Eric Holder Hospitalized

[okaawhatever]

Source: Takling Points Memo

During his regular morning meeting with senior staff, the Attorney General began experiencing symptoms including faintness and shortness of breath. As a precaution, the Attorney General was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center to undergo further evaluation. He is currently resting comfortably and in good condition. He is alert and conversing with his doctors. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

[Scuba]

1. Spine implant surgery?

[heaven05]

2. ouch!

[michello]

3. Wow..Everything is not a fucking joke.

[msanthrope]

4. Really, not cool. nt

[Ikonoklast]

7. That's funny.

I always joke at people having medical emergencies, so fucking amusing.

[Cha]

21. Yeah, shows how much class they have or

not.

[DeSwiss]

40. I know what you mean....

...I don't know why people get so upset over medical emergencies, illness and death all the time.

- When it's funny it's just funny, right?

[Whisp]

8. how low can you go?

let's go Scuba diving!

[warrant46]

15. It certainly would improve his demeanor

[Cha]

18. Bullshit. You know not one damn thing about the AG.

[warrant46]

32. You need to clean up your language

[bitchkitty]

34. Oh please, Angel May!

Don't be such a fluffy bunny. Bullshit is hardly the worst word you'll hear on a political forum.

[warrant46]

37. Maybe not

However, it shows a lack of civility and an inability to articulate one's opinion or philosophy.

It also shows a low functioning ability to use refined and cultured language to articulate a point. In this case it was the usual ad-homonim attack into which this forum has recently degenerated.

We should be more interested in the 2014 election and how to help our candidates rather than using base and crude language on each other. I don't mind being told I'm wrong or need to change. I do however find that it is tedious to keep seeing around here sets of English-language words written with four letters which are profane, including common popular or slang terms for excretory functions, sexual activity and genitalia.

[Common Sense Party]

39. +1000

Well said.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

42. What's funny is, you give this dissertation about class and civility....

....while mocking a man who was hospitalized.

[warrant46]

47. Hospitalized for Overwork he is exhausted

Working on Committing a few War Crimes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014780221

Judge: Feds can hide rationale for killing U.S. citizen

The Justice Department was entitled to withhold the memo on the grounds of national security and lawyer-client confidentiality, Chief U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland said Friday.

Although U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other Obama administration officials have made public statements justifying drone strikes, Wilken said none of them was specific enough for her to rule against the government's claim of secrecy and require officials to disclose the legal rationale for the Yemen attack.

This guy is a Murderer and yet as Scuba says when it comes to Cheney and the Bankers this idiot has a missing spine

[The Wielding Truth]

55. Get better soon, Eric! We really need you. I applaud your dogged determination to work hard and

run your office legally. You have not sold out or given in. That would take a toll on anyone in the wretched environment where you have to deal with the criminal Republican House.

[bitchkitty]

50. Wouldn't it be nice if the world

were squeaky clean and everyone was polite and minded their manners and used fifty-dollar words to disagree?

But it isn't, and people have differing opinions, and some of them curse. If you're offended by strong language, you should try for a more cerebral topic. Politics ain't it.

[LanternWaste]

51. Much as stating that a hospital stay for unknown reasons may improve one's demeanor.

"it shows a lack of civility..."

Much as stating that a hospital stay for unknown reasons may improve one's demeanor.

(Insert disingenuous rationalization here so you do not look guilty of holding others to a higher standard than you hold yourself to...)

[upaloopa]

53. Why use DU to take somebody's inventory?

I've noticed a trend to define other DUers for all to see. That isn't our job here. You may be right but I don't think it is any more worthy of respect than the thing you are complaining about.
Take your own inventory there surely is enough there to work on.

[lunatica]

54. You said excretory, sexual and genitalia

Watch your language!

[juajen]

56. Well, I've been BSing since 2002.

I have never been criticized for my language. I am much more offended when someone says "anyways". Now, that's a bad word.

[juajen]

58. Bullshit!

[AnalystInParadise]

46. I had a post blocked for using the F word

not calling someone a name, just using the F word. A fluffy bunny did not like it and alerted

[warrant46]

48. Well a certain poster has used it three times in this thread already

[bitchkitty]

49. Tender blossoms abound! LOL n/t

[nilesobek]

57. The "indignant alert,"

just because someone disagrees with another is trending on DU. Its a form of censorship. I seriously doubt the "F" word was the reason your post was hidden.

