Today when President Barack Obama announced that Susan Rice would take the place of Tom Donilon as national security advisor, he pissed a lot of people off.
First, he was criticized by Republicans for redeeming Rice after her Benghazi scandal as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and secondly, because he chose an anti-war nominee as Rice’s replacement.
Doesn’t seem like big of a deal, but for many it is. In fact, conservatives call her “problematic,” because she’s the woman who says how she feels, to a fault.
She once criticized Hillary Clinton and called her a “monster” who was “stooping to anything” to win the presidential nomination.
And Samantha Powers, who has been lauded as an unrelenting force in human rights, doesn’t have an extensive background in politics. And those on the right aren’t too happy about any of this.
But we’re excited to see what she will do. She’s an interesting, unconventional choice and she has the power to turn this whole shit on it’s head.
Check out these interesting facts about Powers.
– The self proclaimed “Genocide Chick” wrote a book on genocide after witnessing the horrors as a Balkan war correspondent. The book, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” explored how U.S. policies have repeatedly failed to stop genocide from re-occuring. It won Power a Pulitzer Prize.
– This will be Power’s first diplomatic post. She graduated from Yale and Harvard Law School and spent her earlier years as a correspondent for Time Magazine and The New Yorker.
– She’s an Irish girl who moved to the steel city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later to Atlanta, Georgia…which means she’s no nonsense.
– In 2004, she was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, due to her work in human rights.
– Power was one of the leading voices bringing light to the conflict in Darfur and other major genocides of the 20th and 21st century.
Basically, she’s somebody to know, and to watch out for. It’ll be interesting to see how her personal views will influence her new post.
Watch her work…
