Posted on 07/24/2010 7:40:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Las Vegas -- Former White House green jobs "czar" Van Jones told progressive activists and bloggers today that, rather than bash President Obama for not changing the country as fast as they'd thought, they should maintain hope and help him with his agenda.
"I can't stand it. President Obama volunteered to be the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg," Jones said at Netroots Nation while being interviewed by journalist Ari Melber of The Nation. (Follow our live coverage here.)
Jones, who resigned last year after conservatives targeted him as an extreme leftist, refrained from any Obama-slamming of his own. Speaking to a large second-day crowd, Jones reminded the group that he quit and wasn't pushed out. "I resigned. I did not want to be the banana peel that the president of the United States slipped on trying to win on health care," Jones said.
He cautioned bloggers from despairing and going after Obama. "This is harder than it looks. Having spent six months in the White House, it's a totally different experience when you're sitting there and the missiles are coming over the horizon at you," he said.
While some expected Jones, now with the Center for American Progress, to go after the administration for failing to get climate change done this year, he said he thinks it still can be done.
Jones said he agrees with Sen. John Kerry, who said today that his bill has a chance in the lame-duck session after the midterm election. "He is right that thing this is not over. ... There are many things that can change the math," Jones said. He said that "red state America is struggling because of our stupid energy policy" and that if the government doesn't act, the U.S. will go from an oil economy from Middle East to a clean energy economy imported from Asia, "skipping the jobs" in between.
Jones said that while, "most of us feel lost and lonely," the netroots should soldier on.
"If you keep the hope alive, change is still possible," Jones said in his opening speech. Jones said the group can't allow themselves to "blow your own candle out. We have to keep hope alive."
He said progressives "did not lay down" during the 8 years of the Bush administration and shouldn't "expect other people to lay down for you" just because Obama's election was celebrated as a breakthrough.
"We really believed we'd gotten to some sort of finish line. In fact all we'd done was gotten to a starting line," he said.
Jones said the netroots need to realize they are up against an "epic" force with the conservative media movement, which is trying to "bury everything you fought for everything you believe in," and comparing it to the Lord of the Rings. "These are orcs, they are here, and they are coming for you," he said.
Watch Jones' full opening speech here.
One word...BARF...
Boy, that whole “Orcs” remark sounds racist.....
He volun-effin-teered? 8 vacations on the public dime, parties every other night at huge expense? That is not a volunteer. That's a wino who won the lottery.
“What in the world is the “conservative media movement” pray tell?”
These Marxist live in an alternate universe.
Their goal is to shut down FOX and take over the internet.
They will settle for nothing short of world domination
and their one world Marxist empire.
“Posts Tagged ‘George Soros’
January 15, 2010: Investors Call On Governments To Jump Start Clean Energy Economy”
http://apolloalliance.org/digest/?tag=george-soros
Abound Solar is Soros & the Nephew of a US congressman....There will be few jobs in CO. Most of the $$ goes to Spain.
BIOF—BioFuel Energy Corp (Soros et al)
http://www.gurufocus.com/StockBuy.php?symbol=BIOF&GuruName=George+Soros&updown=down&order=symb
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“Soros: China’s Influence Will Grow Faster Than Most Expect”
First Posted: 06- 7-09 11:52 PM | Updated: 07- 8-09
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/07/soros-chinas-influence-wi_n_212384.html
BYD & migrant labor (Chinese Communists)
“Obama Aims for $10k EVs, 20,000+ Charging Stations, and 1M EVs by 2015”
Daily Tech ^ | July 14, 2010 | Jason Mick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2552620/posts
BYD’s US outpost is Los Angeles.
“BYD to Put Down Roots in LA, But Assembly’s Up in the Air”
By Josie Garthwaite Apr. 30, 2010
http://earth2tech.com/2010/04/30/byd-to-put-down-roots-in-la-but-assemblys-up-in-the-air/#respond
None of this is about jobs and Jones knows this. He has a bank account with the ICX-connected Cap ‘n Tax scam.
These people are THIEVES.
I only hope if the ship goes down he stays aboard and sinks with it.
I only hope if the ship goes down he stays aboard and sinks with it. Of course he will be blaming Bush all the way to the bottom.
It's worse than that. The economy collapsed as a direct result of the actions of people like Obama the Acorn trainer. Their lawsuits under CRA resulted in millions of sub-prime loans and the inevitable defaults. Obama drove the Titanic directly into the iceberg.
About 30 minutes ago on Twitter:
@VanJones68 (to) @ donnabrazile:
“I would love to talk with u before Sunday shows. Have u seen my NYT oped? {LINK REMOVED} Can we talk?”
NOTE: Brazile had just been a “guest” talking head on Jake Tapper’s Sunday morning BS session
Barry the Puppet hit an iceberg? Ooooh, that must’ve hurt. In the words of a ROTUS (Rapist of The United States) to a POTUS (Punk of The United States), “You better put some ice on that”.
I would like to know why the Yearly Kos changed its name to Netroots Nation.
Are the liberal bloggers trying to distance themselves from Daily Kos? Is the Daily Kos brand damaged? Do they not want to be thought of as liberal? If they are so proud of Daily Kos style radicalism, why don’t they proudly use that name anymore?????
It's only fitting, as he was the "one", at the rudder!!!
these people don’t pick up the phone to call each other???
Yo, Van. If she had seen it and liked it, dontcha think she would have let you know???
Trolling for a compliment, he is.
what an ignorant, commie d-bag this d-bag is...
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