Apparently Obama has tapped Samantha Power to help the incoming Obama administration to prepare for Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State.
Samantha Power is famous for calling Hillary a "Monster" during the primaries and thus resigned on March 7th 2008.
We all knew she would be back. She is just too brilliant to pass up.
I have always been a fan of Samantha Power. My sister who is a Republican but voted for Obama always raved about her brilliance. Well the good news is that she is back with Obama and working on foreign policy.
Samantha Power gained notariety during the primaries when she called Hillary a "Monster".
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Power made headlines in March during the height of the fierce fight for the Democratic presidential nomination when she called Clinton "a monster" in an interview with a Scottish newspaper, setting off angry exchanges about the tenor of the campaign.
Power told the Scotsman newspaper that Clinton would stop at nothing to defeat Obama. "She is a monster, too," Power said in the interview. "She is stooping to anything." Power added that "the amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."
A few hours after her comments were published, Power announced her resignation, saying the remarks were inexcusable and contradictory to her admiration for Clinton.
At the time, Power said that Obama had rebuked her for the comment and "made it absolutely clear that we just couldn't make comments like this in his campaign."
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State Department officials said Friday that Samantha Power is among foreign policy experts the president-elect's office selected to help the incoming administration prepare for Clinton's anticipated nomination as secretary of state.
The Obama transition team's Web site includes Power's name as one of 14 members of the "Agency Review Team" for the State Department.
Samantha Power is a foreign-policy scholar and was close to Obama.
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Power, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2003 book "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," had been quoted by the newspaper The Scotsman as saying Clinton "is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything."
Power was close to Obama personally, so her return is not particularly surprising. Many of her friends thought it was a case of "when," not "if."
Power is a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She was mentioned early on as a possibility for an administration appointment, but is not among the leading candidates for the top jobs.
I am curious to see what she thinks of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. I am absolutely sure that she has an opinion...LOL!
Well apparently they have buried the hatchet.
Clinton's office declined to comment on Power's inclusion in the State Department transition, but an official close to the Obama transition team said Power had "made a gesture to bury the hatchet" with Clinton and that it had been well-received.