(CNN) - One of Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers apologized late Thursday after a Scottish newspaper quoted her as calling Hillary Clinton a "monster."
"It is wrong for anyone to pursue this campaign in such negative and personal terms," Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of government and an adviser to Obama said in a 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."
Power's apology came shortly after the The Scotsman newspaper published an article in which she makes the characterization (a comment she immediately tried to retract), and suggested the New York senator is trying to deceive voters.
"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Power was quoted as saying.
"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh,' " Power also said. "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."
Power also said the Obama campaign "f***** up in Ohio." Clinton beat Obama by 10 percentage points 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," Powers said.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton distanced the campaign from the remarks, saying in a statement that the Illinois senator "decries such characterizations which have no place in this campaign."
The interview came the same day a top Clinton adviser compared Obama's recent actions to independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who prosecuted the Clintons while Bill Clinton was in the White House in the 1990s.
"After a campaign in which many of the questions that voters had in the closing days centered on concerns that they had over his state of preparedness to be commander in chief and steward of the economy, he has chosen instead of addressing those issues to attack Senator Clinton," Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson said on a conference call with reporters Thursday morning. "I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president."
Obama's campaign quickly denounced that comment.
UPDATE: On a Friday morning conference call with reporters, the Clinton campaign called on Obama to end Power's role with the campaign. "Personal attacks are not the way to convince voters that you're capable of being president of the United States,” said New York Rep. Nita Lowey, a Clinton supporter. “We're calling on Senator Obama to make it very clear that Samantha Power should not be part of this campaign.”
– CNN's Alexander Mooney and Rebecca Sinderbrand
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True colors of the Obama campaign...
Back in Dec. or Jan. Obama stated any one making these kind of remarks about a candidate would be fired. Well, Mr. Obama are you true to your words or are they just rhetoric?
Too bad everything she said is true, you just can't say that.
The Obama campaign 'denounced' the comment. But shouldn't they have been stronger? I think the have to 'reject' this kind of rhetoric!
Hehe.
"Obama's campaign quickly denounced that comment."
Yes, but did he denounce AND reject?
It is unacceptable for a campaign staffer to make a comment like this.
However, as an average Joe on the CNN Ticker... I CAN. You can't really argue with the accuracy of the statement, and it's not like Clinton hasn't earned the title.
While Obama has conducted himself with honesty, sincerity, grace and dignity, Clinton has stooped to every dirty, underhanded tactic she could to pull her disasterous candidacy out of the fire and continue her quest for power.
Well, it's succeeded for now, but she can't keep her sinking ship afloat for much longer. Even her own staffers and fellow politicians hate her.
I feel the same way,
What's wrong with calling Hillary a monster? The Clinton Machine is trying to steal the election away from the black voters.
A Scottish newspaper hmmmm? I am sure the Clintons had something to do with it. Like they did with nafta-gate when it was them that said its only talk and not Obama. The way they are running this campaign are like monsters. Stopping at nothing to cheat and win. Typically Clintons. Giving Hillary RODHAM Clinton 4 years in the white house is a continue to George Bush. The way she talks recently I would think she was John McCain's running mate.
There have been a LOT of gaffs by the Obama campaign.
They remind me of a high powered sports car. Very high tech, but then breaks down easily.
Clinton just chugs along........
Again, I will like to push OBAMA/KENNEDY 08. My point is that Hillary is a MONSTER! Its unpolitical to say this in public, and Obama can't be held responsible for what his supporters say.
Hillary is despicable. She now has republicans voting for her so McCain is elected because shes so divisive. She admitted to being friends with McCain and I wouldn't put it past the Clintons to be working out this deal with McCain and the republicans.
Furthermore, her recent attacks belittling Obama and praising McCain is below any candidate. OMG when will the DNC wake up! They should have stopped this chaos when she used her kitchen sink method. She's making this race now illegitimate. Besides the Republicans, Hillary has elderly women that supported the "burning bra" movement supporting her. The movement that helped destroy conservative homes. She also has uneducated people that don't read the real story and perhaps don't have full story.
I support having a female in office, but NOT Hillary!
OBAMA/Caroline KENNEDY 08!
She IS a monster bent on destroying the Democratic Party.
Win at all costs I guess. Even if it means helping a Republican against the presumtive Democratic nominee.
Poor Obama. Always the victum. Everyone is picking on him. Boo Hoo!!
Well, at least SOMEONE stated the obvious!
Republicans are smart, they dumped Giuliani quick because of his baggage, smart move. Democrats, not so smart, we know Hillary has baggage and she's picking up more baggage on the road to the White House, not so smart. If we lose the White House voters can only blame themselves. Now I see the clear difference between Republicans and Democrats, Republicans have proven to be smarter than Democrats.
She's telling the truth!
Nice one, Professor. Looks like the Obama campaign has some real winners working for them.
Listen, this is the big leagues, and I'm so sick of hearing the Obama camp whine and moan about how harsh their critics have been, or how negative the process is getting. The guy's running for PRESIDENT for cryin' out loud... This isn't two people vying for a promotion at the Gap. So quit complaining or get out of the race!
In December, Obama said he had "been very clear to my campaign. I do not want to see research that is involved in trying to tear people down personally. If I find out that somebody is doing that, they will be fired. And I have been absolutely crystal clear about this, and I have been clear about this for a very long time."
This is why I love Obama...he sticks with his word. He said he wasn't into negative campaigning and he immediately denounced and rejected what someone in his camp said. Hillary does not have the same amount of character and honor because she's so busy campaigning for John McCain these days.
Hillary Clinton is demonstrating the politics of desperation with her negative attacks against Obama! So far he has run a positive campaign and has defended himself against Hillary's chicanery! Go Obama!
Whatever you think about the relative merits of the two candidates, Power's comment is clearly beyond the pall. Clinton dismissed advisors for less than that and I hope Sen Obama takes the same approach to deal with transgressions of this nature.
the true hurts bill and hill will do anything to win. hillary just about endorse sen Mccain over obama. what kind of dem says sen.Mccain would be a better president than any dem but her. the fact she trying to make the case that she is the only choice we have on the dem is wrong. let us not forget she is the one who used back channels to talk to Canda about Nafta. If hill wins Nader has my vote. if obama wins he has my vote. There comes time when dems need to draw line on what a true dem is hillary is a want be dem. she acts more like a republican.
Now now. Monster may be harsh. Perhaps 'vulture' is closer to correct.
Personal view on Clinton aside, in the context that it was said, I don't really see what the uproar is about. Slow news day? Columnists eager to prove they're not being easy on Obama or hard on Clinton?
Obama should apologize for Ohaio too
Unbelievable! This woman is supposedly intelligent and she would allow herself to make such statements? There is no room for such immature name-calling in this campaign. After finally losing a few states, instead of behaving like petulant children, Obama and his camp should clear up some of his recent missteps, instead of lying about them (as in the case of his aide's comment to the Canadian official about NAFTA and Obama's close affiliation with Rezko). This recent comment by his apparently very panicked foreign advisor shows desperation setting in and a willingness to use any sort of language, and any sort of name-calling to deflect well-earned criticism of their candidate.
Great she apologised, but I still beleive Senator Hillary Clinton is a MONSTER. She will stoop to anything to get in the white House. And i'm not an Obama supporter nor clinton supporter.
She should be fired....period. I'm sick of the Obama campaign getting away with whatever they want to say about Hillary. Obama calls her polarizing and devisive and gets away with it...those are PERSONAL attacks. They don't belong in the campaign. Hillary or her campaign say one negative thing and either she is told to drop out or fire her advisor. It's getting ridiculous. This guy is getting away with everything and just because he's black people are afraid to admit it. And one last thing before the freaky Obama fans chime in, Hillary's campaign did not say Obama was like Ken Starr but that his CAMPAIGN was like Ken Starr...there's a big difference. I read so many on other websites that she said he was like Starr...that is simply not true.
It will all come out in the wash at the end with Obama.Playing to dirty with Hillary could backfire on him.The super deligates will go for who they believe would make our best Leader.Thats the way it should be. I hope they go to Hillary ,for she is the most qualified canadate. Obama speaks he's better in Judgment. Well you have to have experience ,and good know how to give good judgement. HRC knows more about our countries problems and has good solutions to solve them. Obama needs to train eight more years before hes ready.I dont think America wants an on the job training leader in the hands of our country. Uniting America's people dont make him anymore qualified.Hitler also was good at uniting his people,you see what that did. concerned vet.
Im glad to know that they are at least feeling the same way I do about her and her tactics. I understand Obama's need to have his campaign staff stay above her 'moster-ish' antics and also know that their negative comments (the few that there are publicly said of her) will be seen as GIGANTIC compared to her campaign's nurmerous negative tactics and lies against Senator Obama. The only comfort I have is knowing that the truth is going to come back to haunt her and she will have no where to turn and no other lies to come up with.
Obama '08
Excepot that ....she is a monster...and will and has stooped to anything...35 years of public display to verify this remark...there was no apology necessary!!!
hmmmmmm
So much for Obama and his campaign running on a "New Kind of Politics"
Sounds like same Obama and his supporters true colors are coming out. Unless they are winning everything, they get nasty... I feel bad for all those supporters of Obama who have believed in a message that was just words. The campaigns actions are really starting to show!
Vote Hillary '08 - The ONLY candidate that WILL give us positive change!!
Hillary can't manage her campaign, nor the country for that matter. Now she sees merit in destroying her party for the nomination. All the spin in the world can't erase the reality of the delegate math.
"The democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."
Any action by Obama to fire his advisors that mess up like this to show what an upstanding, clean guy he is???
Didn't think so.... Cronyism in it's many forms is alive and well.
Guess it is Chicago politics as usual, where everyone else is dirty, and bad and mean except for Obama.
What a pack of hypocrites....
Why do you repeatedly print, and thereby magnify, everything Howard Wolfson says?
Is there bias when you make his statement the basis of articles and headlines?
The lady is right!!!
I have no respect for the Obama team. They have no clue on Foreign Policy. I trust Hillary!
Hillary 08
So much for "hope and change" and being a "new politician"....what a JOKE. He's made his whole campaign strategy null and void.
And before you Obama people start saying "Clinton went negative too", you're right she did. The difference is she never claimed to be a saint and above it all. She had the experience to know how naive that was. To succeed in politics you have to be a fighter and willing to stand up and dust yourself off after a defeat....to keep your strategy no matter what. Clinton has proven over and over again she can do that – even when being unfairly targeted or hammered in a debate. Will this "monster" comment hurt her? No way. Will it hurt Obama? Yes, only because it's further proof he's NOT WHAT HE CLAIMED TO BE. I wonder what else he's lying about?
