Eric Holder and a "Nation of Cowards"

Attorney General Eric Holder, steeped in the corruption of Bill Clinton's presidential swan song pardons, is lecturing the country.

Crooked Eric Holder, one of the many ethically-challenged appointees of Barack Obama, has the audacity to slam Americans.

We're a "nation of cowards."

Unbelievable.

From FOX News:

Attorney General Eric Holder may have gone too far when he called the U.S. a "nation of cowards" during a speech at the Justice Department marking Black History Month, say some political observers who say such language could drive race relations in the wrong direction.

The remarks by the country's first black attorney general may have ripped open a scab that President Obama's election and much of his rhetoric had built on top of long-running wounds, they say.

"Well. it seems to me that it is off-message," said Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, a multi-racial network of organizations that try to promote racial harmony and oppose all forms of bigotry. "I don't think Barack Obama believes that or would say that. Obama has been saying there is one America, one race, the human race."

But others say he is doing what is expected -- addressing an issue that Obama's election has enabled to be discussed.

...Race, Holder said, "is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation's history, this is in some ways understandable. ... If we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another and tolerant enough of each other to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us."

In his speech, Holder urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for honest discussion of racial matters, including issues of health care, education and economic disparities. He also used more blunt language.

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder said.

Matt Miller, a spokesman for Holder, said later the attorney general used "provocative words to be clear that Americans of all races should stop avoiding the difficult issues of race."

I agree with Holder's spokesman. Holder's words are provocative and they are clear.

He believes Americans are cowards when it comes to matters of race.

What a sweeping and exceedingly lame generalization!

Where does Holder get off chastising Americans on race?

Americans just elected Barack Obama to be president.

Holder is the Attorney General.

Where is the racial cowardice in that?

Good grief.

He and those of his ilk are in a time warp. They live in a different America than I do, one frozen from 40 or 50 years ago. My America isn't the backward place that Holder occupies.

At least Holder didn't rail like Jeremiah Wright, "God damn America!"

Obama's administration is a mess.