Barack's Keystone Pols

Update: Samantha Power has been purged.

Barack Obama's "key foreign policy aide," Samantha Power, displays a breathtaking grasp of diplomacy and dealing with journalists:

"We f***** up in Ohio," she admitted. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win.

"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.

Hint: you have to get that "off the record" stuff established right up front, Dr. Power, the press can be funny that way (and by the way, does the Harvard professor actually eat with that mouth?).

"We f***** up in Ohio," refers to yet another idiotic stunt by an Obama adviser. Austan Goolsbee gave the old wink-wink, nudge-nudge to Canadian diplomats, concerned about Obama's NAFTA rhetoric. Goolsbee told them not to worry, it's just rhetoric, he doesn't really mean it.

Meanwhile, Obama senior adviser Susan Rice was busy making a campaign commercial for John McCain: