What's With Van Jones?

As Michelle Malkin so aptly points out, with several links, Jones isn't the lone ideologue in Obama's WH. Were a Republican WH staffed the way Obama's has been, it would be the equivalent of taking some of the most extreme activists and moving them right in. You wouldn't see that, as the media, with the help of the Democrats, has made many of them almost toxic. Can you imagine Bush trying to put an anti-abortion activist in the office next to him? It would never fly. He'd be accused of making the place too political.

But because Obama was never in Washington to have an actual crowd, one that might include some centrists, and is of the far Left wing of his party, these are the only people he has to place around him. And I doubt he'd want it any other way. The guy is simply too far Left for America and the media allowed him to slip through unchallenged. The church he attended for so many years alone was enough to disqualify him. Right now my biggest concern is that he'll prove to be just deceptive enough to paint a more moderate image of himself and survive for more than one term, while working his agenda below the radar.

The whole crew needs to be scrutinized, frankly. Except for the Clinton-ites, who are beginning to look like not much more than window dressing, we have a WH of leftists from one wing to the other.

JARRETT:. You guys know Van Jones? [Applause. Moderator injects: "This is his house apparently."]

JARRETT: 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.

Comments

[mark l.]

"Can you imagine Bush trying to put an anti-abortion activist in the office next to him?"

can you imagine if the guy who was bush's political patron bombed 3 or 4 abortion clinics? I don't think the left would take the response of 'he didn't kill anybody' very lightly.

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"And all the creative ideas he has."
guffaw.

[Barbara]

Dan,
"Right now my biggest concern is that he'll prove to be just deceptive enough to paint a more moderate image of himself and survive for more than one term, while working his agenda below the radar."

Until the election funding and who can vote is cleaned up, does obambi
really have to be deceptive?
I am not so sure of that and that is troubling.

[Mad Monica]

The most comical part of all this Van Jones crap is his assertion that he didn't read what he signed when he joined the 9/11 truther petition. This is getting to be a serial happening for BO Boy and his gang. But I would like to know just how long Congress has been signing on to things they don't read.

You can't tell me this is just a recent thing. I think it wouldn't be a bad thing at all were the people to rise up and demand the entire Congress be overturned. Completely empty the seats and fill them up with new folks who haven't been riding the political gravy train for decades.

Were Congressmen and women to face losing their frigging jobs if they did not read the legislation they vote on would sure as hell change things! THAT kind of change truly would be a good thing, I think.

[Able Stanton]

The irony is that Van Jones has fought successfully on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised in our society - particularly on behalf of poor minorities in Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Is anyone here prepared to make the argument that poor and disenfranchised people don't exist in our country? Does anyone wish to argue that disenfranchised communities might benefit from the help of volunteers and activists?

Van Jones has apparently been an effective voice for the poor. If repairing our economy includes creating new good jobs in the "green" manufacturing sector to lift people out of poverty, why not involve someone like Van Jones?

[mark l.]

given the spate of luck with obama appointees, he's probably one the few people who filed a 'correct' tax return.
it might have been just to get the 'earned income credit' welfare check, but it has to count for something.

[USMC]

"The irony is that Van Jones has fought successfully on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised in our society - particularly on behalf of poor minorities in Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Is anyone here prepared to make the argument that poor and disenfranchised people don't exist in our country? Does anyone wish to argue that disenfranchised communities might benefit from the help of volunteers and activists?

Van Jones has apparently been an effective voice for the poor. If repairing our economy includes creating new good jobs in the "green" manufacturing sector to lift people out of poverty, why not involve someone like Van Jones?"

You're kidding right? Oakland is WORSE now than then. Philadelphia has a higher murder rate than Baghdad. Detroit is in shambles. More people of color have been killed through abortions and self inflicted crime (black on black, etc.) then any other time. WHY?

Because of the progressive traitors who've run these cities for decades. Slavery didn't work, so they segregated, that didn't work let's put them in "projects" (i.e. plantations) and abort them. That worked! You progressives are a disgusting lot. You are what you accuse others of being.

I long for the day when the people of color see what has been done to them by the likes of that pig V Jones and other progressives. They will deal with you harshly. In California people of color got their water shut off by Obama. On top of that there's a drought. 400 miles of farmland is devastated. Food has to be shipped in to help them. "Bitter clingers" are donating tons of food along with the California state govt. to help these people. You know why they're devastated?
Because of the "green movement". A 2 inch fish has to be saved! Get the hell out of here with thta green crap.

Paul Rodriguez a rabid liberal has teamed up with Hannity and Tea Party folks to put pressure on Obama to get his head out of his ass. Maybe if he had smaller ears he could.

Look at people for what they are, the image of God, not voting blocs and how much pigmentation they have. The racists are you progressives.

[Jack Okie]

Able Stanton:

"...Van Jones has fought successfully on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised..."

Details and links, please. What does "successfully" mean?

