article_snippet: the president, defending the GOP against charges of bigotry, says the GOP President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder who are 'playing the race card' and not the other way around. '
article_snippet: To say that we criticize, or that I criticize, Obama or Eric Holder because of race, I just think it’s obviously not true,' the president said. '
article_snippet: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, seen here on the set of Meet the Press in December, says it's 'obviously not true' that the GOP criticisms of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are race-related . '
article_snippet: Certainly we haven’t given up—nor should we give up—the right to criticize an administration and public officials,' the former George W. Bush administration and George H.W. Bush administration official said after journalist James Rosen asked journalist James Rosen if there is any 'truth' to past suggestions by Obama and Holder that Republican opposition to the president is race-related.
article_snippet: Holder has conjectured numerous times that Republican hostility to the president and the president policies are based, at least partly, on Obama's race.
article_snippet: The soon-to-be retired attorney general again claimed in an interview several weeks ago with Politico that racism was sometimes an underlying factor in the administration's struggles with congressional Republicans. '
article_snippet: Cheney also chastised the Obama administration in Cheney sit-down with The soon-to-be retired attorney general for habitually viewing large-scale controversies through the frame of race.
article_snippet: Discussing the Ferguson, Missouri, shooting of a young black man by a white police officer, Cheney said Cheney's 'been disappointed' with the executive branch's response to the tragedy. '
article_snippet: It seems to Cheney it’s a clear-cut case that a white police officer did what a white police officer had to do to defend a white police officer.
article_snippet: a white police officer was perfectly within a white police officer authorities to take action,' Cheney asserted. '
article_snippet: This is what happened.” ' Continuing, Cheney said, the Obama administration in his sit-down with Rosen was wrong to have allowed race to cloud the debate. '
article_snippet: We should not sort of throw it all over on the burden of race, or racial inequality or racial discrimination, as being responsible for this particular event,' Cheney argued. '
article_snippet: I think it is about an individual who conducted Cheney in a manner that was almost guaranteed to provoke an officer trying to do Cheney duty.'
article_snippet: It's President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, seated here in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in February with Senior Adviser to the President Valerie Jarrett, who are 'playing the race card' and not the other way around, Cheney charged .
highlights_snippet: Holder has conjectured numerous times that Republican hostility to the president and the president policies are based, at least partly, on Obama's race .
  