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Black pastors take up Holder talking points on both election and ‘Gunwalker’
Examiner.com ^ | 5/30/12 | David Codrea

Posted on 05/30/2012 10:00:38 AM PDT by Nachum

Dual initiatives partnering the Obama administration with leading African-American ministries emerged yesterday that appear designed to work around IRS restrictions on church political campaigning, and to create pressure against proceeding with a contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric Holder for failure to comply with Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” scandal-related subpoenas.

“Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential election -- which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President Obama's campaign,” The Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.

On the same day a letter was sent by a The Leadership Conference, with African American Ministers in Action joining various “progressive” organizations characterizing the focus on Holder as “a rush to judgment” and repeating administration talking points and insinuations that the investigation was “a partisan attempt to discredit the Attorney General.”

The letter also raises an ominous flag.

“The harshness of the attacks themselves is misplaced, and to the extent these attacks are intended to divert the Attorney General from the vigorous enforcement of the nation's laws—including those protecting civil rights, voting rights, disability rights, and other core concerns—we are deeply troubled,” the coalition writes. In other words, investigating Holder is not just anti-civil rights, that's the intent behind it.

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To: Terry Mross

And somewhere in eternity Saul Alinsky looks on.

How did Boehner get elected head of the Republican representatives? Somebody selected him because he is a frightened little chihuahua who shows no resistance. From what I have been seeing about the devious ways of Congress it would not surprise me if the Democrats have a heavy hand in choosing Republican congressional leaders, probably through the likes of John McCain. It might go something like this, Democrats make pork deal with McCain on the condition that McCain picks someone who will be friendly to Democrats. McCain then uses his influence to persuade the other Republicans to pick the guy he recommends.


21 posted on 05/30/2012 12:17:21 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Terry Mross
Always remember: “No Justice, No peace.”

And you can interpret that anyway you like: Watts riot, LA riots, Detroit riots etc etc.

22 posted on 05/30/2012 12:24:32 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: rcrngroup

The ACLU was brought in to teach them how to skirt the law without actually breaking the law. The left seems to be doing lots of these kinds of actions, using every form of intimidation but just going up to the line without crossing over.


23 posted on 05/30/2012 12:36:09 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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