Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Oh, Good Lord No!

Last night on Chris Hays' show, former Attorney General Eric Holder said he's considering running for president in 2020.   I'm sure I'm not the first to say it but Mr Holder should stop dreaming.   Him running would do nothing good except it would remind people of the glaring fact that he refused to go after billionaires and multi-millionaires who stole billions of dollars and destroyed the lives of many Americans, he did so because he is the kind of Democrat who is first and foremost a servant of the oligarchs, no matter what else he might do   

Even when I could agree with what he said on Chris Hays' show his mealy-mouthed, weak articulation of what was wrong with what Trump and his fascist regime is doing should lead any rational Democrat to see that he would be an ineffective candidate.   Even his criticism of James Comey, who sandbagged the most qualified Democratic candidate in the history of American elections on behalf of not only the least qualified, the most obviously disastrous candidate in modern history was weak and conciliatory.   It won't happen but if Eric Holder became President, his conciliation to Republicans and the enemies of Democrats and democracy would make Barack Obama seem like he didn't do the same thing for eight years.   He would leave Democrats more demoralized than Obama managed to do as he squandered the strongest hand a Democrat had been given in more than a generation, he would make the 2010 disaster look like a tap on the ass instead of the catastrophe it is. 

Eric Holder is a very smart man, he wasn't a very good Democratic Attorney General, unless by Democratic you mean the ultra-wealthy connected Democrats of NYC-DC-LA.   He has never done much to discomfort the Republicans of that same class.   When you hear Democrats rail about the billionaire crooks who got away with it, Holder did more than almost anyone to let them get away with it. 

Holder should forget the fantasies that he's presidential material.  He isn't.  No one should encourage him or those who would be stupid enough to support a candidacy, it would do more to divide Democrats than to unite us to defeat fascism.  

2 comments:

  1. Chris Hayes, you illiterate nitwit. With an e. Not Hays.

    Jeebus H. Christ on a piece of challah toast, you don't even know whose show you're watching.

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    1. The other day when I went to check out what you'd lied about at Duncan's I noticed a pretty glaring typo in his text. Considering that this text is long by Duncan's current standards, I'd guess his typo-misspelling-elisions-etc. rate is higher than mine is. Yet you don't seem to notice.

      Not to mention your own.

      When I'm in a position to hire an editor, do apply if only for giving me the pleasure of turning you down. I think I'll leave it as is to annoy you.

      How come you didn't address my response to your Pulitzer Prize snark the other night? You clearly didn't know the guy's music any more than I do and you certainly didn't know the issues involved in opening up the music Pulitzer past classical music, a cause championed by just one of the many Jewish composers you've declared "entartete Kultur" even as you know none of his music or his musical activities.

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