Absolute Samantha Power Corrupts Absolutely

Thank God Samantha Power has resigned from the Obama campaign. Her style of honest, brash, off-the-cuff statement-making has no place in presidential politics. Political operatives should not say anything other than the talking points handed down from the campaigns' higher-ups. That is what we the viewers and voters want--not unscripted asides of honesty and humanness, certainly not what one of Obama's chief advisors thinks about Ohio. Voters seek canned statements and platitudes like Hillary's "fool-me-once-shame-on-me" line, not outside-of-the-box thinking from Harvard folks like Power. Why? Because these statements have been vetted, battle-tested, and shoved through a focus-group blender and thus must convey to voters like me what the candidates really think.

In an ideal world, advisers and flacks would just read press releases on the air but unfortunately television networks feel they need to mask their operations as news-gathering. Whatever. Thankfully, America is nearing a state of moral bliss when every pundit, politician, and political operative is so straight-jacketed, so guarded against gotcha-journalists with Scottish accents, that nobody would dare use offensive, incendiary terms like "pimping" or "monster" ever again. Phew! American voters are not stupid--naïve, easily offended, yes--but they realize when they are being sold something that is honest and unscripted (Wait, did I just call Americans naïve? Is that offensive?? Should I resign??? Shit!! Wait, was that offensive, too????)

Note to presidential advisors: Please tell it from the memo, not from the heart. We Americans are too frail and easily offended to handle unscripted, candid comments.

Comments

[FairAndUnbalanced]

Face it Obama supporters, Barak threw Power off the bus and ran over her -- over one word: 'Monster'. Now of course she shouldn't have said it, but look what he did. He was too insecure to deal with it without dumping her -- just make the problem go away. Barak MO: When the going gets tough, sacrifice your loyal supporters.

[ATLiberal]

Gee whiz, I wonder what your post would have said if he had come out in defense of her?

Not really.

[GoreyFantod]

Supporters like Billy Shaheen and Patti Solis Doyle?

You really think that everyone other than you is a fool, don't you?

[OSUMercutio]

I won't defend Barack Obama in this instance, but I realize that this is a tense time and it's hard to know what decisions to make. However, I believe most of the anger should be directed towards Hillary Clinton who made repeated press statements just hours after the story broke calling for the firing of Samantha Powers. Did Barach Obama cave under pressure? Probably. Am I disappointed? Sure.

[ESerafina42]

"This is a tense time and it's hard to know what decisions to make"? What's he going to do when he's President, then? Isn't he claiming by running that he's GOING to know what decisions to make in a tough time?

[slg]

actually she said it once and ten thousand media repeated it ten thousand times.

[Kenai]

Your comment was fair and unbalanced.

[patriotscholar]

I thought she said that it was her decision to resign?

[ESerafina42]

They ALWAYS say that, innocent child. Doesn't mean it isn't true - doesn't mean that it is.

[Dailyfare]

Yes, indeedy. Americans don't want and can't handle the truth.

[strifeknot]

More specifically, the Clinton supporters.