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 ...
Eboo.
Another Chicago mob-community activist-muslim-friend of Obama.
Just wanna barf.
http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/09_may_jun/LaMonica.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=EBOO+patel&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10
Just what in the hell is that supposed to mean ?
He isn’t gone.
Just like little tommy dashole, ya vote his unAmerican ass out and this very stupid administration gives the little turd a job.
Van Jones is not going anywhere. He will continue going to the Whitehouse just not be on official logs.
Van Jones is a racist, a thug, an opportunist and an idiot. He would be a perfect fit for the 0bama Administration. There, I’ve said it. Get over it.
LOL! You’re right. I feel better now.
It's funny, but I haven't known one single person who has applied to Yale Law and gotten in, yet all these folks associated with the radical left seem to just breeze in the doorway....
Here is his bio from Wiki. Now do you get it? I don’t blame Patel who is who he is, but the MSM makes me sick to my stomach. Even when a radical communist is outted, they cirle the wagons. Sickening. There is a cosy relationship between the MSM and radical communists, apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eboo_Patel
He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation.
He was on the Advisory Board of Duke University Islamic Studies Center [7].
Eboo is a Fellow of Ashoka Foundation [8], part of a select network of social entrepreneurs with ideas that could change the world.
It’s a victory. Enjoy it. What did you expect, they would go home and cry and leave it at that? They got their @ss handed to them, we handed it to them, they’ll give him some lesser job, of course, but he’s not the Green Czar. If it was all fine and dandy and they’ll just give him another job, they wouldn’t be screaming bloody murder right now. We’ll see ya, Van.
I think we need to do a little background checking on this guy.
He was going turn poor people green?
“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.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eboo_Patel
Freely translated: Another Chicago con artist.
So it’s another Chicago “Fellow Traveler” sticking up for one of his (Eboo?) own, I am shocked!
Just change eboo to barrack and you would have the same article. Can you believe that!? America what have you done?
Goooooogle barf alert! That’s 1 plus 100 zeros. If the Barf fits...hurl it.
If the commies hadn't been around, Eboo's cousins in India would all be living in fine mansions, driving great cars, enjoying the best of foods. But, alas, America and Europe were sorely distracted by the commies and couldn't get around to taking care of the rest of the world's problems.
Jones was a Commie. He said so himself. Commies are not welcome in our government if we have anything to say about it, and for the most part not welcome anywhere else. If ol'Eboo here wants to have a positive career experience it's best he learn that.
See post #32. He’s a Muslim and one of Obama’s religion czars...
Washington comPost = communist and mohammedan propaganda
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