?!"

Yes, but the press ran all those guys out of the race before it barely started. Hillary v Obama sells a lot more papers, as will, the first v McCain.

Are we seriously discussing Hillary being called a "monster"? Well, I hope someone in the Obama campaing calls her a "meanie" or "no neck" so I can waste my next Friday afternoon at work reading about that.

Seriously people, let's focus on something meaninful like Hillary's "experience" picking up the phone at 3 a.m. to hand it to Bill.

When my dog ran away I got a call at 3 a.m. from the person who found him. You don't see me posting ads all over town as the most qualified person to find your lost dog.

Doesn't the President have a TON of advisors who are experts in their field to provide sound advice and strategy and whose job it is to be ready at any time (3 am?)? I want a President who can afford to pick the best advisors instead of picking those who financed his campaign and don't have adequate experience. I want a President who won't cry because of a setup question, get angry because things don't seem fair (life's not fair, lady), and can take the facts, remain calm, and make sound decisions. I guess I'm preaching to the choir since we in IL did our job and voted overwhelmingly for Obama.

A monster by any other name is a monster! Not literally but in actions. But what is a monster?

It seems that anyone, anywhere can resign or be fired when messing with a Clinton...verbally. But say the same about an Obama and see what happens...nothng.

I am not necessarily a fan of Lou Dobbs, but he does not seem to hold back on the facts being the facts. I am becoming more and more disillusioned at the Democrats.

Someone earlier said that Obama had come out of Texas with more delegates than Clinton. I don't know where they got that information, but I just checked one of the sites that's tracking the delegate counts (CNN Politics) and they have Clinton with a 6 delegate majority in Texas. Before you post your pipedreams, make sure you can back them up with the facts.

Annie, where did you get that information? I just checked CNN and here are to totals: Hillary: TX 65, RI 13, V 6, OH 71. Total 155. Obama: TX 61, RI 8, V 9, OH 59 Total 137. Texas was close so it split almost even, but OH was more for Hillary and she did better there.

Hey Grant "HERE'S FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN." And now the floor evens out. Yes She Can! Yes She Can! The Daily Show, I watched that for the first time on Monday, 2 seconds -- click! True garbage.

"I made inexcusable remarks."

What is our country coming to when people can't handle name-calling and criticism? Hillrod IS a monster!

People really need to suck it up and grow some skin. Where is this new trend of being so vulnerable and weak coming from?? Everyone has to be so politically correct, sypathetic and worried about offending others.

If it's this bad now, imagine how bad the children of today will be when they become adults...a nation of cry-babies with absolutely no backbones.

This is pathetic and makes me sick.

Hillary no longer has to claim
'right wing conspiracy' for any negative (real or imagined) commentary - she can refer to 'Obama and his hope-amine altered campaign fiends' ... Please, Hillary, give up!

As a conservative and longtime supporter of Senator McCain, I have no horse in the Dem race. But I will agree, Luc, with your assertion---trouble, is, though, that heads won't roll in the Clinton camp over the "Starr" slur. That's the difference between the two Dem camps. One punishes inappropriate behavior, and the other rewards it.
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Excellent Comment! Hillary is going to get even nastier to win - I WANT OBAMA!!

Perhaps, there is a better word to describe Hillary. So, tell me, what would YOU call a person who changes beyond recognition every time he/she loses a primary?

"What is our country coming to when people can't handle name-calling"

It's called civility and politeness, Dave, you might want to look into it.

Well, it's true. They should make a muppet like her for Sesame Street, they call it something cute like pantsuit.

She deserved a raise.

-Really amazing that democrats are only now reaching these conclusions about her.

Truly sorry about Miss Hillary having the vapours at hearing the word "monster". (Keep that in mind for those 3 am phone calls, guys.) But then, people who live in glass houses probably shouldn't sling mud.

Based on the comments above, Team Clinton may be (once again) be learning the meaning of the words "blowback" and "backlash".

Howard Wolfson is the one who who came up with that absurd Ken Starr comparison, btw.

Harold Ickes made a fool of himself on Charlie Rose on Monday, with his sleazy comments that "we just don't know enough" about Obama (nudge-nudge, wink-wink).

