Could Samantha Power (Mrs. Cass Sunstein) Be the Next Secretary of State?
- Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:48pm by
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Samantha Power — a.k.a. Mrs. Cass Sunstein — may be expanding her influential role inside the Obama White House.
Since the New York Times ran an in-depth profile of Power ran last week, rumors have circulated she may step into a much more public role as the next secretary of state or national security advisor. Highlighting Powers’ Irish heritage, Irish Central predicts that Powers could fill the position of America’s top diplomat if President Obama secures a second term, with Hillary Clinton due to step down.
She has been the main architect, along with Hillary Clinton, of the Libya policy and has an increasing influence in the White House inner circle. No Irish-born person in recent history has had such influence on a president. Power, now 40, moved to the US from Ireland at age 10. …
Power, who is one of Obama’s key advisers on foreign policy, insisted that Libya was not going to be the main topic of conversation.
“I’m not going to talk much about Libya,” she said, as quoted in The Times. However, when later questioned she defended the administration’s decision in establishing a no-fly zone, adding failure to do so would have been “extremely chilling, deadly and indeed a stain on our collective conscience.”
Since she began her career working as a war correspondant in Bosnia at the tender age of 22, Power has believed that nations have a moral obligation to prevent genocide. She can bring life to these ideals from her position of the National Security Council.
“She is clearly the foremost voice for human rights within the White House,” Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, told the New York Times “and she has Obama’s ear.” [...]
Some of her critics say that she could be pushing the U.S. into another Iraq. The conservative blog American Thinker says that Obama has “outsourced foreign policy” to the Dublin woman. She has also drawn the ire of the Israeli lobby for her pro-Palestinian positions.
Power attempts to keep a low profile after she described Hillary Rodham Clinton as “a monster” during the 2008 presidential election campaign. Her remarks saw her step down from her position as an advisor on Obama’s campaign. Since then, the women have reconciled.
Obama initially headhunted Power in 2005, after reading her book. After a long meeting, Power decided to take leave from her Harvard professorship to work for the then senator.
Her position in shaping Obama’s Libya policy has received much media scrutiny, including from Bloomberg which also noted her activist role.
Romeo Dallaire, the commander of UN forces in Rwanda during the genocide and now a Canadian senator, called Power “a force to reckon with.”
Power has seized her “opportunity to get inside the system and actually influence it,” he said.
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Comments (112)
Harvey
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:17amIs the whole of the Obama administration non citizens,everyone that shapes Americas future should be American born citizens.I dont believe that anyone that is not born in the United States can actually have a true love and respect for the Country or its Citizens….
Report Post »PCFreeZone
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:19amSounds like she’s just another foreign born liberal (like Soros and Huffington) who hails from a failed European style democratic country and has no regard for the constitution or our republic. That’s the type we need in our government…NOT!!!! Rather than try to transform our country into a substandard European democracy why don’t these types just get the F@#! out of our great country. America, love it or leave it!! Restore not Transform!!
Report Post »phil1765
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:05amAll the more reason we have to make sure that Obama doesn’t secure a second term. Like things weren’t bad enough already, this would probably be the straw that broke the camels back, this woman is a freaking looney toon.
Report Post »blatzkeg
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:21amit musta been like 3 dirty women getting toghether to make up the story that got us into libya
Report Post »blatzkeg
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:17amwas not the true intent of the founding fathers, that one’s mother and father had to be american citizens for one to run for the presidency,so they would not have an allegence to another country
Report Post »TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:19amA noted Jew hater and yet all of the Jews in this country will vote for Obama regardless.
Modern Jews drive me crazy. They hate the Orthodox more than they hate Neo-Nazis and Anti-Semitic hate groups.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:12amThis Cra…………has to stop….a noted Israel jew hater on record in her own words having Anything to do with this white house is pure insanity……..Congress must put a stop to this woman and her communist buddies..Hiliary Clinton is passing the spear to avoid her name being used as a Israel hater that she is, and the fact that George Soros has bigger plans for the Clintons…….keep this radical idoit Powers out of state business…….the only business she should be doing is in the out house where she belongs.
Report Post »Diamond Girl
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:10amGawd help us all!
Anyone Surprised?
The Enemy Within- hard at work..as usual.
Agenda, agenda, agenda.
‘12/’13 cannot get here soon enough..fight we must, with all we’ve got…and prevail!
Report Post »NEVER AGGAIN
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:03amNo way that SOB gets another term. I have too much faith in the American people and no way are they getting snowed again…so she’s out.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:26amThanks for this AZDEBI
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GO FIGURE.
caprica
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:20amSamantha Powers and her husband are very dangerous communsits ! not just liberal progressive!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:05amWhy not, an upgrade( in Obama’s eyes ) from socialist to communist.
