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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho is the worst Secretary of Obama's cabinet?
For my 2 cents, it's not even close: Attorney General Eric Holder.
From Torture, Securities Fraud, Mortgage Fraud to Drugs and Privacy, Holder has been 'wrong way Marv' every time. The responsibilities and independence of the DOJ, only make his failures all the more reprehensible.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Loudmxr
(1,405 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Webster Green
(13,905 posts)I hate that mutherfucker! Not too crazy about his boss either.
pnorman
(8,155 posts)n/t
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)I think he's pretty clueless, and leans towards fascism a little too much for me, but the alternatives are much worse.
Either way...we're fucked.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)My money's on Holder.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)"Who is the worst person in the Obama administration?"
Thank you for pointing out my error.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Hillary Clinton ordered American officials to spy on high ranking UN diplomats, including British representatives.
Top secret cables revealed that Mrs Clinton, the Secretary of State, even ordered diplomats to obtain DNA data including iris scans and fingerprints - as well as credit card and frequent flier numbers.
All permanent members of the security council including Russia, China, France and the UK were targeted by the secret spying mission, as well as the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon.
The U.S. also wanted biographic and biometric information on UN Security Council permanent representatives.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)I haven't been following the Obama Administration closely. When I do it angers and depresses me.
eridani
(51,907 posts)I very rarely see anything about them in the MSM, though.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)and Chu I fear is pretty energy complex friendly. His credibility and quality given weight because he is actually a serious scientist rather than a lackey politician for the extration industry or just a rich guy with connections.
To be fair and honest though, the BP gusher fiasco hobbled the credibility of most that touched it as far as I'm concerned.
Don't fear for my vote though, collusion and toady fucking lies are better than unconditional surrender and public apologies from even toadier heathens playing to the craziest and functional evil fuckers in America.
They have fomented and are ruled by neo-Birchers and should be erradicated as an enemy of the civilization, as dangerous as any extremist to be found to a free people. They are the Klan in a suit talking about "our friends at the Chamber of Commerce", "family values", and "spreading democracy".
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)I am baffled as to why he is still gainfully employed.
After that Duncan. Bad, bad appointment for so many reasons. Especially strategically. Teachers are the ones who used to volunteer in campaign offices, without which, campaigns don't exist. I doubt we will see a teacher presence in those offices this time around.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)The effects of his greed and incompetence are irreversible.
marmar
(77,080 posts)....... Crackhead guarding a crackhouse.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)but Holder's not a Secretary.
former9thward
(32,006 posts)No his official title is not "Secretary" but it is the equivalent with the other cabinet heads.
Alexander
(15,318 posts)It's interesting how no one is mentioning Ray LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation and the only Republican in Obama's Cabinet. Meaning that even on DU, those four so-called "Democrats" are worse than the Republican.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)He seems altogether too palsy-walsy with Michael Gove, our idiot Education Secretary. At least I have the impression that Duncan is much more intelligent and competent than Gove, who looks like a fool, talks like a fool, and by golly, he is a fool! But their policies are too similar for my taste, and I suspect that Duncan may be one of the influences on Gove, or that the same people are influencing them both.
This is not a general anti-Obama comment; I have a great respect for President Obama, and his advisors and cabinet ministers seem overall to be practically intellectual giants in comparison with the twits who surround Cameron.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Wake up, America. The theft is bipartisan and will not stop until we get the corporate money out of politics.
Fix our party. Occupy.