Richard Cohen, a liberal Washington Post columnist and a person with whom I usually vehemently disagree, weighs in (and gets it right) on the proposed appointment of Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General:
"But the pardon cannot be excepted. It suggests that Holder, whatever his other qualifications, could not say no to power. The Rich pardon request had power written all over it -- the patronage of important Democratic fundraisers, for instance. Holder also said he was "really struck" by the backing of Rich by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the possibility of "foreign policy benefits that would be reaped by granting the pardon." This is an odd standard for American justice, but more than that, what was Holder thinking? That U.S.-Israeli relations would suffer? Holder does not sound naive. He sounds disingenuous."
To say the least.
Not exactly "Change we can believe in", now is it?
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