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:47amIf Obama finds enough illegal votes to win reelection in November of 2012, a giant asteroid will definitely hit the earth in December of 2012.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:28amHope so.Put us out of our misery
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 5:39amYou’re cracking me up, guys.
And there I was thinking it would be the Obamites who called to the mountains and rocks to fall on them. (Rev. 6:16)
Report Post »TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:16amyeah, it makes me want to watch “Knowing” all over again.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:46amI like your name, too!
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:41amThat is why we all have to bind together and vote against these types! We need to push back hard! Shove the green machine out to door and get our nation back on track!
REMEMBER TO VOTE (HAD ENOUGH?)
Report Post »jim
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:30amAnother far left liberal ruining our foreign policy… oh, pinch me.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:22am“Barack Obama’s foreign policy adviser resigned yesterday after describing Hillary Clinton as a “monster” who would do anything to win.”
Let‘s remember how this Samantha Powers tried to scorch Hillary and bring Hillary clinton’s campaign down with her at the time incendiary remarks. So if there’s any support on the part of Samantha Powers towards Hillary Clinton these days, it’s all a facade only to in pretense gain favor with the media. Barack Obama had wanted her all along, and who’s to say how many of Samantha Powers knives Hillary has had to remove from her back? This could quite likely be the reason Hillary Clinton wants out of the Barack Obama Presidency, she’s had enough of the deceitful backstabbing from Samantha and her husband Cass Sunstein, along with Obama’s failure as a leader to come to grips with handling the responsibilities of the Oval Office. After all Hillary has already seen how a proper President should manage not only the economy, but foreign affairs. This President Barack Obama, hasn’t got a clue when it comes to handling either the economy or foreign affairs, and is detested now by millions of Americans and people all across the world.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3507714
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:29amThis President Barack Obama, hasn’t got a clue when it comes to handling either the economy or foreign affairs
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He doesn’t need a clue
He is awsome
Randyrocker
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:55amCheeseWhiz you are oh so Kraft-y.
Report Post »It’s spelled awesome, but you must be awesome yourself to know that.
As for Obama he already thinks he‘s the cat’s meow, not because of supporters like you, but because he loves himself and what he can take from the country, not what he give or can do for the country.
For your sake, you must be one of the lucky ones with a job, a home, and food on the table, millions upon millions of Americans are starving with no where to live and no work available to them to see them through their tomorrows, but you keep thinking this fraud in the White House is awesome if it makes you feel good.
tierrah
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:14am@Randy: You are in error, sir. Cheez is very much one of us – he opposes the present administration’s policies. You misread his very sarcastic remark; but after you’ve been here awhile, you‘ll laugh at most of THE CHEEZ’S posts.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:58amMy mistake, sorry about unloading on you like that Cheezwhiz.
Report Post »We live to fight another day against our common enemy in this miserably run White House.
Salute!
vennoye
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:37amPerhaps we may get to see the same thing in this Administration that we are getting to see in the Muslim world………….maybe they will start destroying each other……certainly with Sam and Hill we are off to a good start!!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:43amVennoye: “…maybe they will start destroying each other……certainly with Sam and Hill we are off to a good start!!”
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Hill was pushed off the cliff in 2008. She will finally be put to rest in 2012, much to The First Half-Black President’s relief.
cheezwhiz
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:43am@ Randyrocker
Report Post »I was referencing this funnnnnnny video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyCdfOXvec
It is totally acceptable to spell awesome as awsome BTW, infact awsome ( with one e) is an urban slang now
And no need to apologize, take it easy. We have some trolls from Media Matters here who need to be squished on a regular basis , look out for them on Monday
:D
the hawk
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:21amIf Obama wants the REPS to block EVERYTHING in the house for the rest of His presidency!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:17amThe way I see it, Obama has free rein to do as he darn well pleases. Even Kucinich, a regenerated Dem, realizes the Traitor is behaving like an “imperialist president,” which is just a PC name for a dictator.
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:14amI would think that would be a pretty scary idea to Obama and Biden. Never let a very ambitious people in too high a position in work or gov. They could end up with one of thems job sooner or later. Ambition doesnt make a person qualified. Lotus.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:11am“She is clearly the foremost voice for human rights within the White House,” And Mr. Power (cass sunstien) is the foremost usurper. Somehow this picture just isn’t right.
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:16amDale, she is very much anti-Semetic and communistic!
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:08amImpeach Obama.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:57pmOh, God, please no. Please no!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:10am@SHOW
Prayer is good … we need to do a lot of it! Action also.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:46amI am so very thankful for my friends here!
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 5:51amI’m in prayer with you daily. God will provide a way to stop this evil, he always does. I just pray that this time it doesn’t take a holocaust to wake people up.
