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Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that Washington lawyer and former deputy attorney general Eric Holder, who also co-led Obama’s vice presidential selection process, has flushed a Koran down the toilet. No! (Maybe?) But it’s really that Holder will serve as Obama’s attorney general. The first black attorney general ever, and first minority attorney general since the known Mexican Alberto Gonzales! The first attorney general generally speaking since Michael Mukasey!
This report comes courtesy of “two legal sources close to the presidential transition,” whom insiders suggest are Jennifer Aniston and The Bat Man.
The only problem for Holder is that, like many longtime Democratic party people, he was forced to do a bunch of slimy white trash stuff by Bill Clinton back in the ’90s.
The only hesitancy about Holder’s selection was that he himself had reservations about going through a confirmation process that was likely to revive questions about his role in signing off on the controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Although there is no evidence that Holder actively pushed the pardon, he was criticized for not raising with the White House the strong objections that some Justice Department lawyers and federal prosecutors in New York had to pardoning somebody who had fled the country.
Meh. The point is, we have black attorney generals now, too! Go team!
Obama’s Attorney General [Newsweek]
Black really is the new black!
He’s sexy in a short, curly, mid-80s afro kind of way. Mustache rides for all!
I am constantly amused at Obama’s ability to head criticism off at the pass. The black community was probably thisclose to starting the grumbling about all the white people Obama has on his team, and if this is true, then this should shut them the hell up. I’m black myself, and I’ve been looking at the timer on that all week.
On the other hand, being involved in Clinton pardons is never a good thing. But being criticized for not further raising objections about something that everyone already knew the objections about? Uh, specious much?
Anything would be better than Alberto Gonzales, the only man on the planet who could outdo Bill “that depends what the meaning of ‘is’ is” Clinton for absurd sophistry that doesn’t pass the laugh test.
Correction: That’s Jennifer Aniston and The Goddamn Batman.
I think he started his career in the 70’s in the New York’s 37th precinct, under Barney Miller
Yay minorities taking charge! Now, if only we could get some black people back in the Senate.
http://plightofthepumpernickel.blogspot.com
Let’s hope, if this is true, that he won’t feel as generous with the ole’ pardon with the current occupant.
since he’s a Democrat, I guess he did not attend the fabled Regent University - home of our greatest members of the DoJ.
All Holder has to do to shut the Repubs up is hold up a pic of long ignored, but not forgotten Mumbles Gonzales.
Yay! The Chaquita Banana Lawyer Guy!
Your potassium levels are about to rise to healthy levels, once and for all.
The Pumpernickel:
Or just find the Demrats missing balls.
Someone who won’t object when President Obama, upon leaving office in 2012 and given the Joe Lieberman precedent, pardons fugitive Osama Bin Laden
This is just the first step in the NWO. First the black attorney general. Then the taking of all the white people’s guns and giving them to black people. Then the Dashikis. Then the community service white slavery. The UN will be whoring your white daughters on the streets in months.
choinski: Yes, he reminds me of Detective Harris in that pic, too. In other pics, not so much. We welcome our new Ron-Glass-like overlord!
BTW, you know how the Federalist Society invaded the Justice Department during the Bush Years? Eric Holder spoke at the big American Constitution Society conference this summer, I talked to the guy. ACS is the rival organization to the Federalist Society. Time to look for a job in the DOJ if you are an ACS member like me.
But is he black enough? I can’t tell from this angle.
The Pumpernickel: And WOMEN; even though we aren’t a minority, we’re certainly a minority in the Senate. But if you could solve the problem by adding black women, that’s fine with me. Middle aged white men need not apply. We’re full up.
Is he going to break precedent and actually enforce a law? That would be fun.
He looks like LT Glass from Barney Miller
The one thing you have to say for Gonzales: he made Ashcroft look like fukkin Hammurabi.
Manchowder: Any kind of rivalry between the Federalist Society and the ACS? Are you guys big on torture too? (just kidding ha ha)
where all da white men at?
You’re all happy now but wait until the spinning rims go on the Presidential limo.
Uh oh…looks like the colored folks are taking over, as Newt, Rush, Hannity et. al. feared. When do the whiteys start getting oppressed??
I think he’s giving a limp-wristed terrorist fist bump in that pic.
We’ve gotten this far and no Lando Calrissian references?
