Consdering that they are all kumbaya with the likes of Joe Lieberman and John effin McCain, Power's gaffe is pretty small potatoes. And Clinton has a long history of being gracious towards people who have slimed her. So it's hardly even noteworthy except as a gossip item.

If Hillary's career in the Obama administration wasn't derailed by her comments (i.e. White Americans) then Power's truthful comment shouldn't prevent her from working in an Obama administration either.

Please forgive the early-morning snark --- but Sam now gets to play Dr. Frankenstein, and will be part of the team "building the Monster." Hillary with a flat-top and those electrode-thingies in her neck; a facial scar, perhaps; funny-colored makeup and a guttural growl; dressed in head-to toe Goth black and those massive iron boots that only Boris Karloff could make look good---I hereby predict that "FrankenHillary" will chew up that Med-whatever Putin puppet, spit him out, and dance the Fandango on his crumpled mortal remains by Spring!

OK---you can go back to your measly No-Snark Zone now....

I don't know about the rest of you, but when Power left the campaign during the primaries, that was a real low point for me.

This was just before the Ohio primaries, Hillary was making a big stink about NAFTA and mailers, and it looked as though things were going to stretch on forever. Power, one of my favorite people, makes an *off the record* remark that then becomes a media firestorm. It was absolutely terrible. I was not feeling particularly good about my country that week.

Hillary is more of a chameleon than a monster anyway.

if Hillary can have a sit-down with Richard Mellon Scaife, for Chrissakes, then I think she can stomach working with Samantha Power.

plus Power's comment had the virtue of being, well, true. Hillary--at least the one on display on the campaign trail--was a monster.

If Senator Clinton doesn't hold a grudge against Richard Mellon Scaife, she won't hold one against Powers.

The reinstatement of Samantha Power is clear evidence that far from finally recognizing Senator Clinton's superior qualities as a stateswoman and foreign policy scion, President-elect Disrespect plans to insult and humiliate her every moment by placing Power in her line of vision. This is worse than if he hadn't made her secretary of state at all. He has worked out a detailed plan to make her every day on the job a living hell.

But who is surprised? He never wanted white women in his administration or cared about white women's issues. His smooth talk got way too many spineless former Hillary supporters to vote for him despite the presence of a talented woman on the Republican ticket. I wasn't dumb enough to be one of them.

Our long-lost friend, IFP is back! Welcome... I think...

IMO this is one of the biggest differences between Obama and everybody else -Stupid Bullshit does not get in the way of team building and competence. Bush was all about getting rid of the smart ones in order to hear what he wanted to hear. McCain kicked the critics off the bus; Hillary's campaign spent most of their time telling us that what we heard is not what they said - please believe the ugly whisper compaign, however you did not get it from us.

Our President-Elect has clear intention and is not letting the bullshit mongers distract from the important stuff.

Powers contacted Clinton after the election and offered her apology, which Clinton accepted. Any more "controversy" about this is just the fatheaded morons of the media trying to find some shit to disturb.

Move along folks, nothing to see here. "No drama with Obama."

Hillary, in all of her glorious monstrosity, wouldn't hold that comment against Powers.

I feel that in her heart of hearts she accepted that criticism as a compliment. Taking for granted that she's obviously no monster (she hasn't been in a position in which she could have done mankind the requisite harm necessary for such designation), you have to take it at face value - Clinton was relentless in her campaign for the nomination and said some things the bothered people.

Grown-ups will be okay with that.

This is a manufactured issue; drama for the sake of Clinton drama. Funny the left can't stop itself.

An illiterate populace feeds off the personal, and profiteering publications pontificate precisely for profit a palpable plethora of puerile preponderance particularly suited for pee-brains willing to peruse such propped-up personal provocation(s). Pushed by the propaganda production of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, media everywhere are permeated with peeping-tom propensities perpetuating the he said, she said, (in this case she said/she said), paradigm of reporting.

I'm sure, however, these two public professionals will pursue our best interests no matter what the entertainment-based "reporting" media may suggest! -Kevo

And if Clinton for some reason has issues working with Power now, she's got now business being Secretary of State. Power's "infraction" was mild compared to what Clinton will get as Secretary of State.

Hillary is more of a chameleon than a monster anyway.

SKRULL!

I suppose it would be awkward at this point to point out that the subsequent campaign more than vindicated Power's remark.

Let no one forget that Hillary is a monster, especially those nasty dictators she will have to negotiate with under Obama.

For the life of me I cannot see how Power's comment hurts Hillary in her new role. Now we can all just smile and say "Yes, but she is our monster."

