Posted on 03/07/2008 7:30:52 AM PST by nuconvert
Obama adviser says Clinton "a monster"
By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer
LONDON - An adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama apologized Friday for telling a Scottish newspaper that rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is "a monster."
Samantha Power, a foreign policy adviser to Obama's presidential campaign and Pulitzer Prize winner, was quoted in remarks she later attempted to retract as saying in The Scotsman newspaper that Clinton was stooping to low tactics to recover ground in the race to win the party's presidential nomination.
The Harvard professor is quoted as telling the newspaper Obama's team had been disappointed with Clinton's campaign win in Ohio on Tuesday.
"In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win," Power is quoted as saying. "She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything."
Power issued a statement Friday in which she acknowledged the comments but said she "deeply regretted them."
"It is wrong for anyone to pursue this campaign in such negative and personal terms," she said in the statement. "I apologize to Senator Clinton and to Senator Obama, who has made very clear that these kinds of expressions should have no place in American politics."
Obama's spokesman Bill Burton said in an e-mail: "Senator Obama decries such characterizations which have no place in this campaign."
Though Power immediately attempted to withdraw the remark, the newspaper insisted she had agreed in advance that her interview — part of a book tour — would be conducted on the record.
"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh'," Power is quoted as telling the newspaper. "But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."
In a separate interview for Britain's left-leaning New Statesman magazine, published Thursday, Power warned Clinton's campaign against reveling in the trial of an Obama donor Antonin "Tony" Rezko on corruption charges.
"I don't think it's a good idea for the Clintons to get into a competition over who's got the most unsavory donations, you know what I mean?" Power was quoted as telling the magazine.
Wasn’t Hillary in the recent movie “Cloverfield?”
Pass the popcorn....it’s always fun when liberals fight with each other!
Socialists can still use them to smear their opposition. Just don't do it to other socialists, mm-kay?
I think you're supposed to say "off the record" BEFORE you say the bad things.
And here I thought they couldn't see straight.
Takes one to know one?
But Ms Power meant it in the highest and best sense. LOL, let the divided house fall.
“Wasn’t Hillary in the recent movie “Cloverfield?”
If we are going to compare monsters.
hillary is king kong(a pain, destructive but can be stopped)
obama is Gojira. Evil, very destructive, and a huge security threat.
Liberals only apologize when they've told the truth...
We don't know what Obama is.
He's not revealing much about himself, as for Mrs. Obama, all she has to do is open her mouth and we know a lot about how she thinks.
Obama can't live this secret life for long. Just wait!!!
Actually we know enough.
You can judge a person pretty well by his (or her) spouse. That fact that Obama is married to a racist, America-hating spouse and goes to an openly racist church, pretty tells any rational person all he needs to know...
“Cloverfield”
Hated that movie. I dont care how artsy it is... hold the damn camera still.
Don’t sit back thinking the media or McCain are going to expose B. Hussein. McCain is afraid to do it, and the media supports Hussein. If Hillary doesn’t do it, it won’t get done.
A League of Her Own
Samantha Power is that rare Harvard brainiac who can boast both a Pulitzer Prize and a mean jump shot (ask George Clooney). Now the consummate outsider is working on her inside game: D.C. politics. By Ned Martel
It bugged her, Power joked to friends, to think of herself as "Genocide Chick." (Photo: Walter Chin)
"It's Obama. Call me." These words recently showed up on Samantha Power's cell phone, and.....
I just heard Clinton say that she wonders what is being said about her behind closed doors at the Obama campaign.
LoL!! Hillary, we know you are no virgin mouth when it comes to tossing some "F" words, et al.
The Clintons have fine-tuned the art of politics of personal destruction, after all she has 35 years of experience.
If I were Obama I'd get the hip waders, boots, bucket and shovel for all the Classic Clinton Crap that will be tossed his way.
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