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Off The Record
March 9, 2008

Samantha Power is the latest casualty in America’s greatest comedy of all time, the 2008 Democratic Party presidential candidate Marathon and Dirty Tricks Show.

To liven up this televised spectacle for the American public, the Democratic contestants make up the rules as they go along. The rules of course, are secret but apparently require the periodic crucifixion of one or another contestant’s trusted advisors for being honest (and of course for game publicity).

Samantha Power is no lightweight. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School as well as an experienced journalist, Power won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2003. I accord her a moderate degree of credibility even if she does tend to support no-chance causes like an Obama presidency or US military intervention in out-of-the-way places with no oil reserves, like Darfur.

Unfortunately, Power dropped her guard during a newspaper interview last week when she referred to Hillary Clinton as “a monster.” She allegedly made her remarks “off the record” but should have known better. She was once a journalist and understands full well that nothing is ever “off the record.”

Following publication of Power’s remarks in a Scottish newspaper, the Clinton “campaign” demanded she be crucified. Although settlement terms were not publicly disclosed, Obama somehow avoided personal involvement in the crucifixion by convincing her to nail her own self to the cross. She complied by resigning.

Too bad. It distresses me deeply when someone is punished for being honest. That is exactly what happened to Power, even though she went out of her way to be polite during the interview. The truth is that Hillary Clinton is worse than any mere monster. Hillary is the impending scourge of our beloved American way of life. Hillary deserves to be labeled worse things than “a monster,” but I try to avoid profanity in my blogs. So I will restrain myself and merely echo Samantha Power’s accurate yet understated honest statement of fact that Hillary Clinton is a monster.

Hillary intends to tax me into oblivion while she gives away my hard-earned money to lazy people who don't work. Hillary intends to take away my health care and redistribute it to lazy people who don’t pay for their own. Hillary intends to make it easy for every terrorist in the world to enter and stay in the United States. She will even give them free scholarships to attend our institutions of higher learning.

Hillary intends to starve us all by turning our food into fuel. Hillary believes husbands should be permitted to commit adultery. Hillary believes personal opinions carry more weight than scientific evidence in matters related to alleged global warming. Hillary believes any criticism of her or her ludicrous positions is a sex-oriented personal attack. Hillary is schizophrenic. Hillary is out of control, out of her mind and well . . . she’s a monster.

Samantha, I’m still a fan. Please take things in stride and continue supporting the causes you tend to gravitate towards. Without you it would be difficult to point to a textbook example of the stereotypical left-wing extremist. But you’re honest. I’ll give you that. Dinner at my house any time. I just need three or four days advance notice and I promise everything you say in my home will be “off the record.”

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