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Obama adviser asks local Dems for 'a look'

A senior adviser to Sen. Barack Obama stopped in Myrtle Beach on Friday to ask local Democrats to join the growing support in South Carolina for her candidate in the heated race for the nomination.

"The key with Obama is getting people to give him a look," said Samantha Power to about 30 local Democrats over breakfast at Akel's Family Restaurant. "A lot of people say, 'Oh, Barack Obama, he's a fine young man. He'll make a fine President some day.' We don't have some day to wait."

A journalist who has covered genocide in Eastern Europe and Africa who later founded a human-rights policy center at Harvard University, Power has been Obama's foreign policy adviser since he was in the U.S. Senate, long before the Presidential campaign. She said she joined Obama after he read her book, "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," and called her to discuss it.

"No American politician has ever called me to discuss American responses to genocide," Power said.

McCain hates on Myanmar

From Zane Wilson's dispatch from the McCain event in Pawleys:

Burma should be ejected from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and strict economic sanctions should be imposed on the country that calls itself Myanmar, U.S. Sen. John McCain said Thursday.