RTÉ Belfast reporter Michael Fisher nabbed a nice exclusive, as he caught up with Samantha Power after she gave a lecture at Queens University, after she split from the Obama campaign. She supposedly resigned, but as we wrote earlier and the NY Observer picked up from us (hi Niall Stanage), Samantha Power seemed pretty clear that the’d be facing the “guillotine”.

She looks and sounds gutted, and you can’t help but feel for her:

“I’m a political rookie, a policy person, a scholar.” Maybe “the heat of the campaign got to me a bit. I overreacted to something I had heard.”

If she walked the plank, it was because behind her on the deck were some guys with cutlasses. In that sense only did she jumped.

Initially I thought it was a mistake for Power to be gone. But since then it’s emerged that she was thinking out loud at BBC HardTalk about Iraq policy, undermining Obama’s stated position about troop withdrawals. This, not the ‘monster’ comment, means she would have had to go no matter what.

I still think she’d be great in the Administration.