Trick Question: Who are the U.S. Attorney General's people?
“When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African-Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia–which was inappropriate, certainly that—to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.”
—-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying in a Congressional hearing regarding allegations of race-based enforcement in the Justice Department, and taking issue with Rep. John Culberson, who was questioning Holder about the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case. Culberson quoted a Democratic activist who called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career, prompting Holder’s statement.
I am willing to give the Attorney General the benefit of the doubt and regard this is a slip of the tongue. It would be unfair to conclude, based on this statement, that Holder is biased. But his use of the term “my people” certainly raises the question of bias. As the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder is obligated to regard all American citizens as “his people.” Suggesting otherwise undermines his credibility and the people’s trust, and is at best careless, and at worst suspicious.
[Thanks to WSJ blogger James Taranto for flagging the quote.]
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I think there can be no doubt. If it is a slip of the tongue, then at a sub-conscious level he sees a bias. Meaning, even if he didn’t think he has a bias he actually does.
There are video tapes of this incident in Philadelphia of blatant voter intimidation. Yet, there is no case or charges filed. Why? Just imagine if it was a single white person who did it and it was caught on tape. They would have been in jail near immediately.
This is either negligence, bias, or incompetence. I personally choose bias after the quote.
Wow. Jack, that’s not at all where I thought you’d go with this article.
Because when I heard Holder’s quote, I immediately thought of four words that YOU taught me: “There are worse things.”
–Dwayne
15. The Comparative Virtue Excuse: “There are worse things.”
Nothing that Eric Holder says surprises me anymore. anyone who looked at his record PRIOR to his confirmation as U.S. Attorney General should have expected this from the onset. Of course, the same could be said of Barack Obama himself.
Holder is one for the books. Who was the last competent and trustworthy US Attorney General? i can’t think of one. Luckily for Holder, Gonzalez was as low as you can go.
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Alright, I’ll try again.
Gonzales, at least, didn’t burn dozens of women and children alive, kidnap a refugee boy at Castro’s behest and allow armed thugs to intimidate voters on behalf of “his people”. And that’s just for openers.