Posted on 09/02/2009 7:52:11 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama adviser: Republicans are "a**holes" By Tony Romm - 09/02/09 09:59 AM ET
A video in which White House green jobs adviser Van Jones calls Congressional Republicans (and himself) "a**holes" is quickly making the rounds on the Internet this morning.
Jones made the off-the-cuff remark in February, during his lecture at a Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) event on the green economy. At the time, the Obama administration had not yet tapped Jones to serve as a special adviser on the White House's Council on Environmental Quality.
The slip happened in response to a question about the Democratic Party's inability to push legislation through Congress.
"When [President George W. Bush] was in office, [Republicans] had a majority; it wasn't 60, it wasn't more than 60, but they pushed through all of these bills," the questioner began. "But when we have 58, we seem to not be able to move things as progressively as many of us here would want, as Obama wants. ... how were they Republicans able to push things through when they had less than 60 sens, but we cant?"
That's when the first slip happened. "Well the answer to that is, they're a**holes," Jones said, prompting audience applause.
"I was afraid that was the answer," the questioner replied.
Jones, however, continued his casual rant. "And Barack Obama is not an a**hole. Now, I will say this: I can be an a**hole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity [to get things done]."
Don’t worry, he’s just speaking for himself ;)
If only they were...
Sheesh. Theres’s no end to the vulgarity of the Administration.
I’ve been called worse by better.
Yet, they ran on a unification platform.
Liberals have such limited vocabulary skills.
I despise foul language. and I am so saddened by how much our culture has been coarsened.
Back at ‘ya....YOU BIG A-HOLE!....There!...I feel better.
The man is simply street trash.
The name-calling doesn’t bother me. In fact, I daresay that this particular label applies to more politicians on both sides of the aisle than it doesn’t.
Anyone else feel like there’s so much bad blood between liberals and conservatives now that only a knock-down drag-out ass-whoopin’ is gonna blow some of the steam off?
I know where my money is on that fight...
Ron White has a bit where he was on a school debate team, and says he thought he had won when he proudly proclaimed: “Oh yeah? Well, F you!”
That’s pretty much where we are.
By all means, get “uppity” Van.
See how THAT works out for you as Obama’s popularity is plummeting.
I feel that way. The situation will reach a boiling point sooner or later. It’s just a matter of time.
This is a non story.
The folks in DC just don’t even PRETEND to be POLITE anymore at all, do they?
Name calling is usually the first sign that the left feels like they are losing a battle.
:)
Let’s hope he practices saying that line in the mirror.
As Ann Coulter says, (paraphrased) ‘liberals accuse conservatives of what they are instead’
Just another stellar selection by the POTUS. Van Jones, Geithner, Daschle, Sebellius, Sotomayor, Biden...the list goes on and on and on. This guy has absolultely no sound judgment or wisdom.
Too bad we do not have the ability to have a recall election - we might not have to suffer through the next three years and four months.
From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: VAN JONES
Born in 1968 in rural West Tennessee, Van Jones earned a B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin and then attended Yale Law School. During his years at Yale, Jones served as an intern with the San Francisco-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), which views the United States as an irredeemably racist nation and "champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans."
Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th," says Jones, who is black, "and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."
Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, "I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."
After earning his Juris Doctorate from Yale in 1993, Jones relocated to San Francisco, where he helped establish Bay Area PoliceWatch, a hotline and lawyer-referral service that began as a project of LCCR. In 1996 he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which, claiming that the American criminal-justice system is infested with racism, seeks to promote alternatives to incarceration. According to the Baker Center:
"Decades of disinvestment in our cities have led to despair and hopelessness. For poor communities and communities of color it's even worse, as excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration have left people even further behind."
By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a now-defunct Bay Area Marxist-Maoist collective that was staffed by members of various local nonprofits, a number of whom had ties to the Ella Baker Center.
In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. STORM also had ties to the South African Communist Party and it revered Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader (of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands) who lauded Lenin as "the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples." (In 2006 Van Jones would name his own newborn son "Cabral" -- in Amilcar Cabral's honor.)
