The latest issue of The National Interest features a somewhat strangely disjointed profile of Samantha Power.

Two highlights. First, a personality trait worth noting:

She produces a morality play rather than a conventional history. In a sense, Power, you could argue, is addicted to hero worship, beginning with Raphael Lemkin and ending with Obama. In fact, in her acknowledgments, she observes that she offered “whatever help I could to Barack Obama, the person whose rigor and compassion bear the closest resemblance to Sergio’s that I have ever seen.”

Second: Did you know that a young Walter Lippmann drafted Wilson’s 14 Points? That explains a whole lot.

When I read Samantha Power’s little interview with The Scotsman, I literally assumed she must’ve been drunk, cursing and speaking in run-on sentences as she was:

“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.

Ms Power said of the Clinton campaign: “Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there, too.

“You just look at her and think, ‘Ergh’. But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.”

Ergh? For someone slated to be high up in the Obama administration, she comes off awfully unstateswomanlike. And for a former Pulitzer prize winning journalist, she doesn’t seem to have internalized enough paranoia about speaking to reporters.

The Clinton camp is predictably enough asking for her resignation. Though from all indications losing Power would be a huge blow for the Obama team, I for one would feel much better if Power was replaced. She’s the biggest reason I don’t feel comfortable with Obama’s foreign policy direction to date.

UPDATE: And there she goes!