Obama’s Irish ex-adviser leaves us with a lesson in political standards

IN politics honesty is not necessarily the best policy. Just ask Samantha Power.

Last Thursday I interviewed her both about her new book — a biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello, a major UN figure who was killed in Iraq in 2003 — and about her role as a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama.

Less than 24 hours later I was telling listeners that the woman who had been sitting in my studio only the day before had been forced to resign from Obama’s campaign.