Unfortunately for both candidates, it is impossible to control what comes out of other people's mouth's. However, it is possible and relevant to the campaign what comes out of the candidate's mouth's. That is what we should be paying attention to!
Ron Paul is still in the race. I'd appreciate it if you would stop giving out false information. Do some research before you have the talking heads spurt out blatant lies on television!
those remarks are in poor taste.
i would prefer barack remain on the high road .the fact that all the remarks are true are besides the point .
barack can speak for him self .
we are not stupid .the world see's HRC's slime bucket tactic's .
peace
She is a monster who will do and say anything to get elected. If she steals the nomination, the only history she'll make is the second Democrat to be swept by a Republican President like Reagan swept Carter in 1980.
So what! What about reporting on NAFTA? Turns out it was the Clinton campaign that really gave a wink for Canada not to worry. The Canadian government has launched an investigation to find out why it was leaked that the Obama campaign contacted the goverment official instead of the TRUTHfully saying the Clinton campaign contacted Canada!
The Obama aide was simply telling it like it is. Hillary is only telling people what they want to hear so she can get elected. I don't know why all Clinton backers can't see that Hillary only got to where she is today by riding the coattails of her husband. She doesn't have all this "vast experience" that she claims. Plus, she is flat out rude, mocking Obama at every chance she gets like when she mocked his speeches by saying, "the clouds are going to suddenly open and change is going to happen", or stealing his "yes we can" phrase and changing it to "yes we will" in her speech. She's a ruthless monster.
Obama claims he is ready to hit the ground running on day one yet he cant even control what his advisors are saying behind his back. First the NAFTA issue and now this. Obama needs to take control of his people.
Hillary '08
She is a monster.
Maybe she should have chosen for Hillary the term Larry David called her today: "SYBIL."
If it is true that the clintons are not monsters, how come they have 2 heads in hillary and "i never had sex with that little girl" billy. Am i the only one who remembers that billy ball lied under oath-doesn't that make him a monster. if you doubt this look up monster in webster. all the scandals and "not a monster". able to loan their campaign $5,000,000 that was saved up on a salary??? good financial planner someplace.
Senator Obama doesn't want to go negative like the Clinton campaign is more than will to. But that does not mean the media should not report on happenings like Rezko, "I haven't been really proud", and the Canadian NAFTA ordeal that turned out to be falsely focused on Obama rather than Clinton costing Obama votes in Ohio, Texas, Vermont, and Rhode Island. So where is the coverage of the Peter Paul election fraud case being successfully delayed until November after the elections wil be over. This a media responsibility to put it out there.
Look it up, PETERPAUL.COM. If the media won't report on it do your own research. This is just one of many cases the media should be reporting but chooses not to for whatever reasons. Clinton is a monster and is more than will to throw the kichen sink with the garbage disposal fully functioning.
All of a sudden the Obama camp is having to retract just about everything they say; and the explanation always is that the coments were not approved by Obama. I seem to recall a lot of posts on CNN from Obama supporters earlier in the campaign to the effect of "if Clinton can't control her advisers, how can she be President?" Maybe now the Obama camp and supporters will retract those comments too?
Samantha Powers sounds like the moron she is. Was she hired at Harvard to fill a quota? Undoubtedly.
OBAMA is NOT DIVISIVE? BS. I have heard from state after state about how well trained supporters from CAMP OBAMA are so arrogant. It is modeled from OBAMA, he is ARROGANT. When is the media going to stop painting him as a saint or should I say pimping him out.
HE IS AN ARROGANT PUPPET.
Inexcusable as the comments made by Powers are, they actualy go down to the heart of what most Democratic party supporters are feeling at the moment.
HRC is running such a negative campaign that we have to be concerned about whether or not this kind of person is whom we want to represent our country and furthermore what damage is she doing to the party in terms of the final face off against the Republicans.
How is Obama gonna unite the country if his people can even get along with a fellow democrat.
Comon guys! Wise up!
This is the time that Obama needs to show that he can use is authority and fire her... that will show people that more than ever that he has judgment and isn't afraid to act when the time is right...
Even though i think Hilary is a monster...
Amazing. Now people have to apologize for telling the truth. Political Correctness run wild. This is a political campaign, not a high school debate. Critical issues are at stake here. If you think that rabid partisianship and hard questions are new to American politics, you should go back and read the newspapers from the early 1800's!
Personally I can't stand any of the remaining three candidates. I fear for my country.
Remember that little 'pledge' Obama made at the beginning of the campaign.... if anyone goes negative, they will be fired.... Ha! Ha! Obama hasn't fired one single person for the garbage they have been doing.
Yet another example of how he is just like Bush. Do any sleazy thing you want and you will always have job security with Bush/Obama. Being just like Bush is so new.
So....the Clinton campaign is upset that people in the Obama camaign are adopting Hilary's tactics???
Do as I say and not as I do I suppose.
I would like to know if Clinton will bring back the things her and her husband stole out of the white house when they left why haven't we heard any more of that subject? Bush did not elaborate on that story he just swepted it under the rug
clinton is pretty low..but leave the name calling for the street gutterers.
Well done Obama for denouncing the name calling.
But I'm not running for president , and Im a white chef, so no one will think twice of me if I say this, ' Hilary , You are a monster!"
Go Hillary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Latest Washington Post poll shows Clinton up on McCain by 6%.
Latest Pennsylvania polls show Clinton up 15% on Obama, and that's an increase of about 7 points from the last poll taken.
Latest polls show Obama up by 4 or 5% on Clinton in North Carolina and that's about 10 points tighter than previous polls.
The Clinton campaign is conveniently throwing out these type of distractions to take the news away from their latest blunder. This time it being the Ken Starr reference.
Obama decries such comments on the rare occasion his campaign people make them.
Clinton could never do the same on the many occasions her campaign people made such comments.
One cares more for ethics than scoring points. The other cares more for scoring points than for ethics.
So the great uniter's campaign isn't going to be negative or do politics as it has been done in the past. I guess the change that Obama's camp has brought to politics is going to be name-calling and being sore losers. He instantly went negative after losing Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. His high-minded policies only last as long as things go his way. If the campaign is this devisive how is he going to change the political scene in Washington. His version of hope is hype.
Chuck Todd is right..both campaigns hate eachother as do supporters of each candiate..McCain will win the general as neither Clintor or Obama suppoters will support their rival."Hillary 08
I CAN believe that she said this. Obama supporters are more negative than any Hillary supporters I have ever met. They think they deserve the nomination. Nobody deserves anything. Let it play out the way it should. No coronations in this country.
But did he REJECT it ? sorry I couldn't resist....go HILLARY
Here's just another example of how phony Obama and his campaign really are. I thought he was about change but when you have attack ads on tv and the radio that's the "same old politics" that he wants to change. Obama is just like any other politician and thats why he wont win the nominee
HILLARY '08!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe Hildebeast is the general term used.
wow...........he is not ready.........this reflects on his experience ....he does not have good judgment picking staff members to represent his vision.....two goofs....and he is not even the president yet?
Senator Obama apologized – something the Clinton's should learn to do. Let's move on in a positive manner – Clinton camp stop sending photos of Obama in turbans to the press, questioning his religion, questioning his patriotism.
Question.... If Sen. Obama can't control his own staff now (top foreign policy advisor, and "NAFTA memo maker"), will he be able to handle the job as Commander in Chief? I think not.
The slander being thrown at Hillary will go down in flames as she has the momentum and will continue to the end.The people have rallied behind her.And if she can get to Penn.it will de a done deal and the super delagats should to whats best to end this by supporting her
I am going to predict what is going to happen in this thread. Since their are no comments potested yet you can see how accurate I am.
The Clinton supporters will say this is proof that Obama is desperate and that he is a typical politcian. The Obama supports will turn this into proof that Hillary sucks. In the end we will have the two democratic hopefuls beating each other up to win the nomination that they will most likely lose because teh supporters of whoever isn't at the top of the ticket will most likely be so upset that they will either not vote, or vote for McCain out of spite.
Gratz DNC, way to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Rather astute observation, really.
I can't wait for the Obama supporters to spin this. This is possitive politics when he has people in his campaign that talk about this.
Funny thing. It is the truth. Billary is a "monster". A two-faced lieing NAFA conspiracy, rule-breaking, dispacble political "monster"
The truth cause offense but it is not a sin. Lies, decits, falsehood. How in all that is goodness and DEMOCRATIC that can we democrats support Billary who LOATHES losing to Barack Obama sooo much the SHE ENDORSED Republican nominee McCain, three timess!! How?
Wonder which Obama she's parroting? Michelle, Barack or both? Politics of hope my rear...
That advisor should be fired immediately. I'm an Obama supporter and I just simply don't like that tone and I thought his campaign was above that. Please remove her from your campaign. It's childish and coming from a professor at Harvard is really disheartening.
I seriously doubt Obama would say or what something like this said in his campaign, not fair to him.
I'm a Hillary supporter. Everyone should go to hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com and read and view the videos of what real people say about them.
Obama's people have now made gaffs in Canada AND Scotland. He is making us look ridiculous. He is clearly not "in charge." Nothing more than a "speech in a suit" ... with overly aggressive "handlers."
At this point, I'm done with quibbling about who is the better democratic hopeful - I just don't want George W McCain as our next president. Go Hillary, Go Obama, Go Whoever. Just one of you please beat McCain.
Since Obama has NO foreign policy experience, is this the kind of person he is relying on?
She is a MONSTER, a fear-war mongering monster. AND I AM NOT APOLOGIZING.
OBAMA '08
My feeling is, Billary is a monster and running a sleeze campaign, unlike Senator McCain, Senator Huckabee, and Senator Obama....I feel Senator Obama has got to get people to see who the Clintons really are....her campaign has thrown out so many false story leads and the press is afraid she will whine again if she doesn't get her way so the press has done her dirty bidding for her.....shameful....I would hate to see she and Bill get anywhere near the White House again...scary.
I support Obama, but I think that he really has a tough challenge of defending himself and making "contrasts" without mud-slinging and turning negative...It's just been way too negative on both sides, and it only hurts us in November.
This primary has gotten frustrating to watch because nothing has been decided and they both look petty.
Can't believe CNN is posting this. This is all part of the OBAMA mania. We are all so tired of the "silly season" of politics.
Why is CNN wasting news space with this garbage? Insults from a behind-the-scenes policy wonk? Gee, alert the media!
It seems like CNN hyperfocuses on the juicy, gossipy bits of political "news" and never touches the really important issue-based stuff....such as the fact that the Canadian government was behind the false "NAFTAGate" accusations against Barack Obama before the Ohio primary.
A foreign government trying to influence the outcome of American elections? Pretty important. Playground insults? Who CARES?
