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[Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard] Dean: Jones' Resignation a 'Loss for the Country'
FOXNEWS.com ^ | September 06, 2009 | FOXNEWS.com

Posted on 09/06/2009 1:55:34 PM PDT by Son House

The outspoken Democrat and former presidential candidate vigorously defended Jones, who resigned in the wake of criticism over his past statements and associations -- including his past support for a group that believes the Bush administration may have been involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I think he was brought down," Dean told "FOX News Sunday," saying he just spoke to Jones. "I think it's a loss for the country."

Dean pointed to Jones' credentials as a Yale Law School graduate and best-selling author.

Though Jones signed a 2004 statement calling for an investigation into possible Bush administration involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks, Dean said Jones didn't realize what he was signing at the time.

"I don't think he really thinks the government had anything to do with causing 9/11," he said.

But 911Truth.org spokesman Mike Berger, whose group sponsored the statement, earlier told FOX News that Jones knew what he was signing.

Republicans swiftly called for Jones' resignation following the discovery that he signed the petition.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dean; jones; loss; resignation
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To: Son House

No, these American murdered were a loss to the country.





"Ground Zero etiquette: A tale of two roses
Barack Obama flings a memorial rose at Ground Zero like he’s a kid tossing pennies into a fountain at the shopping mall ...
By contrast, John McCain and his wife kneel and gently, somberly, place their roses down at the foot of the 9/11 tribute."


"The McCains and Obama at Ground Zero
Cindy McCain is also there. Michelle Obama is not"


41 posted on 09/06/2009 2:22:00 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

"Yet did not Van Jones recently state..that he did nor read and was not aware of what was on the 'truthers' petition (which he SIGNED)?"

That would make a good account of the academic work at Yale.

"But I did not understand that Critical Legal Studies are a subplot of the Frankfurt School when I..."

42 posted on 09/06/2009 2:23:39 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Diogenesis
Jones is a jut job, Obama is a fluke who now has his finger on the trigger, I am an angry curmudgeon, and you Sir are never better than when you post such awesome photographic tapestries.
43 posted on 09/06/2009 2:27:08 PM PDT by Radix (Obama represents CHAINS for posterity.)
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To: yongin

My choice isn’t listed but a write-in vote may get me banned.


44 posted on 09/06/2009 2:29:54 PM PDT by JrsyJack (There's a little Jim Thompson in all of us)
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To: Stand Watch Listen
This is not the first time this kind of talk has popped up.
There was the Rev. Wright brouhaha.

Who was it who described Michelle as "Stokely Carmichael in a Jackie Kennedy dress"?

45 posted on 09/06/2009 2:31:23 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Son House

A loss to the country, only in the sense that not having this jacka$$’s Commie rantings exposed every day could give Bambi’s administration more time to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

But we must not give up or lose focus. So many Marxists, so little time.


46 posted on 09/06/2009 2:34:07 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Son House

A loss for the country? Well, if so, then this is the type of losses we badly, badly, seriously need more of!


47 posted on 09/06/2009 2:35:13 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!! VOTE AGAINST DIMOCRATS!!!!!)
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To: Son House

Don’t these Democrats ever do anything but whine? A man with Jones’ background cannot be justified in a high government position, period. If Dean wants to defend him, that just clarifies who Dean is.


48 posted on 09/06/2009 2:38:18 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Son House
With due credit to FReeper …Ruy Dias de Bivar
44 Czars in DC my friend,
44 Czars in DC!

Take one down pass him around,
43 Czars in DC!


49 posted on 09/06/2009 2:39:05 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen ( Bitter voter, clinging to my wallet and doctor)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

“Dean said Jones didn’t realize what he was signing at the time.”

It seems like a perfectly logical thing for an avowed communist and a guy who claims he’s fighting America to sign.

Dean is a crank leftist from Manhattan, by way of Vermont.


50 posted on 09/06/2009 2:41:10 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Son House

bump


51 posted on 09/06/2009 2:43:20 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Son House

I guess Dean’s right, if your country happens to be Cuba.


52 posted on 09/06/2009 2:44:52 PM PDT by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
With due credit to FReeper …Ruy Dias de Bivar
44 Czars in DC my friend,
44 Czars in DC!

Take one down pass him around,
43 Czars in DC!


53 posted on 09/06/2009 2:45:57 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen ( Bitter voter, clinging to my wallet and doctor)
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To: Radix; Diogenesis

Yes, having reviewed the evidence against Bush, Loose Change, a 9/11 documentary made for a school assignment by college kids,

me being of better legal mind than Yale Law School graduate and White House green jobs adviser Van Jones and a recently appointed Supreme Court InJustice,
I find Bush not guilty.
Case dismissed.

And thanks for the added visual effects too, this is about taking our Country back from these fools that got elected because the press works for Democrats


54 posted on 09/06/2009 2:46:14 PM PDT by Son House (President Øbama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Maybe Van Jones...forgot to read the resignation letter....you know the same mis-step he had with the Truther petition....


55 posted on 09/06/2009 2:48:06 PM PDT by antivenom (Glenn Beck - won...and FOX NEWS has them on the run...it is so perfect ...look out 2010)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

"He is the most interesting czar..."

Should be a good one for Happy Hour.

56 posted on 09/06/2009 2:49:20 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Yeah....and probably didn’t realize he signed his resignation letter this morning either....

RIIIIGGGHHHTTTTTT


57 posted on 09/06/2009 2:49:22 PM PDT by antivenom (Glenn Beck - won...and FOX NEWS has them on the run...it is so perfect ...look out 2010)
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To: Son House

Dean, the hero of the Communists and far left progressives.


58 posted on 09/06/2009 2:50:39 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: antivenom
Maybe Van Jones...forgot to read the resignation letter....you know the same mis-step he had with the Truther petition....

What!!!..did Van Jones have Radar O'Reilly shuffing papers at him all decade??? ;)

59 posted on 09/06/2009 2:51:18 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen ( Bitter voter, clinging to my wallet and doctor)
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To: Jane Austen

A loss for the country of: Cuba, Venezuela, radical Islam, the Taliban etc


60 posted on 09/06/2009 2:55:02 PM PDT by techno
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