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March 7, 2008
More Obama amateur hour diplomacy (updated -- Power resigns)
Samantha Power, Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisor, has now compiled quite record of statements that raise the question of Senator Obama's judgment in choosing her to be his foreign policy major domo. We have commented before on a long series of anti-Israel comments, her (and apparently Senator Obama's) plans to accept and promote ethnic cleansing when they retreat from Iraq, her characterization of Hillary Clinton as a "monster", and now the latest one: a comment that insults the Prime Minister of our closest ally.In an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph she comments upon her ties with various British officials. From the Telegraph: Neither she nor Obama have met Gordon Brown or David Cameron. Their main point of contact is Mark Malloch Brown, the Prime Minister's eminence grise in the Foreign Office. "David Miliband seems impressive to me. I am confused by what's happened to Gordon Brown. I thought he was...(Read Full Post)