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The Survivor == How Eric Holder outlasted his (many) critics
Politico ^ | July/August 2014 | Glenn Thrush

Posted on 06/26/2014 5:11:23 AM PDT by Zakeet

Why the hell is Eric Holder still around? That’s a question many of Barack Obama’s political advisers have asked at various points throughout Holder’s tumultuous five years at the helm of the Justice Department.

For most of Obama’s presidency, in fact, if there’s been controversy, Holder was likely to be in the middle of it, from the failed efforts to close Guantánamo Bay and to prosecute alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a Manhattan court to his inability to send Wall Street executives involved in the mortgage meltdown to jail. His detractors in the West Wing of the White House, and there have been many, have seen the attorney general as a never-ending source of questionable decisions, tin-eared political missteps and off-the-reservation remarks. “If it was coming out of the Justice Department,” a former top adviser to Obama recalled to me, “it was bad news.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; holder; justice; racism

He's a race man ... a "sh*t magnet"

1 posted on 06/26/2014 5:11:23 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Holder gives that nice ‘Chicago Street Gang Thug’ feel to the Obama Administration. It’s fitting.


2 posted on 06/26/2014 5:13:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hey IRS - those receipts you wanted? The dog ate 'em. -New Name:"Washington Thinskins" -FR. coloeo)
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To: Zakeet

He’s CORRUPT, EVIL and VILE....the PERFECT DEMOCRAT.


3 posted on 06/26/2014 5:18:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Zakeet

He’s black, serving a black president. That’s how he has survived.


4 posted on 06/26/2014 5:18:16 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

He survives because he will not allow investigations into illegal activities of this administration. Until the media does its job, they will skate.


5 posted on 06/26/2014 5:23:26 AM PDT by mware
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To: Daveinyork

He knows WAY TOO MUCH about odumbo and there is no way they would throw Holder under the bus unless the wanted to be rid of him completely. (Watch your back Holder, it just may be in the making).


6 posted on 06/26/2014 5:25:46 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Zakeet

It’s good to be the king!


7 posted on 06/26/2014 5:43:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Feed the wacko enrviromentalists to the starving polar bears.)
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To: GOPJ

The picture of Holder, Sharpton, and Jackson was priceless. Note to Al—keep your hands in the open . . .


8 posted on 06/26/2014 5:55:16 AM PDT by Charlemagne on the Fox
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To: Zakeet
"Why?" Very simple. He KNOWS where the bodies are buried, given the fact that he's dug an awful lot of the holes himself.

Before Obama, he was probably best known for his orchestration of Clinton's outrageous presidential pardon of Marc Rich.

Mark

9 posted on 06/26/2014 6:03:44 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Daveinyork

“He’s black, serving a black president. That’s how he has survived.”

Teflon Tan

The article, the author, and even the headline, is absolutely stupid if they think it’s anything else.


10 posted on 06/26/2014 6:05:09 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: DaveA37

Ron Brown comes to mind.


11 posted on 06/26/2014 6:05:37 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Zakeet

Why would he go anywhere? There’s been no call for his resignation. There’s been zero bad press on his account. Outside of conservative outlets like FR, nobody knows who he is.


12 posted on 06/26/2014 6:23:09 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: Zakeet
Let's give the Obama Media all the credit they deserve for keeping this criminal A.H. A.J. and his criminal boss out of prison.


13 posted on 06/26/2014 7:23:53 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: MarkL

“Before Obama, he was probably best known for his orchestration of Clinton’s outrageous presidential pardon of Marc Rich.”

This was known at the time Obama nominated him for Attorney General. Despite what was known at the time, the following Republican Senators voted to confirm Holder as Attorney General:

Jeff Sessions, Lisa Murkowski, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Saxby Chambliss, John Isakson, Richard Lugar, Chuck Grassley, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Kit Bond, Judd Gregg, George Voinovich, Lindsay Graham, Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, Bob Bennett, Orin Hatch.

Given that so many of these men and women still serve in the Senate, reviewing this list and thinking about the ineffectiveness of the House of Representatives since the Republicans took charge in 2011, causes me to believe the election of a Republican majority in the Senate this year will make zero difference in the direction of this country.


14 posted on 06/26/2014 7:36:59 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: mware

It’s frightening what can happen when the President has a loyal stooge as the AG to protect him. Throw in a sycophant press, a SCOUS whose collective IQ has been halved with the last two appointments, and a timid opposition and we live in a virtual dictatorship.


15 posted on 06/26/2014 8:55:15 AM PDT by CoastWatcher
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To: Zakeet

——Why the hell is Eric Holder still around?-—
do you really need to ask?....... he’s black

It’s that simple


16 posted on 06/26/2014 8:57:13 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Zakeet

He’s a black male who blackmails.


17 posted on 06/26/2014 9:31:55 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: Ann Archy

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/06/26/video-woman-violently-beaten-as-toddler-tries-to-intervene/


18 posted on 06/26/2014 12:05:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (Hey IRS - those receipts you wanted? The dog ate 'em. -New Name:"Washington Thinskins" -FR. coloeo)
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To: GOPJ

I can’t watch that video and see a woman beaten!! What does it have to do with Holder??


19 posted on 06/26/2014 2:30:07 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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