In doing this kind of thing, CNN lowers the level of political discourse and leaves big political decisions in the hands of the knee-jerk, low-information voters who can turn to CNN to get fodder for their low-brow habits, rather than information that might cause them to think more deeply about real issues. It's shameful.
I would have said the same and more..
DECEIPT RULES the CLINTON CAMPAIGN
DECEIPT and MANIPULATION
but .. then, THAT IS THE OLD WAY ..
THE ACCEPTED WAY ..
THE WAY THAT WINS....
no matter what the expense (in lives and souls)
USUALLY ..
it would be so heartening for THAT WAY TO CHANGE
If she can't say it , I will. She is a monster.
Wow... you'd think Obama's staff would be smarter than to say something like that. Again, the inexperience shows!
Hey CNN, can we get some updated National Polls on the main site? I'm curious if anything has changed since February 22!
McCain is looking better and better.
What a mouth on the Obama people. We may all dip into that linguistically now and again, but if you're serious about getting your candidate elected you need to watch what you say at all times.
1 more strike for the Obama camp showing an Obama administration would not be ready!
Hillary 2008!
She is right
Ummm....but its true. She really is a monster, and she has stooped to an all time low. Its just a fact that people are not willing to say. Wait to go growing a spine obama's backer.
Well...
Isn't she?
Well she is a monster. Finally someone called it like it is.
Good for her, at least she apologized, which cannot be said for the Clinton campaign people after lying about NAFTA . BTW why is CNN not reporting about that? So much for being neutral...
This was said to yet another foreign government. What's up with that? Doesn't Obama have control of his people who keep going off to foreign consulates and newspapers to discuss our national matters? Do we really want an overly apologetic President who looks to other governments for approval?
Obama is outstanding and deserves better than Powers. Powers words were childish and mean spirited, and, I imagine, damaging to his campaign.
No one is forced to vote for Clinton or support her. There is simply no justification for such blatantly insulting and cruel comments towards a Senator.
HILLARY IS A MONSTER! Ms.Powers is only stating the facts. Hillary is deceiving voters.
the stories are coming out that it was the Clinton campaign who instigated the entire Nafta-gate affair........ once more in history, a slick Clinton attempt to gain a win using slimy politics. Lying and corruption is not beyond the scope of this family......... Obama needs to get tough.
Also, when all is said and done and counted in the Texas caucus, it appears that Obama will have won a higher percentage of voters in that state. That would give him more delegates and a right to proclaim that Texas is a win for HIM. But, just watch the whining that will go on in the Clinton camp if that happens !!!!!
This is the second advisor of Obama's group that has shown poor judgement with comments. Does anyone really believe his advisor got on a plane to Canada to talk about NAFTA without his knowledge and approval? If he didn't know, that surely indicates he chose an inner circle that goes their own way. Since he lacks so much in experience, can we really trust he will be able to manage and choose an effective team if elected? If this is any indication, it does not appear he "can". Actions will ALWAYS speak louder than WORDS!
People need to research the candidates before making
suck remarks.
If you wonder if Clinton can win, be sure to read
Carl Bernstein's – A Woman in Charge.
Go HILLARY
I agree with powers 100%
Why is this type of thing considered newsworthy? Off-the-record comments, not made by the candidate, immediately retracted – what does this have tyo do with the campaign for president?
Oh wow. This lady needs to be fired. Obama doesn't support this type of negative campaigning and neither do I as one of his supporters. Calling her a monster is not cool. To say she's deceiving voters...no matter how true, is up to the voters to decide. I can't believe one in Obama's camp has stooped to her level. Call it offense, call it whatever, but Obama is perfectly capable of playing offense himself and doesn't need help to go on the attack and can do it in a morally correct manner, unlike Bill and Hillary.
Of course as Obama always says, it was taken out of context. Is that
all they know to do? Lie and smear,call people names. Well what can you expect? They're just doing as Obama does. That's all he knows how to do.He's now having Canadian government lie for him. Kinda makes you wonder what he's PROMISED them, doesn't it
He now has a raido spot in MIssissippi, telling them that Clinton said al lot of bad things about them when she was in Iowa. If that's true, which I doubt, how come nothing has been said by the media? The y every opportunity to bash her.
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton. Do we really want the same two families running the country for some 30+ years. America wake up!
I think she (SP) was correct the first time....and I can add some other "colorful" adjectives to the mix....starting with, it rhymes with "rich."
HRC disgusts me...
CHANGE?? SILLY SEASON OF POLITICS??
WOW! OBama is certainly understanding the power of the CLINTONS..
Damage control?? He cannot win the big states..He has won Red states that are Anti HIllary!!
GO HILLARY FIGHT!! WE WILL PREVAIL
Is this a meltdown? Obama's campaign leaders/advisors are crumbling after his defeats. How would they withstand the Republican's effective political machinery? They are becoming nasty toward Clinton. These actions are unprofessional.
The were being kind to B I have some choice words to describe Hillary Clinton the Queen of Entitlement but they arent suitable for record (smile).
Guess my vote will be for a "monster".
Nothing on the Canadian newspaper that said the whole NAFTA spiel wasn't Obama but Clinton? MSNBC at least reported it.
People are going to say whatever, I don't blame Clinton for comments her advisors make (especially you, Wolfson...), and I won't blame Obama for comments his advisors make, but as this battle between Hillary and Obama has dragged out I find myself losing confidence in and respect for both candidates.
I don't think I can quite stomach McCain, so I guess I'll be looking closely at who our third party candidates are this year.
monster or republican... which is worst
Silly Season of polticis is upon us...
HIllary Clitnon will win!! Fight Hillary Fight!
I bet the republicans are just sitting back and watching how the democrats self destroy. This is not about Obama or Hillary but about the America we love. If an agreement is not reached SOON between the Obama Camp and the Hillary Camp there is a huge chance we will again loose the election in November and this time leaving millions of new voters disillusioned and disappointed. The first order of business of the next president is to fix this election mess and make some sense out it and bring it back from the dark ages. SOME REAL OVERHAUL!!!
To the Obama and Hillary camp please chill out and help to solve the situation with Michigan and Florida disenfranchised voters because of lousy leadership.
I agree with Mr. Powers’ all those year of experience has made Hillary a political monster. She won’t be answering your calls at 3:am; she will be coming out of your kids closet or under the bed. She’s he character in Monster Incorporated.
It is amazing to see on the blogs today how many Obama supporters are happy about this comment.
If you are an undecided voter, please ask yourself if it is OK to call a wife, mother and a person supported by half the Democratic electorate. Obama had to distance himself from the comment, but we know that Powers is one of the people on the campaign who most accurately represents what Obama thinks. This is the politics of hate, not hope.
Hillary 08
It's sad when you have to apologize for the truth
What's to apologize for ? Powers spoke the truth and the truth hurts. Everyone who knows hillary knows that she is a power-hungry, self-serving ideologue .
I am a registered democrat, who has not decided for whom I will vote. I hope that we are not now getting into the politics of destruction. I like a good and fair debate, however, winning at any cost is a turn off to me and I will most likely vote for the candidate who turns the other cheek and who stays focused on the true issues. The "He Said, She Said" stuff is petty and makes the candidate look like a third grader. I cannot support an adult who acts like a third grader, and trust their judgement in terms of running our country.
what did she say that was not true???
You go Girl!!!!!!!!
She is a monster and it is about time that Barack stop petting a rattle snake.......he will get bitten every time. Hillary is pulling out all the stops with a smile on her face and showing Barack as weak and incapable of strong leadership.........If everyone in his campaign and he, himself cannot see that, then I have misplaced my vote. WAKE UP and come out of that reactive stupor. It is unbecoming of the future president of the most powerful nation in this century.
I swear the coverage of this campaign is getting rediculous.
The woman sounds fairly objective
NONE WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hillary 2008-2012.That is the plan.
Well, she is a monster.
She did not need to apologize. Hillary is a nothing but a a deceitful, power hungry monster. The whole world is not wrong on deceitful nature of the Clintons. They cost Algore the presidency keep off Algore. Obama 08.
Senator Clinton has been punched so much by the media for so many years that I am sure to be called a monster by someone that no one knows is not going to affect her campaign.
I want Universal Health Care.
I want to feel protected from radical terrorists.
I want a Democrat.
I want a "Woman" like Hillary....That would be the biggest change!
You Go Girl!
This Samantha Powers is a very well educated and did i say she is also a pilitzer prize nominee and a professor at Harvard Kennedy school of government. Well It just shows what kind of people worked under Obama She has all the credential of being a learned woman
It reminds me one day I was watchng Dan Abrams at Msnbc it was a weekend and he has Susan Rice the Foreign Adviser of Obama So Dan said" okay tell me what are the senators qualification in foreign policy." Well he is knowns his foreign policy because he lives in different parts of the world and amomg other things he also have a lot of experience when he took Foreign govt. in College etcc. etc..
Then Dan Abrams said wait a minute would you not get into trouble if you say his experience is he took Foriegn govt as one of his College studies his foreign experience is what he took in College??? I kid you not this happened some weeks before in Feb...... So many tyhings are coming out he even said in his own book that he is a blank screen and he is bound to diappoint many if not all people......
Hillary is our dama forget obama!!
Obama woke up a sleeping giant!
Say goodbye Obama lovers!!
He is done!! Hillary has national support!!
FIGHT HILLARY FIGHT!!
Power's apology came shortly after the The Scotsman newspaper published an article in which she makes the characterization (a comment she immediately tried to retract), and suggested the New York senator is trying to deceive voters.
"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Power was quoted as saying
Who is this Ms. Power? Too much hatred in your heart. Your candidate is not even a nominee and you say bad words to other people. What more if he becomes the president. You see how arrogant Ms. Power can be.
What a disgrace for Senator Obama! So much for running a different king of campaign; turns out his people are just as nasty, negative and underhanded as the most common slime in Washington. Senator Clinton won Ohio AND Texas AND Rhode Island fair and square, never mind her lifetime of distinguished public service. The Obama camp is quickly being revealed as the duplicitous hate-mongers they really are, with no practical experience and no shame or integrity.
The entire Obama camp and supporters is more interested in name-calling and Hillary bashing, than the issues. They should be out there DOING, for the electorate, like Hillary is: Working to protect voters constitutional rights by restoring voters civil rights and have the CAST ballots count in all states including Mi and Fl. And, being the bigger person by considering a JOINT ticket if the mandate for either is not there. This shows leadership and ability to unify.
Besides, Hill isn't detered by hateful words hurled at her...they are JUST words, after all. She is all about solutions and actions.