'Rovian' was Hillary herself (plus the "as far as I know" comment).

Mark Penn's already been pushed to the sidelines.

Which would leave...Mandy and Bill. :-)

Couldn't agree more Dave. But they're democrats, the champions of PCism, and apparently they can't reconcile their new found reality of Hillary's true form.

From now on Obama and his uppity folks will have to answer and deal with some "down-to-earth" problems. I am a middle aged black man form Wash DC metro area who didn't join that "friendship, all talk train".

Posted by: Art | March 7, 2008 2:45 PM

Art as a blackman I find your use of uppity very interesting. I don't know many blackfolks that wouldn't take exception to that. That said, Obama has went through all the issues if you would take the time to put that computer to better use.

Google is a good place to start or his website.

By the way sice the subject is Hillary Clinton being a monster, while I think that is a harsh thing to say I do believe she has turned into something that usually only comes out when there's a fullmoon out!

With friends/advisers like Rezko, Power and that NAFTA-economic adviser, Obama doesn't need enemies. They're doing more damage to him than the opposition will.

Hey, this is the fight for the Presidency...it will be tough, it will be nasty...get used to it Obama...grow a thick skin.
Posted by: mbs | March 7, 2008 11:58 AM

I agree with most of this except the "grow a thick skin" part as it relates to this resignation.

Powers acknowledged her mistake and move-on (dot org). I don't see what this has to do with OBAMA having to grow a thick skin.

Aside from the fact that she's a Democrat and now former Obama advisor, Samantha Power strikes me as being a very intelligent, sensitive person who simply spoke what her heart was telling her. Hillary Clinton, after all, is a monster.

Dick Morris, who once worked for the Clinton called her a monster on at least one occasion (and probably more). The New York Post aptly dubbed Bill and Hillary (or Billary) the “Two Headed Monster” for their scorched earth campaign tactics in South Carolina and Nevada.

When someone my age thinks of a “monster” the first image is that of Frankenstein’s Monster with visible sutures, green complexion, stumbling gate and the ever popular neck bolts. On further reflection, what made Frankenstein’s monster a monster is that it was an unnatural creature that evoked fear and outrage. And that is Hillary to a tee.

Just the other day, the Clinton campaign accused Obama of imitating that Right-wing bugbear Ken Starr. The subtext: be fearful because Obama is prone to persecution. The now famous “3:00 a.m. phone call” advertisement, with images of children sleeping while trouble lurks in the world, is another Clinton fear mongering episode. The subtext of the ad was that one should fear having Obama as President because he couldn’t respond to a deadly crisis at 3:00 a.m. with grace under pressure. That was the same message Hillary Clinton delivered in January when she observed that the next President will likely face a terrorist attack, to wit: she was ready, but no one (including Obama) could say the same. The same is true of the Clinton camp’s circulation of a picture of Barack Obama dressed up as a Somali elder. The subtext of that campaign was again: fear Barack Obama because he’s a closet Muslim. Then there was the time Hillary’s campaign put out a pamphlet slamming Obama’s health care plan, claiming it would leave 15 million people without coverage. Even Ted Kennedy said, “It's basically fear mongering.”

Nor is the Hillary we see a natural creature. She is a composite of whatever she and her colleagues want us to see. One day she is a slick, cosmopolitan Senator, but the next day she can affect a “corn-bread” accent to endear herself when addressing a minority group. The day after that she can speak with a wide-mouthed soccer mom tone when addressing middle-America. [And she calls this multilingualism.] And then, of course, there are the episodes of Hillary with her emotional appeals and crocodile tears; of her seeding and manipulating crowds to stage what appears to be spontaneous exchanges. Her unnatural, chameleon-like behavior proves that Samantha Power was correct in her other statement about Hillary: she will stoop to anything to get the nomination.

What’s more, Hillary is campaigning on the promise of being a monster in the White House. Anyone who wants to increase federal spending in the face of the massive debt, growing inflation, ballooning Social Security and Medicare obligations, and a looming recession is just asking to see the entire system go spiraling out of control. And undoing Duh’bya’s tax cut isn’t going to be enough to fund both our existing financial obligations and pay for all of her new gimmes either. Thus, she is either bent on ruining the country, or she is lying to everyone because she knows she can’t deliver on half her promises. That makes her too stupid to govern, too much of a monster to govern, or both.

