Van Jones, Patriot

Washington Post ^ | 9-9-09 | Eboo Patel

[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.

[Scanian]

They really need to get a clue. Obama’s wild radicalism has turned millions of previously apathetic people into news junkies.

[oh8eleven]

There is only one Van Jones.
Actually, no, there's a lot more where he came from ...

[Dinah Lord]

Sounds like Eboo is up the behind of dear leader just like Van Jones was...no wonder he thinks Van is such a patriot

EBOO PATEL, Founder and Executive Director

Eboo Patel is the founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith youth movement. He was recently appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Initiatives, where he is working to realize the President’s priority of interfaith cooperation. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He writes "The Faith Divide", a featured blog on religion for The Washington Post and has also written for the Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, the Chicago Tribune, The Clinton Journal, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, The Sunday Times of India and National Public Radio. Eboo serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation USA. He has spoken at the TED Conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum and at universities around the world. Eboo is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select group of social entrepreneurs whose ideas are changing the world; was named by Islamica Magazine as one of ten young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America; was chosen by Harvard’s Kennedy School Review as one of five future policy leaders to watch; and was most recently selected to join the Young Global Leaders network of the World Economic Forum.

bio

P.S. Does anyone know what a social entrepreneur is?

[Dinah Lord]

Looks like Eboo played a role in formulating Dear Leader's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, too. What's that tell you about, Eboo?

Patel, a Muslim born in India, advised Obama on the June 2009 speech the president delivered in Cairo, Egypt, that called for worldwide Muslim engagement.

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[Dinah Lord]

And it looks like Eboo and Barack are Iftar buddies, too. From Eboo's account of their Iftar celebration at the WH...

I have often said that Islam and America were made for each other. Both have a profound emphasis on binding together that which was previously separated.

Tuesday night's White House Iftar was a beautiful illustration of this common vision. I counted at least 50 Muslim Americans in the audience who play an important role in American political life, staffers on Capital Hill, appointees in the Administration, leaders of nonprofit organizations.

[Wee-Weed Up]

So, Sarah Palin is a quitter that couldn’t handle the vicious smears from the left, but Van Jones is glorified for quitting? The guy is a radical, no matter how you try to paint it. You guys are so hypocritical, it’s pathetic.

[Vendome]

What the?! This guy is just plain retarded.

Getting green to as many poor people as possible?

Listen, stupid, GREEN is very expensive and you think the poor can afford to go green?

The only way that is going to happen is if they get vouchers, to subsidize going green from the government. The same government who took the money from real taxpayers. You know, the patriotic ones, as Joe Biden implores.

Poor people going green? They are not even taxpayers!

[Vendome]

Wait a minute!  Let me fix the title:

 

Van Jones, Patriot

 

There, fixed it and you're welcome

[antiRepublicrat]

Without even knowing who this guy was I knew he was a bad pick. He was black, I’d never heard of him, and he was getting a high position in the administration. The first thing I thought was “black activist.” It’s not prejudice when you base your opinion on an established pattern.

If Obama really wanted a green jobs guy, he should have gone with Dr. Patrick Moore, but unfortunately he really believes in common-sense actions for sustainable development that include businesses. Strike one. The ultra-liberal Greenpeace, an organization he helped found, considers him a heretic. Strike two. He’s white. Strike three. That he’s Canadian does’t matter.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Interesting that a Muslim is supporting a 9/11 Truther. I wonder why? Maybe because they both enjoyed the attacks on this country.

[Vendome]

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[VeniVidiVici]

Article author "Eboo Patel"

[Condor51]

Eboo Patel needs to layoff the hashish.

From reading his delusional ravings about this *Patriot* I'd say he's one hit away from a fatal overdose. His brain will be turned into mashed potatoes.

[NRA1995]

Is Eboo an Ewok?

[Made In The USA]

I read this bio and can’t identify what exactly he does that is of any value whatsoever; he’s yet another community organizer. Ten bucks says he would consider CAIR patriots as well.

[Gator113]

The poor black man is a victim of “white supremacy”. He had a dream, he was on the mountain top.... then the white man knocked this hero down.

Is Michael Jackson still dead?

[SJackson]

Is Michael Jackson still dead?

I'll ask Ted

[SJackson]

With regards to the term “Patriot”... for what country?

The concept of Country doesn't apply in the context of class warfare.

[SJackson]

With regards to the term “Patriot”... for what country?

Yes, but only 6 people who weren't already aware noticed that.

[SJackson]

I also don’t see why such a column was posted in the “Faith” section?

Apparently he's a Faith writer. Faith=Politics in his opinion.