Meg Whitman: Van Jones Is ‘Doing a Marvelous Job’

The Washington Independent ^ | September 3, 2009 | David Weigel

[2ndDivisionVet]

A mysterious YouTube member named, conveniently, “megwhitmanonvanjones,” has uploaded a May 2009 San Francisco Chronicle video of 2010 GOP California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, in which the former CEO of eBay and former adviser to Mitt Romney and John McCain gushes about suddenly controversial green jobs czar Van Jones.

"There’s a guy over in Oakland, I think his name is Van Jones. And he and I were on a cruise last summer in the Arctic, on climate change. And I got to know him very well. And a lot of the work he’s doing to enfranchise broader communities I’m a big fan of. He’s doing a marvelous job… I’m a huge fan of his. He is very bright, very articulate, very passionate. I think he is exactly right."

(VIDEO AT LINK)

The political problem here? Whitman is a wealthy Republican trying to win the GOP gubernatorial nomination from conservative candidates Steve Poizner and Tom Campbell, both with stronger ties to the party’s base. And here she is, on video, proclaiming her friendship for the current Emmanuel Goldstein of the conservative movement.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If she's nominated (or Heaven forbid) elected, we'll finally know the California GOP is just a branch of the Democratic Party.

[brytlea]

I have no respect for anyone who goes on a cruise for climate change.

[Dem Guard]

“He is very bright, very articulate, very passionate. I think he is exactly right.”

Exactly right for what?? What happened on her trip to see the big snow cone aboard a ship?

[a fool in paradise]

Climate change is a scam.

If a CEO of a billion dollar company fell for it, she’s likely to wire money to Nigerian banking scammers too.

[Jeff Head]

Another absolute RINO. The fact she was on a cruise with this guy about Climate Change says all I need to know.

Look at Obama's inner circle throughout his life...and the picture is clear, including regarding just exaclty who Whitman is cozying up to.

Van Jones = Frank Davis = Bill Ayers = Bernardine Dohrn = Jeremiah Wright = Tony Rezko = Rashid Khalidi = Raila Ordinga = Carol Browner = Rahm Emanuel = John Holdren = Eric Holder = Ezekiel Emanuel = BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

This is who the man, Obama, is. A cauldron of corruption, greed, marxism and communism...with disturbing ties to radical Islam.

...he is also now the President of the United States of America, and he is going about, with a will, and very methodically destroying the free market and fundamental republican principle within our nation.

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[Pravious]

The Enemy Within.

We need to purge our Party of these people once and for all. They had their chance with John McCain, and were rejected big time - but their egos are so inflated they can’t just crawl away and shut up, but have to act like they’re still meaningful in any way.

Whitman? Romney? McCain? Huckabee? TAKE A HIKE, YOU LOSERS.

The only person I want to be reminded of from the last election is Sarah Palin.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This woman is toast. Who is going to vote for her, the hard left? Because conservatives and even independents sure in the Hell ain't.

[indcons]

Van Jones’ admirer? Meg Whitman is a mor0n.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“...enfranchise broader communities.” This is code for “people who work give what they earn to people who don’t work.”

[brytlea]

Yup.

[Stosh]

“And he and I were on a cruise last summer in the Arctic, on climate change”

Finally, the solution to climate chage - what we need is for *everyone* in the country to go on a cruise for climate change, not just these elite.

Sign me up!

[50mm]

Rinos of a rino hide herd together.

[marron]

She thinks the guy is doing a great job on global warming.

If you were looking for a replacement for Swartzenegger, she isn’t it. We’ve got to keep looking. I’d say, at minimum, a would-be Repub candidate ought to be able to say out loud that Van Jones is a lunatic.

This could be a pretty good litmus test. Any Repub anywhere, just ask him. Would you characterize Van Jones as a lunatic? If he hems and haws, if he waffles, just strike him from your list. If he can answer clearly, “yes, and that ain’t the half of it...” then please ping me, freepmail me, I’ll go to work for the campaign and we’ll get this guy elected.

[Albion Wilde]

According to Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character in George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ...rumoured to be a former top member of the ruling (and sole) Party who had broken away early in the movement and started an organization known as "The Brotherhood", dedicated to the fall of The Party.

[Noumenon]

She serves the Dark Side.

[Voter62vb]

Was that the cruise ship that came into port with a dead whale bent over the bow nose?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

She’s not buying it. She’s part of the sales team.

[bvw]

A a conman, charming charlatan, a rasputin — never men one should give a live ear to. Too dangerous. Meg Whitman took the morphine offered by the charming Death Dispenser.

[Earthdweller]

LOL!

[Earthdweller]

LOL!_2

[InterceptPoint]

Two strikes on Meg: A phony global warming cruise and praising Van Jones. Go back to e-Bay Meg we don’t need another Arnie. We need another Reagan.

[Diogenesis]

"We think you can trust Obama and his Czars. They are good people."

[TexasFreeper2009]

Of course they think he is doing a good job!

They hired a communist, and they got a communist, they couldn't be more pleased!

[Albion Wilde]

Earlier thread: believable?

Meg Whitman Blasts Van Jones
“My husband and I met him and many others on a cruise sponsored by National Geographic and The Aspen Institute. He talked about supporting job growth in California, but of course I did not do a background check of his past over dinner. As these reports have surfaced, it’s clear that he holds views that I entirely reject; any suggestion otherwise is ridiculous.” --Meg Whitman

[TexasFreeper2009]

ARRGGGG!! God don’t even mention McCain to me!!!!! The only old man in the world I would like to punch in the nose!

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[RummyChick]

Her opponent already has an ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QFfciwRqaU

[Unam Sanctam]

Another California Schwarzenegger Republican, apparently.

