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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So, in a Scottish newspaper, Barack Obama’s Harvard-educated foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power, calls Hillary Clinton a “monster.” And she has just resigned.
What, you ask, is the Atlanta angle?
The Irish-born Power spent the summer of ’89 in Atlanta as an over-qualified sports intern for WAGA-TV. Former state senator Bill Stephens, who was press secretary to Gov. Zell Miller during that period, recognized the name and face.
Jeff Hullinger, who watched over Power, confirmed the fact. “She seemed to be a fish out of water. Oh, my God, was she bright,” remembered Hullinger, who now works at WSB radio. “Acerbic, lightning-witted, and the depth of the Mariana Trench.”
And to think, Hullinger said, that if she’d just learned to settle for a little less, she could be reading hockey scores in Tampa. This afternoon, that probably looks inviting.
Read Power’s bio here. Logging Pete Rose video and fetching coffee in Atlanta apparently didn’t rate a mention on her resume.
Comments
By OY
March 7, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this
Who cares? Why must there always be an “Atlanta angle” to every story? This is a very provincial approach to the news.
By PulSamsara
March 7, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
Does ‘SEA HAG’ count as a monster? Because I see her as sort of a ‘SEA HAG’ but I really don’t put that into the ‘Monster’ category. Hmmm… I could be wrong.
By Mustaffa Mondale
March 7, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
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Ms Power shouldn’t have to resign! What kind of politically correct crybabies are we dealing with here? Hildebeest for President!
“Let’s do the Mash! Let’s do the Monster Mash! Its a graveyard smash! Start’s up in a Flash! Let’s do the Monster Mash!”
By CC
March 7, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
Why did nobody call for Wolfsen to resign after his name calling?
By JWill
March 7, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
Is telling the truth cause for resignation?
By golden
March 7, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
I miss Hullinger on Television. Come back Jeff !
By Churchill
March 7, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
No one is allowed to comment on Hitlery. She and her hangers-on can say whatever they want to about Barry Obama, but no one is allowed to critize her. Barry needs to learn that it is her turn. She has put up will Bill and his serial adultery, moved to the sticks, and given birth to Bill’s child. It is her turn. Don’t even think of asking her for her records. She said she has experience, and that should be good enough.
Anybody But Hillary!!
By GaConservative007
March 7, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
I am just waiting for McCain to fire a staffer in “solidarity” with Hillary. I think it was Rush that said that he though McCain would offer to pay for the FL/MI redos, in order to show that he is willing to reach across the aisle.
By oldspice
March 7, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
You kool-aid drinkers amaze me…A campaign supposedly based on optimism and a rejection of the politics of personal destruction… A monster!? You people are pathetic…I’m sick of hearing all of you blubber on about how Clinton is going to destroy the Democratic party - BO is an unvetted novice. The Republican party will slaughter him in the general if he’s our nominee - please educate yourselves about his “friendly” relationship (Obama’s words) with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn - vocal and unrepentant domestic terrorists in the Weather Underground, or his membership in a racist church led by Jeremiah Wright Jr - If you thought Willie Horton was bad for us - or thought John Kerry was “Swiftboated” you ain’t seen nothing yet. NObama! and remember - Actions speak louder than words.
By Yokels
March 7, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
You people need to relax. Some of you are so worked up by your dislike of Hillary Clinton that it must be causing health issues. The funny thing is, despite all of your ignorant criticisms and name calling, she’s filthy rich, one of the most powerful people in the world, and stands a good shot at becoming president. Meanwhile, you guys are sitting at home in your underwear pontificating on things you know nothing about. Now, get back to stroking your puds losers! I think there are some nudie pics of Anne Coulter on the Drudge Report.
By dj
March 7, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
A little research would have told you that she also went to Lakeside High School. (And, like many of us, she got the hell out of Atlanta as soon as the envelope from New Haven arrived.)
