A Barack Obama adviser has resigned after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton “a monster.”
A campaign official told The Associated Press Friday that Samantha Power’s resignation is effective immediately.
Power told The Scotsman that Clinton is a “monster” who will stoop to anything to win. She tried to make the remark off the record, but the Scottish newspaper printed it anyway. She apologized in a statement and the campaign decried the remark.
Off the record, what a dope.
UPDATE: Harvard!
Comment by Donald on 3/7 @ 10:59 am #
That is fucking hilarious.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/7 @ 11:02 am #
I guess she really is charting her own course – open boat, no compass…
Pingback by Dems 2008: Samantha Power outage [Karl] on 3/7 @ 11:04 am #
[...] Power resigns after apologizing for calling Clinton a monster, saying the comment did not reflect her true [...]
Comment by JD on 3/7 @ 11:08 am #
She had the temerity to speak TRUTH TO POWER !!!!!!!!! YYYYEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH !@eleventy !1
Comment by MarkD on 3/7 @ 11:12 am #
Is that the meaning of “the truth will set you free?”
Comment by Karl on 3/7 @ 11:13 am #
Glad I got my post in when I did!
BTW, JD, the Martin Kramer piece linked in my post is in fact titled, “Speaking Truth to Power.” Which is the only reason it was not the title of my post.
Comment by MayBee on 3/7 @ 11:14 am #
But she was adept at multitasking skills like shifting her car and talking at the same time. I don’t just know how the Obama campaign is going to replace that level of expertise.
Comment by JD on 3/7 @ 11:17 am #
Karl – I did not click on that one. Unlike the gleens, I trust you to accurately portray the content of your links.
TRUTHINESSTOPOWER BEEYOTHCES !!!!!!!!!eleventy1111!!
Comment by happyfeet on 3/7 @ 11:35 am #
It’s not really just the Hillary is a monster thing. Baracky lucked out with that. She really wasn’t ready for primetime, and she was Obama’s choice as foreign policy advisor. And she didn’t resign. Baracky fired her ass cause turns out he had made the wrong choice. That has to shake his I’m teh changey leader of the world confidence a bit.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 3/7 @ 11:37 am #
For an equal and opposite foot-in-mouth instance from the Clinton camp, get a load of this.
Comment by Percy Dovetonsils on 3/7 @ 11:53 am #
Natalie Portman wouldn’t have made a mistake like that.
Comment by CochinoMarrano on 3/7 @ 12:19 pm #
Where’d you get this picture of Hillary! without of makeup?
Comment by S. Weasel on 3/7 @ 12:22 pm #
Okay, but…when somebody says “off the record,” isn’t there a substantial journalistic obligation not to run with it? I’m sure I saw that on a Lou Grant episode once.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/7 @ 12:48 pm #
I think that would be if you thought that person was going to be around afterwards, S.Weasel. In this case it was a pretty good bet that Ms. “I can multi-task – drive and talk” Power wasn’t going to be.
Comment by Kirk on 3/7 @ 2:09 pm #
I think the journalistic obligation works better if the person being interviewed withholds comment until after an agreement with the journalist that the conversation is off the record.
The “he’s a monster. Off the record” chronology just doesn’t have all the same glitter.
Comment by thor on 3/7 @ 2:12 pm #
Ha, ha.
Comment by TheGeezer on 3/7 @ 2:34 pm #
Power blurted out the the statement and then said it was off the record. Apparently, the rationale was that she had agreed to being on the record, made the statement, then said it was off the record. Yeah, it’s sleazy rationalizing, but we’re talking journalism here, remember? Besides, Power is anti-Semitic as well as anti-Hillary, blaming everything on the Joooz frequently.
Comment by Karl on 3/7 @ 2:50 pm #
My inner monologue puts that in the voice of a character from The Simpsons.
Comment by Georg Felis on 3/7 @ 5:34 pm #
I hereby apologize on behalf of monsters everywhere. I did not mean to make such a thoughtless comparison between you and Hillary, and I sincerely regret…â€Â