Monster

The elephant in the living room! No one wants to talk about the elephant in the living room. Those of us who are friends of Bill’s (not that Bill) learned first hand the power of the elephant in the living room.

Typically, the first person to call out the elephant, in other than a private setting, is attacked and ostracized. Denial is so strong, all the elephant co-dependents rally to the cause. There will be private, off-line, encouragement, but public opprobrium. As we say, “Denial is not a river in Egypt.”

Over time, if lucky, there gathers a storm and the elephant can longer hide in plain sight, in the middle of the living room. Unfortunately, however, the first to point out the elephant is often permanently sacrificed in Denial River.

Samantha Power, whose declaration, however unwitting, that Hillary Clinton was a monster, pointed out the elephant in the living room. She is now the victim of the co-dependent hyenas whose very existence requires ignoring the elephant.

Power said, “She is a monster, too -- that is off the record -- she is stooping to anything," Power told political correspondent Gerri Peev. She added of Clinton: "The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."

Samantha Power, originally from Ireland, is undeniably erudite. Using the word, “monster” to describe Hillary Clinton was accurate. That is particularly the case in the UK or Ireland where the term is in more common usage. Someone who does extremely disgusting things can very easily be called monstrous, i.e., “That was a really monstrous thing to do.” “What a monster.”

The litany of the vile and disgusting actions of Hillary Clinton includes:

1) her statement that she and McCain had a life time of experience preparing them for the White House and Obama gave one speech in 2002. (That gave such succor and comfort to the RNC and the McCain campaign. It will rank, historically, as or the most vile acts by this monstrous woman)

2) the comparison by her spokesman Howard Wolfson of Obama to Ken Starr

3) the tentative, almost grudging acknowledgement by Hillary on 60 Minutes that Obama wasn’t a Muslin, “…as far as I know.”

4) the denigration of voters in caucus states and small states by everyone in the Clinton campaign

5) etc. etc.

In my view, Obama and his surrogates should have ridden out the Samantha Power matter and demanded the immediate firing of Wolfson. To this moment, I have not heard anyone ask for Wolfson’s head.

Obama needs to punch back. Samantha Power needs kudos for speaking truth to power and outing the elephant in the living room.