She did the mash
She did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash...

from  MONSTER MASH - Bobby Pickett

Prince Charming’s, aka Barack Obama, key foreign policy aide, Samantha Power, did the monster mash last night when in an interview with The Scotsman in London, the garrulous Ms. Power called Senator Obama’s chief rival for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, Hillary Clinton, “a monster.”

"You just look at her and think, Ergh” the too vocal Obama surrogate continued, voicing the true feelings of the Obama Campaign toward opponent Hillary Clinton. Power’s impolite comments set off a wave of criticism. Coupled with a series of mistakes by the Obama campaign’s foreign policy team over the last weeks, Ms. Power’s remarks couldn’t have come at a worse time.

On the defensive, having taken quite a mashing in the March 4 Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island primaries thanks to attacks by the seasoned Clinton camp, the Obama Campaign were just beginning to recognize that the negative attacks against them had resonated with the voters.

To stop the bloodletting caused by Clinton's attacks they had three choices to consider. None of the choices were without their perils. If Senator Obama, who had based his campaign on being a new kind of politician went negative, than he could no longer wear the mantle the “new” politician. If he continued to ignore Clinton’s attacks, she would bury him in a graveyard mash.

The best choice for Senator Obama would be to take an approach somewhere in the middle. Mr. Obama could continue to rise above the fray and not engage in personal mudslinging while he let his surrogates do his dirty work.

But that kind of positioning takes the finesse of experience, and Senator Obama seems to be showing that he and his team aren’t quite as adroit as once thought. The cool-headed and smooth candidate seen while Senator Obama’s campaign appeared to be winning has been replaced by a rather peevish and petulant nature.

Ms. Power’s remarks clearly lacked finesse.

As had the recent  missteps of the campaign when another Obama official, Austan Goolsbee, the top economic policy advisor to the campaign, told Canadian officials a public pledge by Senator Obama to force a renegotiation of NAFTA with tougher labor and environmental rules was "more about political positioning".

The Clinton Campaign seized on the gaff and said Mr Obama could not tell the public of Ohio, where many manufacturing jobs have been lost, one thing and then tell a foreign government something else behind closed doors, seriously bringing into question the Senators foreign policy credentials.

Adding to Obama’s woes is Susan Rice, senior foreign policy advisor for the campaign, who like Ms. Power suffers from that verbal disease called loquaciousness. Ms. Rice recently admitted to Tucker Carlson on his MSNBC show of the same name that Prince Charming wasn’t ready for the 3 a.m. call referring to Senator Clinton’s now famous television ad that questioned Obama’s readiness for the job of commander-in-chief.

Until now, Senator Obama has been the charmed candidate who could do no wrong. He was the Prince of the Obamanation and his subjects and the lowly press, were bent on knees in idol worship. But now the Prince has had a few jousts with that fair maiden Hillary and he has suffered some battle wounds.

For those concerned that the party Democrat will be hurt by a prolonged jousting competition, time has proven a friend to the lowly subjects, who are now getting a truer picture of the kind of reign offered by Prince-maybe-not-so-Charming Barack Obama and his Court of mashers.