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"Top Barack Aide Calls Hillary A 'Monster'"
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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.
The fragile truce was blown apart as the pressure for the nomination intensified, with Mrs Clinton winning in Texas and Ohio.
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."
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."
In recent TV appearances Mrs Clinton had looked desperate and on the back foot.
Ms Power agreed, and said: "Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there too.
"You just look at her and think: ergh. 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."
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.
Earlier in the week, the press and the Clinton camp seized on remarks by Austan Goolsbee, Ms Power's colleague, on the North America Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). His comments are widely believed to have cost the Mr Obama the Ohio Democratic presidential primary.
Mr Goolsbee, Mr Obama's top economic policy adviser, had told Canadian officials that a public pledge to force a renegotiation of Nafta with tougher labour and environmental rules was "more about political positioning".
But the Clinton camp said Mr Obama could tell the public one thing and then tell a foreign government something else behind closed doors.
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."
Mr Obama yesterday blamed fierce attacks by Mrs Clinton for his defeats in this week's big primaries, and quickly made good on a promise to sharpen his criticism of her in what promises to become an all-out brawl in the race for the White House.
The Illinois senator took the offensive against Mrs Clinton, targeting her claims that she is more experienced in handling foreign policy. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no," he said. "She made a series of arguments on why she should be a superior candidate. I think it's important to examine that argument."
In recent days, the former First Lady has argued Mr Obama was getting a free ride with the media, questioned his sincerity in opposing Nafta and darkly hinted he was not ready to be commander in chief in a crisis.
Mrs Clinton, asked about her national security qualifications, ticked off a series of events in which she had played a role, including peace talks in Northern Ireland, the Kosovo refugee crisis and standing up for women's rights in China. She also cited her work on the Senate armed services committee.
Obama aides took the offensive yesterday, holding a conference call to ask why Clinton had not released her tax returns. Her campaign responded with a statement e-mailed to reporters while they were on the Obama call that said the Clintons' returns since they left the White House would be made public around 15 April.
"There's no doubt that Senator Clinton went very negative over the last week," Mr Obama said. He said the Clinton campaign's multiple attacks "had some impact" on the election results, "particularly in the context where many of you in the press corps had been persuaded that you had been too hard on her and too soft on me".
Ms Power insisted Mr Obama was well equipped to deal with foreign policy. She said his perceived willingness to befriend dictators and rogue leaders was him simply trying a different approach, as the current foreign policy has not worked.
She said: "Hillary Clinton always portrays his position on meeting with dictators as naive. She is almost implying what he is saying is he wants to meet with dictators without preparations. It is not like he would sit down with Ahmadinejad and say, 'Hey Ahmadinejad, I have been meaning to talk to you. How ’bout those New York Giants?'
"If we have had the same policy for decades and it is not working, why are we sticking to the same policy?
"Can we at least try to re-jig the equation here? Principles should not be checked at the door when one is meeting with dictators. But seeking to at least have dialogue would give the United States more kudos in the non-western world, allowing others to see that perhaps it was not all America's fault.
"There is something tougher about being in the room with Ahmadinejad and making your position known rather than lobbing your verbal grenades from 5,000 miles away, which is what the Bush administration has done."
She added: "It is important that negotiations don't become an end in itself. It is the Chamberlain problem."
Ms Power was in the UK to promote her book on Sergio Vieira de Mello, the extraordinary UN representative who was blown up in Baghdad.
PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED
WHEN is off the record actually off the record? When the rules are established in advance.
Journalists are always looking for knowledge and want the information they receive to be available for publication.
But occasionally an interviewer will accept an exchange is "off the record" and that the conversation is not attributable. Remarks can be used as background to inform a journalist's article.
If a conversation is to be off the record, that agreement is usually thrashed out before the interview begins. Sometimes, public figures say something and then attempt to retract it by insisting it was "off the record" after the event.
But by then it is too late, particularly if it is in the public interest that the story be published.
In this instance, Samantha Power was promoting her book and it was established in advance that the interview was on the record.
A WOMAN OF POWER
SAMANTHA Power is the embodiment of the American immigrant dream.
Born in Dublin in 1970, she moved to the United States with her mother aged nine.
After being educated in state schools in Pittsburgh and Georgia, she gained entry to the prestigious Yale University, where she studied history. The self-depre
cating Ms Power said this changed her life and opened many doors.
She worked as freelance journalist in Bosnia, after teaching herself the language in Croatia. Her only other journalism experience prior to that was covering the Yale women's volleyball team.
After graduating from Harvard Law School, she became an executive director and founder of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard.
