Obama Comments on Eric Holder’s “Nation of Cowards” Remark

  When I first heard that President Obama came out against Eric Holder and his “nation of cowards” comment about race relations in the United States, I decided that I would write a post about how I agreed with the president. After all it is very rare that I agree with him on anything, I think I have done one post agreeing with the president, maybe two. So in the interest of being fair I felt that I should write another post on an issue with which I agreed with the president.

  But then I read the actual comment the president made about the “nation of cowards” remark. The president said, “I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language.”  This statement was not rebuking Eric Holder’s comment, all that the president said was that he would have said what Eric Holder said differently.

  The president didn’t even say that he didn’t think what Holder said was true, in fact it seems to me that he condoned the sentiment while questioning the delivery. It seems that the president agrees with the comment but would have articulated it differently.

  President Obama had a chance to stand behind the American people, the same people that elected him, but instead he decided to punt. President Obama had an opportunity to stand up and proclaim that he is living proof that any America regardless of color, creed, or sex can achieve whatever they set their goals upon, but instead he refused to do so. I find this failure to be as disappointing as his radical left wing policies.