Samantha Power Interview Newsnight BBC America

[deadrepublicantv]

Well... She talks about how bad Bush/Cheney was but all we got was a continuation of their atrocious policies with Obama...

[beradification]

the us needs an interviewer like this

[largraf]

Samantha is an apologist for obama. I think she's just got the hots for him. Maybe he promised her a nice position in the New World Order.

[lottiesocks]

She an ugly communist retard. She's responsible for getting us involved in Libya. 

[peteagassi]

@lottiesocks You're an idiot. And look up the definition of 'communist', retard.

[pulpnorwood]

@lottiesocks Come again?

[peteware1]

Our assclown president Obama is fixing to apoint this rotten clam to Secretary of State. This proves that anyone who supports Obama hates America.

[SMURKHART]

@peteware1 It's scary to know the direction our country is heading and the amount of people in our country and in our congress/senate/government that are involved in the scandal to bring down our country. There is so much compelling evidence that Communist/Socialist/Leftist are literally trying to bring down our economic system, our Economy, and destroy Capitalism! But...there is still hope because the American people are starting to wake up! God bless you and yours!

[peteagassi]

@peteware1 You're the one who hates America, douche bag. You hate your president- that makes you un-American. Go live in Germany, redneck!

[robsatease]

She can't be serious endorsing the continuation of failed policies of Obama. The only thing the Irish are known for is killing each other

[ShaytanBozorg]

When are YOU going to pay the price to save all these people you want saving, YOU FUCKING IRISH CUNT?

[Reaver1978]

@ShaytanBozorg Hey asshole, I guess it's easier to sit on your hands and play war games from the comfort of your sofa right? You fucking prick.

[ShaytanBozorg]

@Reaver1978, shut up, kid.

[Reaver1978]

@ShaytanBozorg "Shut up kid"? How weak is that?

[SMURKHART]

Are you kidding me?! Obama is a horrible President when it comes to dealing with foreign affairs!! Hell, he's a horrible President in general! His progressive agenda is destroying everything our country stands for! If he stopped listening to people like Samantha Power, "who I might add should be in jail for the amount of damage she's done to our country" America would be a lot better off.  God Bless America and everyone vote against Obama and the Democrats in 2012!!

[largraf]

@SMURKHART Samantha is an anti-semite.  She wants to 'invest' in a new state of terrorist Palestine. These are the people that are driving the world toward destruction.

[largraf]

Samantha is an anti-semite. She wants to 'invest' in a new state of terrorist Palestine. These are the people that are driving the world toward destruction.

[hazor777]

STUPID.COMMUNIST.LIBERAL.C*U*N­*T.

[mizzoulibertarian]

EVER BIT THE WARMONGER BUSH WAS!!

[Yous111111]

this turned out well, didn't it.

[chrish12345]

its amazin how much bullshit u can say in such short period

[wakeup2truth]

Paxman - Enriching Uranium?? Wake up Paxman. What gives the US, Israel, France, UK and many other nations the right to enrich uranium yet deny others the same right? Paxman at times appears to be capable of hard talk. Yet I have not seen Paxman tackle the root of this war on terror and tackle the elephant in the room: 9/11. Paxman is a pussy unless he asks Zelikow about the Soloman Brothers Building AKA WCT7.

[wakeup2truth]

What an articulate yet conflictingly shallow woman. This is a woman who stands against genocide, sleeps with Zelikow, defends Israel, supports Bush and Obama & does indeed speak some truth. Yet the small glimmers of truth and justice that emanate from her dialogue are lost in the fact that she seems to simply be filling her role as adviser to an imperialist power. A spine is what I see missing for this obviously capable woman who appears to have prostituted herself on the alter of washington.

[fosseseptique]

top bird

[watanidiot]

Wow, Power was astonishingly articulate and sure of herself. Was she educated in Britain?

[jordinho13]

@watanidiot What is you tryin ta say about we Americans? We don't talk that good?

[chrish12345]

@jordinho13 no u talk amazin absolutely great

[Clembo]

Obama is Bush. There is no noticable difference. But why?

Why should such a huge factor as a change in president not change a thing after a whole year?