[BeyondGeography]

27. Maybe you and Louie Gohmert could get a room together

Have a little Holder haterz fete while you root for him to meet his maker.

[Paladin]

36. +1. Well said. (nt)

[pacerbluedrum1949]

28. Really????

I know you think your hilarious,I know you would do a whole lot better than our President or Attorney General. Facing unbelievable obstruction .meeting with idiots like Golmert and Issa with false accusations and personal attacks not only on their character but their patriotism by a bunch lying Grifters that masquerade as legitimate politicians .No the President and Attorney Have not done every I want but SPINELESS ,I got to call that Bullshit.

[CreekDog]

29. being hospitalized is a great opportunity for humor

[AnalystInParadise]

30. Haha

if only.

[Common Sense Party]

5. Glad to hear he's in good condition.

Hopefully the good doctors can remove his head from his...

Never mind.

[Cha]

19. Yeah, never mind is fucking right.

[Common Sense Party]

22. Thank you for your belated vulgarity and hostility.

I feel so much better now.

Have a great day.

[Paladin]

23. Why look at that: Your favorite group is Gun Control/RKBA.

How completely unsurprising.

[Common Sense Party]

24. Yawn.

SSDD.

[warrant46]

38. See #37 above

[DJ13]

6. So one of his staff asked about charging banksters with crimes, and he got faint?

[Cha]

20. Sounds like you know fuck all about it.

[hedgehog]

9. Welcome to Democratic Underground -

where we eat our own!

[michello]

10. +1

[freshwest]

11. +2

[Sunlei]

12. I read the Doctors released him & he went home. fatigue?

He has an exhausting job. Mentioned last year he was tired. Lucky he didn't full out faint, hit his head like what happened to Mrs. Clinton.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. UPDATE: Holder released from Hospital after feeling faint

By ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder was hospitalized for several hours Thursday and treated for an elevated heart rate after experiencing lightheadedness and shortness of breath, the Justice Department said.

Holder arrived as a precaution at a Washington hospital around 10:30 a.m. and was given medicine to restore his heart rate to a normal level. He was discharged less than three hours later after completing a series of tests. He walked out of the hospital on his own and was sent home to rest Thursday afternoon, according to a Justice Department statement that described him as "alert and in good spirits." A heart attack was ruled out.

The Justice Department said Holder experienced similar symptoms several years ago, but the symptoms were milder then and did not require serious medical attention.

Holder, a trim 63-year-old, is known inside the department for bypassing the elevator and taking the stairs at a brisk pace to reach his fifth-floor office. He also plays basketball.

The White House says President Barack Obama was notified and wished Holder a "speedy recovery."
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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/27/3962921/holder-hospitalized-as-precaution.html#storylink=cpy

[Nine]

25. glad to hear it (nt)

[pitohui]

26. get well soon

with those symptoms i would have guessed he'd need a stent, glad he just needed some meds

[Crepuscular]

14. Probably

Probably stress related, he should smoke some weed and relax.

[Beacool]

16. I'm glad that he's out of the hospital.

Good vibes........

[Redford]

17. Wow, he's 63????

He looks pretty good

[AnalystInParadise]

31. All the ne'er do wells

in this thread crack me up. Dickless Cheney is a fucking bastard, but people seem to make all kinds of jokes here every time he goes in the hospital. Gallows humor for thee, but not for me......Got it......Some of us use Gallows Humor to cope......... after five tours in Iraq, I know I do.

[JI7]

33. it's a democratic forum and you are complaining about how things are so unfair to republicans

[AnalystInParadise]

43. LOL

no I am pointing out hypocrisy. Thank you for adding to my argument. I loathe Cheney, kind of why I called him Dickless Cheney and a bastard. But I guess complex concepts like consistency and hypocrisy fly right by your head

[JI7]

45. i guess you never figured out this is a political forum which means there will be partisans

but go on and play the "both sides" game that CNN always does.

[RainDog]

35. Best wishes for a speedy recovery to him n/t

[AnalystInParadise]

44. Agreed

n/t

[DeSwiss]

41. It was probably some.....

...bad asparagus.

- Was Louis Gohmert seen in the area shortly before he became ill?

K&R

[libodem]

52. I blame Louis the Gomer

For all the added stress of swallowing his pride, just to speak with him in that hearing, recently. If Holder could have just punched him in the face one time his blood pressure would be normal.