Power Outage
Scrapbook Power Outage Samantha Power last week completed what might have been the most illstarred book tour since the invention of movable type. A Harvard professor and foreign policy writer...
...bureaucrat killed in the bombing of the U.N...
...Hernandez has been dealing with macho men all her life...
...No small feat for a little country sitting in the shadow of a huge neighbor that openly and daily threatens it with an arsenal of more than a thousand missiles pointed its way...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...On Thursday, Power appeared on the BBC TV show Hardtalk, where she tried to explain that Obama’s commitment to withdrawing all combat troops from Iraq in 16 months is really just a “best-case scenario” (her words...
...Yes, you read that right . . . American Samoa...
...It hardly seemed fair—to Power, that is...
...delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton running the Armed Services Committee...
...That same day, she sat for an interview with the New Statesman, telling the left-wing weekly that Obama was like Vieira de Mello in his “willingness to talk to dictators” (the magazine’s phrase...
...It’s the equivalent of facilitating ethnic cleansing, which is terrible...
...Soon, Power was taking cheap shots at Condoleezza Rice (“I’m nothing like her...
...Power, who perhaps hadn’t yet read the New Statesman’s write-up of her interview (“Dissembling does not come at all easily to her, and if she is to be part of an Obama White House she will have to learn to deliver the odd fib more persuasively”) responded: “You can’t make a commitment in March 2008 about what circumstances will be like in January of 2009...
...She’s a mother and an attorney...
...A Harvard professor and foreign policy writer who won a Pulitzer for her 2003 study of genocides, A Problem from Hell, Power is a card-carrying member of the Obamaphile elite—she plays basketball with George Clooney and claims that Sen...
...Coming of Age in Samoa In a crass suck-up to the Communist leadership in Beijing, the Bush administration has spent the last several months complaining about the decision of the Taiwanese government to hold a referendum on joining the U.N...
...For 18 years she has worked in this male-dominated field, having to endure such comments as ‘Little girl, you don’t know what you’re doing.’ . . . ‘This country is run by the white corporate male,’ said Ramirez...
...Later that day, the Scotsman published an interview with Power in which she called Hillary Clinton “a monster...
...What’s next...
...Despite the fact that Mr...
...Senator...
...last week looking to promote her new book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World...
...You want the torso really gruesome, right?’ she asked her client...
...A week that began with her equating one of her candidate’s mullings with ethnic cleansing only deteriorated from there...
...She arrived in the U.K...
...It is telling that both Power and the campaign indicated it was her remark about Clinton— not any of the other missteps—that did her in...
...under the name of “Taiwan...
...The deletion came at the insistence of the chairman of the House Asia and Pacific subcommittee, delegate Eni Faleomavaega from American Samoa...
...What’s been lost sight of in the midst of this ridiculous posturing by the administration is the fact that, on March 22, Taiwan will be holding its fourth free and competitive presidential election...
...A few hours later, the Obama campaign put Power out to pasture...
...She said that such a course of action would be regrettable, but might be necessary, admitting that “moving potentially people from mixed neighborhoods to homogenous neighborhoods [is] tragic...
...She once tried to shoot some pool in her father’s bar in San Antonio, but her dad wouldn’t let her...
...He will rely upon a plan—an operational plan—that he pulls together in consultation with people who are on the ground to whom he doesn’t have daily access now, as a result of not being the president...
...And there are antediluvian attitudes at home: “‘Hillary understands,’ [says Jennifer Cruz Hernandez...
...Agog, the host asked, “So what the American public thinks is a commitment to get combat forces out in 16 months isn’t a commitment...
...Faleomavaega is a nonvoting “member,” it appears he gets to throw his considerable Samoan weight around when it comes to American foreign policy...
...You just look at her and think, ‘Ergh.’ ” (The Scotsman was dishonorable in publishing this alltoohonest assessment clearly not meant for public consumption, but who at this late date expects honorable treatment from the U.K...
...To its credit, the House of Representatives on March 5 passed a resolution praising both Taiwan’s democratic achievement and the upcoming vote by the overwhelming margin of 409-1...
...Obama sometimes text-messages her in the middle of the night...
...THE SCRAPBOOK wonders why anyone would want to join the U.N...
...It turns out, he’s nothing but a neurosurgeon...
...The Iron Boot of Patriarchy In a special report on the women’s vote in the run-up to the Texas primary (“One Way or Another, Women Will Decide It”), the Washington Post last week uncovered shocking evidence of the ongoing oppression of women in this country...
...In that way, Power’s very bad book tour told us as much about Obama as it did about her...
...During the course of her Scotsman interview Power said, in words reproduced verbatim by the paper: “She is a monster, too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything...
...Of the latter, she admitted, “In his relationship with evil, he almost got a little seduced...
...No, women don’t touch the cues here,’ he told his daughter...
...You don’t know,’ Jennifer shot back...
...On Monday, March 3, Power appeared on BBC radio and said that Obama, whom she had been advising, might be interested in doing some population relocation in Iraq...
...He told me that he was a luggage handler...
...The Harvard faculty isn’t what it used to be...
...He will, of course, not rely on some plan that he’s crafted as a presidential candidate or a U.S...
...Luggage handlers working the tourist hotels,” Kling points out, “often make more in one day than medical doctors receive in a month...
...headquarters in Baghdad in August 2003...
...under any name, but that’s for another day...
...Vieira de Mello was the acclaimed top U.N...
...As a woman you do it all—cook, wash, clean and feed the dog.’ ‘She probably hasn’t done that in 30 years,’ Carlos, 40 interrupted, referring to Sen...
...He lied to me...
...By that point the karmic snowball was rolling so fast, there was no stopping it...
...media...
...The State of the Cuban Economy Courtesy of Arnold Kling, who blogs at econlog.econlib.org, an excellent joke, told to him by “a professor who travels there annually”: One Cuban young woman complains to another...
...I don’t have any conventional political ambition”) and insulting the British prime minister, telling the Telegraph, “I am confused by what’s happened to Gordon Brown...
...So much for a new spirit of cooperation with allies...
...The only odd note—other than the lone dissenting vote from our libertarian friend Ron Paul, who apparently doesn’t care about liberty other than his own—was the deletion from the original resolution of a clause accurately noting that Taiwan “faces threat and intimidation from neighboring China...
...No wonder Hillary Clinton won the Texas primary...
...There’s bias in the workplace: “The tattoo gun vibrated in Wendi Ramirez’s hand...
...I thought he was impressive...
Vol. 13 • March 2008 • No. 26
