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Former UN ambassador Samantha Power on why she has 'nothing but respect' for Joe Biden
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/samantha-power-joe-biden-respect-115452034.htmlIn her new memoir, Education of an Idealist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning academic and diplomat Samantha Power describes the immense warmth of Joe Biden, whom she worked with during the Obama administration.
Power, who served as Obamas ambassador to the United Nations, didnt agree with Biden on every issue but had a good relationship with the then-vice president.
He was blunt and demonstrative. He could go on too long. But he seemed to see the value of each person he met, irrespective of their status, she wrote.
In a new interview, Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer asked Power whether shes supporting Bidens presidential bid. Widely considered the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination, Biden had the highest favorability rating among Democrats, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
I'm not in the endorsement business. But I have great affection for Vice President Biden, said Power, whos currently a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.
In her interview with Serwer, the former ambassador commented on Bidens sympathy for constituents who suffered a loss. Biden faced tragedy early in life. In 1972, shortly after he was elected to the U.S. Senate, his wife and infant daughter were killed in a car accident. Biden was just 30 years old at the time. In 2016, one of the sons who survived that car accident, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer at 46.
When he meets somebody who has suffered a loss of a loved one, and you know, he does his Biden thing, tactile, and warm, and deeply empathetic ... He, more often than not, will give the person his cell phone number, Power said. And he'll say, Look, I've been there. If you have no place else to turn, here's my number. You can call me.
Power, who grew up in Dublin, added, He's a big-hearted Irishman and I have nothing but respect for him.
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Power, who served as Obamas ambassador to the United Nations, didnt agree with Biden on every issue but had a good relationship with the then-vice president.
He was blunt and demonstrative. He could go on too long. But he seemed to see the value of each person he met, irrespective of their status, she wrote.
In a new interview, Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer asked Power whether shes supporting Bidens presidential bid. Widely considered the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination, Biden had the highest favorability rating among Democrats, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
I'm not in the endorsement business. But I have great affection for Vice President Biden, said Power, whos currently a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.
In her interview with Serwer, the former ambassador commented on Bidens sympathy for constituents who suffered a loss. Biden faced tragedy early in life. In 1972, shortly after he was elected to the U.S. Senate, his wife and infant daughter were killed in a car accident. Biden was just 30 years old at the time. In 2016, one of the sons who survived that car accident, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer at 46.
When he meets somebody who has suffered a loss of a loved one, and you know, he does his Biden thing, tactile, and warm, and deeply empathetic ... He, more often than not, will give the person his cell phone number, Power said. And he'll say, Look, I've been there. If you have no place else to turn, here's my number. You can call me.
Power, who grew up in Dublin, added, He's a big-hearted Irishman and I have nothing but respect for him.
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Video of the interview at the link.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Former UN ambassador Samantha Power on why she has 'nothing but respect' for Joe Biden (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Sep 2019
OP
I supposed everyone's noticed Power has been all over the place recently...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2019
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Skya Rhen
(2,701 posts)1. Very interesting piece!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)2. I supposed everyone's noticed Power has been all over the place recently...
And that's a good thing.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)3. Obama's Susan Sarandon? LOL! Always a good idea to read the links.
from the link above: (btw - if you take out the blah blah btwn. the quotes, there's not much rah rah biden - just more like he's a nice guy)
Power worked as an adviser on the Obama presidential campaign years later but resigned in March 2008 after calling Hillary Clinton a monster.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided