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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)
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Things like jones certainly bring the morons out of the closet.
Sorry eboo, jones is trash and your vigorous defense of him speaks volumes about you as well.
A COMMIE IS NOT A PATRIOT. AN A$$-CLOWN WHO PROMOTES THE IDEA THAT THE GOVERNMENT PLANNED THE 9/11 ATTACK IS NOT A PATRIOT.
This guy would have been executed for treason not too long ago, and yet here we are.
As in, “let’s stick a rocket motor up his rectum and launch him”, yes?
I guess I don’t understand the “smears” and the “lies”...
This stuff was the documented proof...I saw videos, I visited websites, etc.
If it was really nothing but smears and lies, sue away!
A country which couldn’t manage to prosecute Hanoi Jane Fonda for treason certainly isn’t going to hang a red communist agitator like Jones.
Good post...I think it is time we put background information out about some of these bottom feeder types who write stuff like this. Van Jones is a subversive who supports the downing of America. He is dangerous and will do anything he wants now with the spotlight off. He isn’t gone just underground.
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Eboo Patel, Rocky’s gay, liberal brother.
Another name...Ron Bloom...named manufacturing CZAR named yesterday...nice. Just what is the skinny on this guy??
Ok, let me get this straight...replaying videos of Van Jone’s own words and directing people to comments he made is now considered a ‘smear campaign’? Un-frick’n-believable.
Eboo’s got a boo boo...
Communism is a philosphy responsible for the deaths of 40 million people and forcing over a billion more to live under
tyrany. What an unfair and mean spirited smear to think that people who are self proclaimed commies should not be white house advisors about ANYTHING.
Author of the article’s first name is “Eboo”. I’m sorry, that name does not compute. Get a real name and get back to me....
Not any company I'd want to be associated with.
any church would want him as a bishop.
Eboo, you can't be serious. You certainly know nothing of Catholic doctrine.
I felt proud as an American to have him running the Green Jobs shop for all of us,
Exactly how many Green Jobs did Van create for the $30 billion in tax money he was given?
Eboo, you're climbing to the top of the hit list.
Suggest we all send Keith a message a day containing dirt on Glenn Beck. Let's shut down their email system!
Dick
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "2010 ELECTIONS" To: "Keith Olbergirl" Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:41:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Dirt on Beck
Keith,
I have it from someone in a position to know that Glenn Beck is a raging numismatist with tendencies to philatelism. That should disgust any responsible person.
I hope you will devote at least as much air to this as you did the Van Jones story.
Your viewers -- both of them -- would probably find it highly informative.
Dick Bachert An increasingly DISGUSTED GE shareholder. Have Immelt look it up until the OTHER shareholders send him -- and you -- packing!
“get the greenest solutions to the poorest people”.
The really poor strive to have air conditioning and cable TV. All over the world. If they can.
What is this. More ‘strongest technology in the smallest hands’ stuff?
Wow, so self professed communist revolutionaries are now ‘patriots’?
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