Posted on 09/09/2009 5:50:41 AM PDT by SJackson
It makes me sad and a little sick that Van Jones, the White House Green Jobs Czar, was forced to resign after being targeted by a vicious smear campaign. The Obama administration lost a brilliant mind who worked day and night to, as Van would say, "get the greenest solutions to the poorest people". Indeed, Van did as much as anyone to put the concept of the Green Collar Economy on the map, including publishing a best-selling book with that title. More than that, he was one of the nation's most pragmatic environmental visionaries, someone who was always thinking up practical, pattern-changing solutions to massive climate problems.
Van grew up in a small town in Tennessee, went to a provincial college, and wound up graduating from Yale Law School, launching a number of important nonprofit organizations, and winning way too many awards to count, including being named to Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list. He's a remarkable American success story, eloquently captured in Elizabeth Kolbert's New Yorker profile.
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This is a loss for the White House. There is only one Van Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.washingtonpost.com ...
When I first read this column, I thought it must be some kind of satire. And people wonder why no one reads newspapers anymore?
Mr. Patel, Are you serious? Van Jones a patriot? I suppose it depends upon what you believe he's supporting. Certainly not the USA.
Smear campaign? What smear campaign? Van Jones, consistently over his entire career, has had one goal: to tear down the American establishment. The "America" that he serves is not the America that most of perceive and cherish. He sees the USA as a treacherous enemy. Most Americans would regard Mr. Jones in exactly the same way. His own words betrayed him. No one has called him any names that he hasn't already applied to himself -- and with some apparent pride in his positions.
Mr. Jones, like others in similar movements, and even in the White House, lately, fan the flames of discord and hatred, trying to stir up racial and ethnic conflicts, apparently just for the hell of it -- or so that they can declare a "crisis" and rush in with some kind of totalitarian "solution."
It's an old tactic. Remember the Reichstag Fire, anyone? Now the planet is supposed to be burning. Saul Alinsky supplied some new tools, but the goal is always the same: grabbing as much power as you can over as many people as possible.
This man is not a patriot. This is a kook from the leftist fringe, with all the same paranoid fantasies and delusions as those on the far right.
So, good riddance, Mr. Jones. Don't worry -- he won't go broke. If nothing else, he'll hire a bunch of noisemakers from the SEIU's "Purple Ocean" to demonstrate in front of a large corporation, then shake down the executives for some ready cash. Isn't that how it usually works?
I was wondering when the martyrdom of Jones would start...
Van Jones is Obama.Bet the farm on that,Obama has just been a bit more careful about what he says in public.
of course, bams was more careful.........he just advised the nations school children to be careful and not do anything that can be posted on youtube and come back to haunt them. however, he has some gems himself on youtube....like his 57 states comment, killing off grandma, and others.
"Smear campaign! Smear campaign!"
I went straight to the comments....even the readers of this liberal rag think the author is crazy...
Yes... In DemBizarroWorld... Exposing the truth == Vicious Smears..
Two words... “Eboo Patel”
Nuff’ said!
Green. Yeah. The worst libtards across the world (not just here in what used to be the good old US of A) are all engaged in environmental, green efforts. That is just a smokescreen because it sounds so good. But it has very little to do with caring for the environment and everything to do with introducing and establishing socialism in the worst way.
Somehow the word “Cuban” got left out of the headline for this piece.
Yes, that was nice to see.
“It makes me sad and a little sick that Van Jones, the White House Green Jobs Czar, was forced to resign after being targeted by a vicious smear campaign”
Another good thing about the Van Jones affair is how it revealed that how communists wrapped themselves up in the green movement.
Indeed, exposing the truth about a leftist is hate speech.
They can’t survive the truth being told about them.
With regards to the term “Patriot”... for what country?
The Left says it is smearing him to quote him and show video of the guy? The Left is officially insane or brain dead. Maybe both.
Leftists would get 5% of the vote if their true beliefs were discussed openly.
They ALWAYS have to obfuscate what they believe in order to attain power.
They justify this to themselves by telling each other that the voting populace is just too dumb to recognize the left’s inherent superiority.
I repeat
Everything one needs to know about Eboo Patel, and why his op-eds are trivial and silly:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1033/profile.html
PROFILE: Eboo Patel
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: In Chicago, a dynamic young Muslim is working to help solve a problem many religious believers have — how to relate to people of another faith tradition. Eboo Patel is an Indian-American, a Muslim, a sociologist, and the founder and leader of the Interfaith Youth Core, active now on some 50 American campuses.
You’re right—the comments refuting the article are great. I also don’t see why such a column was posted in the “Faith” section? (Unless it’s because the WaPo’s faith is in communism and anti-Americanism. . . .)
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