Glamour Magazine’s “Woman of the Year” awards had the usual liberal tilt, including Obama’s U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power. The article on it begins with a goo-goo quote from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: “She is truly a woman of power for peace. She is a champion of global action through the United Nations.”
Washington Post reporter Tara Bahrampour loaded up her Power puff piece (titled "The Ambassador") with praise from other liberal journalists:
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says Power's impact at the U.N. is unique: "She is passionate in a chamber that frankly doesn't have a lot of passion.... One can get the impression that diplomacy is about resolutions, about paper, about cocktail parties. Samantha knows that what's at stake is the lives of people in very remote parts of the world who don't have a voice."
....Thought leaders like CNN's Christiane Amanpour, a 2005 Glamour Woman of the Year, say that Power's "muscular approach to standing up for human rights" is a tactic whose time is now. She "is in a position of influence," Amanpour says, "at a time when that influence is needed most."
Bahrampour presented Power as a journalist-turned-idealist, albeit with a pragmatic streak (polish, polish, polish):
In her twenties, when Samantha Power was a journalist reporting on the war in Bosnia, she saw a woman dash out of a bombed building into the arms of a news photographer, who responded not by helping the woman, but by adjusting his camera instead. In that moment Power knew: Documenting the world's troubles wasn't enough; she wanted to try to solve them.
Now 44, Power has gotten what she wished for. Confirmed last year as the United States' youngest-ever permanent representative to the United Nations, she holds the ambassador job at a moment in history when the world is exploding with crises: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Syria's civil war, the proliferation of the extremist group ISIS, the Ebola outbreak, and on and on. During her first year, the U.N.'s Security Council, which works to resolve threats to world peace, held more emergency sessions than it had in the entire 10 years prior. "I saw Elie Wiesel, the great writer and Holocaust survivor, not long ago, and he said, 'Samantha, the winds of madness are blowing,' and I thought that was a very good way to describe what it feels like right now," Power says. "What people read in the newspaper, I read in the newspaper and then have to try to figure out, What do we do about it?"
As ambassador, Power takes a direct, practical approach to unraveling this complicated question. In a turning-point August session on the Ukraine conflict, she spoke out against Russian president Vladimir Putin: "[Russia] has manipulated. It has obfuscated. It has outright lied," she told her colleagues (and the world).
Like "If you like your health plan, you can keep it."
These liberals cannot allow the thought that Power is merely speaking out while ISIS and Putin and other anti-American forces flout American weakness, that all these “winds of madness” have little resistance from Team Obama. Glamour (and the Post reporter) are merely manufacturing cotton-candy publicity for the next Democratic cabinet. Although President Hillary won’t be receptive. This article easily skipped Power calling Hillary a “monster” during the 2008 campaign.