The Obama people are more about words- and dicing and nit picking on words and being thrown off and distracted by words- isn't that what started the whole race non-issue?
It is unfortunate that the comment was made, but it is even more unfortunate that the comment is TRUE! Hillary will do anything to keep the Clintons in power.
I wouldn't apologize. The Clinton's embody ALL that is wrong in
politics........ they will stop at nothing to win, and I mean nothing.
Of course, this is all to the detriment of this fine country and it's
people. There is not a doubt in my mind that Obama will be one
of the BEST presidents ever.......... if he's not wrongly derailed by
that MONSTER. Print it!
The fact of the matter is, Obama is beginning to show us that he is a sore loser. Remind you of anybody? Bush. He throws a hissy-fit everytime he does not get his way, then pushes his agenda no matter what the American people say. I would have a whole lot more respect for the media if they continued to report now what Obama truly is hiding, after all, they have been treating him with feathers for months while bashing Hillary. The American public deserve to know the truth even if it send Obama Hussain into a rage. There is something just not right about what's hiding behind that big white smile.
Oh how I wish Obama would shrug and say, "Well, if the shoe fits..."
Of course he won't. But because he's staying above the fray, he's seen as weak. Quite a quandary.
Even when it's true, these kinds of comments are wrong to make, Obama is right to decry them.
That is gracious from Mr. Obama side. In this silly season, people tend to get emotional. Apologizing is the right thing to do.
Go Hillary!
obama people are desperate and mad now. who cares? It just demonstrate they are no education!
2008 Hillary
Obama? Who?
I think that Sen Obama can calm everyone down in his camp. There was problems in Dr. King's camp. Everyone didn't understand the scope of Non-Violence. Ghandi fasted each time that those who supported him forgot the reason for the cause. It is difficult when you are working to change the attitudes and policies that have been at play for 24 years (Bush, Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush).
There is plenty that will come to light and Senator Obama will not be the one to strike the blow, they have done it to themselves. When bad behavior is left unchecked, the child becomes comfortable and may even feel a bit entitled to behave poorly. They may not even undersand why others are wanting the behavior to change.
It is certainly time for a change, and We are the Ones We have been Waiting for!!!!
Obama seems to have no control over the people that work for him now. What about after he becomes President (if he should win) and these sorts of inflammatory comments go international?
There is an article about her in the Arrive magazine this month, available on Amtrak trains. As a Baystater and attorney, I had the impression that she was something of a fraud and closet nutjob after reading the article, and this just reinforces my opinion.
I know someone who was close to Obama and on his campaign when he ran for Senate. Although she is closed-mouth these days (as a good soldier would be), I get the impression she is not impressed by the people that he surrounds himself with, or the fact that he ran for President so soon.
And this is not Hillary loving on my part. I can't stand her and won't vote for her, but I must acknowledge that she is the more qualified Democrat.
Look who's calling the kettle black !
You know this crap of attacking Billary is such a double standard. They can through the kitchen sink at Barack but anything that is said about the Clintons should be all roses that is b -s I will not vote for Hillary or McCain or Bush they all can go straight to hell.
I guess Obama's campaign is not really all about unity and positivity like he says it is. He just doesn;t seem to be all that he is trying to protray.
I think this goes to show how the "Change we can believe in" is just a carefully calculated public stunt of the Obama campaign in order to win the race. Senator Clinton has demonstrated her ability to keep fighting, and if the Obama campaign doesn't like that its because their message is clearly wearing off. Although Senator Obama already denounced the statement, he should remember that his campaign is not a cult of personality, but includes his advisers as well. He should be able to bear responsibility for the selection of people who don't say anything that's on their mind, especially when it comes to foreign policy.
Hillary for President 2008!
Monster....hmmmm. That's putting it a bit mildly isn't it?
so clinton can bash and knock obama all upside the head but as soon as he says one negative thing about her or responds hes in the wrong? please, now you are just trying to use obamas clean style and trade it in with your dirty politics it just doesnt work that way idiot and she is a monster!!!!
Clinton supporters have not descended to hurling insults such as this. The Obama camp has hit a new low. They decry Clinton's campaign for 'negative' tactics, but when they use the same tricks it somehow becomes merely 'aggressive' campaigning. What a load of hypocrites.
Finally Obama's camp appologizes for something.
How sad, he has no foreign experience and his foreign advisor slips up, genis!
Go Hillary 2008
"Monster" comment...it's all true, Hillary Clinton is a monster, a liar and a ruthless individual that will stop at nothing to steal this election. The Clintons' have a history clouded in deceit and I hope people start to wake up!! America these people have done nothing for you! As a college educated hispanic woman, my vote is for Obama!!
Samantha Powers is way out of line with her remarks. If this is the type of top foreign policy advisers Senator Obama has in his employ his idea of proper ,necessary and acceptable credentials for such positions is more than questionable.
Her mother needs to wash her mouth out with soap for starters! And someone needs to offer her a course in ethical and acceptable public speaking and politcal practices! Her language and villanous statements are certainly not in keeping with such high profile positions.
If I was Obama, in the interest of his public image, I would be seriously considering firing her immediately. As her apology after such a vile tirade in public will certainly not restore her public image and will continue to leave his judgement in question.
Truth hurts. Hillary aggrandizing McCain & giving McCain ammunition against Obama makes her a monster in our democratic midst. Yes team Obama needs to stop looking amateurish & get back to calling her on the politics of old.
if Hillary is a monster then Obama is a jerk.
it is over for obama now!! they are out of control because of tusday
These comments shouldn't have been made as Barack is trying so hard to make sure his campaign is clean..however, people will speak their own thoughts and unfortunately Barack has to go around cleaning up after them.
Hillary is a shrew, ruthless, cunning, manipulating and just a cog in the old political machine.. monster no..but she is scary .. hang in Barack her Karma is coing soon!!
I'm not surprised to see Barack Obama discourage such comments. His brand of politics does not involve name-calling or mud-slinging. He is running a campaign we can all be proud of. The truth is, nobody needs to be told that Hillary is a monster. She has done a fine job of making that evident to anyone with their eyes open.
And Obama hasn't fired her yet???? He needs to stop keeping these people, they're making him look inexperienced and foolish.
Is Hillary apologizing to Democrats for openly endorsing John McCain over Obama????
Wow, that was messed up!?! Too be one of his top advisors and a Harvard professor, that was very unprofessional. Poor people? All of the Obama supporters should "reject" and "denounce" (as you always say) those comments!! The people in Ohio are obssessed? That's a really messed up comment to make. The majority of us African-Americans live in poverty. Are we obssessed too? Those comments were really uncalled for.
i'm sure she's been called worse...big deal, CNN you're getting to be like catty women.
It would be really cool for those of us watching from other countries if you could give a brief outline of what comes next in your political process. What is the next big event? What will be decided there? etc.
Many thanks.
It is outrageous for Clintons to compare Obama to Ken Starr. On the other hand, if the Clintons ever get caught in their own scandals (which of course they hide documents) Ken Starr just might look good.
Once again the news is always rallying around Clintons, show cute Chelsea and Bill campaigning...do we care? If you're only talking of Obama campaigning, then only do Hillary. We are not voting for Bill.
What about how the news came out that it was CLINTON campaign who started this Canada fiasco? It was big news until it was proven wrong info but does CNN report that to its fullest? NOOOOOOOO.
News keeps harping on Hillary's BIG 3 WINS. Yeah right, not all the delegates, using scare tactics, and Obama is winning caucuses...but of course the news doesn't want to report that Texas is split between caucus and primary.
We're trying to bring this country to a higher standard and dignity, yet the media and the Clintons are dragging us down AGAIN.
Oh sure, apologize after the fact. It's like a judge instructing the jury to disregard a statement made in court – too late, already in their mind. The fact that one of Obama's top advisors made the comment makes a person wonder if perhaps it is OBAMA'S camp who is now getting desperate – sounds like a little kid name calling.
I guess this butt didn't take a very good look at their leader. There is no one in the country more of a monster than he is .
Samantha Power is a top foreign policy advisor to Senator Obama? No wonder he's not doing so well.
Clearly, Ohio is not the only place where Hillary Clinton can win given the fact that she's taken every major state in the country. These reckless, avusive comments are exactly the type of childish and uninformed messages the Obama camp wants Americans to believe. It is really a shame.
I understand Samantha, its hard to be angry and not be able to vent. I look at Hillary and think 'Ergh' too.
*******GOBAMA '08********
As a lifelong Democrat and daughter of a union organizer, I have to cast a vote that reflects my values. No doubt Sentator Obama is a good person but he is much too inexperienced to be the next President of the United States. If he were a woman, he would never have been taken seriously as a Presidential Candidate. I do believe Senator Clinton is extremely capable, experienced, has demonstrated good judgment over the years and I support her wholeheartedly. I am one of those Democrats in California that Senator Obama should not "depend" on if he wins the nomination. I do not speak alone so Senator Obama DON't count on my vote (or getting California, New York, etal) in the general election. Many of us believe our Country should come before Party Politics.
People get frustrated and vent, unfortunately for the Obama Campaign and Ms. Power she vented with the wrong person, not a smart move. I do think if she said it should be off the record it should have been, reporters would be out of business if they reported every bad thing someone said off the record.
I don't appreciate the Clinton Campaign acting so offended, it is so disingenuous from a campaign that has been per their campaign mgr. "throwing the kitchen sink" at Obama.
I think Bill is the real monster he`s the one running the country with the – - – - – under the desk
If Hillary becomes President wonder who will show up under her desk?
Go Barack
We got your back.
I would not apologize for Rice comment, because it's true. She is a MONSTER, and a REPULSIVE figure.
Obama you are such a gentleman! the voters can see through the chivalry – hillary will do anything to win. I think the American people realize that now – as if we ever had any doubt before.
Why isnt CNN covering more of the Clinton connection to NAFTA-gate? The international media is saying that it was the CLINTON campaign who said that her stance on NAFTA was all rhetoric and politics – and then she flipped the script and inserted Obama's name instead of hers. America has too many serious problems to deal with Clinton and her high school bully antics.
a pity. barack is a sore loser and needs to get a life. HILLARY 08 all the way.
Yes we need a moster, a bit*ch, a fighter, a doer in the white house and not a punk like obama.
Atleast a monster will go out and eat the bad guys alive if they try to attack us and not whine like my spinless obama.
HILLARY 2008
Okay, as a Clinton support, I would just say, back to the issues everyone – Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East peace process, the economy, immigration, education, health care, infrastructure and those other things that matter more than who called the other candidate what.
Peter S.
Georgia
Samantha Powers was right in calling Killery Clinton a monster. Look into her eyes and what do you see, a cold calculating person almost soulless. She is a blank page when you take a good look at her. Freeze a frame or two of her shots and look carefully. There is nothing there but coldness and I thought that Bill Clinton was the monster.