By Copyleft
March 7, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
Agreed, Churchill: Anybody but Hillary!
Specifically, OBAMA. Glad to have you on board.
By CW
March 7, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this
I believe she wrote the very well received book, The Problem From Hell about the history of genocide and the U.S. response to it.
By Churchill
March 7, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
Anybody But Hillary…or any other socialist.
Copy that? Copyleft?
By Martin Edwin Andersen
March 7, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this
DISPATCHES FROM THE GROUND WAR …
HILLARY TELLS A MONSTER OF A MISREPRESENTATION ….
Clinton Revises Remark on Women in Miss.
Mar 7 04:07 PM US/Eastern By SARA KUGLER Associated Press Writer
‘What I said is what I learned is that neither Iowa or Mississippi had ever elected a woman statewide and I REFERENCED THE FACT THAT I WAS THE FIRST WOMAN ELECTED STATEWIDE IN NEW YORK and I told the Iowans that they had a chance to try to change that and now in Mississippi giving Mississippi voters a chance to change that,’ Clinton said in the radio interview.”
COMMENT: Mrs. Clinton’s claim to be the first woman elected statewide in New York shows either the ignorance of a carpetbagger or a willingness to lie about virtually anything in order to get elected.
New York’s former Lt. Governors (all elected statewide) are:
Mary O. Donohue (R) Lt. Governor 1999-2007 Elizabeth McCaughey Ross (D) Lt. Governor 1995-1999 Mary Anne Krupsak (D) Lt. Governor 1975-1978
By Martin Edwin Andersen
March 7, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this
DISPATCHES FROM THE GROUND WAR …
HILLARY TELLS A MONSTER OF A MISREPRESENTATION ….
Clinton Revises Remark on Women in Miss.
Mar 7 04:07 PM US/Eastern By SARA KUGLER Associated Press Writer
‘What I said is what I learned is that neither Iowa or Mississippi had ever elected a woman statewide and I REFERENCED THE FACT THAT I WAS THE FIRST WOMAN ELECTED STATEWIDE IN NEW YORK and I told the Iowans that they had a chance to try to change that and now in Mississippi giving Mississippi voters a chance to change that,’ Clinton said in the radio interview.”
COMMENT: Mrs. Clinton’s claim to be the first woman elected statewide in New York shows either the ignorance of a carpetbagger or a willingness to lie about virtually anything in order to get elected.
New York’s former Lt. Governors (all elected statewide) are:
Mary O. Donohue (R) Lt. Governor 1999-2007 Elizabeth McCaughey Ross (D) Lt. Governor 1995-1999 Mary Anne Krupsak (D) Lt. Governor 1975-1978
By Churchswill
March 7, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this
My preacher told me to hate and I do the best I can go Repubs do’nt vote for hiilfag oh so funny Im a talking oints repub terd
By Lucien BONNET
March 8, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this
RE: Monsters, Hillary Clinton and the (gasp!) Atlanta connection Friday, March 7, 2008, 12:38 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So, in a Scottish newspaper, Barack Obama’s Harvard-educated foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power, calls Hillary Clinton a “monster.” And she has just resigned.
What, you ask, is the Atlanta angle?LETTER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA Montreal, February 20, 2008
SENATOR OBAMA ,
The whole world has its eyes on you, on The United States Of America and its people.
Everyone expects you to be democratically elected and see that something happen in America.
In March 1983, one of humanity’s most famous spokesmen, Pope John Paul II, came to our
country - ‘Haîti’ - and loudly proclaimed what each and every one of us had been whispering:
‘Something must change here.’
Today, more than ever, a lot of people of The United States of America stand up, longing for something and working to make something happen.
And, like in March 9, 1983, beloved Haiti, History - (which from then and now on rests in thy hands) - tells thee: ‘It is now time to let people speak to thee of love!’, let’s say today’: ‘Go thou America ahead and show us thy true countenance in a positive light.’ It is up to everyone to play his or her part in order to let thee regain thy mark of excellence !’
