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"Green Czar Resigns; Obama Administration Smacked in the Face" (Japan breaking news, my translation)
Asahi Shimbun (original in Japanese) ^ | 7 September 2009 | Toshihiko Katsuta

Posted on 09/06/2009 7:52:12 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

Original in Japanese: グリーン雇用」提唱者、米特別顧問辞任 政権に打撃

My translated synopsis:

Reporter Mr. Katsuta from Washington reports for Asahi Shimbun news that the one person who asserted "Green Jobs" for the Obama Administration, Mr. Van Jones, has resigned. He was in charge as a special advisor to the President for Environmental Quality....right in the middle of President Obama's declining popularity as being hit on his health care reform policies, comes this resignation. As for the Obama Administration, this development has all the trappings of being a new smack in the face. ....Jones had signed on to a petition questioning the culpability of previous President Bush in the September 11th terrorist attacks...also recently discovered were Jones' nasty comments toward Republicans. With criticism from the Republicans and others, Jones was forced into an apology."

End of my translation.


TOPICS: Government; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoczar; czars; japan; obama; slap; smack; socialism; vanjones; vjday
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Asahi Shimbun is a considerably liberal Japanese daily newspaper with immense public circulation. Number two here in Japan, in fact.

Further, Google Japan/News will show that the Van Jones story is just starting to break hard and fast. Japanese media are slowly being forced into the position, many of them, to finally report for the first time in Japan to their readership, that Obama is actually losing considerable popularity, something that would surprise most Japanese readers as they have been force-fed Obama for the last six months, as if he were some kind of Messiah. It is just a few stories for now, but keep a watch on this link, they will no doubt grow. I am waiting for the conservative Sankei Shimbun; they would really have a field day over this. They have been the most aggressive in exposing Obama in the Japanese press.

Google Japan Search News Stories: VAN JONES

These are interesting developments here overseas....

1 posted on 09/06/2009 7:52:13 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Thanks for your report! Good to know that even in Japan, the Obama commies can’t escape notice!


2 posted on 09/06/2009 7:55:11 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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To: DTogo; TigerLikesRooster; gaijin; sushiman; Ronin; Jet Jaguar

ping!


3 posted on 09/06/2009 7:56:11 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The tiger has been poked in the eye. He is going to be p*ssed. Better ramp our offensive two-fold.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

oh wow...! That’s gonna leave a mark..!


4 posted on 09/06/2009 7:56:43 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Can I say something about that headline gives me very happy feelings inside without getting a Secret Service visit? :-)

Seriously, SS guys, I want the President to be safe just as much as you do. Don’t hassle me.


5 posted on 09/06/2009 7:56:51 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We need free market care, not Kopechnecare.)
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To: gaijin
just like a good old sumo "hari te"

Slap! Slap! ;-)

ROR!

6 posted on 09/06/2009 8:02:21 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The tiger has been poked in the eye. He is going to be p*ssed. Better ramp our offensive two-fold.)
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To: Mr. Silverback
It is the Administration, the Japanese say that was smacked in the face. Plus, the Japanese said it. Not us! ;-)

We report. You decide!

7 posted on 09/06/2009 8:03:39 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The tiger has been poked in the eye. He is going to be p*ssed. Better ramp our offensive two-fold.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

“...this development has all the trappings of being a new smack in the face...”

If that’s not a new FReeperism, I don’t know what is!


8 posted on 09/06/2009 8:03:48 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Thank you for posting this!

In case you missed it, this is good one from the British Press.

Why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?
by Gerald Warner

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/9614177/Barack_Obama_and_the_CIA_why_does_President_Pantywaist_hate_America_so_badly/


9 posted on 09/06/2009 8:04:36 PM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
this development has all the trappings of being a new smack in the face.

I love that! Thank you for your report.

10 posted on 09/06/2009 8:05:03 PM PDT by elizabethgrace (Looking for Van Jones? Check under the bus....lol.)
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To: elizabethgrace

why thank YOU, elizabethgrace


11 posted on 09/06/2009 8:07:30 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The tiger has been poked in the eye. He is going to be p*ssed. Better ramp our offensive two-fold.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Thank you very much!


12 posted on 09/06/2009 8:10:08 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Is Van Jones a Marxist? Yes or no?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I trust your translation but I read it as “...this development has all the trappings of being bitch slapped.”


13 posted on 09/06/2009 8:12:14 PM PDT by concentric circles
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Great report, something you never get in the LSM.


14 posted on 09/06/2009 8:13:05 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: concentric circles
Translator's prerogative!

I trust your rendition, too! ;-)

15 posted on 09/06/2009 8:13:47 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The tiger has been poked in the eye. He is going to be p*ssed. Better ramp our offensive two-fold.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Thanks for the report. I’m sure glad that we have you over there.


16 posted on 09/06/2009 8:15:49 PM PDT by Gator113 (YES WE CAN.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMxJBenigY&feature=related)
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To: AuntB
President Pantywaist?! Har, Har, Har!

Pres. Pantywaist in his mom jeans...LOLOLOLOL!

17 posted on 09/06/2009 8:16:56 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I absolutely love the “smack in the face” headline. It’s just the way I feel, too! heh


18 posted on 09/06/2009 8:20:22 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: Gator113
Thank you.

But in this day and age, I could do it just as easily as if in beautiful downtown Beaufort, S.C. with a high speed modem!

But words definitely appreciated there, G113.

19 posted on 09/06/2009 8:25:39 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The tiger has been poked in the eye. He is going to be p*ssed. Better ramp our offensive two-fold.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

“...right in the middle of President Obama’s declining popularity as being hit on his health care reform policies, comes this resignation.”

That sentence hit me that this was not just some two-bit racist commie that resigned - but is something bigger. I then for some reason thought of how I would have felt if it were some Bush appointee that was forced out. (Rumsfield?) And how the media portrayed it as a Bush failure, etc. and how serious I thought it was.

I sincerely hope that this IS just the tip of the iceberg of Obama’s future failures.


20 posted on 09/06/2009 8:26:17 PM PDT by 21twelve (Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)
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