Posted on 09/08/2009 2:02:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It makes me sad and a little sick that Van Jones, the White House Green Jobs Czar, was forced to resign after being targeted by a vicious smear campaign. The Obama administration lost a brilliant mind who worked day and night to, as Van would say, "get the greenest solutions to the poorest people". Indeed, Van did as much as anyone to put the concept of the Green Collar Economy on the map, including publishing a best-selling book with that title. More than that, he was one of the nation's most pragmatic environmental visionaries, someone who was always thinking up practical, pattern-changing solutions to massive climate problems.
Van grew up in a small town in Tennessee, went to a provincial college, and wound up graduating from Yale Law School, launching a number of important nonprofit organizations, and winning way too many awards to count, including being named to Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list. He's a remarkable American success story, eloquently captured in Elizabeth Kolbert's New Yorker profile.
I tried to get 15 minutes with Van on every trip to DC because I always knew I'd learn something. He was generous enough to fit me in even though he was going 100 MPH for 12 hours every day doing the work of the country. Every time I saw him he was a model of patience and pragmatism, adroitly sidestepping the petty politics of DC and advancing America's energy and employment agenda.
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Any company would want Van as its chief executive officer, any church would want him as a bishop. I felt proud as an American to have him running the Green Jobs shop for all of us.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.washingtonpost.com ...
I believe it, unfortunately.
not mega, not giga, but Pita-barf-projectile-vomit-technicolor-hurl alert.
Yes. The communists in this country worship their fellow travelers.
Hey, so they should hire him at the WaPo already.
Too little too late. The commie’s gone.
EBOO?????
Roll your pants up...........WAAAAYYYYYY up!
Someone calls it the Washington COMPOST.
Maybe they’ll award this bastard a Hero of the Soviet Union medal.
Barf Alert?
We're gonna need a boat and some penicillin.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eboo Patel is a member of President Barack Obama Administration’s New Faith Advisory Council [1] [2]. He is an American Muslim of Indian heritage and founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core [3], a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation.[4]
Pita=Peta.
doh!
I know you’re not supposed to change the title from that used in the Publication it’s drawn from but aren’t you allowed to ‘tag’ it with a “Barf Alert” Warning before you just ‘spring it’ on us?
A big load of Eboo-poo-poo.
They say that the truth shall set you free. Well, it certainly set Van Jones free!
Eboo Patel = Moron
LOL! The comments at the link are priceless.
I wish there was a way to make the author respond.
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