Posted on 03/06/2008 7:42:23 PM PST by blam
Barack Obama 'will repair image of US in UK'
By Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester
Last Updated: 2:50am GMT 07/03/2008
America needs to work hard to regain the trust of the British public following the Iraq war and the Bush years, a senior adviser to Barack Obama says today.
Samantha Power, a former journalist, advises Barack Obama on foreign policy
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Samantha Power, who is a key member of the Presidential hopeful's foreign policy team, says anti-Americanism is now "vehement" in the United Kingdom.
"A restoration of trust will have to occur between the US Government and the British public," she says. "There is a sense of disappointment but people still want to believe in the USA."
The "special relationship" between Britain and America would, she believes become stronger if Mr Obama won the White House because he would make voters in this country warm to the United States.
"Any British leader is harmed domestically in terms of public standing by association with President Bush, the reverse will happen with President Obama. Obama reminds people of the better angels of America."
Mr Obama would also try to heal the divisions between Europe and America, caused by the war in Iraq. "Obama can go door-to-door in Europe and say, 'Look like you I opposed the war in Iraq but what are we going to do together about Al Qaeda?'"
The United States must show more respect for international institutions, she adds. "We have to show that we know we can't do it alone. It matters not just intrinsically that we close Guantanamo, it matters because we need to be credible at the UN. You can't be against genocide on a Monday and for water boarding on Tuesday, then on Wednesday show up at the UN."
Miss Power is the self proclaimed "genocide chick", who won the Pullitzer Prize for her reporting from Bosnia.
She plays basketball with George Clooney and is the inspiration for the latest David Hare play.
This auburn haired Irish journalist is a professor at Harvard, the founder of a human rights think tank and was cited by Men's Vogue as one of the most beautiful women in the world.
She is also one of Mr Obama's most trusted advisers on foreign policy.
The would-be President of the United States texts her with, "It's Obama, call me" in the middle of the night. Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the British Ambassador to Washington has already called on her three times.
Miss Power met the Senator in 2005, when he called her to discuss her genocide book.
"I never thought of going into politics until Obama," she says. "I was bowled over by his intellectual range. He combines policy wonkery with an ability to inspire. I had never seen anything like it before."
Power, who is in Britain to promote her latest book, Chasing the Flame, about Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN statesman who died in Iraq, thinks Mr Obama has tapped into a national mood in the US.
"The Bush years have left the American people looking for visible change. There was this post-September 11th yearning, people were waiting for a call to do good - instead of getting the call we were told to go shopping. What the Obama movement has shown is that that yearning still exists in people."
Despite wins in Ohio and Texas, she thinks Hillary Clinton lacks the idealism to inspire.
"The moments where she has shown vulnerability have been her strongest. I was at a dinner with her once, she was phenomenal, so funny, so curious, so herself but unfortunately the political consultants have got in there and turned her into a machine."
Neither she nor Obama have met Gordon Brown or David Cameron. Their main point of contact is Mark Malloch Brown, the Prime Minister's eminence grise in the Foreign Office. "David Miliband seems impressive to me. I am confused by what's happened to Gordon Brown. I thought he was impressive."
In America, Miss Power has been compared to Condoleeza Rice.
"I'm nothing like her," she says. "I don't have any conventional political ambition."
But if Mr Obama wins the Presidential race she is likely to remain a powerful force. "I'd do anything he asked me to do. It's not about working for the next President of the United States, it's Obama. If he ran General Motors I'd be working for him."
Men’s Vogue must be a fag mag.
yeah just ask Canada about Obama’s credibility in international relations
Per Wikipedia:
“n 2004, Power was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 top scientists and thinkers of that year.[2] She appears in Charles Ferguson’s 2007 documentary No End in Sight which alleges numerous missteps by the Bush administration in the U.S. war in Iraq.
In a 2002 interview at Berkeley[4] , that has been widely criticized [5], Power proposed that instead of encouraging negotiations between Israelis and Arabs, the United States should spend “billions of dollars” to send a “ meaningful military” force to effect the “imposition of a solution” and create “the new state of Palestine” beside Israel. [6] In March 2008, Power described her previous opinion as “weird.”
>>”I was bowled over by his intellectual range. He combines policy wonkery with an ability to inspire. I had never seen anything like it before.”<<
*****
This broad must be dumber than a doorknob. Maybe she hasn’t been keeping up with Osama’s quotes on socialism, anti-Americanism and idiocy all rolled into one.
the scum v.scum match begins.....
Why don’t we send the Brits all our official government correspondence written in German. When they call to say they can’t read anything because it’s written in German we reply. “You’re welcome”.
Liberal scumbags like this pig Samantha Power are always worried about what “the rest of the world” thinks about the United States. It is a self-esteem problem that should be addressed in a psychiatrist’s office, not the Oval Office.
F.T.U.K.
What planet am I on?
Samantha Power: former journalist, Obama foreign policy adviser, Cougar
“I’d do anything he asked me to do. It’s not about working for the next President of the United States, it’s Obama.”
I find this kind of 16 magazine stuff really distasteful.
Oh --- BTW. Do I really give a s*** what the Brits think of the US?
Short answer is NO.
I bet. She sounds like a groupie.
I have a real problem with campaign officials pleading their case to foreign countries. Can’t remember the last time the reverse case has happened. They *legally* can’t make contributions, but then Hillary refuses to release he tax returns.
[b]In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Samantha Power, who is a key member of the Presidential hopeful’s foreign policy team, says anti-Americanism is now “vehement” in the United Kingdom. [/b][p]Only amongst the group Ms Power hangs out with...at least IMO.
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LOL!
Tell the UK....next time they save the US A** in a World War....we’ll THINK about it....
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