The 37-year-old already has one Pulitzer Prize behind her, for her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide and she is in the UK and Ireland to plug her new book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World.
Ms Power was head-hunted by Barack Obama to become his foreign-policy adviser in 2005 and combines this role with her job as a Time magazine columnist and professor of practice of global leadership and public policy at Harvard.
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Hils gonna come back and say "what kind of monster"?
shes more like the grinch with her smile
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obama should fire that dumb bitch who called hillary a monster!!!
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Who knew Natalie Portman was so stupid. People hate Hillary because Bill cheated on her? Huh? Stick to acting in your lame movies that nobody goes to see.
OBAMA IS RESORTING TO THIS BECAUSE HE IS NOT GOING TO WIN. THE TRUTH IS NOW COMING OUT. IF HIS DADDY WAS A MUSLIM, HE IS A MUSLIM AND THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL HE WILL WIN. FUHGET ABOUT IT.
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What a bunch of crap.
She made a mistake by calling her a 'monster'– but when will HILLARY's attacks stop? Never.
She needs to QUIT LYING ABOUT NAFTA (she's a supporter) and quit being SO DECEITFUL.
Good lord, lady, quit playing like a republican.
Barack Obama enrages me and I can not believe that the American people would elect such an obviously unqualified man to be our president!!!!!
If hillary is a monster…Obama is a MONKEY.
OBAMA IS MUSLIM. DO YOU PEOPLE WANT A STINKIN MUSLIM RUNNING OUR COUNTRY…
OBAMA SLOGAN: YES WE CAN…RUN THIS COUNTY INTO THE GROUND.
disgraceful…what happened to obama transcending politics? ps my friend p sent this in
Barack is the answer!!!!!!! Hillary has too much baggage to win in November.
GO HILLARY!! OBAMA IS DESPERATE… receiving $$$$ from the communist in Houston.. what a DUMBASS!!
Hilary attacked Obama first.
Go Hilary…..WOOOOO!!!!
I guess i'm not the only onw who thinks Hillary is a low-life scum bag. If she wins the nomination i'm voting for McCain. 8 years of another Republican is better than 4 years of lies and whining from Hillary.
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people's true color shows up when things don't go his/her way. why the name calling? all this time when he was leading, he showed himself as nice guy. what happend to that nice guy? eww, I'm not voting for him. that's for certain. this name calling just made easier for me to choose.
look at her!!!! she IS a monster. he on the other hand, GORGEOUS and BRILLIANT.
I love Hillary! Who best to run the country than someone who already knows how the country is ran. She got first hand experience when her husband was in office. She already has relations with other countries and knows who her friends are. Fingers crossed that we see Hillary winning all the way!!!
Barack should go back to his church with Jeremiah Wright Jr. (a racist) and stay there. How dare he talk about change when he calls this man his mentor. It's frightening to think he could become the next president of this great country.
Go Hillary!!!!
Obama is a fraud. The Canada meetings behind doors is the perfect example. Saying something in his speeches and meeting in secret with Canadian government officials and saying something else. What happened to a new government, a new kind of politics? What happened to real change?
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I agree with her… Hillary is a a deceitful self-righteous monster. Although I think Obama has to take action — his camp can't be stooping to Hillary's level to win this.
BTW, looks like the Canada thing is going to backfire on Hillary. A more substantial witness has come forward stating it was the Clinton camp that told Canadians to take her remarks "with a grain of salt." It's also curious that supposedly Bill was in Canada the day before the memo (about Obama) leaked. Plus, why aren't we asking who this guy is that leaked the memo and is HE telling the truth? So many Americans will swallow anything without question.
Right.
Leaking Kenyan-garb photos, making Guevara connections etc - good.
Criticizing policies or campaign - bad.
Thanks Perez.
Obama is just like all of the other politicians. He is manipulativr and arogant. If he wins I will vote Republican for the first time in my life.
Obama won't win McCain, you know it.
For someone who refuses to say pledge will not win.
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i think the only monster here is obama and his ugly ass ears
Why are they beating up on Hillary!? Politics get messy and you start attacking your opponent thats how it works! I like them both but I think Obama should come up with a better comeback…it looks like hes loosing steam…and im sorry but it Hillary were a man then they wouldn't be so hard on her. Dont call her a bitch! She's great!!!!! GO CLINTON 08
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Obama is goodlooking but why are his lips always so purple? I am not trying to be funny.
