Bitter State Department Irony

Samantha Powers, the Obama campaign advisor who called Hillary Clinton "a monster" in March (and resigned from the campaign team a few hours after her comment was published), is helping the incoming administration prepare for Clinton's role as secretary of state. Powers, author of A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, is a member of the "Agency Review Team" for the State Department, according to this AP story. Power told the Scotsman newspaper that Clinton would stop at nothing to defeat Obama. "She is a monster, too," Power said in the interview. "She is stooping to anything." Power added that "the amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive." I'm sure she and Clinton are looking forward to a collegial relationship. Maybe it's all blood under the bridge, as Obama suggested during this morning's press conference while responding to a question about his campaign-season comments about Clinton's lack of foreign policy expertise: This is fun for the press to try to stir up whatever quotes were formed over the course of the campaign.