A former adviser to Barack Obama, who resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster," said Obama may not be able to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within a year as he has promised on the campaign trail.This almost got a "can't anyone play this game?" headline. Everyone knows that he's lying to his base. That's what candidates do in the primaries. Then, in the general, they tell completely different lies to the American people as a whole.
Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winner author, made the comments in two separate interviews with foreign media while promoting her latest book. The comment that led to her resignation came in an interview with The Scotsman, and she immediately tried to keep it from appearing in print.
"She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything," The Scotsman quoted her as saying. A few hours after the comments were published, Power, an unpaid adviser and Harvard professor, announced her resignation in a statement distributed by the Obama campaign.
07 March 2008
Now, That's Speaking Truth To The (Temporarily) Powerful
Obama Camp Rejects Adviser's Comments (Nedra Pickler, 3/8/08, AP)
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You're sure EVERYBODY knows that?
The Obamaites I know are as fervent as the Paulites, of whom I personally know only one, but, judging from what I read on the Internet, just the same.
Well, everyone except his base, which is apparently to young yet to have been told the facts of life.
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