I don't want a president that is going through menopause while talking to the leaders of the middle east. Hillary's hot flashes could trigger a nuclear war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does no one realize that Obama did not make the attack. One of his advisers did. Yes she was wrong in what she said and she should be punished for it, but Barack Obama did not himself call Hillary Clinton a monster. Back in December one of Clinton's advisers made an unfair stab at Obama and he handled that with grace. Mark my words. Hillary will make a huge deal out of this and once again play the victim. And as for the idea that Barack Obama is a Muslim, his father was a Muslim for the first two years of his life and then he became an Atheist. Obama went to a school in Indonesia as a child for four years but it was not strictly a Muslim school and was open to all religions. He later went to a Catholic school. So if anything he would be an Atheist or a Catholic– two things which he is definitely not. Do yourself a favor. Inform yourself before you start blogging about what you don;t know.
Obama is not a Muslim. Just for the record…
Re: didi – DiDI your so stupid, the web site snopes.com obviously show all those muslim rumors to be false. If your gonna spread all you hate rumors you should at least direct people to a site that doesn't contrdict what you say.
Its funny how quick obama and his representatives put into the limelight that hillary is playing a dirty game, when she is only continuing what OBAMA started. It was OKAY for him to attack hillary during debates while hillary concentrated on the MATTERS that are important to us, she deviated only in her defense. Hillary is ONLY reciprocating to obama what he has thrown on her. Hillary is a threat to Obama because she represents the ACTUAL characteristics that it takes to be a leader. I don't know about you but the fact that hillary has been able to stand her ground and take action in defending herself shows just how suitable she is for the position to be president. don't get me wrong I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST OBAMA. But hillary isn't going to let herself be "Bitched around". Either ways no matter how she responds she will always be criticized. For the voters, DON'T be taken as a fool and let CELEBRITIES sway your vote( its very obvious who uses celebrities to "whore" their campaign)…. putting EVERYTHING aside (race, sexuality etc..) aim to have a president who can pursue
Re: jim – I see them she's my favorite actress.
Wow Perez, really showing your discerning eye for good journalism. Maybe you should even receive a Pulitzer for posting this. This is the headline of the week? You're an idiot. Nice readers you have too! Look below for some great bits of racism and bigotry!
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perez, you're such a FAT DUMB (PROBABLY) UNEDUCATED QUEER FAG FUCK. and your audience - silly (seemingly equally) uneducated white american trash - are all scum of the american earth. your site should really be shut down.
Wow, some of the most ignorant people I have ever heard from congregate in this blog.
Hillary imo has sold her soul to the devil. She accepts Bills behavior because she knows its a means to an end, the white house. No other self respecting woman would stay with a man that was getting blown in his office.
They have an arrangement, shows where her morals lie.
i vote for MUGABE…i dont give a fuck about these american politics
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All this goes to show why Obama's a sleezebag and Hillary's the best choice. SHE'll stoop at nothing? Um, hello?! distortion!!! Calling your opponent a monster because she's got her campaign groove back doesn't make Barack the squeaky clean defender of righteousness he claims to be.
I'm voting for Hillary, and I live in PA. Fuck Barack Obama.
You all get right into these elections, don't you?
HILLARY VOTERS THIS PAST WEEK BEAT THE ARROGANCE AND NARCISSISM RIGHT OFF HIS SKIN…OBAMA IS NOW PORTRAYING FEAR AND IT SHOWS..THINGS ARE ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE FOR HIM FROM THIS POINT ON
Obama never addressed issues and answered questions. He always answers you back talking about hope and change but never really answered the questions. He is a scam. Too bad Americans are dumb enough to fall for his fake personality rather than problem solving Hilary.
After his Tuesday failure, he already stutters when he talks to reporters. He can't take a week of bad press and heat. Is this the president you want?
There is nothing nice and friendly about politics. Republicans won't be nice. North Korea and China won't be nice. If you have a soft president Obama, you are doomed.
SO, i GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU PEREZ, WHEN YOUR OUT WITH "GUY FRIENDS" ARE YOU THE PIN OR THE CUSHION?
Can you really have muslim upbringing and don't have muslim agenda at all? Do we really want to find out by gambling on Obama? I don't think so.
His dad is muslim. Obama went to Indonesia with his mom and lived there for a few years. His stepfather lived in Indonesia. Obama went to muslim school as a kid in Indonesia. Indonesia is a muslim country. Men can have many wives.
I don't need my president bleeding all over the oval office once a month. Sorry Hillary, other nations don't let you off the hook because you have cramps.
what a bunch of losers Barack has gathered around him as advisers.
And he wants us to think he is ready to pick a cabinet? Don't make me laugh.
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