It's going to get worse for Obama as this campaign goes foward; everyone knows every thing about the Clintons. No one knows nothing about Obama. Except the Republicans will make mince meat of him, if he is the nominee.
With all do respect to Senator Obama.But there are some real foul mouth people running his campaign and he needs to clean house
Well she ain't lying! Everytime I see that woman, I wanna dig something in her eye. I will also add that she is a conniving, deceitful, manipulative, tactical, and opportunistic devil! And I DO NOT denounce and reject that statement either!!!
Obviously, the monster qualification is out of place. Really, it is surprising and outrageous the lack of intelligence of a Harvard professor making such statements !!!
BUT IT IS EQUALLY SURPRISING AND OUTRAGEOUS THE WILLINGNESS OF THE MEDIA TO CALL HILLARY A "COME BACK" KID, WHEN THERE IS NO COME BACK AT ALL, BUT A CERTAIN
DEGREE OF DECELARATION OF PROGRESS, OBTAINED BY A DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING, WHICH NOW SHE IS TRYING TO SUPPLEMENT BY ANY TRICK IN THE BOOK, AS THE ABSURD REQUEST OF REVERSE THE RULES IN FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN, TRY TO REVERSE THE VOTERS WILL BY PRESSURING THE SUPERDELEGATES AND BY THROWING VEILED ACCUSATIONS
OF MALFEASANCE, WHILST REFUSING TO DISCLOSE HER TAX
RETURNS 2000-2006, USING AS EXCUSE THE TAX FILING TERM, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS, AS IT REFERS ONLY TO 2007!
TOM
As an Obama supporter, these comments are very unprofessional and has NO place in politics....I am glad Obama distanced himself from these comments!!!!
none-the-less:
STOP THE HATE, VOTE OBAMA 08!!!!!!!!!
Hillary's a liar. She lied about NAFTA in Ohio, she lies about Obama's record... THIS WILL ALL COME OUT.
Hillary is a dirty liar, a political spinmeister and a power hungry tyrant... I don't know how those things DON'T make her a monster.
Don't fall for her tricks anymore America! Vote for REAL HOPE, vote for REAL CHANGE, vote for BARACK OBAMA for President of the United States of America!
OBAMA '08!!!
What happen to NAFTA investigation. Why haven't it been included with the news stories. And you all was concerned about giving Obama more press time. Oh i'm sorry after all you do pick the president.
She is a monster.
I think this shows how the Obama campaign really is..
IS THIS NOT THE SAME PERSON WHO SAID WE SHOULD NOT FIGHT,HE IS GETTING PRETTY SHADY.
WE NEED CHANGE AND EXPERIENCE
WE WILL TAKE THE DOLLAR, AND THAT'S FOR HILLARY
GO HILLARY '08
AND OBAMA FOR VP
Most watched this week as Hillary Clinton shut down Obama. This has left the Obama campaign in over drive trying to regain its momentum. One minute the Obama is attacking Hillary, the next an apology is issued. This is clear signs of unstable campaign.
In the comining weeks, we should start the hear Obama speaking to fundamental questions such as what specifically does he mean by "Change" and whats his past record of bringing Democrats and Republicans together.
Obama has not stood out as a leader and proven to be led by the clinton campaign. For example, he agrees with Hillary, and he has conformed to going negative. Is this original, or is he watching and learning?
So let me get this straight.... She apologized for speaking the truth???
Hillary Clinton, whether you believe is a monster or not, will lose this nomination. And that makes me happy enough.
The Clintons are stooping to low lows in order to steal this election. There is no debate there. They are willing to rip apart the democratic party and divide us so far that we may not win in November because of the division. If voters felt like they could trust the Clintons and feel that she could get stuff done with her divisive ways, then she would have won states like Virginia, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, etc. Most voters do not trust her and do not feel that her way of politics is how we should accomplish our goals in Washington.
In regard to the trust issue, let's see the 2006 tax returns before April rolls around. They were completed over a year ago. What are they hiding? Donations and support from "terrorist states" that are rich in oil?
The truth shall set you free...... Call um like you see um.... Good eye I'd say....
CNN this is so trashy who is writing these tickers Cafferty and Borger.????? You are not doing both of these candidates any favors by printing all this negativity. They are both good people who want to help the American people. The media painting them in a bad light is going to sway voters to McCain.
55 million dollars raised and he loses. He should apologize to his supporters also.
You're a professor of government? Hard to believe in stuff like that lady!
Ok, Barack fans. Can you at least see that your candidate is not innocent ? Like Hillary, he is a politician. Politicians do what they can to win, including launching campaigns that aim to sway voters. Hillary campaigns. Barack campaigns. Neither is a saint. Neither is pure. They cannot be - one must work to persuade to live a political life. All candidates are compromised. But ask yourself this: why should one's attempts at persuaion be considered more monstrous than another's? How is Barack's campaigning any purer than anyone else's?
This, by the way, is not meant to disparage Obama. He's a fine candidate and if he wins, I'll support him. But the screeds launched against Senator Clinton–including these lovely observations from a Harvard Professor–are out of control. Can you see the sexism at work here? This sad Harvard-person commentary reveals submerged attitudes about women: Powerful women are monstrous. Women who seek power are dangerous. Hillary Clinton should–what? Step back and let Barack Obama take control of the campaign? Why? Why shouldn't she use whatever means she has to fight back? If she did any less than fight back, she would be called weak and not tough enough to run the control.
All of us (and the men who care about women) should be very concerned about the ways that Senator Clinton's is publicly ridiculed. This ridicule does not say much about our attitudes towards women who believe in themselves, who feel that they are as qualified as any man to run the country. Such aspirations should be supported, not denigrated or feared.
Apologize!!! GIVE ME A BREAK. It is ok for the Clinton campaign to suggest that Obama is pretending to be a christian when actually he is may be a radical muslim!! That is ok, never heard an apology for that. They say Obama is like Ken Starr and I bet if you asked the Clintons how they felt about Starr, MONSTER might be a word that comes to mind. Seems like a fair comparison to me.
Clinton IS a monster with scaremonger political tactics.
contrary to the inspiring hype of "change", obama is the same.
I work in the media myself and one of the first lessons they teach you is there is no such thing as "off the record" especially when dealing with politics. This advisor should have known better. At this stage of the game both Clinton and Obama should borrow a page from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's playbook. During his last campaign he all but physically muzzled his candidates and advisors, in order to prevent just this sort of "loose lips" scenario from happening. At a time when the Democrats are falling behind the 8-ball in national campaigning Clinton and Obama need to make sure their respective teams stay on message and not give their rivals - and that now includes McCain as much as it includes each other - any ammunition. Or make comments, like this one, that could come back to bite people in the backside later.
"Monster?" what are we in 1st grade?
It is ok that she apologized, but it is true; who else would continue marriage to an adulterous man, just for political gains.
Whoever that Powers lady is – she sounds like a nut. What a nerve to call Hillary a Monster because she won Ohio. They are the one's who will say anything to win. Hillary is just stating facts.
This is just another example of what Obama's supporters aretruly like. Followers emulate their leaders................
Obama said in December that he would remove anyone who attacked personally. So, when does that happen Senator? Or is this more 'politics as usual' that you so often decry? You sir, are a hypocrite and a speaker of untruths, in other words, a liar.
Once again, CNN, you try to blame an Obama's backer's comments on the candidate himself. Why don't you write a positive article on him for once, and stop showing your bias. And also, a "monster" isn't all that bad a thing to say, considering what most Obama's backers think of Clinton.
But why is the Clinton News Network not addressing Hillary's NAFTA problem. She was completely dishonest. It"s an integrity issue.
Hillary Clinton would rather see John McCain in the white house than any democrat besides herself. Her "be afraid" attacks and "say anything to prevent an Obama victory" approach is pathetic. The fiasco of the Clinton campaign is an indication what ANOTHER Clinton presidency would look like. Obama is a phenomenal canidate that has motivated millions of people to get involved in the political process....let's take our democracy back and move this country into a new era of political engagement. Go Obama!
Come on Hillary – OLD Lady!!! Get out now – you lost!
No one I talk to wants a whiney, lying and mean-spirited woman as president. Besides, "what will you do when the phone rings at 3:00am?" You answer it, ditwit! Besides, if you were president (and you won't be) your concentration would not be on the nation but on your husband – what with you worrying about him being around so many aides again....
Does Samantha Power really believe that her candidate doesn't or hasn't stooped to a little deceit? How naive can she be – most Americans know that politicians are experts at deceit when running for political office – the only true test is what the candidate has done in their political career to show what they'll stand for in the future.
Obama once said he was a 'bonehead' for his dealings with certain criminal slimeballs...and it looks like his chosen advisers are fellow boneheads too. Good 'judgement' Barack. OOOPS! Don't look now, but your facade is slipping!
America: you are finally ridding yourself of one bonehead...don't elect another.
Im proud to be an Ohioian today. We don't want Obama or anyone like Samantha Power in our state.. If he is elected, we would like to hold our own election here in Ohio for our own President. Exclude us from the union. We will become our own country. Wake up America.
Denouncing isn't enough! Did they reject it? Else, Clinton might get offended
Change we can trash. Dirty staff is starting to come out from the one who said he'll take the high road. Well, Obama's camp is finally reflecting lack of leadership in their candidate. This guy is losing because people have realized that talk is cheap. He has copied all the talk from all his sources, repeated every speech and has gone blank. Thats what happens when you have no experience in any job, let a lone the presidency of this country.
Sorry but Ms Powell is right! God Bless American if Hillary wins. People are not getting it and I feel as a "no conscience" society Clinton will fit right in. She is trying to change the rules with Florida and Michigan because she has never followed the rules. The Clintons make their own. I am shocked that so many good Christian families out there approve of the Clintons! Sad Sad Sad...
All these candidates are terrible.
I had great hope at the beggining, but the Hillary came in and brought the worst out of everyone. Hillary does that.
It must suck to have to apologize for revealing the truth about Clinton. She's ruthless and will do absolutely anything to win, including her attempts to destroy Obama. She is the least common denominator.
I'm not feeling Obama as president today.
Unfortunately, in spite of her apology, Power behaves in the same arrogant, self-righteous fashion as Obama and so many of his supporters. Obama preaches unity and positive politics, but he's more than happy to let his surrogates express his true feelings. This apology means nothing.
The only monster I see here is the ugly little green monster called jealousy, Mr. Obama. Jealous that you couldn't take three states this week.
GO HILLARY! I just sent in my donation AND bought a tshirt – keep it going until November!
