Former Attorney General Eric Holder and Rev. Al Sharpton warned
Democratic presidential candidates against attacking former President Barack Obama, whose record came under
fire during Wednesday night’s
CNN debate.“To my fellow Democrats. Be wary of attacking the Obama record. Build on it. Expand it. But there is little to be gained – for you or the party – by attacking a very successful and still popular Democratic President,” Holder warned on
Twitter late Wednesday night.“This whole suicide mission of going after
Barack Obama smells like desperation, and I think it certainly shows that some of them are just not ready for where they are, and that is where you can take incoming fire and also shoot fire out,” Sharpton said in a Thursday morning appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”“You and I, Joe, have built our careers taking shots at people, but we also know how to take a shot without throwing our mama in front of the bus,” Sharpton told host Joe Scarborough.Democratic candidates took shots at Obama’s record Wednesday while clashing with former Vice President
Joe Biden, the current front runner.Julian Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under Obama, claimed Biden hadn’t learned from “the lessons of the past,” because Biden opposes decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings.