Showing less than “Solomon-esque” wisdom, President Elect Barack Obama announced the appointment of Eric Holder to the position of Attorney General, the top dog for the Department of Justice.  Holder served as deputy attorney general under Pres. Bill Clinton, during his final term.

If it were a contest, Holder could easily win the prize for being the attorney “most likely to help the bad guy get  away” award.   He did so with such vigor and finesse that even the late Johnny Cochran of O.J. Simpson fame would have to give him credit.Keep in mind that it was during Holder’s watch that the Justice Department recommended that Clinton NOT take out Osama Bin Laden in the Sudan, even though special ops were in sight and ready to go.

Holder had a primary and active role in the pardon of tax-evading Marc Rich, the 16 FALN terrorists (all who even Holder acknowledged were unrepentant), and the pardons of Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans, who were members of the Weather Underground, and worked with Bill Ayers bombing U.S. government facilities.

In 2002, a congressional committee reported that Holder was a “willing participant in the plan to keep the Justice Department from knowing about and opposing” the Rich pardon in particular. In my legal dictionary, there is a phrase that is used to simply the sentence “willing participant in the plan to keep the Justice Department from knowing”.    The phrase is simply “Obstruction of Justice”, and that is a felony.

When you bill yourself as the great agent of change, and your most important appointments, before you even get into office, are cronies from previous administrations who are still, to this day, dogged with allegations of misconduct, one has to ask what is the nature of this “change” that we are so anxiously awaiting.   Obama never answered that question during his campaign. He is answering it loud and clear now.