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(68,868 posts)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
(26,795 posts)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
(114,904 posts)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
(55,981 posts)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
(53,475 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)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
(7,143 posts)The Groupthink Module, however, is churning out some boffo sloganeering.
functioning_cog
(294 posts)Some people have some pretty sad personal circumstances, I am sure. Maybe this is their stress relief.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)functioning_cog
(294 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)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
(294 posts)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
(55,745 posts)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
nt.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)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
(19,926 posts)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
(39,909 posts)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
(55,745 posts)Like "Banksters"?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022823709
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Thesaurus Peckers. Twitter Historians. Googletarians.
Like that.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Projection.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Just thought I'd give you fair warning.
functioning_cog
(294 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)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
(294 posts)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
(55,745 posts)Meanwhile, Don Siegelman remains railroaded and imprisoned.
Here's how BFEE ties it together:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022073759
nt.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)What is the point of bringing that up?
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)better be careful.
functioning_cog
(294 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Funny that.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"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 Holders 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
(34,169 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)You're so clever.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Most progressives I have seen here think the same.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)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
(19,926 posts)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
(65,616 posts)spout propaganda all day and they are easily avoided and laughed at by the masses.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.