Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'Green Jobs' Adviser's Past Could Stir Trouble for White House at Critical Time
Fox News ^ | 09/03/09

Posted on 09/03/2009 3:35:21 PM PDT by MissesBush

President Obama's "green jobs" adviser could become a mounting liability for the Obama administration, as the latest revelation about Van Jones shows his belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks may have been an inside job.

Jones joined the "9/11 truther" movement by signing a statement in 2004 calling for then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and others to launch an investigation into evidence that suggests "people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

The statement asked a series of critical questions hinting at Bush administration involvement in the attacks and called for "deeper inquiry." It was also signed by former Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.

The discovery comes after Jones had to apologize Wednesday night for "offensive words" he uttered in February when he called Republicans "assholes." He said the remarks "do not reflect the views of this administration" and its bipartisan aims.

But such statements just scratch the surface of Jones' past commentary.

He also has consistently leaned on racially charged language, pointing the finger at "white polluters and the white environmentalists" for "steering poison" to minority communities, as he makes the case for lifting up low-income and minority communities with better environmental policy.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; bho44; bhoczars; cultureofcorruption; greenjobs; nakedcommunist; obamascandals; vanjones
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-43 next last
To: La Lydia
If a Republican was on the record saying things like this guy has said, that person would have been forced to resign in shame and count themselves lucky not to be tarred and feathered

Exactly. Can you imagine if a Bush appointee had speculated that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor in advance and had done nothing to prevent it? The Democrats and the media (same thing) would have run him out of town on a rail after weeks and weeks of media controversy.

Trent Lott lost his position as Senate majority leader merely for praising Strom Thurmond a little too effusively. But this anti-American POS is given a total pass in the media for making a disgusting, outrageous, unconscienable slander like claiming the Bush administration carried out 911. We're truly living in Alice's Wonderland.

21 posted on 09/03/2009 3:57:23 PM PDT by MissesBush
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: nufsed
This guy will be farmed back to Oakland by labor Day.

Don't count on it. Contrary to what has always been touted, I don't think Obama has a clue when it comes to doing what is politically expedient. He's a typical liberal dunderhead; a Nancy Peloski type.

22 posted on 09/03/2009 3:57:31 PM PDT by HarleyD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: AFreeBird

“I have it on good authority that Obama is actually a Rovian plant to destroy the democrat party forever.”

You know, I never thought of that....hmmmmm......


23 posted on 09/03/2009 3:58:14 PM PDT by scottdeus12 (Jesus is real, whether you believe in Him or not.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: MissesBush

Question: must these “czars” pass a security check? What kind of vetting are they subject to?

Suppose they go through the standard FBI background check, what then? Does the report just go to the powers-that-be in the White House? At what point, with what evidence, would they be disqualified?

In other words, suppose the FBI turned up all the dirt we’re not seeing on Van Jones, reported it to Obama’s people, and they just said OK and hired him anyway.

Is this plausible? Is there any automatic disqualification for high government jobs?


24 posted on 09/03/2009 4:00:12 PM PDT by Jedidah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HarleyD

This guy will be disappeared and on a slow news day. He needs to spend more time with the members of his cell. I’ll bet on it.


25 posted on 09/03/2009 4:00:30 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: nufsed

The American people have a proud heritage and love of freedom. The current group of anti-American traitors will be tossed out of office. The anger is building and the tsunami is rolling. Zero, his Gestapo Administration, and RATs and RINOs in the US Congress will be thrown out in 2010 and 2012. They can start packing now.


26 posted on 09/03/2009 4:06:15 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: ExTexasRedhead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331613/posts

Same topic jumping over here.

27 posted on 09/03/2009 4:12:50 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: nufsed
This guy will be disappeared and on a slow news day.

Tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 PM EDT.

28 posted on 09/03/2009 4:17:03 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Walrus
Why is there NO member of Congress asking why an avowed COMMUNIST has been appointed to this position?

I am clueless. The only thing I can figure is they are scared to call a commie a commie.

29 posted on 09/03/2009 4:19:11 PM PDT by Jackknife (Chuck Norris grinds his coffee with his teeth, and boils his water with his rage)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Walrus
Why is there NO member of Congress asking why an avowed COMMUNIST has been appointed to this position?

Perhaps those on the train heading here weren't disappointed with the destination?

30 posted on 09/03/2009 4:20:44 PM PDT by MamaDearest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Walrus

“Why is there NO member of Congress asking why an avowed COMMUNIST has been appointed to this position?”

#####

There is a dual-pronged anatomical explanation for that:

1) His bulletproof black epidermis.

2) Republicanus sans testicularis.


31 posted on 09/03/2009 4:22:23 PM PDT by EyeGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: MissesBush
Perhaps they didn't ask the right questions? (sarcasm)

Bush nominees face invasive vetting process

Snippet: Previous cabinet members and other government appointees who endured the rigorous screening were hesitant to discuss their vetting, but in years past it has been described as invasive, humiliating and unpleasant. But it’s all worth it, they say, for a chance at one of the 6,000 highly coveted positions appointed by the president at the beginning of a new administration.

After candidates fill out a barrage of forms, revealing intimate details of their personal and financial lives, FBI and IRS agents investigate and reinvestigate to verify the information.

Agents talk with former employers, high school classmates, neighbors and ex-spouses, asking when the candidate came to work each day, whether he or she used drugs or alcohol or ever paid an employee under the table.

32 posted on 09/03/2009 4:25:42 PM PDT by MamaDearest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: buccaneer81

Friday news dump on a holiday weekend! A match made in heaven for one Mr. Van Jones and a long weekend to get his resume in order.
Oh, never mind, I guess his resume is sorta, “out there” right now, lol.


33 posted on 09/03/2009 4:32:49 PM PDT by GnuHere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: indylindy

Obama? Van Jones? What is the difference? Same POS. they mirror each other, only difference is that O has a bunch of Chitown whiteys in charge of him.

Without those Chitown whiteys, O would still be a freakin’ communist..er community organizer.


Exactly: They are birds of a feather. One would have to be totally ignorant not to know that this is just another of Obama’s acquaintances, like Ayres who is just a bit too well known to get a job but is one of the powers behind the throne.

Obama is as racist and Communist as Jones.


34 posted on 09/03/2009 4:33:28 PM PDT by Venturer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Venturer

PS. What would Democrats have said if George Bush had appointed David Duke as his Green czar.

Can anyone see a difference here other than one is a white racist and the other a black racist?


35 posted on 09/03/2009 4:34:54 PM PDT by Venturer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Venturer

I predict Bambi will get this unpleasantness out of the way before his two indoctrination appearances next week.
It is becoming a bigger distraction by the day, at least to anyone who’s not in a coma.


36 posted on 09/03/2009 4:39:28 PM PDT by GnuHere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: MissesBush

Some pundits are sure he’ll be fired any minute now — but he’ll still be *there* inside Obama!


37 posted on 09/03/2009 4:39:47 PM PDT by JohnQ1 ("Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever." Oscar Wilde)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GnuHere
Friday news dump on a holiday weekend!

And everything on Tuesday will be focused on Obama's propaganda pitch to the schools. Followed by the address to Congress the next day.

One week from tonight, Jones will be ancient history to the White House.

38 posted on 09/03/2009 4:46:17 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: J40000
How disingenuous! Yesterday was the past.

vaudine

39 posted on 09/03/2009 5:01:14 PM PDT by vaudine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: MissesBush

and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!

40 posted on 09/03/2009 5:17:20 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-43 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson