Posted on 09/07/2009 6:42:40 AM PDT by kristinn
The chattering classes are asking how someone with Van Jones' background was able to get appointed to a high ranking position in the Obama administration. The answer is easy, Obama had someone just like him at a high level of his presidential campaign from its beginning in early 2007 right through the November 2008 election.
Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, a California comrade of Jones, served as a member of Obama's finance team as a bundler, fundraising event host and was a maxed-out donor. She is also a 9/11 Truther who signed the same 9/11 conspiracy petition in 2004 that Van Jones did.
Evans also shares Jones' anti-American, pro-terrorist, radical environmental communist politics. They served together on the board of the Rainforest Action Network in the mid-2000s.
Like Jones, Evans is well known in California Democratic party circles where being anti-American is a requirement for advancement in the party. Obama caught zero grief from the mainstream media and the McCain campaign over Evans' involvement at the top levels of his campaign, so naturally Obama and his people would think Jones would skate right on through.
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That quote bears repeating on these threads.
The fact that Van cussed Republicans - shows he is a partisan and I'm fine with that.
The fact that he was a 9-11 truth-er - shows he tends to have a conspiracy bent to his thinking, which is a little out there, but again I am fine with that.
That fact that he is an avowed communist, police killer loving, black power promoting, one world government, open borders, white hating racist - Is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.
Van Jones is a mainstream "New" Democrat. He is Obama's alter-ego. If you want to know what Obama thinks, hand Jones a microphone.
Evans also shares Jones' anti-American, pro-terrorist, radical environmental communist politics.
Again, this is what passes for mainstream these days over at the DNC.
I don't know why its so hard to assume that either Obama agrees with the people he surrounds himself with, or else he finds these people easy to manipulate. I guess thats your choice. Does he associate with them because he agrees, or because they are just so easy and useful? Point them and pull their trigger and off they go.
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