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Samantha Power's account of her 2016 election watch party is either the saddest or the funniest[tr]
Washington Examiner ^ | 1/15/2018 | Becket Adams

Posted on 01/16/2018 6:28:08 AM PST by simpson96

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power seems to have surrounded herself entirely with people who agree with her, fencing herself off to a life where her ideas and reflections go unchallenged.

Or at least, such a total echo chamber is our best explanation of why someone would give the sort of interview Power gave recently to Politico.

The former ambassador hosted an election night viewing party in 2016 for a group of powerful and influential women, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton apologist Gloria Steinem. HBO was even there to document the entire thing. Things obviously didn’t go as planned.

The way Power tells the story to Politico, however, is so overwrought, so tear-soaked in hand wringing self-importance, that we can’t tell if this is the funniest or the saddest thing we’ve read in a great long while.

“I thought what an amazing night for them. I mean, that’s what America represents to the world, when a glass ceiling is shattered in our country, it creates a whole new sense of possibility for people everywhere,” Power told Politico.

She added, “As the host, I was kind of hoping it wouldn’t be quite the blowout that it was anticipated to be, because I wanted to make sure that people had a chance to interact with Gloria Steinem …(snip)

At her 2016 viewing party, Power continued, “you really see what so many people went through, which was all of that sense of promise and excitement, and frankly, a dose of complacency. And then, it slowly dawning on us that not only was this going to be much closer than anybody anticipated, but that it was not going to end well."

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To: Jamestown1630
How in the world do such intellectual light-weights rise to the positions they do?

Their willingness to commit treason. . .or at the very least look away when the higher-ups do.

21 posted on 01/16/2018 7:35:41 AM PST by Oratam
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To: Honorary Serb

TURK! {{{SPIT}}}


22 posted on 01/16/2018 7:36:02 AM PST by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: Red Badger
".... but that it was not going to end well."

The writer follows with a remark about Samantha and all had just watched an " . . . open and fair election.

Remarkably, it was neither open nor fair, as the media and weaponized DOJ and FBI conspired to rig crimes against DJT and keep hidden Clinton crimes. And Trump still won. That was a miracle.

23 posted on 01/16/2018 7:38:51 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: simpson96

I would like nothing more than too see these Liberal Communists cry their eyes out over the election results that showed their hero Hillary Clinton loosing to Donal Trump After she spent close to a billion dollars to win.

Watching the News media crying was the most enjoyable time I have had since I was a young boy interested in politics.


24 posted on 01/16/2018 7:40:01 AM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: simpson96

The fact that these America haters are out of power is what we call WINNING.


25 posted on 01/16/2018 7:40:40 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: simpson96

Deport the idiot back to Ireland


26 posted on 01/16/2018 7:48:56 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: simpson96

You must have a heart of stone not to laugh.


27 posted on 01/16/2018 7:49:45 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: gathersnomoss

If they added a laugh track, I’d watch it on pay-per-view.


28 posted on 01/16/2018 7:53:42 AM PST by AZLiberty ("If we believe in absurdities, we commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Oratam

Millions of innocents are ritually slaughtered annually to appease the great god Moloch at whose feel Samantha and her coven have been worshiping these many years.


29 posted on 01/16/2018 7:57:53 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Well done, sir. Well done.


30 posted on 01/16/2018 8:02:43 AM PST by Oratam
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To: simpson96

Power is yet another Fake American, born in Ireland, who hates America, married to a consummate leftist, and tapped by DingleBarry to subvert the USA in high places.


31 posted on 01/16/2018 8:23:56 AM PST by bkopto
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To: simpson96

This is the empty vessel that was used as the practice dummy under whose name unmasking requests were made under the Obama administration. And so she rang in the 2016 election day planning hen parties for Hillary’s victory.


32 posted on 01/16/2018 8:27:43 AM PST by chuckee
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To: simpson96
Warms the cockles of my heart....every time a liberal cries a angel gets it's wings!!!!
33 posted on 01/16/2018 8:34:18 AM PST by ontap
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To: laconic

She looks like Kennedy to me...maybe one of Teddys love children!!!


34 posted on 01/16/2018 8:35:58 AM PST by ontap
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To: ClearCase_guy
I don't think Progressives understand our positions at all.

Most of them don't understand their own positions.

35 posted on 01/16/2018 9:06:05 AM PST by Chuckster (There is no government solution to government corruption.)
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To: Oratam
". . .but when the election is called, my daughter, who at that time is four, is just lying in my lap, kind of like this pale, Irish statue, and there’s something about the way she’s lying, I don’t know, that just makes her look like she’s the one who’s going to inherit … what he does is on her, right?”

Obviously if you let your 4 yr old stay up at that hour(2:30am), I imagine the paleness is a result of lousy parenting.
36 posted on 01/16/2018 10:38:09 AM PST by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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To: simpson96



37 posted on 01/16/2018 11:40:10 AM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Flick Lives; gathersnomoss

Looks like it will indeed be at least a part of some HBO documentary:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3622975/posts


38 posted on 01/16/2018 1:04:17 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: puppypusher; lightman

Hillary clinton is NOT their hero!

She is their TOOL!!!!


39 posted on 01/17/2018 1:16:45 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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