Obama´s senior advisor resigns over offensive remarks on Clinton

Source: Xinhua | 03-08-2008 08:01

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisor resigned on Friday for her offensive remarks on his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton in an interview with media.

Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard University professor, was caught in hot water after she told a Scottish newspaper that New York Senator is a "monster."

"She is a monster, too -- that is off the record -- she is stooping to anything," The Scotsman quoted Power as saying in the report.

After U.S. media released the abstract of the report, Power issued a statement making an apology and Obama's campaign also decried the remarks.

However, Clinton's campaign made an immediate response by urging Power to resign.

"Senator Obama has called for change, and a new kind of politics," said Clinton's supporter, New York Rep. Gregory Meeks. "This is the worst kind of politics."

The two Democratic presidential contenders are bracing for the caucuses in Wyoming on Saturday that would yield 12 pledged delegates and six superdelegates.

After Clinton won three primaries on Tuesday, she regained the momentum and magnetism for campaign fund, but still lost to Obama in the number of delegates who would vote at the nomination convention.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei