I’m surprised to learn that Eric Holder is a Black Muslim Terrorist.

As President-Elect Obama continues to form his radical socialist administration…

Wait, no, I knew about the black part. The rest of it is a bit of a shock, but it must be true if Obama picked him…

Former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder will be Barack Obama’s Attorney General, unless there’s some funny business during his formal “vetting” over the next couple of weeks. This will make Holder the first African-American Attorney General. (Actually, Holder was already the first African-American Attorney General for about 14 days back at the end of the Clinton administration, but nobody counts that.)

It’s a very good pick. There are a couple of hang-ups centered around some things that Holder said about “enemy combatants” and their rights that I’d like to see resolved, so that’s why I haven’t called him a “great” pick. But he’s said quite a few other things since then that make me pretty happy.

Stolen from Digby:

In addition to closing Gitmo, Holder insisted the next president should:

* Declare without qualification a policy that the United States will not torture political detainees, engage in forced interrogations or submit people to degrading treatment in prison;

* End all programs, covert or otherwise, to transfer detainees to nations that practice torture;

* Stop domestic search and seizures without warrant and end wiretapping of citizens.

“We have lost our way before,” Holder told the 350 attendees at the Friday evening session. “Now we must step back into the shining path envisioned by our founding fathers in such icons of liberty as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.”

Those are pretty much exactly the things I want to hear.

And Glenn Greenwald has a pretty good overview of initial thoughts (both good things and reservations) about Holder that you should probably read.

But the guy’s obviously very smart and very qualified. We ought to find out a little more about his views during confirmation (unless he obfuscates like, say, Mukasey, but I don’t anticipate that), so assuming that he clarifies these statements on rights of detainees to my satisfaction (along with a couple of other issues Greenwald raises), I’m all aboard.

Who’s next? This is exciting.