Obama's Israel Advisors Are Not The Only Ones Who Are Controversial

One of the 3 men Obama has chosen to select his Vice President is sure to raise eyebrows--and questions about Obama's judgement:

OBAMA’S FIRST BLUNDER

In his first day as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama has made his first clear, serious mistake: He named Eric Holder as one of three people charged with vice-presidential vetting.

As deputy attorney general, Holder was the key person who made the pardon of Marc Rich possible in the final hours of the Clinton presidency. Now Obama will be stuck in the Marc Rich mess.

If ever there was a person who did not deserve a presidential pardon, it ‘s Marc Rich, the fugitive billionaire who renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Switzerland to avoid prosecution for racketeering, wire fraud, 51 counts of tax fraud, evading $48 million in taxes, and engaging in illegal trades with Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo following the 1979-80 hostage crisis.

More than that:

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.

And this is the man Barack Obama has chosen to put at the epicenter of perhaps the most important decision of his presidential campaign - scrutinizing the backgrounds of potential vice presidential candidates. His trust in the judgment of a man who recommended pardoning an unrepentant fugitive who had renounced his US citizenship, brings into question the presumptive nominee’s own judgment. It is one thing to reach back to Obama’s pastor to raise doubts about his values. But it is quite another to scrutinize the record of his first appointee. [emphasis added]

Next thing you know, Obama will be adding Sandy Berger to his team.

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