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Posted on 08/23/2014 7:15:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Everyone’s praising the attorney general's response to the Ferguson crisis—and rightly so. But before ripping the president's response, it's worth noting that Holder's there because the president put him there.
After saying, two Fridays ago, that “President Obama failed in his leadership to say what he really knows and has lived as a black man in America”; then saying, a week ago on Face The Nation, that the president “needs to step up to the plate and be responsible”; and writing, Friday, in the Washington Post, that Obama is “a sometimes unreliable and distant narrator of black life,” Georgetown University’s Michael Eric Dyson has made it abundantly clear that he’s displeased with the president’s response to the killing of Michael Brown and events in Ferguson, Mo.
Not to mention that he and others are, by contrast, clearly encouraged by Attorney General Eric Holder’s response to Ferguson, describing the attorney general to the New York Times’ Matt Apuzzo and Peter Baker as “an up and down race man who understands the moral consequences of the law on the lives of black people.”
And to the extent that we’re talking about Holder’s role, I completely agree with Prof. Dyson. Even though I’ve been a mild critic of Holder in the past, the attorney general’s response, as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, has been laudable under these circumstances. Both his timely op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, outlining the steps that his Justice Department is taking to investigate Brown’s shooting, and his trip to Ferguson, reflect a public-servant who is trying to make a positive impact in a difficult situation.
But while we’re praising Holder—and ripping Obama—it seems to me that it’s worth mentioning the obvious: there wouldn’t be an Attorney General Holder if there weren’t a President Obama there to appoint him....
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“Or Michelle. No, really.”
That is what I have been saying. If you have the fraud you need, having the wife of the Dictator meet the “legal” requirements is the traditional way to go!
Uneffenbelievable
that’s obama’s game
send holder down there to placate the racial haters (thereby getting the base out for him)
While Obama pretends to to be more moderate on race so there’s no white vioter backlash.
“Everyone’s praising the attorney general’s response to the Ferguson crisis...”
http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/bull.wav
Yep. Dont these self loathing liberals realize Obama is politically laughing them to the bank.
Must be nice to be surrounded by fools who support your chicanery.
It’s like opening up a history book that starts off with “Everyone agrees that the D-day invasion was a complete failure” or a movie guide that states “Ishtar, which all critics agree to be the greatest film of all time”.
I don't think so.
Doubling down is definitely Obama's style, so extending the term of the "first black president" and adding the "first woman president" at the same time would definitely be a score.
But... Everyone has their bridge too far, and this would be Obama's.
Michelle Obama "has not done the necessary spade work," to quote Hillary Clinton. She has no experience at the highest federal level to credibly make a claim to the office.
The scary part is that Holder has. The scarier part is that Holder's claim is drenched in blood.
-PJ
“Everyone’s praising the attorney general’s response to the Ferguson crisis”. Doesn’t “everyone” mean everyone anymore either?
IMO Holder is just another dressed up “Street Rat” that got lucky.
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