Posted on 01/28/2018 4:29:01 AM PST by MarvinStinson
In a moment of woeful irony in the Obama-administration documentary “The Final Year,” UN Ambassador Samantha Power travels to Cameroon to offer photo-op comfort to families terrorized by Boko Haram — only to have her motorcade kill a 7-year-old boy.
Greg Barker, director of this fan film, does his best to downplay the accident: It is discussed while we watch a clip of Power’s convoy moving at a crawl when in fact it was reportedly traveling at over 60 miles an hour when it struck the boy.
Despite Barker’s intentions, the handiwork of the Road to Hell Paving Co. is obvious. Team Obama, with its let’s-hug-it-out attitude to world conflict, left a bloody trail.
“The Final Year,” playing on a few screens ahead of its debut on HBO, drew notice for a scene in Power’s apartment on Election Night 2016. She invited the camera crew to film her party with the world’s 37 female ambassadors to toast the inevitable Hillary Clinton landslide. Power’s fist-pumping as she watches the election returns turns to blanching, but it’s Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes who has the most amusing reaction to Donald Trump’s victory.
Asked whether a Trump administration might endanger his accomplishments, he says, “I’ve never really considered that.” So what does the speechwriter and former aspiring novelist have to say when Trump wins? “I mean, uh, I can’t even [long pause] I can’t, I can’t, I can’t;- [long pause] I mean I, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t put it into words. I don’t know what the words are.”
“The Final Year” is chiefly a study of Obama-administration foreign policy as overseen by John Kerry, Power and Rhodes. The foreign-policy masters see their three accomplishments as the Paris Climate Accord, the opening to Cuba and the Iran deal.
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Psych ops... tells us a ‘flaw’ makes a powerful person more likable. I’m sure adding his stuttering over Trump’s win was intentional.
Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes’ reaction to Donald Trump’s victory.
“I mean, uh, I can’t even [long pause] I can’t, I can’t, I can’t;- [long pause] I mean I, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t put it into words. I don’t know what the words are.”
That sounds like something he’d stammer.
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