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Van Jones, Patriot
The Washington Post ^ | September 7, 2009 | Eboo Patel

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhoczars; communists; czars; democrats; obama; vanjones; vjquitter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


21 posted on 09/08/2009 2:11:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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...as Van would say, "get the greenest solutions to the poorest people".

Just what in the hell is that supposed to mean ?

22 posted on 09/08/2009 2:12:18 PM PDT by Mopp4
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To: DRey

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.


23 posted on 09/08/2009 2:12:27 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (google; operation garden spot and REX84)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


24 posted on 09/08/2009 2:15:01 PM PDT by baiamonte
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To: Incorrigible

LOL! You’re right. I feel better now.


25 posted on 09/08/2009 2:16:00 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Van grew up in a small town in Tennessee, went to a provincial college, and wound up graduating from Yale Law School,...

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....

26 posted on 09/08/2009 2:16:21 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (College Football Season!!!! Air Raid!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


27 posted on 09/08/2009 2:16:26 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 50... 49... 48...)
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To: Joe Boucher

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.


28 posted on 09/08/2009 2:17:22 PM PDT by DRey
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To: goodnesswins

I think we need to do a little background checking on this guy.


29 posted on 09/08/2009 2:17:33 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Hey, Eboo...gimme a pack of Winstons, a slurrpy, a copy of Penthouse, and a beef jerky."....Joe Biden
30 posted on 09/08/2009 2:18:19 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Love my country. Hate my government./Barack Obama: An authentic "African American.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He was going turn poor people green?


31 posted on 09/08/2009 2:22:45 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“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.


32 posted on 09/08/2009 2:23:21 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: Carley
He was going turn poor people green?

Green.
Soylent Green.
33 posted on 09/08/2009 2:25:42 PM PDT by VOA
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To: goodnesswins

So it’s another Chicago “Fellow Traveler” sticking up for one of his (Eboo?) own, I am shocked!


34 posted on 09/08/2009 2:26:07 PM PDT by Former Dodger ( "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." --Einstein)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just change eboo to barrack and you would have the same article. Can you believe that!? America what have you done?


35 posted on 09/08/2009 2:28:24 PM PDT by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Goooooogle barf alert! That’s 1 plus 100 zeros. If the Barf fits...hurl it.


36 posted on 09/08/2009 2:29:45 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: EDINVA
So he's one of Obama's Muslim religion czars?! But he doesn't let his readers know that, does he? They're left with the impression that an independent, non-biased "journalist" in the Washington Post is defending Van Jones on his merits, not a fellow BHO czar! Did we all fall into a crazy time machine and get beamed into a world where the Soviets won the cold war?!
37 posted on 09/08/2009 2:29:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $1 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Eboo Patel sounds like another Hindu who is simply ignorant of the $20 trillion it took us to beat back the Commies.

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.

38 posted on 09/08/2009 2:31:35 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

See post #32. He’s a Muslim and one of Obama’s religion czars...


39 posted on 09/08/2009 2:33:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $1 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
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To: TV Dinners
Eboo Patel = Moron

Washington comPost = communist and mohammedan propaganda

40 posted on 09/08/2009 2:34:25 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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