I am glad Samantha Power has resigned from Obama's campaign. Good riddance. Her comments angered me. And I don't mean calling Hillary a monster. It was the rest of her statement that got me.
Samantha Power said: "We f***** up in Ohio. In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win."
What is wrong with this picture is the public use of the F-word by someone representing Obama's campaign, and calling the people of Ohio "obsessed."
I know many -- most! -- Kossacks will think I'm a fatuous Puritan to worry about the word fuck in this day and age. But the fact is that millions of ordinary Americans detest this kind of language. They associate it with people who lack respect, decorum, restraint, good sense.
We need these people to vote for Obama. Every time a campaign spokesperson indulges - in public - in lazy, latte-drinking language, a small light goes out. Power is a Harvard professor - surely her vocabulary includes a more precise verb than "fucked" to make her point.
I grew up in Ohio. The people of Ohio are not obsessed. They live in a rustbelt state with a declining economy that has led to people losing their homes, finding themselves without health insurance, enduring the endless grind of always trying to make ends meet. They do not have the luxuries that Power enjoys. How dare she denigrate them from her lofty perch as a member of the overprivileged.
We Obama supporters have been complaining about Hillary's campaign writing off the states that don't vote for her. Samantha Power did the same. That is not a winning move.
I'm glad Power is gone. Her poor judgment, contempt, and arrogance are misplaced in a campaign that stands for dignity, humility, respect, and care. And by the way, Ohio is not the only state Hillary won. Even the "obsessed" people of Ohio know that.