With this letter, I am communicating with You, Senator Obama, and with the whole people of The United States of America.
You offer this country what it takes to be a ‘Wonderfull Land.’ Yes, let us say ‘with a great people living together.’
Go thou, America, go ahead, following in the footsteps of one of thy sons who is now becoming one of thy statesmen.
With this in mind, Mr.Obama, to whom else could I entrust this letter sent to his Holiness Pope John Paul II when he set foot on Haitian soil for the first time, as well as its acknowledgment by the Vatican?
That letter to Pope John Paul II is intended to draw attention to the problem posed by anti-Black discrimination and its negative repercussions on the advancement of scientific progress in the West, and more precisely in the realm of Optics.
In the Western world, according to Newton’s widely accepted theory, white is considered to be the synthesis of all colors. Actually, the opposite is true. White constitutes the analysis or ‘visible’ decoding of light or color, whereas black is its synthesis or ‘invisible’ composition.
In other words, darkness or blackness and, we might add, ‘Black Holes’ - a scientific misnomer designating invisible stars or ‘Black Suns’ - are a source of energy and light.
That basic raw material of light energy culminates, in its most radiant form, in the neutralization of all the colors of the spectrum in the form of so-called “white light.”
Therefore “absolute blackness”, the absorption of all the colors, is a divisible component of light. Needless to say, Newton’s theory gives only a partial interpretation of the notion of light, by excluding black. Our contribution aims at demonstrating that the black color is not only an integral part of the color process, but its true synthesis. Light is therefore shown to be a divisible whole comprising an intensity or color scale in which black is the invisible or ‘absorbed’ form of the energy in question.
Allow me, Senator Obama, in order to support my statement concerning Black Holes and radiation, to pose a question asked by Hubert Reeves, Doctor of nuclear astrophysics and Scientific Consultant to NASA:
What would have become of the Sun, if it were plunged into a high temperature radiance like the one that existed at the beginning of the Universe? [our translation]
Instead of emitting light, it would absorb it and, in the end, it would be completely reabsorbed into the cosmic fluid.
The cosmic fluid is what, due to an “optical mistake”, is called “darkness” or the “blackness of space”. We are talking about the electromagnetic flux, that immeasurable ocean in which the planets and stars are bathed, like the sea which links all the continents together. Darkness is thus “The Sea of Space.”
“What would have happened if, instead of an ordinary star like the “White Sun”, a Black Hole or “Black Sun” were injected into that primordial radiation?”
“According to Einsteinian Physics, a Black Hole is a place where gravity is so formidably intense that nothing can escape it, not even visible light. Such a hole should suck in and absorb radiation and increase its own mass: E=MC2, always.”
But after Einstein came Bohr, Heisenberg, and Quantum Physic. From then on, nothing was the same as before.
“The Einsteinian version of the Black Hole is equivalent to a statement that the matter inside the Black Hole is definitely there to stay, in that volume of space. Let us quote Hubert Reeves: “Such an absolute statement is thus contrary to the “Quantum spirit”, affirming that nothing is definitely localized in one place. There is always a probability of escape. If the enclosing wall is too high, a tunnel will be dug; if the prisoners are patient, they will escape. One has only to wait. [our translation].”
“According to that principle, Black Holes “evaporate.” Matter constantly escapes as radiation. Black Holes “shine!” Their surfaces behave like those of any body heated to a certain temperature and that radiation endlessly feeds that marvelous “Cosmic Fluid” which, wrongly and in bad faith, people keep calling “Darkness.”
Nigra sum “sed” formosa. Yes, but should we not say instead, I am black “and” comely? Darkness, which is both source and vehicle of light, does not have to defend itself for being the beautiful and infinitely discreet raw material of the Universe. Darkness is the “Mother of the Universe.”
