Obama's "Foreign Policy" Advisers

(UPDATE: Hillary mocks Obama. See below.) Gushy stuff. Obama's senior foreign policy adviser, Samantha Powers in an interview with The Times of London. (I guess their own royals aren't riveting enough.) You'd think they were breathlessly discussing Hollywood stars. Oh, that too. And they have the obligatory Kennedy reference. Then there's this:

Hitherto, the principal conduit between Britain and the candidate has been Lord Malloch-Brown, the junior foreign minister, whom Obama came to admire when he was deputy secretary-general of the United Nations.

“He was really taken with him,” says Power, in what will undoubtedly be viewed by American conservatives as a desperately bad sign. “It’s a relationship that has persisted and they have talked a number of times since.”

No kidding. It's a bad sign.

Remember this guy? Arrogant and clueless. Right up Barack's alley. And anti-American as well. More on Lord Brown from a British observer a few months ago:

Lord Malloch-Brown was given Africa, Asia and the UN as a portfolio with Gordon Brown who appears to be regretting the appointment already, trying to proclaim his tranzi credentials. For some reason, this has now been assumed to include UN reform, something that Lord Malloch-Brown would not be able to influence in any case.

Asking the man who ignored all warning about the UNDP in North Korea and ran interference for Kofi Annan (among other things) to deal with UN reform, even if he were in position to do so, is akin to handing a hen-house over to a particularly smarmy fox.

That won't go over big in the red states, Barack. Seeing red in a blue state too.

P.S. British historian and Harvard professor Niall Ferguson's previous pithy comments on Ms. Powers.

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Hillary mocks Obama--you go girrrrl...!!! Via HotAir, video.

UPDATE: AP:

CHICAGO - In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better.

Last Savior's Day speech Farrakhan beat up on the Jews. According to his spokesman, Obama has not sought Louis' endorsement.