Samantha Power a Lakeside High grad
March 9, 2008 at 12:02 pm by Ken Edelstein in NewsThe foreign policy adviser who resigned her position with the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” is a graduate of Lakeside High School in DeKalb County.
Samantha Power was born in Ireland in 1970 and came to the States in 1979. So she would have graduated from Lakeside in the late 1980s. (Thanks to Atlanta expatriate Doug Monroe for this tip.)
I really like Power. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, is an unblinking thorough review of the American government’s response, or lack thereof, to genocide, in which she criticizes — and sometimes praises — both Republicans and Democrats. She comes across as a tough, but fair and pragmatic, moralist.
It’s not surprising that she’s down on Hillary. Her writing cuts straight to heart of Bill Clinton’s waffling on humanitarian crises in Bosnia and Rwanda. Yeah, she shouldn’t have called Hillary a monster. But, hey, people say mean things sometimes when they’re under pressure. She’s only 37. If Obama wins, she’ll be back and she’ll be a big cheese in his administration.
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