The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Monster-in-Law
Forget Gaza, Afghanistan and Iraq. President Obama has launched a peace initiative right here at home, the Associated Press reports:
Samantha Power, the Harvard University professor who earned notoriety for calling Hillary Rodham Clinton a “monster” while working to elect Barack Obama president, will take a senior foreign policy job at the White House, The Associated Press has learned.
Officials familiar with the decision say Obama has tapped Power to be senior director for multilateral affairs at the National Security Council, a job that will require close contact and potential travel with Clinton, who is now secretary of state. NSC staffers often accompany the secretary of state on foreign trips. . . .
Power was an early and ardent Obama supporter until the “monster” comment forced her off his campaign, but she was rehabilitated after the election when she made a gesture to apologize to Clinton and was included in the transition teams for both the State Department and the U.S. mission to the United Nations.
“Rehabilitated”? What is this, the Soviet Union? Maybe Power can claim she meant “monster” in a good way–like “monster truck” or “Monster Cable,” not in a bad way, like “That Slobodan Milosevic was a real monster.”
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