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Van Jones Should Run for Mayor of Oakland (Free Republic, Freepers Mentioned)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/8/9

Posted on 09/08/2009 3:12:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway

I had to take a time out to send a little message to my friend Jack Cafferty at CNN. He has a blog post focusing on Van Jones and asking if the White House should have so many czars.

SNIP

The conservative attack on Jones, a swift-boating and a smearing that left Jones with a new national identity to build from. Yes, he's got to overcome the YouTubing he's gotten and he can do this with, well, new videos. Van's not the radical he was in the past, but you know what, Sean Hannity's not cavorting with the White Supremacist Hal Turner anymore either right?

SNIP

To my conservative friends at the conservative website Free Republic, er, Freepers, (and yes I do have Freeper friends and agree with them on not a few issues) which give me so much traffic (thanks!) I've got to let you know that people who support Van Jones, like me, aren't "commies" and in fact have some of you as friends.

I know it makes you feel good to haul off and trash people you don't know, but I think you're wrong about Van and would like him if you met him.

Give him a chance.

To Van, I say this: run for Mayor. For some weird, zippity-do-da, reason only the Lord knows, you've been given a powerful platform and an giant army of really pissed off supporters around America and certainly in Oakland.

You can do a lot of good here. Run for Mayor of Oakland. Strike while the iron is hot.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: oakland; obama; valeriejarrett; vanjones; vjquitter; zennie62
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1 posted on 09/08/2009 3:12:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
"swiftboating and smearing of..."

Stating facts and telling the truth about.
2 posted on 09/08/2009 3:14:49 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: nickcarraway

It would be perfect continuity for Oakland - Commie Ron Dellum to Commie Van Jones!


3 posted on 09/08/2009 3:16:07 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: nickcarraway

Sure...why not. Could be an improvement.


4 posted on 09/08/2009 3:16:52 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: aquila48

Ain’t that right!


5 posted on 09/08/2009 3:17:24 PM PDT by Chattering Class of 58
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To: bert

Not funny.


7 posted on 09/08/2009 3:19:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
People in Oakland are just stupid enough to vote for Jones. They deserve everything they get. He can try out his “green” jobs program at a local level and see how it works. Just watch Van crash and burn. This is a perfect marriage. I hope he runs and wins. There's nothing to lose. Dellums is as bad as it gets, so Van Jones cannot be worse.
8 posted on 09/08/2009 3:20:23 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: nickcarraway

A giant army of supporters? I guess that’s why he resigned, huh. All those supporters.


9 posted on 09/08/2009 3:20:25 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black.)
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To: nickcarraway
Give him a chance.

Sure, why not? Why let a little thing like being called an @$$hole get in the way of a beautiful friendship?

10 posted on 09/08/2009 3:22:45 PM PDT by giotto
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To: aquila48
It would be perfect continuity for Oakland - Commie Ron Dellum to Commie Van Jones!

You forgot about Dellums' predecessor, Mayor Moonbeam hisself. Talk about a double play combo! "Brown to Dellums to Jones" doesn't have the ring of "Tinker to Evers to Chance", but they're just as deadly!

11 posted on 09/08/2009 3:22:55 PM PDT by ssaftler (OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: nickcarraway

As a viable stepping stone to AG of California, I say no. Let him drift back into obscurity where he belongs.


12 posted on 09/08/2009 3:23:17 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: nickcarraway

Van Jones at the Western States Center 2006 CSTI
http://www.coyoteco.com/?p=34

The guy is an out and out commie. Watch the video to see the manipulation. Straight out of the Communist Manifesto 1848.

And around 1230ish on the video he says we use the flag to commit “genocide”, etc., and we’re also “fascists’ and “bigots. Screw him.

Oakland fine. The WH not so fine.


13 posted on 09/08/2009 3:23:22 PM PDT by bronxville
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“a swift-boating and a smearing”

These people are clowns. Pointing out the facts of the guy’s life is neither a swift-boating or a smearing. Perhaps the writer can tell us why Jones was less than honest in his security application?

As for running as a carpet-bagging mayor of Oakland, I would say that the dishonest and avowed communist Jones is the perfect man for the job. The only thing that would make it better is if the Bay Area seceded from the Union.


14 posted on 09/08/2009 3:24:40 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: truthguy
Dellums is as bad as it gets, so Van Jones cannot be worse.

Uh huh. Remember those who said it couldn't get any worse than George H.W. and then George W Bush?

It can always get worse.

15 posted on 09/08/2009 3:25:12 PM PDT by Ole Okie (American)
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To: ssaftler

True - but Brown is in a universe of his own.


16 posted on 09/08/2009 3:25:31 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: nickcarraway
Nick, whatever you think the man said he's a Commie.

Frankly, that's enough or me.

This sort of thing simply isn't subject to rehabilitation!

17 posted on 09/08/2009 3:25:42 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: nickcarraway; bert

Agree with nick - not one bit funny!!!


18 posted on 09/08/2009 3:26:14 PM PDT by bronxville
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19 posted on 09/08/2009 3:26:32 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: nickcarraway

Leftists in office are the primary reason this country is declining.


20 posted on 09/08/2009 3:26:48 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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