Samantha Power broke down in tears as she listened to Obama's 2004 speech about how bad America is

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In 2012, Samantha Power is Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior National Security Council official.

2/28/2008, "Samantha Power: Obama and Me," The Nation, Jon Wiener

Samantha Power first met Obama in 2005. She hadn't heard his 2004 Democrat Convention speech, and people said he was a great speaker. ""So I went onto iTunes and downloaded his speech and got on the shuttle down to Washington and listened to the speech on the plane. And I had a cry. I couldn't believe the speech, couldn't believe the country he was telling me I lived in.""

The country Obama described was so horrible the woman was moved to tears on the plane en route to meet Obama for the first time. During their meeting, she became so impressed with him she was ready to quit her current job and help him in any way she could. Today Ms. Power is a top aide to President Obama.

The Nation quotes Ms. Power's impressions after the 2005 meeting:

""He's very aware of the tectonic plate shifts in the global order - the rise of China, the resurgence of Russia, the loss of influence by the US -- and how those affect your ability to get what you want, on anything from global warming to getting out of Iraq to stopping genocide.""

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Samantha Power is married to Obama former Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein. They met while working on Obama's first presidential campaign.

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