Wow! Samantha Power is on the Obama team?

I'm genuinely impressed. She's commenting now on MSNBC.

Samantha Power

glad to see her on teevee!

Which caused quite a stir over here a while back. Some critique of Samantha Power in there, too, as I recall:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2584691

edit to add a word

She's terrific.

Impressive, intelligent and a person of GOOD character. :thumbsup:

and maybe in his cabinet there will be no more rwanda`s and darfur`s in his presidency.

after reading this i lost all respect for the clintons----


http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/power.htm
Samantha Powers, "Bystanders to Genocide," Atlantic Monthly, September 2001

Susan Rice was one of the best Kerry people in 2004. (He also has Marvin.)

I kinda like that better. And she would be able to bring an anti-Washington viewpoint to the position.

Although I tend to see Biden or Richardson at State. Powers could follow the Albright career path of academia-UN-State.

"We're going to hear something very unusual on the left, which is a genuine pride in what America can be again." How good for the Democratic Party to have that kind of talk, which is par for the course from the Obama campaign.

"The United States has not talked directly to Iran at a high level, and they have continued to build their nuclear weapons program, wreak havoc in Iraq, and support terror." Even though Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program, and this statement plays into dangerous Bush hype about Iran's supposed involvement in Iraq violence.

Not to take anything away from her accomplishments and charisma, but this hero/heroine worship gets a little out-of-hand, no?

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Samantha Power really is quite brilliant. I don't know the context of that remark, but I do know that she's no rush to war type, and please remember that Obama was the first candidate to say he'd hold high level talks with Iran.

He has a good foreign policy team. I'd think that would be reassuring.

That's about the fifth time today an Obama supporter asked if I'd read somebody's book.

I'm citing two concrete examples that show that we should chill a little on the hero/heroine worship.

That's not meant to repudiate her work, smarts, and charm.

candidate- by any means. I'm suggesting that taking quotes out of context without an understanding of someone's philosophy is rather meaningless. We can all cherry pick quotes. And thinking someone is capable and has the right ideas about foreign policy is a far cry from hero worship.

... and you haven't seen over-top hero worship, especially for Obama, in recent weeks?