During his tenure with STORM, Jones collaborated on numerous projects (including antiwar demonstrations) with local activist Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, who served as a "mentor" for members of the Ella Baker Center. Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), a Communist Party USA splinter group, in the early 1990s. To this day, Martinez continues to sit on the CCDS advisory board alongside such luminaries as Angela Davis, Timuel Black (who served on Barack Obama's 2004 Senate campaign committee), and musician Pete Seeger. Martinez is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, the parent organization of Progressives for Obama. Martinez and Van Jones together attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop which advanced the theme that "all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration" with blacks.
In 2005 Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration, a project that eventually would evolve into the Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign -- "a job-training and employment pipeline providing 'green pathways out of poverty' for low-income adults in Oakland."
Soon after attending the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Jones launched "Green For All," a non-governmental organization "dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty … advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities."
In 2008 Jones published his first book, The Green Collar Economy, which focused on environmental and economic issues. The book received favorable reviews from such notables as Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Laurie David, Winona LaDuke, environmentalist Paul Hawken, and NAACP President/CEO Ben Jealous.
Jones has served as a board member of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the Rainforest Action Network; Free Press; Bioneers (which accepts the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Report's warning that "[h]uman activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted"); the National Apollo Alliance (which seeks "to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs"); the Social Venture Network (which aims "to build a just economy and sustainable planet"); and Julia Butterfly Hill's "Circle of Life" environmental foundation.
Jones was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar." Jones' formal title is "Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation" for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
In a July 2009 interview with Newsweek magazine, Jones said he could not explain exactly what a "green job" is:
"Well, we still don't have a unified definition, and that's not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it's getting there, but we haven't crossed the finish line yet."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406
He said uppity. He must be a racist.
You stay classy, Van.
Is this how the Jews felt the morning after Kristalnacht. The NAZI’s have taken over and we don’t have a prayer.
getting a little bit uppity?????????????
Have you noticed how they are ALL refering to him as Barack Hussein 0bama now? I think there’s a message there......hmmm, not quite sure...../sarc
The man is simply COMMIE street trash.
More than ever, the only good communist is a.....
Dems are projecting again... they call us what they are...
Does anyone know if he renounced communism or is he still active?
Calling GOPers a**holes is the least problematic thing this guy has said. Hell, I agree with him with regard to a whole lot of Reps.
But it is a nice distraction from quotes such as this one:
“All we do is take out the dirty power system, the dirty power generation in a system and just replace it with some clean stuff, put a solar panel on top of this system. We don't deal with how we are consuming water, we don't deal with how we're treating our other sister and other brothers' species, we don't deal with toxins, we don't deal with the way we treat each other, if that's not a part of this movement, let me tell you what you'll have. This is all you'll have. You'll have solar powered bulldozers, solar powered buzz saws, and biofuel bombers and we'll be fighting wars over lithium for the batteries instead of oil for the engines and we'll still have a dead planet. This movement is deeper than a solar panel, deeper than a solar panel. Don't stop there. Don't stop there. No, we're going to change the whole system.”
- Van Jones, March 2009
Well we are going to keep coming and we are going to get in your faces and vote your scum out. We are also going to keep filing suits against the Islamo usurper. People are fed up. And you lib Dems are losing independents and you will start losing Reagan/moderate Democrats soon.
See the quote in my previous post on this thread.
Hey, Van . . . If you have to behave like a turd, go out and lay in the yard.
Obama and his followers are racists, even the white ones.
(raising hand)
I would avoid websites like this one who can do an entire article on a Van Jones and not ONCE mention the fact that he is a communist. They don’t use “Marxist” either. We badly need more Glen Beck and David Horowitz-type reporting. Not this soft pansy crap.
“Does anyone know if he renounced communism or is he still active?”
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Oh, he’s very active. The entire “environmental movement” is a communist dream.
He can renounce all he wants, his actions are pure communism, not to mention ignorant, crude, in-your-face, street-trash racism.
Its too bad our educational system can generate such fools that can be elevated to a position of power. Show you how stupid our “leaders” are.
These flippin marxists condemn the goose that laid the golden egg thinking they have something better. They want to kill the capital and have ONE dinner.
Show me where marxists have developed a functioning system ground up without stealing from the capitalist...
Its the capital that gave the fool his education.....
I have heard, but am suspending judgement, that some A..holes are brown.
Hey Van...
F*** You!!!
Sorry, I always wanted to say that...And really mean it...
Yup .... Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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