[marron]

of course I did not do a background check of his past over dinner.

I wouldn't expect her to, and you can't hold someone responsible for making a kind remark about someone they barely met.

My point is her focus on global warming. She isn't a bad person for taking Jones at his word, she is a bad Republican (and a bit of a dim bulb) if she falls for "climate change" as an issue.

[bvw]

I have a certain fondness for the opiates. It’s related to chronic pain and IBD. But thank G-d, I have no addiction to them and can easily refuse a pill or a a shot. Even when in pain. If I need the clear head I’ll not take the pill even when in pain.

I mention that because the whole Death Care thing is so damn similar — it’s so easy to convince a person and it it is obvious that too many of thousands — even those of strong moral character — have been convinced to commit a sweetened form of suicide under the clouding yet euphoric influence of the morphines.

I know from my own direct experiences with such conmen and such drugs that the mental/emotional state conducive to accepting such deadly drugging is EXACTLY the same as the mental state that gives an intelligent person over to a charming con.

I am also able to spot a con quickly — and it’s not because I turn off to their charming pitches, in fact I open up to them — it’s just that G-d has gifted me the ability to switch immediately out of that mode to a much harder and judgmental mode. I’m like the snake that kills the charmer.

[jennyjenny]

What, exactly, has he ever done that makes him so marvelous? I’ve read up on the guy and I can’t find what I would consider a single accomplishment to help anyone other than himself to some government money.

[Diogenesis]

Methinks based on the hatred of Gov. Palin and conservatives,
that McCain, Romney and Whitman are tied at the hips.

"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
--  President Ronald Reagan

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[brytlea]

LOL

[bvw]

That’s cool, but who is her opponent?

[RichInOC]

Well, she’s right. He is doing a marvelous job. It all turns on how you define “marvelous job”. And who benefits from it.

[a fool in paradise]

She championed him before she was informed to dig into his past.

And she still went on a global climate change cruise.

[Publius6961]

Van Jones’ admirer? Meg Whitman is a mor0n.

Up until now I thought Whitman was the "best" among a lousy crop; no longer.

Another politician who became skilled at "saying the right things," while embracing moonbat ideas. Climate change? Van Jones?

Time to start looking around...

[WaterBoard]

Wow, Shocker! Another McCain RINO cheer-leading a self-declared Communist.

[Paradox]

Up until now I thought Whitman was the "best" among a lousy crop; no longer.

Was Meg fully aware of what we now know? I think someone should ask her what she thinks of him NOW. Thats all that matters here.

[Miss Behave]

Meggie likes Van and Obozo’s diversity and green scheme, and Van and Obozo like Meggie’s money and...data base.

[haroldeveryman]

Jeff Head, RummyChick, Albion Wilde, Pravious

There was an episode in the Bullwinkle Moose TV series that had Boris Badinov releasing something called “goof gas” into the United States. Everyone became instantly stupid except for Bullwinkle, who had built up an immunity after decades of being stupid.

What I’d like to know is, who released goof gas into the Republican convention last year? I don’t know anything about Meg Whitman, except that I’m certain that she was at that convention. McCain had a natural immunity.

[txrangerette]

From all the evidence, I conclude she knew nothing about him except as he presented himself, and as others on the cruise presented him.

Too bad she didn’t do any homework before accepting everything at face value. Too bad she blabbed her praise to the world.

I agree with whoever said the bigger problem for her (even than Van Jones) is her susceptibility to the Climate Change hoax.

On either count she looks foolish and ill-informed like her friend McCain.

Their type is always mis-defining the issue...the challenge of our time...to be bipartisanship or just getting something passed etc. when that isn’t it AT ALL.

Right now she thinks learning of his background and repudiating him makes it all hunky dory.

Still clueless.

[gorilla_warrior]

Thank you for validating why I will never again support the GOP. If the Republicans think they are going to get a boost from Obamacare, they need to think again. Americans are terrified because they know that McCain, Snowe, and all the other miserable RINOs are itching to be the ones Obama seduces. Meg Whitman is just another useful idiot. I will do what I can to stop her from being elected.

[freespirited]

Doesnt surprise me. Jones strikes me as a chameleon, capable of bamboozling people by putting on whatever face suits the moment.

When she met him, he probably presented himself as a great admirer of eBay and other entrepreneurial pursuits. She probably has no clue as to the real Van Jones. Of course you can argue that she should. When she finds out the whole story, I expect she will no longer be a fan.

My attitude about Whitman: I just dont see how she could be worse than Ahnald.

[Earthdweller]

A rather poetic way of looking at it. I too spent my life in chronic pain, for ten years until my degenerative spinal disc just completely crumbled. I also refused the pain meds to keep a clear head. I wanted to finish my work, in the medical field.

I know the mindset that can't refuse a con. They are the young, the gullible, the weak and the poor. I truly hate politicians/crooks that prey on these people. They are the lowest form of human on the planet.

[DDLL]

I just emailed Meg Whitman with a link to the video. I let her know that this video has “gone viral”, leaving many Republicans very dismayed that she admires someone who has a history of racism and association with communism and black nationalism.

I also asked that she please do some research on Van Jones... and will hopefully rethink her position and issue a rebuttal to her original position.

[wolfcreek]

“And he and I were on a cruise last summer”

Oh Really. Doing what?

[Deo volente]

Two strikes on Meg: A phony global warming cruise and praising Van Jones.

She's also pro-abortion. Three Strikes.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[50mm]

She believes in human-caused global warming. Strike one.

She goes on a “global warming cruise” with a bunch of loonies. Strike two.

She’s so stupid that she doesn’t realize that the vast majority of people on a “global warming cruise” are going to be leftist loonies and can’t be trusted to be of good character. Strike three.

She’s not governor material.