Al Sharpton Says He's Helping The White House Pick The Next Attorney General.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, is "engaged in immediate conversations" with the White House as they work to name a successor to Attorney General Eric Holder, who is set to announce his resignation Thursday afternoon.

"We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder," Sharpton said in a statement.

Sharpton praised Holder, the first African-American attorney general, as the "best" one in history when it comes to civil rights.

"The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community," he said. "We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most."

According to a Politico profile in August, in the aftermath of the racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri, Sharpton has become Obama's "go-to man" on race issues.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether Sharpton is involved in the decision-making process for Holder's successor.

In his statement, Sharpton further urged Holder or his successor to promptly take over the investigations of both the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, whose fatal encounter with the police triggered the Ferguson protests, and the death of Eric Garner during a New York Police Department arrest in Staten Island.

"As I stood with the families of Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner of Staten Island, New York, and called on the Justice Department to take over the criminal investigations of those cases …. today, we hope Attorney General Holder will authorize this before his departure or that it becomes the first order of business for his successor," Sharpton said.

Update (3:17 p.m.): Sharpton sent a statement to Business Insider clarifying that he is not involved in the "decision making."

"We did not say we are in the decision making. We are in conversation to reach out to them to have meetings about what we want to see in a successor," said Sharpton. "I have personally spoken to Attorney General Eric Holder today to express my views that he was the best civil rights Attorney General in history."

seems Dullston is getting less sharp by the day!

I'm confident MANY special-interest groups have appointments with each and every currently-seated POTUS on any given day during any given Presidency, regardless of any other topical current events which may be concurrently unfolding.

I'm confident Al Sharpton has had appointments with several PsOTUS, before...and will have, again.



Is there some reason this POTUS is held to a different status than any other past or future POTUS? Is there SOMEthing singularly different about THIS President, which makes every single thing HE does suddenly more suspect than that which every single President since our nation's inception has done?



Hmmmmm...what could it be, what could it be???

maybe his Napoleonic Behavior?

Or perhaps because he's a liar?

At 6'1" our POTUS acts like he's a short man who wishes he were taller?!?



Oh, now...that doesn't even make sense. We've had 11 Presidents who were all 5'8" or shorter.



Nahhhh...the different standards by which THIS President is judged MUST BE based on something other than his height...

I guess no one remembers the tawana brawly fiasco or

charlatan's inciting of the riot at freddys fashion mart that

caused seven people to die at a small Jewish store in harlem.


I stared, when I saw the the letters of the title, that alleoops

posted it seemed to read back to me, Pack of Rats in the White House

the only letter missing was the f.

there are other words just thinking from the past that immediately

come to mind,,,

race baiter, incendiary, dividing, huckster, charlatan, carpetbagger,

murderer, bad actor, thief, fraud... I ;ll think of some more later...

Oh. This POTUS is not allowed to meet with private appointments with people who represent special-interest groups like every other POTUS has done since the beginning of time,

because this POTUS is the only President who has ever lied.




Tell us, were you able to type that with a straight face?



Nahhhh...pretty much every POTUS has lied about one thing or another since the inception of this nation, so THAT can't be the one thing that is different about this POTUS, which means HE is held to a different standard than any other POTUS ever.




Hmmmm...what...on...Earth...can...it...be...



Oh, BTW...how's your advice-to-others-to-simply-ignore-me coming along, Oopsie?

Could it be the economy, or the deficit? Gee, Wisconsin ranks last in employment. Did ya know that?

Sharpie is a fidiot.

Barry is a fail and embarrassment.

He's the current liar-in-chief.

Voted in only because of his black half.

Tokens have no value.

maybe it's his Selfesteem that got Midgetized!

I honestly thought this topic was going to be

Al Sharpton Says He's Helping The White House Pick The Next - man made virus.

After all, there are those who think Ebola is man made

NotSoSharpton couldn't pick his nose without his brain falling out!

I wouldn't trust his judgement on toilet paper, much less a national leader.

"I have personally spoken to Attorney General Eric Holder today......" yep, just 2 racist crooks talking about how to scam another liberal into office to best screw us next!

It's interesting that not a single person can come up with a singular - and unique - feature of THIS POTUS which warrants others' singular - and unique - justification that he should be singularly - and uniquely - held to a different set of standards than every other POTUS before him.


Is it his youth? Nope...Teddy Roosevelt was 42.

Because he's of a different religious faith? Nope...John F. Kennedy is the ONLY non-Protestant POTUS we've ever had - and that includes Obama.

Because he's short? Nope...at 6'1", he's considered our 10th tallest POTUS.

Because of his weight? Nope. 8 other PsOTUS have weighed less; he's nowhere even near the heaviest.



What...is...so...unique...about...THIS...POTUS that he *deserves* to be held to SUCH a different standard from all the OTHER Presidents?!?



ANYONE? Perhaps one of you could Google what it is about THIS current POTUS that makes him SOOOOOOO unique...


...and therefore worthy of *having to* operate under a different set of standards.

Gee, I don't know...... maybe his disdain for America and it's people? His failed policies? His lack of leadership? The fact that he's an habitual liar?

No matter how hard I try, ethically and morally I just can't bring myself to join his support group

As far as Sharpie appointments with important people..... are you including the ones when he was arrested and brought up on charges by the FBI and CIA for extortion, corruption and racketeering..... before he ratted out his "friends" to save his own bacon??

What's the difference between a convicted felon and an informant?

Money and influence

Funny..... it seems Holder was working in the AG's office at the time........

I would say that this comment is open minded and well on target.

But sadly misinformed........

Meh. I'd give it a

on a minority, sliding scale. Some aren't required to aim very high.

What "different" standard(s)?...