Its 3 am, your spouse is safely sleeping in bed, and the phone rings and its a chubby intern, what do you do?
I am glad that Obama's camp has apologized for this. I wish that Mrs. Clinton's camp would apologize comparing Obama to Ken Starr. While I know that the Ken Starr time period was an upsetting time for the Clinton's, Mrs. Clinton should keep in mind that it was the beginning of a very hurtful time period for the whole country. I hope that we are not entering again into a negative time that is focused on Clinton scandle instead of what we the people need.
I chose HOPE. OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!
A lot of these comments need to start coming from people who don't really need a job for the Obama camp. She is out there selling a book and works at Harvard. I think this was a great play. Get nasty right back!
Oh yes...... I want this woman taking the 3 am calls regarding our National Security as his Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor. Well that's 2 in as many days. We have Austan Gollsbee, Senior Economic Advisor & this brillant woman. Gosh, I'm glad we know ahead of time what "Experts" he's surrounding himself with. My goodness, who needs experiance?!
Why apologize for something that's true? Hillary is a monster for doing the dirty politics of smear campaigning, swift boating, and saying and doing anything nasty to get nominated.
She is a monster. I take the pledge with many other young voters to not vote or vote for McCain if Obama is robbed of this election.
Well now that is surely personal...Some of the Obama supporters act very poorly. I surely do not want to support ANY canidate who brings out that kind of behavior in a person.
Hillary Clinton 2008!
No, she is not a monster; I think that Barack Obama needs to reign in his advisors, you know?
Though I dislike Clinton, I gotta admit her attacks on Obama's foreign policy capabilities are proving correct. One of his foreign policy advisors interacts with our closest ally (Canada), resulting in what they now call Nafta-gate; and another of his foreign policy advisors has a conversation with a foreign paper.....As President, I can't wait to see to hoopla when his foreign policy advisors are speaking to enemy states, not closest friends in Canada and U.K..
Once again politics rears its very ugly head – looks like the Obama camp is going uglier than expected. I worry that comments like these – and these are nasty ones for sure – will hurt the democratic party. Obama needs to get his supporters and advisors back inline before it is too late.
Well, now who is going to apologize to all the "monsters in the world for comparing Hillary to them? She has done nothing but, distort the truth in her campaign, change her policies. and run the " typical smear" campaign that the Clintons have always done! Give me a break, do we really need to apologize for this? Lets talk more about income tax returns! Hillary made millions last year while she was in the senate. I just wonder how she benefited from George Bush's tax breaks for the rich?
The Obama campaign did not "fxxxx" up in Ohio. They lost big and deservedly so. The fraud of the Obama empty promises campaign was all too evident. It is becoming more evident to Americans all over the country. The initial infatuation has evaporated. Madam President may be monster to Obama advisors, but it has a wonderful ring to it for the overwhelming majority of Americans.
Hillary can deal with "the monster" comment; she tough. But Samantha Powers' full quote (as posted at "thescotsman.scotsman.com" goes on to say: "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."
The implication here is that "poor" people don't know any better and can be bamboozled by Sen. Clinton. But maybe poor people do know better, maybe that's why they support Sen. Clinton. Leave it to the poor, who know what it's like to be on the outside looking in, to know the difference. Ms. Powers: things are not unattractive to the poor, things are downright ugly. With the lack of jobs, health care, access to higher education, having a "monster" as your opponent is not an issue, Ms. Powers. But maybe having a problem solver as your opponent gives you the green light to make such statements. You don't have anything else to say to the poor.
Power should be apologizing to the monster.
hahaha,...guess how many votes Hillary got from the last March 4 fiasco...12 votes only!! From two states of total 371 votes.
12 DELEGATE VOTES !!! AND Hillary's supporters are riding on it.
DO THE MATH, SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANY CHANCE UNLESS THE HEAVEN'S OPEN. GET OUT HILLARY, YOU ARE A MESS TO BEGIN WITH AND YOU ARE MAKING A MESS ON THE DNC.
Hillary is Fraud WORST than Bush. Obama for change.
I hate to admit it but I am starting to believe that about Senator Clinton as well.
Guess with all the recent job losses, this woman thought it best to apologize rather than join the ranks of the unemployed. In politics, once you get caught with your pants down, it's game over.
Very similar situation to the Obama aide and the Canadian consulate dust-up. I have never seen a better game of 'bait and switch". Attention was focused on HOW the information was leaked not WHAT was leaked. Talk about killing the messenger. Let's blame the Canadian NOT the big mouth Obama aide with loose lips. This is "spin" at it's worst.
Obama knows to denounce those comments, but Hillary won't denounce Wolfson for calling Obama Ken Starr. Hillary instead praises John McCain. How can she believe John McCain would be a good commander in chief considering his stand on Iraq? Is Hillary preparing to change her mind on Iraq or what? I just don't understand her praising John McCain's stand on foreign policy by saying he would be a good commander in chief. How can I trust her now?
Its funny how people will run from words they truly feel and think. From an unbiased point of view of each democrat's campaign, Clinton has obviously pulled horrible tricks. The biggest one – making this Florida/Michigan an issue.
To anyone who supports this issue, haven't any of you ever heard about RULES?! I think this is the biggest waste of time for anyone to have to go through. Either redo the votes at Florida/Michigan expense (not out of the taxpayers dollars but their own legislatures salaries) because they are the ones who thought they were above the Rules in the first place.
Basically, it wouldnt make a difference anyways, since every contest is decided around 48/52 anyways, which means Obama would still have the edge in total delegates..... WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.
It is interesting that the Clinton campaign is taking offense at this. They are very good at putting the other side on the defensive. The Obama camp has to get better at addressing these situations where they not only defend, but in the same breath attack the other side as well.
The response should have been-"The aide has apologised and Senator Obama is comfortable to leave it at that. The offense was not as egregious as comparing someone to Karl Rove or Ken Starr, which would have led to her termination from this campaign".
The truth comes out. Obama is covering up his true colors, it is Washington as always with him. He just speaks soft and gives a great speech but the truth is, it is business as usual for him also. He does not have the experience to be President. Check out CNN's fact check and you will see Hillary has the experience. Wash that woman's mouth out ! Obama's bunch think they can buy the publics vote and now they are scared. GO HILLARY !! HILLARY 08 !! The Republicans spent 8 years trying to get the Clinton's instead of the country's business so Hillary has been vetted. But Obama is a prime target. Go HILLARY !!!
Kate Clark, 53, a cafe owner in Nazareth, a small town near Allentown, said she struggled with her choice. Tempted to vote for Clinton because of her gender, she said Obama's energy and vision ultimately won out.
"I think we need to see the United States and see the world through eyes that are younger, through eyes that have dreams, through eyes that see something new for the nation," Clark said.
It's good that the Obama campaign denounces these comments but isn't she? the voters decide?
The way both campaigns are going at each other is ridiculous and it's tearing the party apart, and before anyone blames it on the other canadiate, it's both of them!
I hate to say this, but they're making Mccain look very good and civil, especially Clinton, with the way she has been praising him as of late.
The Media keep reporting how Obama does better in caucuses. There would be no logical reason for doing better. The ONLY reason he does better at caucuses is that it is an unfair, undemocratic, and disenfranchising method of voting.
Obama does better at caucuses because it is an exclusive system. Entire voting blocks can not or are unable to participate in caucuses. Obama's voting blocks are favored by the caucus, while Hillary's voting blocks are handicapped by the caucus.
As a Hillary supporter, I was unable to caucus and thus, MY VOTE, too was NOT counted. I was not even able to CAST a ballot. Those people in Florida and Michigan were able to vote (NOT denied, just no delegates would count)- and they DID vote. Now it is time to count those votes.
The caucus system by its very design was unfavorable to Clinton and thus did not reflect many of the voters who wanted to vote for Hillary.
Lets do away with the absurd caucus system and give EVERYONE the OPPORTUNITY to cast a private ballot at a convenient time, in a convenient way. Then let's COUNT those ballots.
Hillary's campaign is being monstrous. She's not slick. She is blatantly saying McCain will be a better commander in chief than Obama. It is obvious that she knows she is on track to lose the nomination, so she wants Obama to lose the general so she can run in four years. Sad indeed. Truth be told, there are a lot of people out there who think she is a monster.
So much for Obama's righteous claims of change and being above politics... it's politics – it is what it is – stop pretending it's something that it's not... that's the problem I have with his campaign... wishing for change and wanting a different political process and dialogue is great but get real – the Republicans want blood! You may need a "monster" to scare the Republicans – the Republicans are counting on Hillary to their monster thinking they can slay her since they couldn't do it to Bill... Bill survived – that tells you something about political savvy. It's not negative, it's not positive – it's politics.
Just prior to the March 4th primary/caucuses Hillary's campaign tried to paint Obama's as 'Karl Rove'ish", now her campaign adviser is saying he's 'immitating Kenneth Star'?! Now who's really the one most similar to the aforementioned people/tactics, Hillary. In all honesty, as far as I've seen Obama is trying his best to take a higher road where as Hillary is encroaching upon elements of slander and libel. Hillary "Tanya Harding" Clinton is seemingly what is closer to the truth.
The Obama camp is coming off majorly petty and desparate! If they want to be considered the campaign for hope and change, they sure do not delineate this at all in their actions. I think its coming to fruition that the camp is the same old Washington as much as they like to deceive otherwise. Obama months ago said personal attacks were unwarranted and would not be accepted from his campaign. Strange how he changes his feelings on this once again (see flipflops on NAFTA, immigration, support of war, etc.)
And so it turns out that Obama and his staff are just like those he preaches against.......and by the way, if Obama and his camp are sensitive to being attacked on his camander in chief credientials, then perhaps he is in the wrong business. Hillary brings up an excellent question that voters need to consider – and that is, "who is best qualified to be commander in chief". Senator Clinton gets attacked for being "cold and calculated, for crying, for the way she dresses, and for her looks.....the one thing they can not attack is her record at a politician!
Good to see another example of the type of people Senator Obama surrounds himself with! With advisers like these, it's become very clear that there are serious questions regarding his JUDGEMENT.
that's what I hate about Obama's supporters – they are haters and not Clinton but they are monsters.
I admire Clinton courage to stand all this hate from those people and from media who 100% support Obama and is happy to write all negattive on Hillary.
Why you deny her right to continue the fight.
Believe me there are many supporters of her among Democrats.
And all those hateful actions from Obamanians and media dause opposite response from real thoughtful people.