“Someone must have told them all about my little maneuver at the battle of Taanab.”
choinski: Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s been driving me CRAZY trying to figure out where in the distant past I’d seen that man before. Yep, Det. Harris was definitely one of those night school aspirational dudes.
co-lead????? Jim!!!!
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
choinski: LOL! He’s a dead ringer for Detective Ron Harris. Gives him street cred.
But seriously, after the forthcoming GWB pardons nobody will raise an eyebrow about a boy scout like Marc Rich. Pardons first . . . Senate confirmation second.
Sarjo: You mean, black is the new pink.
see there they go, now that they’ve got one of them running the show they’re going full throttle with these affirmative action hires; why couldn’t he hire someone qualified like harriet myers? i’m’ telling you, his next step is to give bill ayers a spot up at homeland security. say what you will about president bush, but he always hired the most qualified man for the job.-Sean Hannity
This simple phrase should serve Eric Holder well throughout his life:
“low fade; 1 on the side; tapered, no line; trim off the top”
Blood on the Badge, a.k.a. BOB.
IonaTrailer: It’s not going to need rims, it’s already a Caddy.
sarcasticusername: Look at “Heckofa job, Brownie” fer instance.
TGY, Jukesgrrl, Platypus : THE MAN was right, they all look alike. 70’s cops, I mean.
choinski: Ahem….12th Precinct.
Woo-hoo! An AG who doesn’t need dermabrasion! That is happy news, indeed.
Just to re-visit, here’s a list of Bush appointments. My fav has got to be the Christian wing-nut head of the FDA, Dr. W. David Hager. No wait, maybe Harriet Myers. or maybe J. Steven Griles, a lobbyist for the mining, oil, and gas industries, appointed Deputy Interior Secretary.
But wait - then there’s always John Graham, the “regulatory czar,” for Office of Management and Budget. We see how well that turned out.
http://www.knowthecandidates.org/ktc/BushGang/BushTragicAppoints1.htm
why not johnny cochran?
himalayancorpseeater: We’d have to channel him.
But will he be able to throw an epic dance party like Janet Reno?
“That blast came from the Death Star! That thing’s operational!”
choinski: Or was he the bartender on Love Boat?
Another disappointing casting job… I wanted Deval Patrick as the black best friend.
OK fine, Holder for AG, very cool BHO/Wayne Brady type NTBM (non-theatening black man). But Holder or whoever should appoint as US Attorney for the District of Columbia the current elected prosecutor for Wayne County, Michigan, Kim Worthy. She’s the one who just sent Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick out of the mayor’s office and into jail, for PERJURY! She is one tough cookie, just right for taking down the crooks who’ve been running the country for the last 8 years.
Please don’t ban me but, the plural of attorney general is attorneys general.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General
And I’ll freely admit that I have no idea what they do, because really why would I take the time to read the wikipedia article that I linked to?
The New Math: 44=42
http://blogs.trb.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/06/vp_search_why_eric_holder.html
NEXT UP:
Farrakhan as Homeland Security Chief!
Sharpton for the Supreme Court!
I knew it! Uppity!
suchsweetthunder: We’re all pink on the inside.
Well, finally some good news for Arizona!! We may get to keep our governor after all…. She wasn’t much help in getting Dems elected to the legislature, but she may be around to veto the the shit out of dumbass legislation like allowing guns in bars, guns in public places, and guns in schools. Yes, AZ repubs have gun fetishes, it’s a phallic thing. (meaning that AZ republicans are mostly DICKS!)
Huh, so that’s what happened to Billy Dee Williams…
RonnyJim: “Wayne County, Michigan, Kim Worthy. She’s the one who just sent Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick out of the mayor’s office and into jail, for PERJURY! She is one tough cookie, just right for taking down the crooks who’ve been running the country for the last 8 years.”
How long do you think it would take to fill out the impeachment papers?
I can type real fast - I’d help!
Hominidx: Farrakhan as Homeland Security Chief!
Sharpton for the Supreme Court!
I knew it! Uppity!
And a couple of Rottweilers on the white House lawn?
azw88: but of moderate size….
He is black, but he has a big nose. I am not at all convinced we haven’t broke the all-Jew streak just yet…
IonaTrailer: Really? He’s still on ads for 1-800 lawyers here in Baltimore…