Before Holder Could Be Attorney General Holder, Obama Had To Be President Obama (Unbelievable)

The Root ^ | August 23, 2014 | David Swerdlick

[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....

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm pretty sure that if you look up sycophant in the dictionary you'll see David's picture.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Dear, gawd, I’m watching a “Blaxploitation” movie from the 70’

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

70’s ^^^^

[jospehm20]

“Everyone’s praising the attorney general’s response to the Ferguson crisis”

I could not read past that.

[FreeReign]

Everyone’s praising the attorney general's response to the Ferguson crisis—and rightly so.

Chunks of vomit warning.

[eeriegeno]

This dude must be snorting something?????

[cripplecreek]

This dude must be snorting something

Obama crack.

[Zeppo]

Apparently all that David Swerdlick understands is raw tribalism.

None of that “content of their character” trash talk for David. Rather, it’s only the color of the skin that matters.

[Dqban22]

RACE PIMPS

Just in Chicago, every week end, dozens of blacks are murdered and wounded by black and nobody in the black leadership, neither Obama, nor Holder or the race pimps, care. When blacks kill blacks, there are not mob protesting and rioting, neither Holder’s Justice Department send 50 special agents to investigate and prosecute the culprits of a single case.

A 2007 special report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reveals that approximately 8,000 — and, in certain years, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States. This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks. The analysis, supported by FBI records, finds that in 2005 alone, for example, African Americans accounted for 49% of all homicide victims in the US — again, almost exclusively at the hands of other African Americans.

To put these number in perspective, recall that over 6,400 U.S. service men and women have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined over the course of a decade-long war fought in those nations.

[upchuck]

Hurling chunks.

Posted before... Holder’s job in Ferguson is to make damn sure we don’t have another Travon.

[Mark17]

“Everyone’s praising the attorney general’s response to the Ferguson crisis”

I could not read past that.

Roger that. I was going to ask if he had a mouse in his pocket. I could have asked if he had something else in his pocket, but I am trying to keep it clean.

[MeshugeMikey]

David Swerdlick ...change ONE letter and ya get Swordlick...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Holder is the AG specifically because he would be in Obama’s pocket and protect him at every turn.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I didn’t know tbat I was “speshul” if I was of “color”. Who knew?

[Fungi]

“Everyone’s praising the attorney general’s response to the Ferguson crisis—and rightly so.” It always starts with a flase premise. As usual, it goes down hill from there. Holder, where have you been during all those shooting deaths in Chicago and other cities across the nation? Why only Ferguson, why?

[MeshugeMikey]

[Political Junkie Too]

I've been saying...

I'm still predicting that Eric Holder will be the next president.

He'll run as "Obama's third term" to continue the "historic first black president" meme.

Now they're trying to establish his leadership bona fides.

-PJ

[Nifster]

Never heard of this doofus and I read more than I ever want to by him in the first few bits above.

The left is so full of themselves they don’t even realize how stupid they really are

[2ndDivisionVet]

Or Michelle. No, really.

[Amagi]

The affirmative action beneficiaries be sticking together, yo.