She is one of the best minds of my generation on foreign policy. She resigned today as the result of her views that Hillary has become a monster. For the record she said off the record right after saying the comment and the view was printed. She apologized to both senators and later Resigned. She wrote the book below in 03 at age 32.
Her classy exit should not stop her from a post in any democratic administration IMHO. I hold the same view and emailed my congressman that this race IMHO is tearing us apart. Why has it come to this is winning at all cost worth tearing the party apart? For the record I would only vote for Hillary at this point because John Paul and Ruth bader need to retire. What really appalls me at this point is that democratic supporters of the Senator Clinton think this is worth it. The Math does not work and this election helps no one. It helps the GOP it hurts us down ticket. I don't post much anymore things move quick and I post at slower moving places that allow more direct back and fourth these days. I still lurk and post but this upset me a great deal. She had to resign but it hurts the party to have her sidelined IMHO. Heart felt truths can bite you in the ass.. Fuck!!!
A bit on Samantha and her accomplishments.. As Markos can attest book writing is not easy and she is prolific and young so I see this a a bump.
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power provides the answer in "A Problem from Hell" -- a groundbreaking work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.
Her first book at 29 was Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. She has worked hard for Obama and here is an interview she did in the New American Statesman.