Me personally and all my friends democrats will not vote for Obama if he is nominated but rather for McCain because of this unfair campany
Everyone in Obama's camp needs to take a deep breath and cool out for a while. Knee-jerk reactions like Power's can only serve to pull the Obama campaign into an all out mudslinging fest with Clinton's people. That's not the kind of campaign we want. However, I do think Obama must vigorously defend his position with the courage, conviction and fortitude of a worthy candidate for POTUS and Commander in Chief. Clinton has no legitimate reason to complain if someone requests clarification on her record and all the years of experience she's claiming.
CNN you have never posted my comments in the past. I hope you are not biased as some say.
What about Hillary's part in the NAFTA fiasco and Bill Clintons dealings for his foundations? You report on everything else that is going on in the election.
I will not vote for Hillary Clinton because of her unethical actions. How can she request that FL and MI voters to be seated when they broke the rules, make me feel like my vote does not count because my state played by the rules. I have talked to a lot of people who will not vote democratic. With her actions she has lost the African – American vote. They will not put up with her actions and she cannot win a General Election without them.
If she steals this election I and many other people will leave the party and vote independent or something else.
Howard Dean and the DNC had better be forewarned.
Clearly an Obamatard tactic to go negative without any substance to her claims. Much like her boss' plan for "change." Empty rhetoric. All this woman has to do is apologize for name calling, but what she should do is retract all of comments if she cannot offer any proof. Obama does not come out smelling sweet from this either.
Well, although what the advisor said may have been "politically incorrect" everything she said was true. But what is up with the foreign press getting involved? First the Canadians with their inaccurate information, and now the Scottish? And don't they know what "off the record" means in Scotland? Geesh!
WHY is this BIG news if the person IMMEDIATELY apologized and said it was inexcusible. CNN you really need to get a grip and report on the important stories. Like why won't Hillary release her tax statements. This IS important because not everyone can "LOAN" their campaign 4 million dollars. Also if she is so "vetted", why hesitate the first time someone challenges your openess about something as simple as a tax return. You MEDIA guys sometimes just don't get it. The only reason a Presidential candidate would not want to release this information immediately is there is something they don't want the voters to see.
It may not have been the appropriate time to say this but it was the appropriate thing to say. Look at all the Clinton Scandals at prorev.com/wwindex.htm, and the Paul Peter case.
Well it certainly is true that the Clinton campaign will stoop to any lengths for this nomination...including smear campaigns directed at Obama.
I was not involved in politics during the Bill Clinton's presidency. I believe that it is none of my buisness what consenting adults do behind closed doors. I hated when Rush Limbaugh made fun of Chelsea Clinton's looks during her akward early teen years. I never looked at the details closer than that to understand where this hate for the Clintons came from. Now, after following the recent primary process closely, I think that I understand why people hate the Clintons and why people call them cold, calculating, liars.
I hate Rovian smear politics. I can no longer listen to President Bush because I don't believe a word out of his mouth. I cannot change the channel or station quick enough when I hear GWB's voice on TV or radio. It is now getting to the point that I can no longer stand to hear Hillary's voice either. I wish that Hillary would stop the Rovian smear politics.
More proof of how the people Obama surrounds himself with are just talking the talk but not walking the walk when it comes to changing "politics as usual." Since that seems to be his one big attraction to a lot of people, this doesn't bode well for him. She knew as she was saying it that it was wrong since she tried to retract it at the time and say that it was "off the record." And then proceeded to do some more mudslinging. Niiiiiiiiice.
It is amazing how those new agents of changes resemble vicious uncompromising ideologs of old. Obama has no cloth. Fourtunately, he will never be a king. His non-existence experience in managing economy, working across party lines, his views that linked closely to anti-Semitic position of his church and his pastor who he quotes repeatedly in his book, and his disdain for the working people of this country made him un-electable. In the general election he is guarantee now to loose Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. California will be a battleground state, and although people don't like to talk about it, he would loose New York. I see that here in New York people distrust him so much that they will hold their noses and vote for the Republican. It would be a first time fo me too, but self-serving elite should know, we won't have a false messiah for the president. It is apperent now that unless Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, we will have for 4 more years of a Republican in the White House (although John McCain is a honorable and progressive public servent, he won't have enough pull in either party to do many things that are urgently needed).
Ah, the politics of hope. It's a beautiful thing isn't it? What a fraud.
This is tabloid "gotcha" journalism at its finest.
The woman asked to be off the record because she was not speaking on behalf of the Obama campaign. The Scotsman should be ashamed to put forth such low standards of journalism.
Obama needs to reel his people in. First he doesn't know what his economic advisor is saying in Canada and now this. If his people can't handle talking to the press of other countries without causing an incident, how well are they going to do when talking with the leaders of other countries?
Monster.....yep.....she got it right.......
So if Obama decries such statements by Samantha Power and states "such characterizations have no place in this campaign", is he going to remove her as his top foreign policy advisor?
If he doesn't his words mean nothing.......We will probably see this glistened over like everything else that even hints about a questionable past, meetings, donations, etc.
Rove tactics at their best. Hit like a ninja, do damage, then remove the comments, apologize profusely, but cherish in the fact the damage has been done.
Wow. Great people working for you Obama. First your top economic advisor tells them in Canada the truth about how you think, and now your top foreign avisor! Keep up the good work so America can continue to discover your true nature before it's too late.
Hillary 08!!
She needs to resign.
Oh how ridiculous. Never in my life have I ever heard so much negativity on Hillary Clinton. Mr. Obama and his campaign people can't handle the truth when she tells the truth. If anyone are monsters it's the press and media for putting all this stuff out for the public every single day. I'm sure both candidates are fine people, it's just the one we want to do the best job as President, is Hillary Clinton. She is so much better on all her policies and will get American back where it should be.
It's about time she stuck up up for herself because the media is so ugly . They should be ashamed ,calling themselves Americans . Shame on You.
Go Barack, hit back and hit where it hurts.
The Clintons will do just about anything to win. Without punching hard, they're gonna have a free ride on this.
Yes you can !!!
It is amazing how those new agents of changes resemble vicious uncompromising ideologs of old. Obama has no cloth. Fourtunately, he will never be a king. His non-existence experience in managing economy, working across party lines, his views that linked closely to anti-Semitic position of his church and his pastor who he quotes repeatedly in his book, and his disdain for the working people of this country made him un-electable. In the general election he is guarantee now to loose Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. California will be a battleground state, and although people don't like to talk about it, he would loose New York. I see that here in New York people distrust him so much that they will hold their noses and vote for the Republican. It would be a first time fo me too, but self-serving elite should know, we won't have a false messiah for the president. It is apperent now that unless Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, we will have for four more years of a Republican in the White House (although John McCain is a honorable and progressive public servent, he won't have enough pull in either party to do many things that are urgently needed).
Um Um Um some kind a change, just like all the other supporters nasty, hateful and divisive, the flock is certainly a mirror of the leader.
Hillary 08!!
If it's OFF THE RECORD, why is it being reported?
As an Obama supporter this is extraordinarily disappointing for such rhetoric to contaminate his message.... but I think a lot of us who are turned off by Hillary Clinton quietly agree with the comments, knowing how on-target, even if politically incorrect, such language is.
Obama's got some real winners campaigning for him. What a freak!
I agree. thats the last thing we need!!!
Samantha Power, the Irish star, the Harvard professor, shame on you. The Clintons played a undisputable crucial role in Ireland's peace process. Samantha Power is an ungrateful, and disgraceful person.
It is not so much of what Clinton has or has not done for you, but it is very low of a high profile person with Ivy League education to use a street language. Again, shame on you Samantha Power!
How does someone so stupid get to be a professor at Harvard?
What a nice way to describe a fellow American. Shame on Obama campaign for not firing this idiot. Let's see if Sen. Obama practices what he preach. Go Hillary. Hillary 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Obama has a monster its not Hillary its Tony Rezko.
Why should anyone apologize? This is the most honest set of statements that I've heard from either campaign in a long time.
yes Obama have to go just as nasty as Hilary, because she is a power hungry woman, and she stops at nothing. You cant expect to win and don't talk about all the secrets, scandals and death that went on in the Clinton's years as president. Talk about what she knew about the guy that worked with her died, and about the land deal she was working on, that fell through. The phone that will ring in the white house will be for her husband because that could be one of his many mistresses. I don't understand why voters cave in on that ad, it was just one of Hilary's many tactics and she won. Obama cant campaign nice and soft with that woman no more, she's a witch and she wants to prove herself more and more. Hilary wants to be the dynasty of America. There's no end to her witchcraft, she just love power, fame and more fame.
How is it that you so quickly got this on your website, but have yet to discover or report that it was actually a Clinton advisor that made the infamous NAFTA comment to Canada?
And would you rather be referred to as Rove, Bush and Starr or be called a monster. I have heard no apologies from Hillary The Monster.
Hillary Clinton has torn the dems apart with her Carl Rove /Lee Atwater tactics she should be ashamed. Even if she does manage to steal the nomination she will never win the general election because the energized youth vote currently backing Obama WILL NEVER VOTE FOR HER. Hillary is now on the "dark side", fueling the fires of fear so we can't turn the page, just like George Bush.
Hillary is a monster and that is on the record.
I'll call Clinton a political monster too. And I won't apologize for it.
According to the artical, Obama's campaign quickly denounced that comment.
Should they have "rejected" the comment to satisfy Hillary?
There's no need to apologize for speaking the truth. Calling her a monster was being nice.
I look at hilary's face and see a woman that is lacking something, she herself do not know what it is, but she is lacking in love because her husband traded her for many women. Hilary have to make it up by going after other people like Obama and making him look like he's fresh off the block and don't know anything about politics. She have no experience either because she was never a president. She was first lady twice and she enjoyed the power and prestige and she knows what it is like to go even further, that is what Hilary wants, she wants to always be on top. She is one dysfunctional human being , and she used race to win those two states because she painted a picture of Obama as this dark Muslim guy, and made him look mean and evil. Hilary's record throughout the years are those of kicking anyone down that come in her space or close to where she feels comfortable.
Clinton has definitively destroyed one segment of her base in the past week – African-Americans. She can kiss the black vote goodbye. Her dirty tactics may have worked in Ohio, but Mississippi is going to give Obama the kind of margin he needs to effectively shut her up. They didn't learn their lesson after Bill's South Carolina comments. Hillary is hanging herself with her own rope. If they run Hillary against McCain in November, then McCain will be our next president of blacks have anything to say about it – believe that.
Stay above the fray, Senator Obama. She keeps harping about foreign policy experience – how much national level experience did her husband have before he left a governorship for the White House? What kind of representative would she be to Muslim nations after demonizing Islam and trying to force a fellow candidate over and over again to prove he is not Muslim?
She IS a monster. Maureen Dowd said it well – the Clinton's are slimy and will pull everyone down to their level. Don't you just know that Hillary just loves this mudslinging – she should because she's had a load of EXPERIENCE doing it!