I it no surprise that we will have another election to find out who is the least odious candidate. Accurately describing Hillary as a monster serves to make that choice easier. So, I say: Thank you, Samantha, for telling the truth. You shouldn’t back down.

Gimme a break. Is Hillary an untouchable??? She sure defers to Obama and others pretty close to the edge and moreover. And, the posts I see are pretty wicked too. Hillary is maddened to the point that she feels and believes she can say anything (even flipflop)and it's okay; then uses tears, and words to the effect of saying "I'm a woman you know and you've hurt my feminine side...by your being so masculine and abusive..." and then turns around and says she's a real fighter but ever so humane and wants no war and should not have signed onto it and then is ready when the phone rings for whatever. She should have answered the phone instead of Bill and told Monica where to go. Well, I guess PE folk have to be careful of what they say about libs and Dems but sock it to those Repubicans. Stick to program and issues, real issues. Is Obama rolling over for her or is he playing it cool and waiting for support when those votes are finally defined. Oh yeah. Watch the name calling then. And, don't forget to blame it on Bush....whew!!! Such useless waste, money, and time of any taxpayer to hear about this trivia. I wanna know more about those miracles she and Obama have proposed. And, we have got to keep these posts and the media in hysterics; makes for daily laff. Just vote for McCain and never mind the rest and you'll all get the best without all of the rest. By the way, all of the names afforded Bush have been worse. But no one said a thing ever. Thought it was cute matter of fact, so shows you where it's really at. For, as matter of fact, it was not cute nor proper or appropriate and makes our country look like a bunch of stupids. Carry on. Who cares about image unless it's peculiar to an untouchable. Amen.

Wow. This is really sad. She shouldn't have called Hillary a monster, even though its true. But Samantha Power is a truly amazing woman. She should be sec. of state. This comment shouldn't destroy her relationship with Obama. Her mind and experience is too valuable to throw away because of one stupid comment that is actually true about Hillary

Accountability! So fresh to see in America. Maybe Ms. Power can mentor our Tyrus Thomas!
Also, Jay, why attack Michelle Obama for using her right to free speech!
Are you honestly proud of America's ``pre-emptive'' war that has claimed thousands of lives, caused mass destruction in the middle east, and cost trillions of dollars that could have been used to fund our pathetic school systems and infrastructure? I won't even discuss Abu Ghraib and the repeated misbehavior of our ought-to-know-better troops. We need to admit our mistakes and
Michelle Obama was courageous to speak her mind. I respect her and her right to free speech. Ms. Powers is entitled too, just not when representing ever classy OBAMA!!

Obama's campaign is not the only one to take the high road. In December Bill Shaheen (husband of ex-Gov Jeanne Shaheen) "resigned" as Hillary Clinton's campaign co-chairman in New Hampshire after saying that Obama's drug experimentation as a youth would be an issue in the general election.

In my ten years of reporting I've followed this rule: if a source says something to me and then claims it is off the record, I don't consider it unethical to run the statement. We can't have an off the record conversation until I agree it is off the record. And anything said to me is said for publication until I also agree that we are talking off the record. Sources can try to reel back controversial statements all they want; it is not unethical to print something said on the record that a source then tries to take back.

I might be more flexible with that determination if I'm taking with someone who is not used to dealing with media. But this is a woman who has been profiled numerous times, written about thousands of times and even appeared on The Daily Show. She's a reporter, herself, and she should've known how stupid it was to say something like that to someone interviewing her for a story.

I don't know how any Clinton supporter can look themselves in the mirror. Did you just arrive on this planet? Do you not read? Do you not know the Clinton's history all the way back to the Ark. Governor's mansion and late night booty calls with Roger and his stash, the body count, Vince Foster and the "cleaner" Maggie Williams who is now doing the same job? Juanita Broderick, Genifer Flowers, Dubai payroll, illegal contributions from the Chinese, and on and on and on. This is what you want for leadership to end the divides that hurt our nation? The Clinton's thrive on a divided nation, they worship the politics of personal destruction, getting illegals and convicts signed up to vote. Putting the money on the streets to the ministers to get the people on the buses. Don't kid yourself Clinton supporters. Don't sell your soul to the Devil. She is evil incarnate! Monster is far too soft.

