I Am Reminded Why I Dropped My Daily Subscription to the Minneapolis Star Tribune

[davidschroth]

Headline for an article in today's STRIB:

Holder, first black attorney general, quits

Not resigns - quits. I believe the man will end up being the third longest-serving Attorney General of the modern era, but the Strib has now labeled him a quitter.

Bah.

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Yup, the STrib, as I recall from reading a few issues, can sometimes be quite knuckleheaded -- although I have a lot of respect for the word "quit". Hey, the guy who quits enters the boardroom meeting unannounced, kicks the spitoon into the portrait of the Corporate Founder, tells the people who are running the business what he thinks of them, & stalks out. The guy who merely resigns may be (dishonestly, in a sense) concealing the fact that he's dealing with strong emotions involving violations of his integrity. I'm too discouraged to follow Politics much, and don't know the ins & outs of this bit, but I figure there's a fair chance Holder has resigned/quit because his superiors -- Congress and the President -- have not allowed him to do what he -- ethically & morally -- considers to be his job. I'm all in favor of him kicking a lot of spitoons around. (Mind you, I'm also open to the idea that Holder is as much of a knucklehead/asshole as most other Washington Politicians (including, to my agonized distress, President Obama).

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Well, at the same time Obama was making headlines about not prosecuting medical marijuana -- while in fact naming an anti-med-mari crusader to head the department that in fact made, and is continuing to make, the raids -- pro-med-mari Holder might have a few complaints.