I was for Obama early but harbored respect and, I thought, some understanding of Hillary's quest and its daunting nature. Then came the ugly racial innuendo of her surrogates, the cheesy pandering to the working class, and the staff with whom she seemed so comfortable (and incapable of managing), specifically political hyenas Penn and Wolfson. Powers' "monster" remark? A slip of the tongue, yes, but something very strange was indeed changing the Hillary we thought we knew into something previously unimaginable. So cut Prof. Powers some slack. That Obama wants Clinton as SOC is brilliant and will, I think work; but think back to the spring. If we can overlook what Clinton & Co said, why not welcome home Powers too?

Does anyone honestly believe that Hillary Clinton gave a rat's ass about the "monster" remark beyond the opportunity it afforded her to make some political hay during the campaign?

I'm so sick of "they oughta, they shoulda" as if these positions are rewards rather than duties for the most qualified and responsible parties to carry out. Who cares about the "they deserve" bunch. I doubt it has any validity to anyone other than the media.

Samantha Power no doubt called many people "monsters" and other belligerent names that didn't get caught on record as we all have but at least she didn't make a point of doing it week after week like typical republican contenders.

btw...many of us are no longer impressed by Harvard or Yale teachers and grads as we've seen they produce complete well educated a-holes and idiots as much as anywhere else (except of course Liberty U or Bob Jones U etc....you know, those colleges that are anti education unless it agrees with pre conceived notions of the world).

I really wonder how many of us would have remembered this incident from Power calling Clinton a monster had we not been reminded of it. The media keeps worthless things alive so they have something to write about.

I really wonder how many of us would have remembered this incident from Power calling Clinton a monster had we not been reminded of it. -- joey, @ 19:04

I would have. Mostly, because it had been such a memorable, "oh, shiiiit!" moment, when I first heard about it. I had been somewhat under-impressed (to put it mildly) with Clinton at that point, so I wasn't outraged... just annoyed at the wild exaggeration. But I knew, instantly, what the repercussions would be -- the "termination" of Power (at least on the open stage), just at the time when Obama needed her input, daily.

But, at the same time, there were some stray doubts about Power and my previous assessment of her. If she could be that stupid (she didn't ask for the "off record" till *after* she spouted this nonsense. To a Brit journo, yet! They're like *sharks*, compared to our tame lambs. And she didn't know it?) and that intemperate... Was she really the best person to be working up front? Her passion and her knowledge might be better employed backstage... Up front negotiations require the ability to bite one's tongue frequently.

Not to mention that calling Clinton a monster was, I don't know... A bit childish? Something out of Sendak and Sesame Street?

Glad Power is back, I guess. On the one hand it's good to have some new, non-Clinton-era faces and voices in the Administration. On the other, despite the fact that Power wrote a really interesting book on genocide, she is still a knee-jerk interventionist who needs to think more about how, when, why to use power/force. The gist of the book [Problem from Hell] is that US should have used it's power to stop bad things from happening is still both as compelling and as fuzzy as it was when the book was published ---- and tarnished by the Iraq example. Though Power (I don't think) would consider Iraq as being related to her argument, the problem is that others did/can/do. That's because there is no clear standard of why, when and how to intervene. R2P helps but I'd like to read/hear some more serious thinking about making humanitarian missions work in ways that really help people. The Clinton administration had no clue how to do this, something Power rightly criticized in her book, but is Obama thinking any more advanced? Perhaps Iraq demonstrated convincingly the limits of military power for a new century, but I doubt it. Power and her ilk still see force in the pursuit of humanitarian aims as a righteous vehicle.

If Hillary is going to have to sit down with some of the worse dictators of the world, Powers should be no issue.

I'm waiting for a year from now when Wesley Clark gets to replace Robert Gates at Defense. Anyone remember why Clark was thrown under the bus?

Yes, America is always better off when people who can't keep their obnoxious personal opinions to themselves are given a position where they can speak for America. To describe Power's remarks as "intemperate" is to say that Lieberman's remarks about Obama were intemperate. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This woman has no business speaking for America or the Obama administration and her renewed position of power is reminiscent of how Bush shuffled similar personalities into positions of power in his administration.

Frankly, Power's remark, at the time, wasn't entirely inaccurate.

Ambition was not pretty on Clinton.
Circumstances have changed. She HAS power now; in a capacity she has some chance at wielding well. If so, I may become a Clinton booster.

She has 4 years to exorcise the ugly craven vicious sense of self-privilege she was showing during her reach for the Oval Office. The SoS is not conducive to successful, outsized egos. It will be a simple test of her temperament. Is she about more than just HER?