Barack Obama’s Whitewater?
Barack O"Bama wanted to buy a house in Chicago. The house had an adjoining lot.
The House and lot are priced at $975,000
Obama couldn't afford $975,000.
Obama goes to Antoin “Tony” Rezko, for advice.
Rezco makes it possible for Barack Obama to buy the house in this manner:
On the same day at closing Obama buys the house for $350,000
On the same day at closing Rezko's wife purchases the lot for $625,000.
The appraised value of the lot prior to closing was $243,000
After closing Obama acquired 1/6 of the lot for $104,500, or a sixth of the original $625,000 purchase price. The sale closed in January 2006."
Cost to Obama for the house at closing was...................... $350,000
After closing Obama acquired 1/6 of the lot..........................$104,500
Net cost to Obama for House and 1/6 lot.............................$454,500

House and lot on the date of closing combined was sold
to Obama and Rezco together for the listed price................ $975,000

Obama paid the Rezkos $104,500, or a sixth of their original $625,000 purchase price of the lot only, because he was acquiring a sixth of their land. The sale closed in January 2006." The appraised value of only the lot at closing was $243,000.According to the appraised value of the lot $243,000, one-sixth of Rezko's lot was worth $40,500. Six-sixths would therefore be worth $243,000. Rezko's wife paid $625,000 for a lot worth $243,000. Got it now? That is NOT full asking price. That's $382,000 TOO MUCH. Coincidentally, right next door, Obama is BUYING a house for $300,000 LESS than the asking price. Then he pays Rezko $64,000 TOO MUCH for the sixth of the lot he's adding to his property. If you can't smell the stench you haven't got a sense of smell.

Has the land remained vacant? If so, what was Mrs. Rezko's purpose in purchasing it?

Does Mrs. Rezko routinely purchase land in her name only?

Does what's left of the land -- if it's still vacant -- meet local zoning laws as being big enough to build on?
If not, what good is it to her? And if it is big enough to be a buildable lot, is this an area where new construction is common?

Monsters are purely mythological creatures, kids. Obamanations, made up of parts of other creatures, real and imagined.

Gene - you raise good points and good questions, but I believe your numbers are seriously out of whack. Get your facts straight! And I'm a person who thinks the whole deal needs to be investigated.

Ms. Power needed to go. A foreign policy advisor needs the ability to ascertain the difference between a "monster" and a cretinous rat.

As respects Ms. Power, I can only say "Yum." I leave the histrionics to the Libs.

"Monsters are purely mythological creatures, kids. Obamanations, made up of parts of other creatures, real and imagined."

Posted by: Matt Mezger | March 7, 2008 7:31 PM

Really, Matt?

Are you telling us, then, that Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and Saddam Hussein never existed; and the recollections of all of them were the product of mass hysteria? Most people would consider these guys monsters in the extreme. I suppose a lot of Vietnamese thought Johnson and Nixon were monsters too.

The word “monster” is not universally used in the restricted sense in which you choose to use it. You can’t always win arguments by defining everything out of existence.

What a show she RESIGNED and ended up on a TV talk show. Go girl. Down with Obama.

The poor woman is a left wing academic who teaches at Harvard. She's accustomed to venting her lunacy in class while her students nod mindlessly in agreement. The professor got a lesson on how the real world works- just like her buddy Goolsbee.

Gosh, Chicago seems to espouse love for the most corrupt politician running in any campaign. Obama has worked the system, but the Clintons are the consistent masters of grand larceny. Are the dynamic duo of Hill and Bill monsters? Well, frankly, yes.

1. Today Barack Obama is running a presidential campaign based on hope and change. Yet with such undisputably good and lofty reasons to run for the presidency of the United States, he has been called a “hope monger”. About his uplifting speeches about hope, Clinton accused him of plagiarizing his speeches.

