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The Obama Campaign: Some Things Don't Turn Out As Planned
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... look and feel, but instead it made him seem arrogant and full of grandstanding and distant from Americans. Despite the adorng crowds of Europe, the trip didn't not increase his polls numbers and McCain was able to use the footage to make the point that Obama's candidancy was more about celebrity than substance. That wasn't what the way the Obama camp planned it. They certainly planned on beating Hillary. But they didn't realize that the down and dirty politics that it took to do it would tick off around 18 million people. They didn't ...

In a Show of Unity, the Democratic Party Decides to Agree with the Vicious GOP Lies about Democrats
Corrente — Via Talk Left, Jim Clyburn defended his trashing of the Clintons today by trashing Al Gore, repeating the GOP lie that the Willie Horton attack on Dukakis began with Gore instead of the Republicans (and how nice of him to once again absolve the GOP of its racism while falsely condemning a Democrat). So for those counting at home, the Democratic Party has agreed that: 1) Hillary is a monster who will say anything to win;

Samantha Power -- Who Called Hillary A "Monster" -- Working On State Department Transition
TPM Election Central — ... Samantha Power, the Obama foreign-policy adviser who had to resign from the campaign after she called Hillary Clinton a "monster" who was "stooping to anything" in the primaries, and who also got in a bit of trouble for saying Obama wouldn't necessarily be sticking to his plan for a 16-month withdrawal from Iraq, is making her post-election comeback. ...

She’s baaaaaaaaack
James Richardson's Skepticians — ... gratuitously characterized Power as a “ Harvard brainiac who can boast both a Pulitzer Prize and a mean jump shot (ask George Clooney ).” Power, a Pulitzer Prize winning, Yale-graduate-turned-Harvard-professor, earned public notoriety after famously branding Senator Clinton a “ monster ” in an “off the record” comment with Scotsman in the 2008 Democratic primaries. “You look at her and think, ‘Ergh’,” she told the Scottish newspaper, adding, “ The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive .” Hillary Clinton , to say the least, was not pleased with the Obama ...

Samantha Power to Work With 'Monster' Hillary Clinton
Politics Daily — ... Made in the heat of battle, Power's famous "monster" line was supposed to have been off the record, but found its way onto the news wires, causing her to offer an apology and tender her resignation from the campaign. Clinton later used Power's remarks in a television ad. ...

Adding Insult to Injury -- By: Mark Krikorian
The Corner on National Review Online — ... from Hillary's purview and given it to -- it's almost too good to be true -- Samantha "She is a monster" Powers. It's not a big responsibility, true, but it's likely to be in the spotlight and it's clearly in the bailiwick of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. Heck, the vice president has a more important job than Hillary does -- maybe he'll delegate to her some of the overseas funerals he doesn't want to bother with. ...