After Barack Obama was elected president in November, the Darfur refugees here were so thrilled that they erupted in spontaneous dancing and singing.

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Harvard professor Samantha Power, who left Barack Obama's presidential campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a "monster," is taking a senior foreign policy job in the White House that requires close contact and potential travel with Clinton, who is now secretary of state.

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These are the ten young progressives who make me hopeful for the future. (I've included a video of each in case you're meeting them for the first time).

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But why wasn't Power named to Sec. of State instead of Sen. Clinton? Now that would have been the change we believe in, Mr. Obama.

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TODAY'S 'Monster' story . . .

By l.t. Dravis

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This is the same Samantha Power who accused Israel of human rights violations and suggested that the US SHOULD SEND IN TROOPS TO IMPOSE A SOLUTION ON ISRAEL.

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This video is a jawdropper. This was Obama's chief foreign policy adviser a fierce critic of Israel who was forced to resign because of a caustic comment she made about Hillary Clinton.

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FIVE years ago, at roughly 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, a suicide bomber in a flatbed truck pulled up outside the lightly fortified office of the United Nations's leading diplomat, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and detonated a cone-shaped bomb the size of a large man.

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Us vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security by J. Peter Scoblic Viking, 350 pp., $25.95

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The problem with America's liberals—besides the fact they always seem to end up killing millions of people—is they consistently lose debates to America's psycho right wing, which then seizes power and kills even more people than the liberals do.

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In this Undernews post, we see Obama getting grilled by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! in her questioning of his plans for Iraq. Then Jeremy Scahill chimes in:

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Correctly Political: Barack Obama, Samantha Power, Sérgio Vieira de Mello … and Me [Exclusive Video]

A couple of months ago, the John F.

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One can argue that the campaigns shouldn't be so pusillanimous, that they ought to show more fiber in the face of intimidation from the left or the right. Keep in mind, though, that the ratio of response from the campaigns and output from the media storm is about 1-to-infinity.

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POWER: Can I just clarify and say I don't think Hillary Clinton is a monster and I get to be on television and say that. COLBERT: There's a way to make it positive. Why not embrace it? POWER: No, no, no. COLBERT: What about a good monster like Cookie Monster?

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Left out of the equation, however, has been why Power's remarks are beyond the pale and Hillary Clinton's Muslim innuendo is not. In the heat of a political campaign, Power was simply saying that Clinton is ruthless.

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''Samantha Power, one of Barack's top foreign advisors before she wasn't, went on the BBC and told the whole world that Obama has no real exit strategies for Iraq

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While Barack Obama may understand the audacity of hope, only Hillary Clinton really gets the audacity of audacity.

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Barack Obama can't win wrestling in the mud with Hillary Clinton. That will not put him in the White House.

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Obama adviser Samantha Power exposed the Clinton administration's indifference to genocide -- she got the boot for stating it on the campaign trail.

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The resignation of an adviser to Barack Obama sparked new debates about how far he should go in responding to attacks.

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The high anxiety in the Obama circles has thrown the campaign off its game.

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The resignation of an adviser to Barack Obama sparked new debates about how far he should go in responding to attacks from Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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And she opens a window on a foreign policy tailor-made to end the Bush nightmare. Obama is already planning ahead and collecting advisers who can help make a real difference.

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Samantha Power is a professor at the Kennedy School of Government and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "A Problem from Hell," which explores genocide and American foreign policy in the 20th century. She's also a foreign policy advisor to Sen.

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Iowa voters will have a chance to impact Obama's policy decisions as his senior advisors meet with them to get their input. They'll be discussing domestic, foreign, economic, energy and women's issues in 12 Iowa communities.

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