When Obama offered his public service credentials while working in Chicago instead of as a high priced lawyer, Clinton accused him of having ties to a 'slumlord'.

2. When Obama asks for transparancy and public release of tax returns he is called a member of the infamous Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy by the Clinton campaign. You sorry americans allow this. After all, transparancy if for us, the citizens of the United States. We must have information to make a decisioin on the candidates.

3. When asked about releasing her white house itineries to allow the public to determine if she has the experience she claims – she refuses or equivocates. and calles Obama “ill-prepared to be president."

4. When asked to release her tax returns to the public as Obama has requested and has done, she has refused and now equivocate by saying maybe by April 15th.

5. When asked about fairness and if Michigan and Florida’s banned votes should count (Obama was not even on the ballot in Michigan) she could care less about rules and fairness. Clinton wants to change the rules and count those delegates. It’s all about her, if it means the absence of rules – so what. Rules don’t apply to her – like the rules that all citizens must abide by. Yes, including you. Why???

6, While Obama states he will abide by the decision of the Democratic Party, when asked to work out a fair resolution to the banned Michigan and Florida primaries Clinton has told U.S. News and World Report that she opposes any sort of do-over for Florida and she would not accept it if Michigan were to hold a caucus. So much for her ability to resolve issues.

7. Clinton will stop of nothing, do anything, will observe no limits to what she will do win the presidential election. See how long you stay out of jail if you rob a bank to feed your family. Any 12 year old knows you can’t justify means for ends. And she readily admits it. If this means destroying her opponent, or destroying what he stands for and in the process destroy what may be America’s only hope at decency and humanity in this presidential campaign– she will do it.

4. Now I ask you, does Hillary Clinton deserve, no – cry out – to be called “a monster” or better yet “A Hitler.”

5. Samantha Power is the founding executive director of the Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide." With credentials like this has Samantha Paul crossed over the line by describing Clinton “a monster” or doing all American citizens a great service by bearing witness to the truth and at the same time calling to attention to the pathetic state of America, land of the free and home to political monsters. The fact is that if a Clinton can exist in our society it is because of you. Yes you - All of us citizens. It is something all americans should be ashamed of. You deserve a Clinton.

Gene did you get your numbers from public records? Any person can get the numbers from public records in each state in USA. If they don't know how any title company can tell them how or any real estate broker can look it up.
Our country needs to hear from all our presidential candidates constructive ideas like improving trains and public transportation and ending Bush's war immediately. The war is killing our youth and leaving others injured for life and still others committing suicide and costing our reputation among the world powers. Not to mention our treasury was in the black when Bush took office and now it is in the deepest red since I was a child in the depression.

I think the Clinton and Obama campaigns need to clean up their acts. I don't mind aggressive politics and questioning of policies. However, the name calling that is done by both campaigns and their supporters sounds like something that should be done on a kindergarten playground.
- www.unfilteredopinion.com

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The fact is that if a Clinton can exist in our society it is because of you. Yes you - All of us citizens. It is something all americans should be ashamed of. You deserve a Clinton.

Posted by: doc1400 | March 7, 2008 10:25 PM

doc1400,

I agree with everything you said, except these last three sentences. Many people in this country do not support the political culture that would allow her to thrive. A large number of people (myself included) are critical of her behavior and viewpoints. In addition, I have never voted for Hillary Clinton, and I never will (and that is certain). Because I take responsibility for myself, and feel no compunction to feel guilty for the acts of others with which I disagree, I have nothing to be ashamed of with regard to her. Neither do you or anyone else who opposes her.

Wow. This is really sad. She shouldn't have called Hillary a monster, even though its true. But Samantha Power is a truly amazing woman. She should be sec. of state. This comment shouldn't destroy her relationship with Obama. Her mind and experience is too valuable to throw away because of one stupid comment that is actually true about Hillary

Posted by: Chrissie | March 7, 2008 5:28 PM

The bottom line is that she gave voice to what a large amount of Americans have been thinking for weeks, if not years. Hillary Clinton's a MONSTER. She's also a megalomaniacal, egocentric whack job with multiple personality disorder. Other than that she's very capable of being a world leader.