On a personal level, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are friends. But when it come to politics, the president now has literally given Holder the cold shoulder at two consecutive State of the Union addresses.
After last year’s address, we noticed that the president pointedly skipped greeting Holder during his post-speech walk into the well of the House of Representatives. He greeted other Cabinet members in the front row with hand shakes, back slaps, laughs and grins. When he got to Holder – who was then mired in controversy over trying terrorism suspects in federal court and other national security matters – Obama acted as if the attorney general were invisible.
Last night, Obama repeated the performance. He clearly doesn’t want to be caught on camera warmly greeting his top law enforcement officer, whose policies have upset conservatives. An anonymous YouTube user uploaded the video, which you can see below:
