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...but instead of being a scary-smart adviser with forthright Conservative principles who helped us bring down Saddam Hussein, Samantha is a hateful sprite who is now playing nuanced games with our troops in order to advance her radical 'transnational progressive' agenda. But, the U.N. loves her!

Read this excellent essay written by Stanley Kurtz; it deserves your undivided attention. Kurtz follows Samantha from her radical roots forward to becoming a top foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama, up to March 2008 (before she was one of the many thrown under BHO's bus; as you might recall, this Harvard professor called Hillary Clinton a 'monster'. Hillary responded with 'where's his BIRTH CERTIFICATE~!? and a long-lasting wheres-the-popcorn-moment was born).

Samantha Power is now part of BHO's National Security team, and remains one of the most eloquent wormtounges he has on his staff, with near-limitless access to his ear and to his teleprompter. Power is said to be the principle architect of BHO's curious Libyan policy. Her advice to Obama is based on what she learned in her leftist, radical past; she's never denied or tried to hide her leanings, and is now focused on advancing 'pragmatic radicalism': a stealth form of foreign policy in control of America's  military, for purposes that bring glee to United Nations officials. but leave some Americans wondering 'why are we really in Libya?'. You've got to read the entire essay. A brief snippet...

Power might best be characterized as a pragmatic radical. Her outlook is “post-American,” an excellent example of what John Fonte has called “transnational progressivism.” Power means to slowly dismantle American sovereignty in favor of a constraining and ultimately redistributive regime of international law. It’s an odd position for a member of the president’s National Security Council, but then Power is no ordinary NSC staffer.

'Post-American' in the sense that we will no longer have our Constitution, once considered the supreme law of our land; instead, we must incrementally adjust to International Law, and to the benevolent guidance of the United Nations. Samantha Power is a student and strident supporter of the late Sergio Vieira de Mello, a United Nations jawsmith, as Kurtz points out...

Power’s aforementioned second book, Chasing the Flame, celebrates the life of a United Nations diplomat, Sergio Vieira de Mello, who died in a terrorist attack in Iraq in 2003. Vieira de Mello was a Sixties radical of international scope. Hailing from Brazil, he became a committed Marxist while studying at the Sorbonne. He was among the violent protesters arrested during the student uprising in Paris in 1968. His first published work was a defense of his actions.

Vieira de Mello went from student radicalism straight to a job with the U.N. in 1969, and brought his intense anti-Americanism and anti-capitalism with him. Later he became a bitter critic of Israel. A United Nations “patriot,” he carried around a well-worn copy of the U.N. Charter the way an American senator or Supreme Court justice might take a copy of the U.S. Constitution wherever he went. Vieira de Mello’s colleagues used to say that his blood ran U.N. blue. As the U.N.’s most charismatic and effective diplomat (said to be “a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy”), Vieira de Mello is the hero around whom Power attempts to build a following for her ideals of global governance.

Power explains that Vieira de Mello never really surrendered his Sixties ideals, even as he transformed himself from a passionate ideologue into a “ruthless pragmatist.” The young America-hating Vieira de Mello grew into a mature diplomat who could charm Pres. George W. Bush, even while lecturing the commander-in-chief on the follies of Guantanamo Bay. In other words, Vieira de Mello learned to manage his public persona, appealing to American leaders with arguments (allegedly) based on American national interest.

This is clearly Power’s ideal for herself.

Vieira de Mello is mellowed out in a grave; killed in 2003 in a terrorist attack in Iraq. A shame, really. But his United Nations FIRST! ideals live on in the person of Samantha Power, one of Barack Obama's closest advisers.

We just can't win with this Radical in Chief in charge, can we?

Samantha Power (center); Barack Obama's favorite wormtongue

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h/t JeffG