Irish-born Obama official Samantha Power could be the next U.S. Ambassador to the UN according to the Washington Post.
Current occupant Susan Rice was turned down for the job of Secretary of State but is still expected to move on.
Rice and Power have been influential in shaping Obama’s foreign policy, especially on the issue of the Libya intervention, now looked upon as a success.
Power currently runs the human rights division at the National Security Council and is an expert on genocide.
She was born in Dublin in 1970 but moved to the U.S. at age 9 in 1979. She later went on to Yale and won a Pulitzer Prize for her book on genocide in 2003 entitled “A Problem from Hell, America and the Age of Genocide."
She was an early convert to the Barack Obama cause and was a senior foreign policy advisor to him. She was forced to resign during his first campaign after she made derogatory remarks about Hillary Clinton.
However she was readmitted to the Obama inner circle soon after he took office and has been a key figure since.
She drew the ire of the Israeli lobby for her alleged sympathies for the Palestinians on the Middle East issue.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Towngate | Dec 23, 2012, 09:28 AM EST
For the US to appoint this rabid murderous Clown to the UN is to confirm their regard for the temple of world opinion as a Joke-shop! ...........and if the equally rabid Clinton person gets her 'presidential' hands on her, she'll soon be contemplating genocide in the darkest Libyan dungeon!
darragh S | Dec 22, 2012, 11:46 PM EST
Sounds Good if your into the Neo Democrat solutions on offer these days. She looks a good fit with Senator Kerry and the current nuclear diplomacy. Not sure I would be happy with here if commerce is abondoned in favor of a below the N threshold conflict which is something that is extraneous in nature and being put on the anti up from people external to the US and Eire. Strategic wise however this is the sort of person who could do the Job and unlike Hillary Clinton is not Anglo Centric in fact it looks as if she has a similar opinion to the Clintons as I. Its these important yet small differences of opinion that will make the difference when push comes to shuv. No doubt about that. When it comes to interests this is the sort of thing that makes the difference.
seanomelb | Dec 22, 2012, 04:51 PM EST
She's just what the US needs an ambassador who understands the plight of the Palestinian people.
irishamerica46 | Dec 22, 2012, 03:31 PM EST
Libya a success??? Is that a joke? Anti-semite, another joke. Ambassador another one!!!
PhlutiePhan | Dec 22, 2012, 11:07 AM EST
Another "radical thespian" on the world stage who is sympathetic to Palestinians. Another umarried and radical woman who is a clone of his mother. "The truth, you can't handle the truth" according to Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men".
Pittsburghkid | Dec 22, 2012, 10:23 AM EST
Her first action should be to condemn the actions of Rice.
Frosty38 | Dec 22, 2012, 10:01 AM EST
I hope she gets it