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Title: Obama adviser says Clinton "a monster"
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AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_el_pr/obama_adviser
Published: Mar 7, 2008
Author: DAVID STRINGER
Post Date: 2008-03-07 09:42:09 by richard9151
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Views: 214
Comments: 10
14 minutes ago LONDON - An adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama apologized Friday for telling a Scottish newspaper that rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is "a monster." Samantha Power, a foreign policy adviser to Obama's presidential campaign and Pulitzer Prize winner, was quoted in remarks she later attempted to retract as saying in The Scotsman newspaper that Clinton was stooping to low tactics to recover ground in the race to win the party's presidential nomination. The Harvard professor is quoted as telling the newspaper Obama's team had been disappointed with Clinton's campaign win in Ohio on Tuesday. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win," Power is quoted as saying. "She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything." Power issued a statement Friday in which she acknowledged the comments but said she "deeply regretted them." "It is wrong for anyone to pursue this campaign in such negative and personal terms," she said in the statement. "I apologize to Senator Clinton and to Senator Obama, who has made very clear that these kinds of expressions should have no place in American politics." Obama's spokesman Bill Burton said in an e-mail: "Senator Obama decries such characterizations which have no place in this campaign." Though Power immediately attempted to withdraw the remark, the newspaper insisted she had agreed in advance that her interview — part of a book tour — would be conducted on the record. "You just look at her and think, 'Ergh'," Power is quoted as telling the newspaper. "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." In a separate interview for Britain's left-leaning New Statesman magazine, published Thursday, Power warned Clinton's campaign against reveling in the trial of an Obama donor Antonin "Tony" Rezko on corruption charges. "I don't think it's a good idea for the Clintons to get into a competition over who's got the most unsavory donations, you know what I mean?" Power was quoted as telling the magazine.
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#1. To: richard9151 (#0)
ha! like that's exclusive to hillary clinton? as an aside, back in 2001 when bush first became prez, i was talking to Alex Jones and he told me that dubya was a monster. i didn't know it then, but i sure do now.
Makes Godzilla look like Lassie.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" You find the only people involved who get screwed over are the ones who take seriously the process or any of its candidates.
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I knew it than, and wrote about it, but very, very few believed. In fact, I can not even begin to remember the number of times I was told, "But he's MY man!" And, he became president, just as his father did, who is every bit as big of a monster. In fact, a bigger monster, but neither of them can hold a candle to the Clintons, who, of course, are dear friends of the Bushes. Oh, and any more questions about who is going to be the next president? You are ready for the first female president, right?
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. Attention, Shrub; A life of evil is ultimately a life of wretchedness.
Ah, a voice of reason. What, you do not buy into the 'we win with enough effort in the NEXT ELECTION!!!'? Is there no insanity in your family?!
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. Attention, Shrub; A life of evil is ultimately a life of wretchedness.
Barack Obama advisor quits over 'inexcusable remarks' 'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' It's ALIVE!
Power issued a statement Friday in which she acknowledged the comments but said she "deeply regretted them." Since Power is resigning as an advisor to Obama, she really doesn't have anything to lose by standing by her (truthful) comments about Billary, does she? So why bother taking them back?
It could have something to do with not wanting an airplane she happens to be on falling out of the sky sometime in the future, or, just something as mundane as wanting a job with some part of the establishment. Never underestimate the power and reach of the Clintons. Or the Bushes.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. Attention, Shrub; A life of evil is ultimately a life of wretchedness.
"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."
#2. To: christine (#1)
dubya was a monster. i didn't know it then, but i sure do now.
#3. To: richard9151 (#0)
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#4. To: christine (#1)
he told me that dubya was a monster. i didn't know it then, but i sure do now.
#5. To: christine (#1)
when bush first became prez, i was talking to Alex Jones and he told me that dubya was a monster.
#6. To: nobody (#3)
You find the only people involved who get screwed over are the ones who take seriously the process or any of its candidates.
#7. To: richard9151 (#6)
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U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#8. To: richard9151 (#0)
I've already said too much.
#9. To: richard9151 (#0)
"In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win," Power is quoted as saying. "She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything."
#10. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#9)
So why bother taking them back?
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