Also, beautiful and discreet art thou, Haiti. Discreet, yes, but never outshone! Just like the Black Virgin who inspires and sheds her love on thee from the hilltop and even beyond Cité Soleil (Sun City).
Our purpose was to offer a more constructive approach aiming at correcting the abusive traditional, so-called scientific, theories of Optics. That is why, we wrote to that authentic witness to the signs of this age, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the prophet of the new era.
Congratulations to You, Sir, and congratulations to the people of The United States Of America, for having made it possible for this day to mark the beginning of a “New Era of Hope !”
Lucien Bonnet
PLease, SEE : LETTER TO POPE JOHN-PAUL II in “BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !” http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
-------------------------LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON
Montreal, March 22, 1995
President William Jefferson Clinton President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington, DC 20500 U.S.A.
Mister President:
Please allow me to take the opportunity of your visit to Haiti, as President of the United States of America, on March 31, 1995, to pay due tribute in all sincerity to you and your distinguished wife, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
You honor Haiti and the Haitian people with your presence and support.
Thanks to you and your allies in the United Nations and the Organization of American States, the return-to-democracy process has been successfully carried out. Now that the legitimate President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has been reinstated in his official status, it is with legitimate pride, I am sure that he welcomes you to his country. For you, as well as for us, the “Uphold Democracy” operation is truly a beautiful historical moment.
Mr. President, I come from Haiti, that underdeveloped country.
With underdeveloped tools — a camera and a few films — I have tried, in order to serve my country’s cause, to demystify the word “light” and denounce Newton’s Theory of Colors.
With that same desire to serve constitutional legitimacy in my country, I have written the enclosed book entitled Haiti, Let There Be Light! I hope that you and Mrs. Clinton will accept this privately produced copy, especially intended for you, while you are getting ready for your trip to Haiti.
May I make a confession to you, Mr. President? I followed, closely and with intense interest, your electoral campaign, election, and swearing-in ceremony as 42nd President of the United States. What a great nation you represent! Please believe me: your courageous commitment to facilitate the restoration of democracy in my country has escaped no one. On the very day of your swearing-in ceremony, I wished to send you my book, Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit!, which questions Newton’s Theory of Colors. I did not do so, because I felt an English-language version would be more appropriate.
Since I could not send you a copy of the yet-to-be-published English version of my book, I contented myself with dreaming — dreaming that on one of your first evenings in the White House, you were seated in the Oval Room with Mrs. Clinton and your daughter Chelsea. You were reading Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit! I imagined you carefully examining certain passages of that work in its English version, which is now in preparation — typed by a sightless, multilingual Haitian. Those paragraphs deal with the so-called missing matter, darkness in space, “black holes” — in a word: the invisible mass of the Cosmos. You notice Dr. Carl Sagan’s research on Exobiology and the DNA found in the dark matter in the universe, and you suddenly remember a Time article from April 10, 1978 entitled “Black Holes and Martian Valleys”, which contained the following passage:
“A while later, astronomer Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) found himself lugging his slide box into the Vice President’s big new house and, after coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the heavens.
Jimmy Carter is the closest thing to a scientist we have had in the White House since Thomas Jefferson.
Nixon could not run a tape recorder.
Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wrist watch.
Not Jimmy. He was fascinated by the discussion of “Black Holes” and the speculation that they might provide answers to what holds the Universe together.”
“Well,” you exclaimed, “O.K. for former President Carter. It is normal for the President of a star-spangled republic to choose between “Star Peace” and “Star War”. As to the former President’s inclination toward Einstein’s physics and/or Planck’s Quantum Theory, there is a great temptation to apply certain laws of the Cosmos to politics and diplomacy. Consider the “Tunnel Effect”, the way that energy escapes from black holes.
“Carter goes back to the sources and draws inspiration from them. That makes me think about Aristide — both of them are well at ease in both the Western world and the Black world: the visible and the invisible. However, there is one difference: the Haitians follow Aristide everywhere, like a comet’s tail. If Aristide is considered as a “Black Sun”, then the Haitians are “space refugees”.
