Eric placeHolder. That's what we should call him.

[elehhhhna]

What a waste.

[geek tragedy]

1. Let me guess--you're not a black person whose right to vote is being threatened?

Or someone who was helped by the stand on DOMA?

Or someone with loved ones in prison due to discriminatory drug laws?

he's bad on some issues, but a law enforcement officer is always going to be shitty on some issues due to the job description and constraints

[Wilms]

3. "bad on some issues" is an understatement.

But you are right about Voting Rights (particularly pleasing because Dems had not been on top of this important issue. And yes, drug sentencing.

Beyond that I'm not aware of anything except what the OP said; "waste", and what Octafish mentioned.

[cali]

8. Good on Civil Rights issues and terrible on anything

outside of that sphere.

would it have been impossible to appoint someone who didn't suck ass on a host of critical issues?

[rhett o rick]

20. So your rationalization is that "he's bad on some issues" because of "job description

and constraints." What constraints force him to be tough on marijuana users and easy on Wall F'in Street? His work for the DoJ then Wall Street then back to the DoJ epitomizes the revolving door. Any bets on which Wall Street firm he will go to work for after this?
IMO he is a corporatist toady.

[Scuba]

25. +1,000

[Octafish]

2. Defended and protected the Corporate Ethos of profits ueber Alles.

Worked wonders for the national security state, secret government and the Unitary Executive, too.

His successor will thank him for his proud service to Empire.

[OilemFirchen]

5. Your Meme Generator needs a spellcheck.

The Groupthink Module, however, is churning out some boffo sloganeering.

[functioning_cog]

6. Ain't that the truth? Mental masturbation.

Some people have some pretty sad personal circumstances, I am sure. Maybe this is their stress relief.

[Octafish]

11. Stress relief? Fourth Reich and you don't notice?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x872755

[functioning_cog]

13. Lol. Like I said...

[Octafish]

15. Nothing to say about the topic, oh profound one?

Country is in deep shit and people like you do all you can to divert its discussion, let alone resolution. Like I said.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022895695

[functioning_cog]

19. I did my job. We elected and reelected a Dem who has

Done more to advance interests of poor than any president since Johnson.

Now we're talking up 2014 and doing what we can in house/senate. You're still stuck in the 60's and JFK.

[Octafish]

22. Great. Social policies improved. What about Justice?

Which is the point of the OP. Holder has let the Bush traitors walk, let the election stealers walk, let the warmongers walk, let the illegal domestic spy apparatus remain in place, let the torturers walk, let thebanksters walk, enforces a Wall Street casino backed by taxpayers, guards the overseas privacy of American tax dodgers (individuals and corporations), and instituted a legal system in service of the state over the individual.

Oh. What happened in Dallas 50 years ago has everything to do with it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4176797

[Scuba]

26. +1,000

[Rex]

35. *Crickets*

nt.

[bvar22]

39. Now, now, Octafish... give credit where credit is due.

Holder's tireless efforts has saved us from the scourge of aging Hippie Pot Smokers,
and helped out the Private Prison Industry which [trickles Down on all of us!

Add that to the Accomplishments List.

[cui bono]

28. That's a low bar. He failed to do so much that he could have done.

Have you seen the results of the Korean Free Trade? You know about TPP? What about the KXL pipeline? Whistle blower prosecutions way up under Obama. Wall Street got a seat in the White House. Monsanto got a seat in the EPA.

We needed someone to turn around this country but Obama has mostly continued BushCo/corporate policies while throwing us a couple bones. Some of which he was pushed to do so.

Yes, that is a very low bar you've set to be satisfied with. It's complacency like that that allows the Dem party to continue moving farther and farther to the right.

[bvar22]

40. "Done more to advance interests of poor than any president since Johnson."

You may be right,
but that says more about the state of our Nation
and the continual downward slide under Republicans and Democrats alike since LBJ.

All Obama had to do was let a few crumbs fall off the table while serving up heaping banquet gourmet dishes to the RICH to make your statement true,
and that is about the extent of Obama's "interests" in America's Poor.


You will know them by their WORKS.

[Octafish]

12. Groupthink?

Like "Banksters"?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022823709

[OilemFirchen]

18. Not really.

Thesaurus Peckers. Twitter Historians. Googletarians.

Like that.

[Octafish]

23. Now I understand you.

Projection.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. I'm stealing this.

Just thought I'd give you fair warning.

[functioning_cog]

7. Here comes another one.

[Octafish]

14. Yeah. We're called 'DUers'.

And we're entitled to an opinion without bullying by the likes of spammers like you.

If it weren't so, you'd express why you disagree instead of attacking the person.

[functioning_cog]

17. The OP did not provide an actual argument

Just empty name calling of an Obama appointment and first African American A.G. It and any propinvents of such so-called political observation should be mocked.

[Octafish]

24. Six years in office and warmongers Bush and Cheney are free.

Meanwhile, Don Siegelman remains railroaded and imprisoned.

Here's how BFEE ties it together:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022073759

[Rex]

31. *Crickets*

nt.

[cui bono]

30. "first African American A.G."

What is the point of bringing that up?

[Rex]

32. Desperation.

nt.

[elehhhhna]

16. yes, a longtime dedicated bigtime contributor to DU

better be careful.

[functioning_cog]

21. Oh, BTW. Really nice contribution with that OP.

[elehhhhna]

38. Thanks! I'm humbled. Been a fan of your on DU for a long time.

[Rex]

33. Yeah the new guy sure pretends to be an old hand.

Funny that.

[ProSense]

9. You can

"Eric placeHolder. That's what we should call him. What a waste."

...call him that. I'll call him one of the best AGs ever.

That hopey changey thing at the Department of Justice
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022933401

ACLU: How to Process Eric Holder’s Major Criminal Law Reform Speech
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023451453

Holder Endorses Proposed Reduction of Drug Sentences
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024657090

Eric Holder Just ANNOUNCED A MAJOR SHIFT On U.S. Marijuana Policy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024381108

He also made Issa cry: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022850356

[aikoaiko]

10. yeah, he's a gun banner.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824

[Drunken Irishman]

27. LOL! THAT'S ALMOST AS GOOD AS NOBAMA!

You're so clever.

[quinnox]

29. He has been horrible, just a smidgen better than Ashcroft

Most progressives I have seen here think the same.

[ProSense]

36. "Most progressives I have seen here think the same."

Those are the same people who think Obama is worse than Nixon and Reagan, and that Putin's illegal invasion is justified.

So there is that.

[cui bono]

41. Yes, he said "progressives". Progressives want a POTUS who will stand up for the working people.

Who will fight for their constitutional rights. Who will not keep signing more free trade agreements that hurt American citizens. Who will be transparent, as he promised he would be. and a bunch of other principles that progressives stand for that he does not. We don't want a POTUS who is center.

The corporate Dems might like that Obama is center on the political spectrum and defend him for it but the Dems who actually stand by their principles and all the things the Dem Party is supposedly about do not.

And trying to define progressives as Putin lovers is really low and childish. We've been down that road already and it's tired and worn out. Not to mention it's right out of the RW playbook.

So there is that.

[Rex]

37. Well let's face it, there is only a handful of people here that

spout propaganda all day and they are easily avoided and laughed at by the masses.

[Rex]

34. True that.

nt.