Right – it looks like the calf-skin gloves have come off at camp Obama. You guys can’t ever accuse me or anyone from Hillary’s camp of going negative or trashing Obama beyond repair for the general after this latest horrid, despicable and desperate attack by one of Obama’s inner circle of advisors.
Samantha Power – one of Obama’s top advisors has been quoted by the Scotsman newspaper of calling Hillary Clinton – a United States Senator and our first viable woman candidate for the highest office of the land – of all things, a MONSTER.
I’m used to hearing that kind of garbage on discussion boards and the blogs, (I’ve developed a thick skin over the past year and have learned to shrug it off as the inane ranting of immature jerks). But this woman – this top advisor to Barack Obama has crossed a serious line here.
This woman needs to get her ass fired over this. BO needs to offer up an apology to Hillary. And he needs to do it now.
There’s no way in hell you guys can excuse or dismiss this kind of garbage. Not after the tantrums that were thrown when Billy Shaheen mapped out the tactics that the Republicans will use in the general election when it comes to BO’s admitted drug use. He wasn’t even a paid staffer – he was an unpaid coordinator in NH.
Hillary told him to get lost – that he was no longer working with her campaign. She not only issued a public apology but made a point of apologizing to Obama’s FACE on top of all that!
There’s no way Obama can avoid taking action to remove this woman from his inner circle of advisors – to fire her and publicly apologize to Hillary for the way Power - one of his top advisors behaved in the name of his campaign. She was talkin about the campaign at that point in the interview - not her book. As such, she was representing him and his campaign. She needs to be held accountable.
Inside US poll battle as fight turns dirty for Democrats
HILLARY Clinton has been branded a "monster" by one of Barack Obama's top advisers, as the gloves come off in the race to win the Democrat nomination.
In an unguarded moment during an interview with The Scotsman, Samantha Power, his key foreign policy aide, let slip the camp's true feelings about the former First Lady.
Her comments came as Mr Obama, whose defeats in Texas and Ohio on Tuesday were largely put down to a series of negative attacks on him, vowed to turn up the heat on Mrs Clinton over her claims to be the more experienced candidate.
Now I don’t care how you guys try to spin this – they announced they were going to turn up the heat and now Power lets loose with this heinous attack while she was in Europe. (Hey at least his top aide has managed to make it over to Europe). There’s no way anyone can excuse this as an honest mistake – a slip of the tongue. I’m not buying it.
Ms Power told The Scotsman Mrs Clinton was stopping at nothing to try to seize the lead from Mr Obama.
"We f***** up in Ohio," she admitted. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win.
"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.
"Interestingly, the people in her innermost circle seem to not mind her; I think they really love her."
Hey I’ve got news for that horrid... no I will NOT stoop to her level here. The people of Hillary’s inner circle aren’t the only ones who love her. There are millions of working folks just like me who love her too dammit and I’m here to tell ya that we’re standing up to the bullies who go after her good name in such a childish and petty manner as this!
And I’m sorry but did she just accuse Ohioan’s of being obsessed? She’s upset about their getting caught out on Goolsbee’s trip to that Canadian Consulate but the thing is... NAFTA and the crap economy are a huge deal to the voters of Ohio – and anyone else in the Rust Belt.
Ohioans just want jobs, health care, and a home for their families. They are obsessed with worry about how long their jobs will last and if benefits will be cut further. They're obsessed with big mortgages. They're obsessed with the knowledge they won't be able to afford college for their kids. They're obsessed with fear that Social Security and Medicare will continue to be undermined and threatened because Republicans and Obama are running around scaring the shit out of everyone with claims that things are in a crisis. They're obsessed with the realization that the latte liberals don't know and don't care about them.
But she added: "There is this middle circle – they are really on the warpath. But the truth is she has proved herself really willing to stoop."
Ms Power agreed, and said: "Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there too.
AHEM... anyone got a mirror for Ms. Power?
Ms Power's comments reveal how the inexperienced Obama campaign is coming under increasing pressure from a battle-hardened Clinton camp that saw Ohio as its last chance to save its candidate.
I’m guessing this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the intense level of frustration and desperation at camp Obama. After NAFTA-Gate broke last week, and then seeing their momentum dry up over night in Texas and Ohio, they must be running around like headless chickens right about now. Hillary has 7 weeks to build on her gains and convince super delegates to back her, and now Obama’s advisors are self-destructing all over the place.
I mean first one of his advisors goes on Tucker’s show yesterday and admits that he’s not ready to take that 3 am call, and now this. They’ve come off the rails over there.
Power seems pretty bent out of shape over the way Hillary’s team capitalized on Goolsbee’s parsing and screw-ups, and had this to say...
Ms Power knew the consequences of the gaffe made by her friend. She said: "Now Hillary is using it to say that Obama's not serious about Nafta. Oh God, it's so sad."
You want sad – take a look at BO’s inner circle of advisors right now. They blew their third chance to put the nomination in the bag and now they’re going on the attack at levels we haven’t seen since KKKarl Rove was at the height of power. They’ve absolutely lost control of their message and their top advisors over at camp Obama – can you imagine how they’ll act when the McCain / GOP / 527s get a hold of him in the general election????
They just can’t handle the pressure.
They – will – eat – Obama – alive