Posted on 09/06/2009 7:34:43 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Because that's apparently where you go when you're forced out of the White House. The only difference being that Rumsfeld resigned in dignity, noting that he had obviously lost the confidence of the American people. Van Jones not so much:
Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, resigned Saturday, following weeks of pressure from the right and a flurry of revelations about his past statements."I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today," Jones said in a statement dated Sept 5 released around midnight on Sept 6. "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide," he continued.
In fairness to him, those YouTube videos of his past speeches really were dishonest. How vicious of the right to use them, along with his other past statements, to discover what the media refused to acknowlege even after the controversy broke.
Speaking of YouTube videos and past statements, here are two minutes of Van Jones mocking Rumsfeld for being "out of work" and "serving behind the counter at Wendy's," much to the delight of the assembled sycophants. The full speech is 28 minutes and was posted at the time by these lefties but I took the liberty of clipping it down to the relevant 2 minutes.
If you have time for the full 28 minutes though, it really is a tour de force. Especially striking: "slave ship on dry land," "a new Jim Crow," "you don't have to call someone the N-word if you can just call them a felon," and "in just 24 months 6 years of one party authoritarian rule would be shattered."
(Excerpt) Read more at mererhetoric.com ...
Let’s start a Van Jones watch, just to see where he winds up next.
I’ll wager he will not be far from the money redistribution project.
Well he was given 30 billion to play with, so I doubt he will have a hard time setting up his own 'green' business. We need an audit of what he has done with that 30 billion.
The snakes crawl at night,
That's what they say
My bet is back with the Center for American Progress in some capacity. Along with the lecture circuit for big bucks, carping about his victimization a la Ward Churchill.
..in the cesspool of life, the big pieces float to the top.....the bigger the piece, the higher it rises....
...which makes zer0....?
You have to wonder with all the MSM resources why they couldn't at least pull up a view old videos.
It makes you wonder what else they are hiding just to help elect Obama and now keep his poll numbers up. Once you lose the trust of the people, you have lost them forever!
“serving behind the counter at Wendy’s,”
Since when is serving behind the counter at Wendy’s something to sneer about?
A days’ work for a day’s pay. Fair to me.
Job is honorable and honest.
Puts food on the table and clothes on someone’s back.
Van Jones: New poster child for McDonalds in their push to celebrate 365Black.
I’m thinking that even at the age of 77, Rumsfeld could kick this commie scumbag’s ass without breaking a sweat.
This regsignation timing is a good thing for Van. If he sarts now he can get a jump on Obama for that niffty Community Organizing gig they have open in Chicago.
We need to find out about the rest of them now.
The list, ping
He’ll go back to one of his commie organizations that he infused with cash while he was a Tsar with his hand in the Treasury.
What I find so disturbing about this entire Van Jones fiasco isn’t the fact the Van Jones is a radical left wing communist, who wants to use the “environment” to push his radical agenda on us.
What really disturbs me is the fact that 0bama chose this guy to work for his administration. They HAD to know about his beliefs and previous statements, and the 0bama admin was comfortable with both. A simple google search reveals enough to expose this bastard for what he is. They had to know of his beliefs and commentts during the past few years, and they chose him to take that job anyway.
This guy missed his calling, he’s a comedian just like garafalo, Funny in his own mind but not!
haha, Egg meet Face.
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