I don’t know what to do about the genocide in Darfur, but I would like it to stop. So I’m glad at least one of the presidential candidates has a close advisor who literally wrote the book on genocide. (That candidate would be Barack Obama.)

Here’s an interview with that advisor, Samantha Power. Read it and tell me again whether or not it would be an interesting change of pace to have a president who is intellectually curious. Obama read her book in 2005, then requested a one-hour meeting; it lasted four hours. Gee, an interest in learning things. How old-fashioned.

My favorite line from this piece:

“The idea that [Obama] doesn’t have experience is nuts to me. He’s a constitutional law professor. I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document”

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