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...little to thefilm. Although she plays a desperatelyunhappy woman who has spent most ofher life running away from home, comfort,and love, Theron never quite losesher Hollywood glamour. This is surprisinggiven that she won an AcademyAward in 2003 for her transformationinto repulsive serial killer Aileen Wuornosin “Monster.”Thankfully, Joleen disappears quiteearly in the movie, leaving Tara andJames to cope with her disappearance.The relationship that forms betweenthese two characters is the film’s savinggrace. Robb brilliantly portrays Tara’soscillation between pre-teen awkwardness—which is only heightened whenJoleen splits?...
...steady erosion in relations between the Obama and Clinton camps - less than a week has passed since Obama's foreign policy advisor (and TIME columnist) Samatha Power called Clinton "a monster" - was almost certainly one reason why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on Tuesday that the chances of a joint ticket between the two Democrats were now impossible...
...election to maintain a basic level of civility. This applies equally to the candidates and their staffers and advisors. The sort of personal animosity that motivated Obama’s advisor and Kennedy School professor Samantha Power’s comment last week, calling Clinton a “monster,” simply cannot be tolerated. Otherwise, this race risks devolving into nothing more than a flurry of negative advertising, which hurts the Democrats’ chance of achieving the far more fundamental goal: defeating John McCain in November. Let this not simply be a war of attrition...
...Amidst a swirl of controversy, Power quit over the "monster" slur, but the campaign might have actually been lucky she left, since her departure came just before her Iraq comments got wide play. The personal insult was gratuitous and crude, but the Iraq statement threatened to undermine one of the central promises of Obama's campaign. No one expected Power to spew invective, but when your top foreign policy adviser tells an overseas interviewer that you do not really mean something that you have put at the center of your campaign, well, Chicago, you have a problem...
...cases of Goolsbee and Power, the comments carried serious weight. Obama was trying to argue before the Ohio contest that he was more trustworthy than Clinton on fixing the flaws in NAFTA - and more trustworthy in general. Power's "monster" comment cast doubt on his campaign's contention that Clinton has been running the more personally negative campaign. Furthermore, steadfast opposition to the presence of American troops in Iraq is one of the chief points of contrast that has benefited Obama in his fight against Clinton. In recent days, news organizations for the first time have stepped up their scrutiny...