Eric Holder Begs Democrats To Stop Attacking Obama’s Legacy

Former Attorney General Eric Holder turned to Twitter after the second Democratic debate this week to warn/beg Democrats to stop attacking Obama’s legacy as president. He believes that everyone still loves Obama and that attacking his legacy is going to end up hurting Democrats. That isn’t how politics works, and it certainly isn’t going to sway voters one way or the other in the general election, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Well, now that we're, this week's democratic debates are over, uh, somebody probably needs to go ahead and check on Joe Biden, make sure he's doing okay because on Wednesday evening, everybody on that stage left and right just came after Biden and by extension Barack Obama's legacy. And they did. And rightfully so. I mean, hell, at one point when Biden was speaking, protesters in the crowd erupted in a chant of 3 million deportations is that's how many people were deported under the Obama Administration. Biden looked visibly flustered during that, didn't quite know what to do with, he should keep talking or whatever. And everybody kind of went after him all night. But after the debate, former attorney general turned corporate lawyer once again, Eric Holder came to both the defense of Joe Biden and Barack Obama when he tweeted out the following

"To my fellow Democrats. Be wary of attacking the Obama record. Build on it. Expand it. But there is little to be gained - for you or the party - by attacking a very successful and still popular Democratic President."

See Eric first and foremost. That's not how things work, right? Uh, you should know this. I know you know this, but you know you're trying to come to the defense of your buddy Biden and your buddy Obama and look, I like Obama as a person. I think he is a wonderful family man. He did okay on some policies as president. Foreign policy, not so much domestic policy. About half and half. Sometimes he was decent. He was okay. He wasn't phenomenal. He had issues in his record, some of which were actually just now finding out, cause I'm not going to lie, I didn't know people were locked in cages along the southern border during the Obama administration. Had I known that? Hell yeah, we would have been talking about it every day too. Now we do know that. So that's a pretty big blemish on his record. Wouldn't just say Eric Holder.

How about the fact that this is something I have said repeatedly when he announced the clean power rule. We're going to reduce emissions by this much by putting this rule in place on these existing in new coal fired power plants. Wow. People thought, hell yeah, we're taking on climate change right now. At the time. I also wrote a piece for the smog, looking at the numbers based on the math and found out that the number of new coal mines that the Obama administration had leased at the same time announcing clean power rule would create enough emissions to completely offset all of the emission reductions from the clean power plan. So essentially the clean power plan was a net zero benefit.

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