Report Post »randy
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:56pmWhere are all the people who swore an oath to this country? And to uphold the Constitution of the United States? What do we tell out Grandchildren when they ask us why we didn’t do anything to stop these people?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:09amI am doing something .. I am active in my community .. both attending Republican events (have to keep an eye on them) and working and supporting TEA Party activities and positions both local and national. I think that is exactly why the left is so dismissive of the TEA Party .. we do surround them .. and it is making them very nervous.
Report Post »xme
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:53amRandy, they took their oath to the corporate UNITED STATES, not the united States of America. If you can‘t understand the difference then you’ll always be spinning your wheels, going nowhere.
Report Post »randy
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:17pmXME, Well that was a pretty stupid comment.
Report Post »Lily1943
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:55pmAccording to Glenn Cass Sunstien is one of the most dangerous men in the administration can his wife be any less?
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:36amfrom what we’ve heard about this woman so far…I‘m thinking she’s just like her husband. Love your name Lily!
Report Post »randy
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:55pmThey are putting all the pieces in place for a takeover of the US. They better realize, we surround them.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:04am2012 .. .the last best chance to save America.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:17amRandy;
Better if they don’t, although I’m pretty sure the KNOW.
Report Post »ablisterin
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:31pmNo, they are putting in place all the peices to try and rule the world,
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:52pmEWWWWWWWWW What a scary thought!! Is this a serious consideration? God help us. REAL Change in 2012… can’t wait!
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:59pmAnyone with the surname “Power” should automatically be disqualified from holding public office.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:00amFrom Smart Power
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Samantha Power
CatB
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:03amOMG … another one that we will have to expose the truth on and not what the MSM builds her up to be ….. Scary thought .. who might be inside the Obama White House that we DON’T know about.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:09amHow will the families of those dead Libyans feel when they are told that their loved ones died because of the naked ambitions of a pathetic hatefilled bitter woman who co-owns ( with her husband) the man who dropped bombs on them
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:21amCheck out this new wiki site!
http://www.wikicountability.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:42am@AZ Debi ~
Thanks! Cool beans!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:01amAnd most people figure Hillary is bad enough, this must be the nightmare inducing sister of hers.
Report Post »ClockKing
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:03amMaddie Half-Bright 2.0
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:29amHmmm….she is a Communist, new world order supporter, Obama and Soros like her, and she is evil….oh yes, Im fairly sure she might be offered the job. And what better way for her to be in a position to help promote the cause of radicals and the destruction of Israel…..
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:45amIf this is true, we need to stop it somehow. The lady is evil.
Wow, I can just hear Glenn now. Monday is going to be a barn-burner!
Start a conversation at our Tea Forum
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kryptonite
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:57amHarvard is Redder than Moscow’s Red Square (retch).
Say, FBI, Waco, was Disney World compared to Harvard. Every single giant roach in this country, including Power, is connected to that intrusion or to its sister nest, Columbia University (retch again).
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:26amWas anyone in that WH administration born in the USA? valerie jarrett born in Iran;Power in Ireland; Obama ???
Report Post »This is just wrong.
They say the only reason he put Hillary in was so she wouldn’t turn on him and he could keep the lefties together
Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 5:57amAnd we thought nothing could be worse than having Obama as president!
God, save us. Please.
Report Post »Noonien_Soong
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:49amI‘m waiting for some significant ’Power’ outage. Either that or rolling blackouts.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:51amNudge becomes SHOVE. I have learned on thing these last two years, that is to expect the unexpected. I would bet that if Hillary steps down, Powers will step in, and that Israel will lose the U.S. Government as a protector. I am certain that we will be facing major changes near the end of this year, and they wont be good ones. Stock up now while food is cheap and gas is still affordable.
Report Post »28_ID
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:05amWhat are her qualifications?
1) She hates Israel.
2) She’s an Ivy League egghead.
3) She’s another Sorros sock puppet.
4) She does not believe in American exceptionalism.
5) Given her husband, I really don‘t think she’s a big fan of liberty.
Of course she’s a shoe-in.
Report Post »Watchdog101
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:06amMaybe not a bad thing…Think about it. I’d rather have her out in front of the curtain than lurking around behind it. The more these bugs come out into the light, the easier it is to see who and what they really are, Destroyers of America.
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:14amnot to worry,…Obamma won’t be appointing anyone after the 2012 elections
Report Post »and he better learn how to drive!
oldoldtimer
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:50pmGod help this country. No one else will.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:46pmIf this woman becomes Secretary of State without Senate approval, it will signal the intention of the Administration to render Congress impotent! If it goes to the Senate for approval, she has no chance.
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