REMOVE ERIC HOLDER

Outrageous! Unacceptable! Wrong! Inappropriate! The list goes on.

For a high government official, in a critically important appointive office, to call the American people cowards is way beyond ill advised. It is stupid.

Eric Holder, the new Attorney General of the United States, uttered that evaluation of the rest of us recently as documented in the article that follows.

Eric Holder should be immediately removed from his office. His job is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not call us all names, defame our lives and attempt to pass along his personal pathologies upon the public. He does not deserve the respect or trust of his fellow Americans.

Holder has got to go for a wide variety of reasons including:

1. Having publicly acknowledged his own cowardice, he projects his personal weakness in order to drag the nation down to his level. During his confirmation hearings he basically admitted that he should have taken a stand against the Bill Clinton pardon of Mark Rich. But he did not, and he has openly acknowledged he was wrong. Holder lacked the courage to take a principled stand at the time, when it actually counted and would have made a difference. He was a coward when the chips were on the table. Acknowledging his failure later, when it was to his benefit to do so, is not courageous. It is self-serving. As was his position supporting the pardon at the time. No profile in courage here.

2. The contention in his "coward" remark is that we do not tend to hang out with others not like us on weekends. What? Wasn't Holder advertised as an educated, intelligent human being? Earth to Eric: people generally spend time with their families and neighbors pursuing leisure activities or home based projects on weekends. Thus if one's family tend to be of one given race, that pretty much is the people they will be around. Unless it is necessary to take kids to events. That is a mixed crowd. Or unless there is a need to shop, since the retail world is full of variety. That's life and it is how people live. Wake up for goodness sake.

3. Holder insists that this country needs to have a frank conversation about race. Why? Again, earth to Eric: most Americans, like Dr. King, judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. That is the far more common, and clearly more important, conversation that we have on an ongoing basis. Fact is, we are a melting pot and we get along with one another better than virtually any other diverse country on earth. Oh wait, there are hardly any other large diverse countries on earth. I wonder why that is the case.

4. Consider this possibility: those amongst us who think first and foremost in terms of race are, in reality, the racists. Since the vast majority of us do not think or judge in such terms, those that do tend to isolate themselves and play the race card freely, as Holder has done. Thus as Holder speaks of others as cowards, he exposes himself as seriously hung up on race. Is that what we need as Attorney General? Not.

Eric Holder has already demonstrated that he is the worst Attorney General to hold the office since the extremist Ramsey Clark in the 60's. He clearly has very poor judgment. He is fully out of touch with everyday American families. As the official directly in charge of our justice system, he has shown himself to be someone who thinks and judges first in terms of race. Justice can hardly be blind under such conditions.

Holder is too flawed to be Attorney General. He must be removed immediately.


Holder: US is nation of cowards on racial matters
By DEVLIN BARRET
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved racial issues.
In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," said Holder, nation's first black attorney general.
Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, Holder said, but "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race."
He urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for frank talk about racial matters.
"It is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation's history, this is in some ways understandable," Holder said. "If we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another and tolerant enough of each other to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us."
He told Justice Department employees they have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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