Well that might have something to do with the fact that the president doesn't control the country, its controlled by an olligarchy of a few to a few hundred people. stock in America has been bought and effective the country has too.

Calling yourself an American is the same as saying you only drink coke, you are supporting a company.

[mizzoulibertarian]

this Lady wants to bring back conscription!!!! Every American who watches this should take not. Mcain and obama are working together on it.

[AlgerianBanjo]

Wow. I can't believe she was born in 1970. Looks more like she was born in 1940. Looks very, very old for her age.

[Ske11en]

to our american friends beware when you are watching the bbc as its just a mouthpiece for the british govenment & you are being subject to british propoganda

[Boccherini64]

Don't talk such crap!

[Idisapprove]

And it's spelled 'propaganda' you tit.

[sonofJurell]

I like this woman. I'm British and the guy interviewing her (Paxmam) is hardcore and tears politicians new assholes but she is holding her own with ease..bonafide intellect right there people.

[anothrdumscrname]

Wow, I love this woman! Her intellect floors me and she's so damn sexy (not to sound creepy, just being honest)

[Yowzoe]

She's brilliant and level-headed, and I hope she will have a place in the new government.

We desperately need perceptive, honest minds now, don't we?

[bxofrain]

samantha powers will invade israel, say hello to your new sec of state, with an Obama win

McCain 2008

[samingo123]

how boring is this woman? she needs to sit on her hands.

[Greenwitch7]

I think labelling Samantha Power 'another political suit' is grossly unfair and moreover just plain wrong.

[chris2470]

FUCK YOU jeremy paxman, even though i like you a lot

[auxilliaryverb]

Very disappointing effort from Paxman here. She did incredibly well, and at times, made Paxman look petty and narrow-minded.

[CyrusGuitar]

She does quite well for an American journalist who is probably not used to being interviewed properly. I think she was losing it on the troop withdrawel question, obviously a policy weak-point.

[nixxifocal]

Mate, she is one of the top public intellectuals in the world and is very used to being interviewed.

[CyrusGuitar]

Sorry, but she is just another political suit, not an intellectual. Someone of real insight would have performed better. But credit to her, it's rare for anyone of remote intelligence to be in any sort of position of power in the USA.

[nixxifocal]

In fact she is an intellectual, a prominent and highly regarded scholar. It's true she worked as a journalist for a few years. FP have just listed her in the top 100 public intellectuals worldwide.

[Qacc6]

Exactly the opposite, she kept her ground and coherently framed Obama's policy right there.

[Moionfire]

No, american journalist are properly questioned fine....

[argument777]

Is this Paxman? He questions Ahmadinejad and doesn't question the US, UK or Israel enriching uranium and bullying the whole world? What a hypocrite!

[saintee1000]

His job was to establish Obamas policy and whether or not he would agree to meet Western enemies. It would have been an entirely pointless question to ask if these 3 countries should carry on enriching uranium, because Obama is not running for the leadership of Israel/The UK.  If the question simply focused on Obamas policy he could point out that Iran is destroying its economy seeking Nuclear advancement when there are cheaper energy alternatives available = suspicious.

[raarnoldzz]

Samantha Power could well be remembered as the woman who lost the Democrats the election. Harvard professors aren't stupid - she must have known the damage that comment would cause, on or off the record.

[seansurfgood]

it was a one night news headline that most agreed with and all have forgotten.

[uraniumgrenade]

Paxman is a legend in Britain. He either gets difficult answers out of politicians which they don't want to give, or gets them to make fools of themselves by trying to dodge simple questions. Paxman = badass.

[fuzzmaniac]

Am I the only one who's turned on by Samantha Power?

[mark1800]

No sir. What a sultry voice.

[sonofgraham]

Goodness, yes...

[chvzfamcom]

Bit of an 80's style journalism, eh Paxman?

[ItsSTU]

Glad Paxman got someone of quality to interview instead of some lieing politician or crazed nazi.

[sykes106]

She's a smart lass. If we're lucky, she'll get back on Obama's team. Resignation-mania in the democratic campaign isn't serving anyone very well.

[PhilabustaBlue]

I'm not a Hil supporter. I am totally on the fence until the general election, collecting facts, taking notes.

