Takes one to know one

Barack Obama's foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power has been forced to resign her position over some unflattering remarks she made about Hillary in this story in The Scotsman

Earlier, clearly rattled by the Ohio defeat, Ms Power told The Scotsman Mrs Clinton was stopping at nothing to try to seize the lead from her candidate.

"We f***** up in Ohio," she admitted. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win.

"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark. Note also that those Herman articles also treat longtime Clinton courtier Richard Holbrooke demonstrating once again that both the Obama and Clinton campaigns trade in much the same brand of assholery.

Ms Power said of the Clinton campaign: "Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there, too.

"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh'. But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."

Power, who as Edward Herman explains here and here makes her living as a professional apologist for American genocidal atrocities, isn't too far from qualifying for similar descriptors to the ones she employed in regard to Mrs. Clinton. Note also that those Herman articles also treat the career of longtime Clinton courtier Richard Holbrooke demonstrating once again that both the Obama and Clinton campaigns are populated by the same circle of elitist creatures.

Notice also the barely disguised disdain with which Power regards the "obsessed poor people" she believes were so "deceived" by her rival "monster". Clinton won in Ohio because an unsubstantiated story made it into the press that the Obama campaign expressed its insincerity about its rhetoric over NAFTA to the Canadian Prime Minister's office. Regardless of the fact of this story, the truth of the insincerity of both campaigns is well understood by blue collar voters in Ohio. Given this opportunity to make their displeasure with being dicked around known, the voters did so (even if the opportunity came in the imperfect form of voting for Hillary). But in Samantha Power's world, "obsessed" working class voters are too simple to be anything other than "deceived" by the "monster" she perceives as her equal.

Does it really matter which of these groups of elite warmogering monsters the Democrats choose to bring about "change we can believe in" this November?

Update: More from Adrastos. Also, I think I may have annoyed Greg.

Upperdate: And now Jonathan Schwarz provides a helpful illustration.