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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-14-09 03:24 PM
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Ignatieff has friends in Obama's White House
Michael Ignatieff has taken a lot of political grief for spending almost three decades living outside Canada, including five years teaching at Harvard University.

But as he prepares for a brief meeting Thursday with fellow Harvard alumnus President Barack Obama, the Liberal leader stands to reap some dividends from the Ivy League connections he made at one of the world's most prestigious universities.

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Ignatieff is good friends with Samantha Power, a senior adviser to Obama during his presidential campaign, a member of his transition team and now a member of the National Security Council.

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For instance, as a journalist, Ignatieff accompanied Richard Holbrooke, special envoy to the Balkans for then-president Bill Clinton, as he attempted to head off the 1999 Kosovo war.

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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090214/ignatieff_obama_090214/20090214?hub=Canada


I literally laughed out loud when I read the reaction from the harper cabal!
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