I understood that for many of Obama’s Republican critics, my perspective on foreign policy was intrinsically suspect. And having watched Cass go through the confirmation process back in 2009, I knew the US Senate’s approval was not foreordained. Like my husband, I had amassed a voluminous body of writing that the senators’ staffs would examine. As the Washington Post summarized, “During a long and outspoken career as a journalist, author and human rights activist, Power, 42, has provided extensive fodder for questions about her views on many US foreign policy issues.”
