esquire.com – PHILADELPHIA, PA—On Tuesday, just about the time that the people were putting the tape on their mouths and taking their purity of conscience out for a walk for the cameras in the main press areas, Attorney General Eric Holder came to the podium. He talked about how the entire vision of the country as a crime-ridden pesthole was belied by the statistics on violent crime, and about the administration’s commitment to criminal justice reform, and how both of these things would continue to improve under Hillary Rodham Clinton.