We had a chance to have the issues discussed in an intelligent, substantive way, and that's just not going to happen now that Hillary is getting her way. Count me one disgusted successful, female, feminist, life-long Democrat who will be voting for McCain if Hillary gets the nomination. I for one am sick to death of the Clintons and their ilk.. Do we really want to see four years of mud wrestling with Hillary in the ring???
"In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win," Powers said.
A Harvard Professor that can't count the number of states Clinton has won? Oh, that's okay, she can read the minds of Mississippi, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and likely Michigan and Florida voters!
P.S. Has he fired her yet?
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck....
I guess you can add that to the list of things Hillary is being called.
No, she's not a monster. She'd just rather have the GOP stay in the white house rather than lose.
Obama is a better person than she is. Plain and simple. And he'll make a better leader of the free world.
Obama '08!
Is this not consistent with the Obama campaign... say it, then retract it, then state that you are running the positive campaign. Calling someone, anyone willing to run for public office, a monster is just plain disgusting. Senator Obama has proven that he is just another politician willing to do whatever it takes to grab power...
saying one thing on the war in Iraq when he could not vote then voting the other way once he is able... telling the American people that he is above the negative tone in Washington and saying something else... I am not voting for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman, I am voting for her because she is simply the most intelligent and toughest of the two. ohhhhhbama, going negative, willing to do whatever it takes, willing to say whatever it takes to grab power... YES HE CAN!
I feel that the men of the United States feel so superior that they will do anything to keep Hillary Clinton from winning because she is a woman
New politics, eh?
Nothing unusual about this from Obama supporters – just look at a few blogs etc.
why is it when we hear a criticism of obama's candidacy from the clinton campaign, it's almost always an honest critique of the guy's ability to lead with a trusted hand. but when we hear of a criticism of clinton's campaign from the obama campaign it's a nasty, derisive, personal attack? this is called 'hope'? i don't think so. with her reasoned, consistent and honest voice hillary clinton and her ability to affect change will get my vote this time around.
Here's breaking news for CNN! There are TWO Democratic candidates running for the nomination! During the past week every time I have tuned in to CNN all I've seen is Hillary Clinton smiling, waving her arms, and pontificating to the multitudes. What ever happened to that other guy....what was his name? Obama or something like that! Come on....can't you be less biased?! Up until now I have thought your coverage has been well balanced, but Obama has disappeared from the TV screen. I've seen Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea Clinton......and even McCain......but little if any news, replays, etc. of Obama. Get with it, CNN!
I used to respect and admire Hillary Clinton. That respect and admiration slowly declined through this campaign. That gained momentum (in the negative direction) these last few months, and I am now left with NO respect and NO admiration of Hillary Clinton.
WAS THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN STAFFER WHO LEAKED THE OBAMA MUSLIM PIC FIRED?
and they did not apologize!!!
A reprimand will be adequate. The personal attacks are not necessary.
However, I must say that I have used the term "monster" as referencing someone who is relentless and tenacious.
For example, my brother was a monster on the court tonight.
But I guess since Clinton has been so negative, the monster imagery rings too close to home.
OBAMA-BLA-BLA-BLA–
Well, she just spelled out what everybody's known for a long time. Maybe it's not OK to actually say it, but it's true nonetheless. The racist, anti-Muslim overtones of the Clinton campaign are well-known to everyone.
Divide and conquer, triangulate, take away social safety net from the poorest - that's the way of the Clintons. And do you remember how secretive she was during the whole healthcare thing? Hillary is the Democrats' Nixon, it's as plain as day. Reject and denounce her, people, while it's not too late.
And this small-states-don't-matter policy of the Clintons - you can almost hear them say "flyover country". I hate that, it's so snobbish, yuck.
I voted for Bill twice and used to live in the small states for a long while, too, so this "only-big-states-matter" line is a huge letdown for me. Oh, and look how far the democrats got with it - 2 straight defeats in the general election! Wow, what a smart strategy, aren't we all amazed by it the third time around.
The Clintons ARE monsters. Cold, calculating monsters who sold out for Saudi sheiks's millions just like the Bushes did. A plague on both their houses.
Vote for Obama.
Okay Hillary. Then fire your workers that started the muslim emails.
Better yet, STOP acting like a monster in the first place!
Finally somebody is telling it how it is and not just saying what they think the public wants to hear. Now her choice of words could have been a little more intelligent any kid can call somebody a monster, but either way the comment hit home. Oh and Clinton campaign have called Obama the "Anti-Christ in their mailings and a hard core muslim with ties to Osama and his troop. Calling her a monster really isn't that bad compared to the way her campaign has stomped on Obama. Yea she got rid of two of her campaign people for the comments but lets be honest you think out of the hundreds of workers Clinton has only two of them were mailing out them memos making people who are religious fanatics change their votes. So lets get over the monster thing and move on to something bigger than just telling the truth lets put all Hillary dirt out there on the front lawn where it should be.
Samantha Power, is right Obama's staff messed up in Ohio and in Texas Eureka Gilkey messed up Texas, I bet Obama wont make that mistake in putting her over another state.
I AM nuts
A new type of politics? Name-calling?
Why isn't OBAMA out advocating the constitutional right to vote?
EVEN if he may not win because of that vote counting.
I wasted my vote on Obama. I took a chance on the inspirational new type of forward thinking politician- and got WORSE than those he rails against.
I'm hopeful there are enough PENDING votes out there to re-enfranchise Clinton.
What a rigged political process- oprah trying to sway and buy him votes, the silly silly season in politics of the celebrity bandwagon. I no longer respect the Kennedys for trying to sway the electorate.
Please let it NOT be too late
This shows how non -professional Obama's campaign is. He cant even control his own advisors, wonder how he would do with the country...
Poor Obama, he never did anything wrong, the last thing you would think is for people in his staff calling Hillary a monster, they are so pure. Keep up with it Obamarama people.
Well, I think it's great that the lid is coming off the Obama camp – and they are seen for what they are: far from being the "holier-than-thou" campaign whose farts smell of eau de cologne, they are every bit as down-and-dirty as they accuse their detractors of being.
With hindsight, the US media will see what happened before the South Carolina Primaries for what it was: Obama's supporters perverting the words of Hillary and the former President, to play the race card to their greatest advantage – to the great detriment of race relations in America for years to come.
The chickens (Resko, NAFTA, etc etc) can't come home to roost fast enough, as far as I'm concerned!
Is this not going negative? Go Hillary!
Simple fact, she is a monster and will do anything to win. Her negative attacks and statements are going to tear the democratic party apart and put McCain in the whitehouse. Do we really want that, I don't.
maybe hill should reject and denounce obama being compared to ken starr, or karl rove, or george bush, or the ridiculous statement that john mccain is more preferable to obama?
His campaign is just backward in mometum, then begin to show the true colorand a negative campaign. If his campaign were hers, you could not imagine what his campaign would have already done.
Hillary fired her people for their attacks. Will Obama? Hillary has not made personal attacks, she has attacked his experience or lack thereof. I see nothing wrong with pointing out an opponents weak areas. The Obama camp best not turn to personal attacks, it will backfire. Mr. Clean ain't so clean after all. That's politics as usual.
Quote from CNN.com: ... New York Rep. Nita Lowey, a Clinton supporter. “We're calling on Senator Obama to make it very clear that Samantha Power should not be part of this campaign.”
While I disagree with the negative attacks and name-calling (Power calling Clinton a "Monster"), if Clinton supporters want Power removed from the Obama campaign, then Ken Wolfson should be removed from the Clinton campaign for his remarks regarding "Obama imitating Ken Starr".
We have to allow our candidates (and their supporters) some room for error. Sometimes our mouths say things that once we hear them said, we try to use better wording. Give Power a break, she tried to retract it immediately after she said it. This is just like the Michelle Obama statement about "this is the first time she is proud of the US".
Let's look at the REAL ISSUES that Americans are concerned about, and the SOLUTIONS these candidates have for these issues.
In response to the update information from CNN: If Clinton's campaign is calling for Obama to fire Samantha Power for her statement, then it should only be fair that the Clinton campaign fire Howard Wolfson for his attack on Obama as imitating Kenneth Starr. Both camps are undoing all of the good they have built up by becoming nothing more then squabbling children vying for the attention of their parents. Stop the name calling and get back to the job at hand, showing the American people two smart intelligent choices and let us decide which direction to go in.
I am not surprised at all by this public display of hatred. While Obama preaches hope and unity, we have seen his supporters result in one of the most negative campaigns ever. Obama has always depended on his little cult followers to do his dirty work. Ask Larry SInclair how many death threats he has received from this pitiful cult movement!
Clinton herself, said that Obama is worse than McCain and now that lawyer. She's gotten way more negative then him. She even insinuated that he may be a Muslim Terrorist on 60 minutes....I mean come on!
She didn't fire any of the people that were caught spreading the Muslim Terrorist e-mail.
Oooooooooo!! Hillary's a monster! I suppose we should all be scared now. How sophomoric of the Obama campaign. If he wins we'll have our government run by a bunch of high school kids.
Thanks a lot, CNN, for covering this "story."
An obscure lady in another country calls Hillary a monster who will stoop at nothing to win and that's considered controversial? C'mon, CNN, how much is the Clinton campaign paying you?
Why not report the news and admit the obvious: After trying to cheat her way into winning delegates in two states the DNC disqualified, after saying her fellow party member is less qualified to be President than the opposing party's nominee, after deceiving gullible voters in Ohio that she plans to "fix" NAFTA, after claiming to be the "most vetted" candidate after placing a moat around her campaign and refusing to release her tax records and all evidence of her so-called involvement in Bill Clinton's campaign, after allowing her toady to compare Obama to Kenneth Starr, SHE IS A MONSTER.
Stop trying to create controversy when there is none, and wake me up when you're ready to go back to being unbiased.
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I agree with the statement. (in principle). She will do anything to get the Presidency. Obama was running relatively clean campaign. In order to win, Hillary applied the Monsterous approach and I don't trust her a bit.
I personally don't see anything wrong with his staffer saying what she said. She said those things with the expectation of it being off the record, even if it was foolish to think that was the case.
If an obama tells someone in an informal off the record conversation her true feelings, you can't begrudge her that... it just shouldn't have been said if they were going to be published.
You think Clinton never bad mouths Obama in private.
The remarks are also very very accurate.
printing this information is going to hurt the newspaper for future interviews.
In short, shouldn't have been said ON THE RECORD, but if she thought she was off the record and said something conversationally to someone with the expectation of it being private, then you can't give her too hard a time for the comments alone. Obama CAN give her a hard time though for being stupid enough to let this happen