Samantha Power, a senior foreign policy adviser to Sen. Barack Obama, resigned Friday morning after calling Sen. Hillary Clinton a "monster" in an interview with a European newspaper. Full Article at ABC News
With deep regret, I am resigning from my role as an adviser the Obama campaign effective today ... Last Monday, I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor and purpose of the Obama campaign. And I extend my deepest a...
This is an important test for Senator Obama ... It's really a test of character … You really wonder how Sen. Obama can have a person like that, as bright as she might be, advising his campaign.
While Sen. Obama campaigns on his opposition to the war, his top advisers tell people abroad that he will not rely on his own plan should he become president ... This is the latest example of promising the American people one thing on the campaign trail and telling people in other countries another.
She doesn't have standing to question my position on this issue.
He will, of course, not rely on some plan that he’s crafted as a presidential candidate or a U.S. senator ... He will rely upon a plan — an operational plan — that he pulls together in consultation with people who are on the ground to whom he doesn’t have daily access now, as a result of not being the p...
That was designed to feed into your fears. I mean, what do people think I'm going to do? I'm going to answer the phone ... I will find out what's going on. And I won't be browbeaten into launching a war that was not necessary.
made it absolutely clear that we just couldn’t make comments like this in his campaign.
is that I want to be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in. I want to make sure the troops are protected and safe as we are withdrawing them. And I won't want to see Iraq collapse.
has attacked me continuously for having no hard exit date (from Iraq), and now we learn he doesn't have one
Again we are seeing the difference between talk and action.
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