On her first day at the United Nations, great friend of Valerie Jarrett and one of the chief architects (with Hillary and Susan Rice) of our Libya involvement, new UN envoy Samantha Power spoke to refugee kids dressed like a teeny-bopper going to the beach in a sleeveless, above the knee, tank-top dress (and it wasn’t very hot in NYC that day, so she didn’t have that excuse!).
LOL! this is my outreach to the low information crowd!
I figured maybe she had changed clothes to talk to the youngsters, but no, if you check the news, this (see photo) is how she dressed to present her credentials to the august body. Her attire is the equivalent of John Bolton arriving in shorts and a polo shirt!
Maybe I’m just too old fashioned and think women in power should be more professional looking.
And, we cannot assume she is sending a message to the Islamists in the UN about freedom for women with her choice of clothes! (Other than a message that she is not to be taken seriously).
From Reuters:
(Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power faced some tough questions during her first day on the job on Monday, but they did not come from other U.N. Security Council envoys – instead she was grilled by refugee students in New York City.
At the International Rescue Committee’s Refugee Youth Summer Academy in downtown Manhattan, students asked Power questions ranging from how did she meet President Barack Obama to would she send troops to Afghanistan and her thoughts on communism.
Wouldn’t you love to know her opinion on communism! And, by the way, as a protege of George Soros she earlier sat on the Board of the International Rescue Committee that will soon see David Miliband take the reins.
She apparently gave some thought to what she would wear on her first day….
At the Refugee Youth Summer Academy – a six-week program that helps prepare newly arrived refugees aged 5 to 19 for the New York school system – Power likened her first day on the job to their first day at school.
“Like me you’ll probably think about what you’ll wear and will it go well and will people like me,” she said. “Every time you do something new it’s scary.”
On a serious note: We have written extensively about Power’s career (click here for our complete archive). She was tasked with reforming the Refugee Resettlement Program when she arrived at the White House in Obama’s first term. Human rights lobbyists were thrilled to call her the ‘Iraqi refugee czar.’ She did throw some money to the resettlement contractors, but there wasn’t much reform that I could see.
She was quoted as saying she was sick of doing “rinkey-dink do-gooder stuff” in relation to Christian Iraqis, here. And, I was very surprised to see her go into hiding when the Benghazi terror attack happened because she, Hillary and Rice were in on pushing Obama to get on the oust-Gaddafi bandwagon in the first place. I even wrote a post suggesting the White House (Jarrett?) was keeping Power safe from criticism when the Benghazi fire storm erupted.
On August first, the Senate voted 87-10 to confirm Power as the new US Ambassador to the UN. Here is the vote (hat tip: Robin). The ten sensible and brave Republicans who voted NO! are: Barrasso, Cruz, Enzi, Heller, Lee, Paul, Rubio, Scott, Shelby, and Vitter.
As Robin pointed out, a big disappointment is that Sessions voted Aye. Power’s doctrine—the responsibility to protect—is, and will be, responsible for many more impoverished migrants arriving in the US, so what was Sessions thinking?