and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
Posted on 09/04/2009 11:07:15 AM PDT by Uncledave
'Oooh. Van Jones, alright!' [Victor Davis Hanson]
Ah, the Dividends of a Yale Law degree:
The problems with Van “change the system” Jones are not just his serial slurs against much of American society (“an apartheid regime”) as we know it (e.g., capitalism, the coal industry, American farming, the white population, the Bush administration (for causing 9/11), the Republican “***holes”, etc. — but that he simply cannot tell the truth about his own history, in disavowing almost everything he has said, written, or signed in the recent past. (His involvement with the 9/11 “Bush did it” lunacy has a heritage beyond just his written endorsement).
Worse still, by its own admission, the Obama administration seems to have monitored Jones and selected him for his czardom precisely because of, not despite, his flamboyant past.
Cf. Obama guru Valerie Jarrett’s gush: “Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.”
Jones and other Obama radicals (the more middle- and upper-middle class the pedigree, the angrier the denunications) have a strange tendency in the past to have slandered much of American society, then abruptly — once anointed into its highest echelons — to equate their own careerist ascendency with a positive referendum on America’s sudden deliverance (the “apartheid” U.S. in need of having its entire system “changed” is now okay since a Van Jones is in the White House.)
Michelle Obama articulated that view with her trope about not previously being proud of America until her husband become a serious candidate, but apparently for the next few years we are supposed to endure lectures from a variety of leftists like Jones that their own success allows us to find (temporary) redemption from them.
I would assume that Jones will have resign within 24 hours, given the crudity, surrealism, and venom of his serial invective.
09/04 01:12 PMShare
I am still amazed that BO hasn’t fired him. Makes him (BO) look oh so weak!
I went over to CNN and MSNMC and did a search for Van Jones...came up with NOTHING!!!
Nutcakes and Crackpots
In the Loop
Keeping Obama
In the Soup
Gosh, Oh Gee!
Oh, Joy!
What Fun!
Picking off
Bam’s Czars
One by One...
Resign in 24 hours? I dunno - does he need a vaca on Martha’s Vineyard first? I say today or tomorrow or the WH is stuck on stupid.
What is it with all these affirmative action users who get carte blanche from the media for everything they do. Actions speak louder than words... this guy’s past tells you who he is and what he thinks. Unacceptable. Double that for his boss.
So, any mention on NRO about Beck’s contribution to this story, and the risks and bashings that Beck has endured?
Don't count on it.
I predict it won’t be publicized as Bambi firing him, as that implies BHO made a bad judgment in hiring him - Bambi will accept his resignation with regret, and thank him for his “service” to the country. Then Van will move on to pursue “other interests.” Much as we wish Bambi would.
Van is sucking all of oxygen leading up to O’s Wednesday speech.
At this point Van will have to either A) be fired over the weekend, which makes it through at least Tuesday’s news cycle and adds a new story about “who are these czars?”. Or B) Van stays on and the story gets even bigger, and we’ll still have a “who are these czars?” story.
There’s no good way out for the O-man.
Somebody here described Van as a rotting, bleeding albatross on Obama’s neck and I think that’s a fitting metaphor.
True. O is caught in his own self-made perfect storm. It’s poetic.
But what did Cleveland (aka mistake on the lake) ever do to
you...
LOVE it! But O’s got a bigger problem than Van. If he lets Van go, he opens himself to all the pressures I’m sure Beck will continue to pursue. How many fired czars/advisors does it take to change an administration? And, of course, Jarrett’s implicated up to her eyeballs. The vetting issue needs congressional action which might, I hate to say it, save a few dem seats in ‘10.
The longer he remains unsacked, the more harm he does to the #%$^%-in chief.
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