Free Samantha Power
Posted by Justin Raimondo on March 07, 2008
Truth-telling is now a hate-crime, as Samantha Power, an advisor to Barack Obama, found out when she told the Scotsman what every conservative—and anyone who’s been paying attention for the past twenty years—knows all too well: that Hillary Clinton is indeed a ”monster." Ms. Power has been forced to resign, to apologize, to grovel for saying what conservatives have been saying for years. It’s all a very big deal, another way for the Clintons to drag Barack Obama down to their level—could anyone go that low?—and more fodder for the talking heads to chew on. If and when Hillary takes the White House, however, her monstrousness will soon become all too apparent, and not just to conservatives.


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hi
yes indeed she was telling truth . but you should know better than that .
dr.power also is a firm believer in US empire and “ humanitarian interventions “ . she has problems with only some of them . an apologist for the empire in simple speak . just like her man obama .
on a side note . i hope your other post was a tongue in cheek . perhaps you should read the current issue of amrican conservative about so called “ anti warior “ saint obama .
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I’d take the monster Hillary over the racist, socialist, and interventionist Obama anyday. In fact, between Obama, McCain and Hillary, I am praying for Hillary.
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They finally woke up to realize that Hillary is not
a Democrat, nor a Liberal, nor a Conservative.
She is a Clintonist, devoted to the proposition that
Clintons should rule.
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She makes godzilla look like a beauty queen.I’ll take Obama any day over Hillary or McCain, at least the Israeli lobby hates him, but loves the other 2.
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Question, since I can’t comment on antiwar.com,
Obama? Antiwar? Really? Didn’t you read the cover story of last weeks’ TAC? He’s far from antiwar, he’s antiIraq, and he’s bigger government than most socialist - he’s a global socialist.
Little confused at this man crushed. I flirted with the idea of being an Obamanic, but just doing more investigation makes me hate him more and more. Well, hate his policies. He’s a swell speaker. Except when he says the government is the kids parent. “They are OUR kids!”
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Obama is the flat out most frightening candidate i have ever seen. He is a creepy cult leader with even creepier followers who look at him like he is Jesus himself. Nobody wants to ask him the hard questions, nobody wants to challenge him. Just look at his suits and listen to his feel good speeches! Neither Hillary nor McCain has a following so brainwashed and ready to do what the dear leader tells them.
Hilla-bitch and McInsane may be bad people, but they will not be able to count on a horde of raving lunatics to support their plans.
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Ms. Power is well recognized through her appearances on CSPAN, Charley Rose and other venues. She is a rather fierce proponent of American intervention wherever primitives murder each other. If she is representative of Obama’s thinking, we are on notice that Obama will spend American lives freely in areas totally unrelated to strategic American interests.
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She (Ms. Power) has an impressive resume - if one finds mannish-looking, New Age-ish, global-feely clones from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government impressive. I bet she has a great shriek too.
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Opinions are not truth.
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Justin (if I may - after 10 years of reading you, I feel I MUST drop my inherent German formality with you),
You are correct in that, when it “comes down to it”, Osama is our only “choice”. At least when Osama violates our trust and continues/extends the War, it is his failure, and will destroy one of the War Parties further.
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Obama is the only option at this point for us antiwar types.
The small scale interventionist wars pale in comparison to the Global Empire contemplated by the neocons and McBush.
Also, I think Ms. Powers is kind of cute. Bet she would bread some strong and smart kids, assuming that she is in to breading.
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I take that back, she is not cute, she is hot.
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Rollo is right: a white she-devil is preferable to a third world sympathizer. The single-issue anti-war crowd is myopic.
And I love the expression “she’s a monster.” An English friend and I use it all the time to describe the various “professional” women we deal with - lawyerettes, PR gals, museum and gallery people, socialites, Long Island housewives in Range Rovers...most NY women are in fact monsters. BTW, Dana Perino, the pretty ice princess who lies for Bush, is also a monster. This Powers woman, however, strikes me as a grad school androgen. She does not rise to the level of monster.
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Barack Hussein Obama is a monster too who hates white people. McCain is a monster. All 3 are horrible.
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It takes a caravan, (of funeral hearses) to follow the careers of the Cliotons.
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Her recent article In Time Magazine March 10, 2008 on Kosovo “Ghosts of Kosovo.” is more or less against independent Kosovo. And Ms Power warns the US that “Unless they’re resolved, a U.S. embassy may not be all that goes up in flames during the next crisis.” She was dumped most likely because of her “pro-Serb” views? A pro-Serb position is something not compatible with a up and coming President. Best to dump her now so the US foreign policy on Kosovo does not become muddled during the obama presidency. All three candidates recognize independent Kosovo. Kosovo is independent move on...as some US diplomats would say.
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How many Americans died in Kosovo?
How many in died in Mogadishu?
How much money did we spend in either?
Relatively speaking, Obama’s ambitions are small potatos realtive to McBush and the neocon.
I will take the cheap way out, in lives and money, if I can.
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This seems to be the place to comment on Justin’s “coming out” article.
To see libertarians fall for the “lesser evil” ploy is disgusting - even if the lesser evil is such a sweet-talker.
But I shouldn’t be too harsh… I want Christine Smith to win because she’s a good-lookin red-head! She likes the outdoors and is quite a marksman too. Oh yeah!
But at least I’m gonna vote for a Libertarian. Justin, are you seriously going Democrat? OMG, the world is truly coming to an end.
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I agree it is a little pathetic that I am willing to vote for Obama out of desperation, but if McCain wins I think I will puke.
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LOL @ daveg
Yes, Ralph is a popular guy these days - it seems everyone is calling him up ;-)
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This could be the next Samantha Power: Obama supporter Jeffrey Hart and his rather odd opinion of Jews. In case you missed it,,,,;
Obama Supporter Jeffrey Hart Misses Jews
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