Eric Holder blasts Sarah Palin as a 'not particularly good' Vice President candidate as he claims racism is behind Obama impeachment calls

  • 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'

By Kirk Maltais

Published: 13:49 EST, 13 July 2014 | Updated: 07:13 EST, 14 July 2014

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

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.'

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

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

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.

 

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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.

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

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

'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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Holder and Obama are the 2 most ignorant people in the Us Gov,bar none.Like all democrats,they drink the cool aid and worship their icons.Also Piglosi And Harry the brain dead, are almost just as ignorant if not more so.Sadly the US has a very high percentage of college students who are totally politicaly ignorant and havent a clue about Gov.

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Even House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, said 2 days ago that there are simply no grounds on which impeach Obama but you fools just keep repeating the same nonsense. Sad how flat out stupid so many Americans are.

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Mr.Holder is not very smart,he got the job because of his race.

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Mr. "I can't prosecute my people".

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Holder and his boss got into power using their friend Ray Cism, and now find him to be a great excuse for why people don't like them. He's definitely the most powerful card in the deck.

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"Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it."-- Lysander Spooner

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Holden should answer the questions rather than hurl insults. What a gross man.

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Sarah wants Joe Biden for President!! Way to go, Palin.

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That's great! Clearly the conservatives didn't think this ALL the way through!

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Joe Biden, my 8 year old, or a ham sandwich would be MUCH better for America than Barry.

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Hopefully when the Democrats win the next election with a white presidential candidate, the Republican, Tea Party crowd will be more willing to compromise.

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You are clueless as to what conservative principles are and how they will save this nation.

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To the left compromise means give me 90% of what I want. And when it fails they scream the reason is because we didn't get the other 10%. And the simple, like the above, eat it up.

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It's so convenient to have one, and only one, answer to all criticism.

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