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articles.latimes.com - 12/2/2008
Obama aide forced out for calling Clinton 'a monster' - Los Angeles Times
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The battle for the Democratic presidential nomination took a sharp turn away from the hunt for delegates this morning after an advisor to Barack Obama was forced to quit the campaign for making disparaging remarks about Hillary Rodham Clinton. Samantha Power, a Harvard professor and Pulitzer ...
Obama National Security Picks Get High Marks
gallup.com - 12/2/2008
Obama National Security Picks Get High Marks
— gallup.com — PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans widely approve of Barack Obama's decisions, announced on Monday, to name Hillary Clinton... secretary of state and to ask Robert Gates to stay on as secretary of defense. mwboj_5e_uqnvqhkyovxoq These results are based on a ... (more) Obama National Security Picks Get High Marks

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thenation.com - 11/25/2008
A Clinton Administration?
— thenation.com — No one should be shocked to discover that, in his transition to the presidency, the "inexperienced" former... senator from Chicago has turned to the last Democratic administration that had experience in Washington. It seems, however, that the Obama team ... (more) A Clinton Administration?

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google.com - 11/29/2008
The Associated Press: Obama adviser once critical of Clinton is back
— google.com — 17 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) An adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign who was forced to resign... earlier this year after calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster" is now working on the transition team for the agency Clinton is expected ... (more) The Associated Press: Obama adviser once critical of ...

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Stop The ACLU:  Folks Under Obama’s Bus Hauled Back In

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Folks Under Obama’s Bus Hauled Back In
Stop The ACLU — ... when his ties to Hamas became an issue. Back then he was under the bus. However, just after the election, Malley seems to have been sent to the Middle East by Barack Obama as his envoy to Syria and Egypt. So, Malley was hauled back into the bus. There is also dumped adviser Samantha Power, like Malley a foreign policy “expert,” the latest associate that has been hauled back into the bus after having had Obama formally distance himself from her during the campaign. In March of ‘08, Samantha Power “voluntarily” quit the Obama campaign over an off-the-cuff remark she made to a ...

Back on The Bus
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... Susan Power. "In March of ‘08, Samantha Power “voluntarily” quit the Obama campaign over an off-the-cuff remark she made to a British journalist. She called Hillary Clinton a “monster” over how she was carrying on her campaign in comparison to the purportedly clean way her candidate was operating his. The comment gave the supposedly clean Obama campaign a black eye of sorts. (Video of Power’s “ ...

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