[rrpjr]

Anybody with real experience with Leftism (I grew up on the Left) knows that Van Jones is a completely unremarkable prototype, distinguished only by his especially impolitic loud mouth. I suspect there are hundreds of Van Joneses around Obama right now, that is, people who think just the same way, secretly thrill to what he said, and grit their teeth in frustration that they have to restrain themselves from saying it. A "truther" in the White House! Shocking! It's a given in Jones' precincts like Berkeley that Republicans are not only "as*holes" but infinitely treachorous fiends who should be herded off to reeducation camps. Leftist rage and bafflement that they even have to share the same planet with Republicans is pretty standard stuff.

[Aye Chihuahua]

Van Jones is the keystone.

[North Dallas Thirty]

"Van Jones has apparently been an effective voice for the poor. If repairing our economy includes creating new good jobs in the "green" manufacturing sector to lift people out of poverty, why not involve someone like Van Jones?"

If Van Jones had been effective, we wouldn't NEED "green jobs" to "lift people out of poverty"; it already would have happened via the other projects for which he had been agitating.

Van Jones is a race and poverty pimp whose only interest is in using the poor, not helping them; if he actually fixed the problem, he'd be out of a job. In the immortal words of Booker T. Washington:

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."

[North Dallas Thirty]

Moreover, what this shows us is very simple; Barack Obama is a Marxist, a 9/11 Truther, and a race and poverty pimp.

Because that's what he's hiring, that's what he's supporting, and that's what he's gushing over.

[rssg]

Not just VAn Jones, Valleri Jarrett but when will Hussein Obama be asked to step down from his office? It's obvious, by worldview, he is unfit to be the American President.

He has un-American, alien (foreign) views. Gee, that's a surprise.

[Ran]

Hmmm... Is there room under the bus for a van?

[mark l.]

if van wants a task...

figure out how much carbon we produce in the process of feeding the world. slap on an export tax on ALL agricultral products, to cover our 'carbon expenses'.

I'm still trying to figure out how we are subject to cartels for oil, which we in turn use to produce agricultural exports. Last I checked, you can't eat oil, and food is the one thing we actually produce and export.

We have used our govt to artificially keep the cost of food low, letting everything else in the world around us inflate. I'm all for a new, revamped, "Oil for Food" scam.

[Hyman Roth]

When asked by Newsweek, Van Jones could not define "green jobs". So, naturally this is the right guy to put in charge of creating green jobs. That would be like putting a tax cheat like Timmy Geithner in charge of the economy. Oh. Wait.

An "effective voice for the poor" would remove those people from their poverty.

There is no such thing as "the poor". There are people with different income levels; each has a reason why they are in the situation they are in. And none of those reasons are my fault or my responsibility.

[Rich K]

Now where was it I read an old saying about inmates running the asylumn?
Oh ya, Axelrods handbook for change.

[rssg]

"Green jobs" is a joke people. Global warming is likely due to sunspot activity - it has nothing to do with human activity.

Green jobs provides cover for government to seize control of more and more of the nation's industy and turn us into robots, bowing down to Dear Leader Barry Soetoro.

Communism kills. Nearly every communist state ends up starving millions of their own people. Now why is that? And why are supposedly "educated" people like Hussein Obama and Cass Sunstein, etc., so attracted to Marxism?

Control, that's why. They think they are intellectual elites who know how to centrally plan the nation and everyone's life.

Hussein Obama needs to be forced to resign or impeached.

[rrpjr]

"...an effective voice for the poor."

I can't beat USMC's response, but what does this stale phrase even mean? For one thing, in those parts of the country with the greatest concentration of "effective voices for the poor", poverty is only getting worse. Try that irony.

[joyMc]

THE poor, THE children, THE zillion innocents who stand to lose livable conditions on planet earth, THE downtrodden for whatever reason.THE red man, black, brown, yellow, short, tall, fat, ugly, etc. There are a lot of bodies ready to accept these titles if it means getting some kind of goodies. Guys like Jones just jump on that, capitalize on the votes and good will of the potential receivers in the transaction. The Jones's of the world always preach overturning the system for the benefit of the above mentioned groups, the potential receivers. I see him as the revolutionary with the heart of the dictator.

[joyMc]

Re comment by USMC. Black on black crime is the biggest problem in black neighborhoods. For many years I worked as a home health nurse in Houston's black neighborhoods. Every house has burgler bars on the windows. Even the window air conditioners have to have cages around them. Doors are barred. Bull dogs live in yards. Old ladies have rusty shot guns under their beds. Able bodied young men hang around, seemingly doing nothing chronically. Prostitutes work the culdesacs. Few local services are in place yet businesses fear to locate there due to high rates of robbery. Released cons are welcomed back into the beds of young women to produce more dependent fatherless children. An entire underclass of unemployable youth live out of grannies house mooching off her social security checks. Years pass and few changes occur. Huge piles of garbage fill vacant lots. Rats run in and out. Those who service these areas know to get in early and get out before the crack heads and pimps wake up. Never so far have I heard of a white person going into the 5th ward, Kashmier, 6th ward, Southside, Acres Homes, Pleasantville, or any other black neighborhood and victomizing black inhabitants. Those who would call that a racist observation ignore reality. People who choose to ignore or repackage reality usually have some alterior motive for doing so. These are the poverty pimps.