I'm just saying this guy is doing a damn good job and obviously foreign policy is important to the Brits, and as an ally it should be. He seems to have doubts in Obama's foreign policy stances as I do in his experience.

The world's a very volatile place right now. Very volatile. Did Powers make the case for Obama?

Bush 1 and 2 made it volatile. Not Clinton.

[benenglish76]

Gotta love his opening bitch-slap to President Bush ...

[jlauer95]

She's too dense to realize that he's mocking her pseudo-intellectual responses that she concocted while in the ivory towers of Harvard. She's like a 14 year old girl who thinks that she and her friends are all smarter than all the more experienced adults around her.

[pulamaharangsililabu]

she's brilliant than hillary lol!

[TrouserChafe]

Samantha Power is a callous, sexist, self absorbed, trust-fund bore. She is pompous and full of BS. "Off The Record" is how she really feels and "On the Record" is her double-faced BS. She is PERFECT for Obama who is also a two-faced liar. If he had any balls he'd of NOT had her leave, but yet again we see he's not really "running the show". He's nothing but a PUPPET. I'm very glad that this "HUMAN RIGHTS" advocate got her due for slagging Hillary, "off the record". Obama is a zero.

[TheLegend644]

Paxman maybe a tough interviewer but he didnt phase Samantha Power, who is a Pulitzer prize winner and Havard Professor.

If this is the caliber of people Obama is surrounding himself with then I am very impressed. It is a great shame that she had to resign today over the "monster" faux pas.

I will look forward to seeing her in the Obama Whitehouse in 2009!

[Lurabyss]

Samantha never admits how long US troops performing anti-terrorist activities will stay in Iraq under a "President Obama".

She says here that Obama plans on an 18 month time line to withdraw US combat troops from Iraq. However, in the New Hampshire democratic debate when he was asked, Barack Obama refused to go on record to do this in 13 YEARS! He panders to the majority side of public polls on each issue, he's a populist. (All talk and positioning with no record of achievement or example.)

[xtrashed]

Obama is the right person. Look at the worldwide polls - they all say Obama is the best presidential nominee. He wins the polls by huge margins.

Hilary's racism and tactical lies over the past few weeks have been irresponsible on her part, and just plain nasty! She says a whole load of rubbish but funnily enough she never has nothing to back any of it up! She's so desperate!

A democratic nominee shouldn't act like that! She has shown her true colours.

[robinho1979]

It's a great shame Samantha Power with her wide wealth of knowledge resigned in the benefit of the Obama campaign due to her blunt remarks of Senetor Clinton. Samantha cannot shy away from telling the awful truth.

[amoergosum3]

I think she did a great job there!

[verity4free]

Please do expound and support your claims.

Moreover, please explain why Sen Obama always succeeds in winning the educated vote, especially that of the post-grads.

[soulsearcher99]

Samantha Power is an intelligent woman, and I agree with her about Obama. I also agree with her and the remarks she made about Clinton. With Obama being a model of an upright campaign, I can see why she resigned, although I do not agree with her leaving.

[PhilabustaBlue]

Tell me why do you think this interviewer is quite agressive with her?

[colvininglis]

The interviewer is always like that.

[PhilabustaBlue]

Basically, this guy has done a good job of blowing a big hole in Obama's plans. Obama is naive and foolish and a Harvard professor more so for trying to defend it.

[sjlondonuk]

his is very well known in UK this guy.

Tey looking at some of his others - do a search on here under Paxman howard, and paxman galloway

[Slimdawgc]

@soulsearcher99 Hahaha. Look at what Obama is doing now: more troops in Iraq, just like his predecessor. Leaders change in America, but policies do not!

[SinisterSkip]

@soulsearcher99

I can see your comment was made two years ago, because now it's quite proven, Obama's not really about the change he's promised. He's by far not the progressive he wants us to believe. For instance he stays in the unsolvable mess of the middle east and probably brings even more soldiers in than Bush would have. It's crazy. The republicans are 100% bought by the corporations in the US, the the democrats probably also for about 80%. Those corps don't want change.

[mizzoulibertarian]

@soulsearcher99 She is ever bit the warmonger that Bush was. she is worse in fact. she got this dumb ass war in libya going.