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In reply to the discussion: I sure as hell won't miss the Holder Doctrine [View all]cheapdate
(3,811 posts)Eric Holder was a United State Attorney General, serving at the pleasure of the president. I positively abhor the recent NDAAs, the Patriot Act and its extensions, the FISA reform laws, the 1980s forfeiture laws, NSA "fusion" centers, etc. Holder presided over it all and didn't fundamentally change the course of the nation in this.
I abhor all of these things and yet I don't loathe Eric Holder or Barack Obama. Our ethics are worlds apart in many places but I don't loathe them. In fact, I respect them.
I'm not bothered by the obvious conflict, or "cognitive dissonance" in being favorably disposed toward people I don't agree with in all matters.
Holder took aggressive stands against infringements of the basic right to vote. He's spoken passionately and taken what steps he can, within the framework of being a U.S. Attorney General, to address this country's incarceration problems.
Call him the devil incarnate if you will. I won't be joining you.