'Monster' Hillary Now Getting Advice From Former Foe

These two have come a long way since those nasty primary days.

In March 2008, as Hillary and Barack battled it out in the presidential primaries, Samantha Power, a top foreign-policy adviser to then-Sen. Obama (D-Ill.), gave an interview to The Scotsman in which she called then-Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) “a monster” who “is stooping to anything” to beat Obama and capture the Democratic nomination.

The knives were out, and Power, a Harvard professor and author of the book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002), resigned the same day. Once elected, President Obama quickly hired her back and she is now a senior aide at the National Security Council.

Over the last few days, as Hillary Clinton rejected the warnings of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon that the U.S. should stay out of the mess in Libya, and pushed for the U.S. to participate in the French, British and Arab-led no-fly zone/military strikes to stop Moammar Gadhafi, one of the voices influencing Clinton was that of Samantha Power.

Interestingly, Frank Gaffney has a look at how the Clinton-Power-Rice troika could spell trouble for Israel.