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January 30, 2009
Well, at least Samantha Power wasn't a lobbyist.
She wasn't, was she?
But still! Obama, who fired her for being exceptionally rude to Hillary Clinton has hired her to work with Hillary Clinton. In fact, it will require her to work between Obama and Clinton, won't it? She'll be giving him advice on the foreign policy that Clinton is conducting?
Power will be the NSC's [National Security Council's] senior director for multilateral affairs, a job that will require her to work with the state department, headed by Clinton.The appointment is expected to be announced shortly, said the aide, who requested anonymity.
Power, a foreign policy adviser to Obama during his primary race against Clinton, drew fire when she told the Scotsman newspaper in an interview that the then-New York senator's campaign would do anything to try to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
"It looks like desperation," the newspaper cited her as saying. "She is a monster, too -- that is off the record -- she is stooping to anything," Power said, according to the paper.
On March 7, Power issued a statement saying that her comment was "inexcusable" and resigned. She said her remarks were "at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor and purpose of the Obama campaign."
But unless she's been a registered lobbyist for a foreign government she won't need a waiver.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at January 30, 2009 7:33 AM