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'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.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; bho44; bhoczars; cultureofcorruption; greenjobs; nakedcommunist; obamascandals; vanjones
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To: GnuHere

Obama may throw Jones under the bus we will have to wait and see, my only problem with that is that he will pick another Communist who is less open and more sneaky about the fact of being a Communist.


41 posted on 09/03/2009 6:31:05 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: MissesBush

Was something discovered in the wood pile?


42 posted on 09/03/2009 6:36:14 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khital)
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To: Venturer

The floodlights are on now. So I say, good luck with that, Bambi.


43 posted on 09/03/2009 6:46:39 PM PDT by GnuHere
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