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“...“Van Jones, a self-described former communist who was arrested and briefly detained during the Rodney King riots, was interviewed by Newsweek’s Daniel Stone for a July 28, 2009 web-only story. The article begins: ‘Washington is spending $60 billion to create the careers of the future, but not a single green job yet exists. Obama’s ‘green czar’ explains.’ - Except Jones doesn’t really “explain” anything at all. Instead, Jones tells Newsweek that the real problem is that no one in authority can agree about just what a “green job” actually is: ‘Well, we still don’t have a unified definition, and that’s not unusual in a democracy…But the Department of Labor is working on it very , diligently…Since Jones literally wrote the book on “green jobs” (2008’s The Green Collar Economy), this revelation doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.” — Another great choice of friends by Barack Hugo Obama! UPDATE 9/4/9: Along with being a communist, signing a petition that says Bush is responsible for 9/11 (See Scandal dated 9/3/9), and admitting he doesn’t know what green jobs really are (above), Jones is caught on tape calling himself an A**hole and saying republicans are A**holes (Scandal dated 9/2/9). Fox News notes it was Rodney ‘Can’t We All Just Get Along King’ who made Van Jones famous: “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of,’” he said in a 2005 interview with the East Bay Express. Jones told the newspaper he stayed in San Francisco, and for the next 10 years worked with a lot of the people he met in jail. Months after the King verdict came down, Jones said, “I was a communist.” At the time he became involved with a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which described itself as committed to Marxist and Leninist ideas. He also started putting pressure on police in San Francisco, monitoring and drawing attention to allegations of police brutality. He was quoted accusing the police department of “killing black people.”…A declared “communist” during the 1990s, Jones once associated with a group that looked to Mao Zedong as an inspiration. Jones’ exceptional past is reminiscent of associations noted during the presidential campaign, when then-Sen. Barack Obama doggedly fended off claims that he was tied to radicals and overzealous activists….(Van Jones) also has consistently leaned on racially charged language, pointing the finger at “white polluters and the white environmentalists” for “steering poison” to minority communities!” –ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: Jones is another of Obama’s clearly Racist Friends. The President has put him in charge of spending $30-Billion dollars!! A consistent theme to this amazing, constantly growing Scandals List is Obama’s incredibly poor judgement in picking friends and associates who are bizarre, crazy radicals! This is what we warned people about before the election! Not many believed us. We were just ‘right wing extremists’ trying to steal the election from a half-black man. Nonsense. People are now seeing Obama’s true color…Socialism. Glenn Beck has been following our lead lately, highlighting a few of the more crazy Obama Appointment Scandals. Van Jones is a real radical who should be fired. So is Barack Obama. Obama said in his own book that he purposely seeks out Communist friends. We are not making that up. See page 1 of the scandals list. Read More from Phil Kerpen at Americans for Prosperity.UPDATE 9/5/9: MotorCityTimes.com has video of Jones calling George W. Bush a “Crack-head!” See it here. UPDATE 9/6/7: Van Jones is forced to Resign saying the accusations against him are not true!!! One down, about 60 more to go!
In any corporation, this would be referred to -- accurately -- as a "pathetic excuse".
There is value in the item, however. It illuminates exactly how criminally incompetent the Obama administration is. Which, of course, they fail to realize -- thereby leaving the country at great risk.
If they had any sense, they'd beg Dick Cheney to help them out...