“Yes, Haiti! We are pulled down to earth. Democracy… the exodus of the Boat People… with the Law of Probabilities, whether we think about Planck or Carter, it doesn’t seem that a solution will be found tomorrow…
“What business did the Haitians have in that “boat”?”
“Say, there above, the Black Twin! Is it still broad daylight in the shadow of the “Black Sun”?”
“Oh God,” you say aloud to Mrs. Clinton: “Eureka! I have found it! Fiat lux! Let there be light! Que la lumière soit! Black holes, black sun, tunnel effect, Aristide effect, boat people, space refugees, Carl Sagan, Jimmy Carter… six of one and half a dozen of the other.”
There is loud laughter in the Oval Room.
Bill a ri Bill laughed
Hillary a ri Hillary laughed
Chelsea a ri aussi Chelsea laughed too
Humor is American, Mr. President, and so are dreams. Let my book Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit! be the “dark matter”, arguing in favor of the development of the Black world — visible and invisible!
In the area of science, high technology, creative innovation, and space exploration, I think there is nothing that America cannot deal with. That is why, in that spaceship of universal energy, I dare sail with a dream.
In my dream, it is your first trip inside your SPACE AIR FORCE ONE, propelled by the energy of invisible and concentrated dark matter, like black holes. A ” mini black hole ” of an avant-garde design whose motor sequence develops inertia, spectral speed, speed equal to or higher than that of light, and scientifically controlled reversibility of the phenomenon.
What a new synthesis, but also what a liberation!
Synthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird — contracted and unfolded at the same time, following the heartbeat of the Universe tamed inside the infinitely small: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!”
This would be the natural and constructive counterpart of Newton’s Theory of Light and Colors, which slows down that impulse. This is a necessary change in the name of development and progress humbly submitted on behalf of Haiti: a testimony of gratitude toward mankind. Let us go further, to the other side of the Universe, as suggested by an eyewitness: the Hubble telescope, with its camera.
“… Hubble focused on the centre of the galaxy [M87], an area 500 light-years across. The pictures revealed a spiral structure formed by fast-moving gas clouds being drawn toward the centre, rather like water going down a drain.”
Dr. Harms said the Hubble spectrographic camera was then focused on points 60 light-years across on opposite sides of the spinning disc. This camera breaks down light into its wavelength parts, rather like a prism separates colours in sunlight.” (The Globe and Mail, Thursday, May 26, 1994)
Let us in the long run, replace the camera by a motor run by the ENERGY OF THE YEAR 2000, transforming the DARK MATTER from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. We would there by take advantage of the sequence of colored and colorless light speeds, so as to better visit the Universe, where law and order are transcendent, just as in democracy.
I have decided to write this letter because your leadership, Mr. President, like an inevitable and immeasurable energy, has practically absorbed me, allowing me to express myself.
On October 4, 1994, in the General Assembly of the United Nations, a voice echoed the power of your leadership. In new words, on March 31, 1995, that same voice will repeat:
“Even now, with the peaceful launching of the operation “UPHOLD DEMOCRACY” on 19 September last year, a tropical smile has shed light upon the faces of those who espouse and love peace — Peacemakers, Peacekeepers, and Peacelovers. Together, President Clinton and we have managed to open up a “tunnel” of hope after so much suffering.”
That testimony by President Aristide at the U.N. emphasizes the magnitude of the efforts needed to bring about such a happy conclusion.
Your present trip to Haiti is the strongest confirmation of that sequence of events, and illustrates an unprecedented chapter in the annals of Haiti, as well as in the life of the Haitian people.
Thank you, Mr. President, for associating Haiti with your Strategic Development Initiative (S.D.I.) at the dawn of the “Star Peace”.
Lucien Bonnet http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca PLEASE SEE “BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !”