Welcome back, Samantha Power!

Absolutely unsurprising. Samantha Power has a new job in the Obama administration, as director of multilateral relations or affairs or something at the National Security Council. She will have to be working with Hillary Clinton, who she once called a "monster." Of course, Hillary has been called many things, and she has managed to survive. I always that this was seriously overblown. Now it's over, and life for the brilliant Harvard professor is back to normal. Or as normal as life can be on the NSC these days.

Welcome back to Samantha Power

Samantha Power, Obama's foreign policy adviser who was exiled for calling Hillary Clinton a "monster," is back on the Obama team. She's part of the transition team for the State Department. Whose predicted nominated Secretary is, of course, Hillary Clinton. I'm not surprised that Power is back, and in fact am very glad that she is. I had an opportunity to hear her speak about a year ago, when I was canvassing for Obama in Nevada, and was very impressed. I also saw her on the Colbert Report.

I expect no fireworks or problems between her and Hillary, because they're both pros. And goodness knows Hillary has been called worse.

Come back, Sam come back!

Sam Stein in HuffPost suggests that Samantha Power might come back to the Obama camp at some point. Good rumor! I saw her when I was campaigning for Obama in Las Vegas. Brilliant woman, very inspiring to hear her talk and realize that she is part of Obama's brain trust. I think it was totally ridiculous that she had to resign from the Obama campaign. I think she should have apologized, taken a vacation for a couple of weeks, and then come right back. But at least she got a smidgen of publicity for herself out of it.