Posted on 09/03/2009 5:33:34 PM PDT by SJackson
White House green jobs adviser Van Jones' past associations and remarks are stirring controversy at a time when the Obama administration is trying to keep controversy at a minimum.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
In this environment, I think the Obama administration should be very careful of its dealings with anybody who can be labeled communist accurately, that's just going to play to the political sensibility that those on the right have that the Obama administration is socialist, literally socialist. ... It is unwise to bring in people who actually do label themselves socialist or communist
Christopher C. Hull, adjunct government professor, Georgetown University
Ya think?
Uh, too late.
Good gawd...Get these SOB’s out of the White House....ASAP!
"Past", like last week?
It's his present that's the problem!
Don't bother.
It is what it is.
How? These are the "organizers" he's hung with his entire life. Can't make the Secret Service very comfortable.
“Van Jones”
More czarina than czar
It's like Chicago, rotten to the core!
Loving how Obama seems to be dogged by nearly everything he’s done so far. I guess he’s finding out that it’s one thing to give fantasy land speeches, all that gimmicky stuff, but reality always comes knocking. I wonder if he knows what a lame duck is... it’s those guys who talk about closing their eyes and beliveing they can fly and when they open them, they still can’t.
Thank You Glen Beck!!
This guy just mimics Rev. Wright, with the same anti-American, anti-white crazy rhetoric. Why isn’t this being pointed out by the Republican leadership?
What exactly are his qualifications to be a green adviser? And what does a green adviser do?
Indeed!
I BET HE DOESN'T HAVE THE BALLS TO FIRE HIM.
As Rove says, haven’t people wonder why he surrounds with such people?
What Republican leadership?
That he made a mistake by appointing a communist?, because if he does, it isn't going to stop with Jones and the son of a bitch might as well resign himself because he is every bit as much of a communist and racist as Jones, and a crypto-muslim to boot!.
Not just literally, but actually, factually, and demonstrably socialist.
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