Obama Slaps AG's wrists -- kinda, sorta

Obama "chides" AG Holder for his language in calling America a "nation of cowards" last month. Interestingly, The Obama does not "chide" him for the concept but merely for the language employed in expressing this opinion. Quoting His Greatness:

"I think it's fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language," Obama said in a mild rebuke from America's first black president to its first black attorney general.

In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, the president said
that despite Holder's choice of words, he had a point.

"We're oftentimes uncomfortable with talking about race until there's some sort of racial flare-up or conflict," he said, adding, "We could probably be more constructive in facing up to sort of the painful legacy of slavery and Jim Crow and discrimination."

So Obama believes Holder's correct but should have used better rhetoric. A profile in courage. At least Holder had the guts to say what he thought. Who's the coward now?

Even more troubling is that apparently Obama believes this on some level despite the fact that he is the nation's first black President, defending the first black attorney general and at a time when the leader of the opposition Republican party is also black. Welcome to the world wrought by our first post-racial president.