President Obama’s pick to be the new US Ambassador to the United Nations is an interesting one, for Irish-born Samantha Power’s choice of words has not always been the most diplomatic. In 2008 she got in trouble for calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” in an interview with The Scotsman. At around the same time she was also deeply dismissive of the man she will now have to work closely with, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
“At one point, discussing the UN,” recorded her interviewer in the New Statesman, “I say, ‘not to criticise Ban Ki-Moon’, and Power butts in, ‘Oh go ahead, please do.’ She opens her hands wide at the UN Secretary General’s name. ‘Is that all there is?’ she asks. ‘Can we afford to do without a global figure, a global leader?’” What a lady.
