Holder: 'A certain racial component' to 'people talking about taking their country back'

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[h=1]US Atty General Eric Holder responds to Sarah Palin's call to impeach Obama, blasts her as a 'not particularly good' VP candidate and an 'even worse judge of who ought to be impeached'[/h]

• Holder was responding to a July 8 op-ed by Sarah Palin published on Breitbart.com, in which she claimed that Obama's lax policies regarding border control were grounds for impeachment

• Also criticized by Holder were calls for his own impeachment due to his declining to hire a special prosecutor to handle the IRS scandal, as well as the Republican-led lawsuit against Obamacare

• Holder: 'A certain racial component' to 'people talking about taking their country back'

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder took to ABC's 'This Week' Sunday morning to blast conservative personality and former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in response to her editorial calling for the impeachment of President Obama.


'She wasn't a particularly good vice presidential candidate' said Holder on the political talk show, speaking to host George Stephanopoulos. 'She's an even worse judge of who ought to be impeached and why.'


Holder's comments were responses to an editorial written by Palin and published last week on Breitbart.com, entitled 'It's Time to Impeach President Obama.'

US Attorney General Eric Holder took aim at a recent op-ed by Sarah Palin , in which the conservative personality advocated for the impeachment of President Obama

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Palin's article asserts that Obama is purposefully weakening the border security between the United States and Mexico, and declares it grounds for impeachment proceedings to begin.



'Enough is enough of the years of abuse from this president,' she opened her op-ed with. 'His unsecured border crisis is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, "no mas.”'



Holder responded with disdain for Palin's criticisms, also denouncing 'gridlocked Washington' and the Republican Party's continuing efforts to block any initiatives from the Obama Administration.




'For whatever reason, [some] Republicans decided early on that this was a president they were just simply not going to cooperate with,' Holder told ABC News' Pierre Thomas in a rare interview. 'And over



the past five-and-a-half years, we have seen demonstrations of that, where the president has reached out his hand, offered compromises that have simply not been met [in the way] they have been in the past by a Republican Party willing to do the appropriate things.'

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Holder on ABC's 'This Week,' where he also criticized the Republican lawsuit against Obamacare and defended himself against accusations that he should be impeached for declining to appoint a special prosecutor to handle investigation of the IRS scandal



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[akphidelt]

Everyone knows that's what the Tea Party means by "Taking their country back". It's just the South rising up again and race is just as big of a problem for them as it was 150 years ago. Sad that they haven't progressed.

 

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Holder also dismissed calls for himself to be impeached due to declining to appoint a special prosecutor to deal with the latest IRS scandal involving former executive Lois Lerner and allegations of targeting of conservative politicians and covering it up.




Holder insisted that hiring a special prosecutor was not necessary, and FBI agents investigating the allegations were 'doing a good, professional job.'



In Palins op-ed, she claimed that a lax approach by Obama in the enforcement of border security is allowing illegal immigrants to flood the country and irreparably damage the middle class by adding an undue burden on various American resources.



Palin also warned that without action now, Obama's 'lawlessness' would worsen.



'It’s not going to get better, and in fact irreparable harm can be done in this lame-duck term as he continues to make up his own laws as he goes along, and, mark my words, will next meddle in the U.S. Court System with appointments that will forever change the basic interpretation of our Constitution’s role in protecting our rights.'




She concluded her op-ed with 'The many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored. If after all this he’s not impeachable, then no one is.'




In the ABC interview, Holder commented that he believed that some level of racism was involved with the cries of Republicans to impeach both himself and Obama.

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Holder contended that the criticisms of himself and Obama (pictured) have some basis in 'racial animus'



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'There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president,' Holder said. 'You know, people talking about taking their country back. … There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.'



House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republican leaders have said that they do not support calls for Obama's impeachment. Boehner does support a lawsuit filed against the Affordable Care Act, which Holder also lambasted in his interview.




'It's a more, I think, a political gesture than a truly legal one,' Holder said. 'Filing a lawsuit against the president that has no basis is not going to improve the quality of life for the American people.'


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[The Guesser]

Holder's a fool, although I agree with him in this instance. The USAG should not be appearing on Sunday Talk Shows responding to things an irrelevant idiot like Palin says. It lowers the office.

 

[GasMan]

Everyone knows that's what the Tea Party means by "Taking their country back". It's just the South rising up again and race is just as big of a problem for them as it was 150 years ago. Sad that they haven't progressed.

Yeah that's what it's all about, whites not liking black folk.

You are a fucking retard.

 

[gtc08]

look at your average tea party. all conservative white males. ill believe the tea party is legit when they get behind a black candidate instead of just posting that ill vote for a black candidate.

still do not think your average white conservative male would vote for a black male.

 

[Albatross]

Yeah that's what it's all about, whites not liking black folk.

You are a fucking retard.

But he loves scientists and acdemica

 

[NFLTrends]

But its not racist when people of a different color were criticizing Bush.....

Its not racist to promote someone of a different race to a position/college because of their race, when someone of a different race was more qualified...

Trying to wrap my head around this logic gives me a headache.

 

[Acebb]

look at your average tea party. all conservative white males. ill believe the tea party is legit when they get behind a black candidate instead of just posting that ill vote for a black candidate.

still do not think your average white conservative male would vote for a black male.

Your ignorance is beyond comical.

It is at the point of parody.

[h=1]Meet Sen. Tim Scott: The Tea Party Lawmaker Who Wanted To Impeach President Obama And Kick Kids Off Food Stamps[/h]

 

[Acebb]

^ Scott is one of only two African-American members currently serving in the United States Senate, the first African-American senator from the state of South Carolina, and the first from the South since 1881

Too bad no white Tea Party people support him, huh?

 

[roadreeler57]

Everyone knows that's what the Tea Party means by "Taking their country back". It's just the South rising up again and race is just as big of a problem for them as it was 150 years ago. Sad that they haven't progressed.

Has nothing to do with race....The color is green & doesnt matter who costs us money...Very expensive future Democrat voters coming across the border....I
dont care if they are sneaking in here from Poland if they are going to cost us money in many different ways now & down the road then they can stay home....We cannot afford to be everybodys Mommy & Daddy & pay pay pay...

 

[Acebb]

Illegals are invading & attitudes are not good.

 

[roadreeler57]

Illegals are invading & attitudes are not good.

 

[carlspackler]

Everyone knows that's what the Tea Party means by "Taking their country back". It's just the South rising up again and race is just as big of a problem for them as it was 150 years ago. Sad that they haven't progressed.

You are a Tool. Look at how white this audience is. Look at what his banner says. All I see is Racists.

 

[Willie99]

it's the only argument simple minded ignorant people can make, they lack ideas and brains and class

they are buffoons

and they know they're speaking to buffoons, thus libtardville was born

 

[akphidelt]

it's the only argument simple minded ignorant people can make, they lack ideas and brains and class

they are buffoons

and they know they're speaking to buffoons, thus libtardville was born

You really shouldn't be speaking about racial issues with your history.

 

[Willie99]

But its not racist when people of a different color were criticizing Bush.....

Its not racist to promote someone of a different race to a position/college because of their race, when someone of a different race was more qualified...

Trying to wrap my head around this logic gives me a headache.

that's because it's not logic, it's pure unblemished ignorance, as bad as ignorance can get

you simply have to realize it for what it is, the headaches will subside