Letters to the Editor
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IIf it's Obama, I certainly hope that his foreign policy aide, Samantha Power, isn't at his elbow
I saw Ms. Power (Irish=born btw) being interviewed by the consummate Jeremy Paxman on BBC2 "Newsnight". She is in this neck-of-the-woods promoting her book and I was not surprised that Paxman concentrated on her involvement with the Obama campaign rather than her book on an assassinated U.N. official. What did surprise me, however, was how hyper Samantha Power seemed. Paxman has the reputation of taking no prisoners but he was perfectly polite to her, almost laconic in his demeanour. Her hands never stopped moving as she gesticulated throughout the interview and this was terribly distracting. Between the hand movements, tossing back her long hair and her rapid ten-to-the-dozen way of speaking, I couldn't get any depth at all in what she said.
Now Samantha Power has been shooting-off her mouth to a journalist working for "The Scotsman" confiding to the Scot that Hillary Clinton is "a monster". Yet another rescue operation has to be put in place with Samantha saying she didn't mean it, Mr. Burton tut-tutting like mad and Mr. Obama telling everyone that he's above all that type of malign comment to a foreign press on the monstrosity of a rival candidate. Answering the phone? Some of the advisers, Power and Goolsbee, shouldn't be left near a box of matches.