OBAMA HAD EARLY SIGNS THAT SAMANTHA POWER SPEAKS HER MIND

There were early signs—to those paying attention—that Samantha Power, while bright, has the habit of speaking the unvarnished (very unvarnished) truth. So much so that a future in any presidential campaign, let alone White House cabinet, might have been a tad iffy.

This Washington Monthly article, published back in April, 2007—wherein Power describes her first "inauspicious" meeting with candidate Obama kind of sums it all up:

"'His body language was not good," says Power. "He had no desire to be there at all. It was, 'Who the fuck is this person, this lily-livered Harvard softy, and tell me why I am meeting with her again?'" Still, Obama warmed up--it was supposed to be a forty-five-minute chat, but they
ended up talking for three hours. "We sat down, and we started dinner. I was on my best behavior: I didn't, like, order my trademark Jack Daniels. And then we just started talking. It was vintage Obama: question after question after question, starting with, 'Who are you? I don't get it. Bosnia? Whaaa? That's weird.' It ended up being a very personal discussion, oddly enough, but everything led to policy. That's the way he comes to policy: What's your story, and why do you tick the way you do? ... He's what everybody says he is." Before long, Power says, she had "drunk the Kool-Aid" on Obama. "At the end of the
dinner, we're walking out, and I said, 'I'd love to help you in any way I can.' He said, 'That'd be great, maybe we could do some big think on a smart, tough, and humane foreign policy.' I heard myself saying, 'Why don't I take a year off?'"

Woa—"Who the fuck is this person…"? 'Who are you? I don't get it. Bosnia? Whaaa? That's weird."

Can anyone—including Barack Obama—be surprised that Ms. Power simply told the truth to the BBC news that the candidate never intended to follow his promised 16-month plan to withdraw troops from Iraq—which Powers described as a "best case scenario"?