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| Samantha Power Still Crying Over Election Night Loss To Trump |
| 2018-01-16 |
| This is simply astounding - a high level Obama political appointee is still whining about the 2016 presidential election, fourteen fucking months later. Even worse than that? All of the [WashingtonExaminer] Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power hosted all of her fellow female ambassador to the U.N. at her apartment on election night in 2016 for what she anticipated would be a celebratory evening watching Hillary Clinton win the presidency, Power revealed in a new interview. "Well, I’ve had a lot of bad ideas in my life, but none as immortalized as this one," Power, who served as the ambassador to the U.N. during the Obama administration, told Politico in an interview published Monday. On the night of Nov. 8, 2016, Power threw a party for the 37 female diplomats at her apartment in New York City, a scene that is captured in the new HBO documentary, "The Final Year." |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #8 The 2016 election was the first election where a large number of women showed they were tribal and would vote for their tribe no matter what. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-01-16 11:46 |
| #7 Happy endings never are. |
| Posted by: Roth LaDoad 2018-01-16 11:43 |
| #6 Ahh, what is best in life? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2018-01-16 11:40 |
| #5 Reporters mock Samantha Power for wanting to 'milk the soft power dividend' Reporters put former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power through the wringer Monday for using the phrase "milk the soft power dividend" in a recent interview. Power told Politico in a new interview that she had hosted 37 women ambassadors for an election night party in 2016. She said she had hoped it would be a fairly close race between then-candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton because she wanted all of her guests to have enough time to mingle with one of her guests, Gloria Steinem. "So, your concern was that actually that the evening was going to be over early," reporter Susan Glasser asked in the interview. "Too soon. I wanted to milk the soft power dividend of this moment, and instead, and HBO was there, I guess unfortunately or fortunately, to capture it all, but instead, you really see what so many people went through, which was all of that sense of promise and excitement, and frankly, a dose of complacency," Power recalled. "And then, it slowly dawning on us that not only was this going to be much closer than anybody anticipated, but that it was not going to end well." The press, including those from mainstream and conservative-leaning outlets, mocked Power for creating a new phrase |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-16 10:48 |
| #4 as Conan said the the question, "What is best in life?" To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women! |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-01-16 10:33 |
| #3 I can smell the empowerment from here |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2018-01-16 09:30 |
| #2 I hope they had lots of tissues on hand. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-16 02:01 |
| #1 A hen party. Wonder if they had strippers? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-01-16 01:38 |