Jones was done in by his own big fat mouth and his long history of self admitted radicalism with more than a hint of racism in his rants….and now he wants to blame people who actually paid attention to what he was saying for his demise….well,cry,baby,cry,stick your finger in your eye, etc etc

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in a statement announcing his resignation just after midnight Saturday. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."

If these are lies and smears why would Jones decide to take a play from the French handbook….surrender?

I would've been happier if the other radical racist would have stepped down but Van Jones is a decent start…

Republicans have been forced to resign for much less, Sparky! But, as Nice Deb points out, we will surely be branded as racists for Van resigning.

*YAWN!* Big deal, we're branded as racists for questioning "The One." Don't forget, protesting is OK only for Republican administrations.

Another embarrassment for the liberal false prophet.

Don't worry, lefties. It'll be a very high probability that Jones will have a senior level job waiting for him at MSNBC. I'm sure Olbermann is looking for another "objective" political analyst.

I'm willing to give President Obama with a mulligan for this one. Sure, he was a horrible choice and a nutcase, but President Obama was new, he'd had virtually no executive experience, he was nearly totally unready for the office, and you can make mistakes even as president.

The next guy and the one after that and so on? Different story.

A couple of my thoughts on this Van Jones situation.

1) Most of America will never even know of this because this entire incident wasn't covered by the MSM. His resignation coming on a Saturday night during a holiday weekend further cements that nothing will grace the pages of our liberal media.

2) Glenn Beck is going to be even more full of himself. He has been outspoken on this issue of czars and Van was one of his primary whipping boys. But what is really strange about this association is that Glenn Beck with his ties to Neopolitano and Ron Paul is much closer to the 911 truthers than Van Jones is.

3) And here is a video of Van Jones mocking Donald Rumsfeld after his resignation. So I wonder if Van Jones is now going to apply for a burger flipping position at Wendy's since he believes that is the only place to go after the White House.

http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275871.htm…

Let's see, when John "Ihave3purplehearts" Kerry puts his war record on the table, and people look at it and call b.s. on the data, facts and gaps therein, we get a new term – "swiftboating" – meaning either a) you bastards are lying and distorting for political reasons alone, or b) you bastards actually looked at the facts, data and gaps and called b.s. on me!

So, what new term might we get here – "van jonsing?"

Ko$ and Keith Olberman have announced a partnership to bring Beck down. And Fox is biased, according to the left.

Like I said last week.

9/11 is the third rail of politics.

One down, only a few more to go.

For me the real treat in all of this will be seeing a)if Mr. Obama replaces Mr. Jones, and b)if he does, who he brings in. I'm betting that Mr. Obama will replace Mr. Jones with someone either from academia (big shock there, eh?), or someone with some actual experience in 'green' energy or jobs creation – in either case it's likely that the person selected will be a safe bet for him, since a majority of the people with experience in both those fields are bleedin' lefties.

On the subject of 'tsars', I read a piece at Pravda.com a while ago which explained why Mr. Obama's 'tsars' should more properly be called 'commissars':

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/10821…

The author makes the point that the unelected, unvetted positions which Mr. Obama has created have as their sole purpose to "…consolidate power on a level realizable only in the Marxist, Godless society of absolutes…". Told by someone probably knows the difference pretty well.

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Like I said last week.

Was it before or after you implied that children in caesarian birth have no soul?

It certainly was before you ran away. Again.

Coward.

Keith Olberman have announced a partnership to bring Beck down. And Fox is biased, according to the left.

2009-09-06 14:46:55

So Olberman is going to rally the remaining five viewers who still watch his show against Beck? The yapping Chihuahua of the left is angry.

Personally, my biggest problem against Jones is not that he's a truther or a socialist but he refuses to acknowledge these as fact. Who, among us, has never committed some type of wrong in the past? Considering the fact that we're all imperfect, Jones would have gained my respect if:

1) He would had admitted that the accusations against him were true;

2) He has acknowledged his past mistakes and states what he believes in now.

The problem with politics today is that virtually every politician is an egotistical, self-righteous elitist. Once again, it is not the "crime" that brought down an individual but the cover-up.

The whining and bitching by Jones against the right only makes him look more like a crybaby.

Our country would be better off if our politicians were more honest and considered the benefit of the country over their own careers. Jones has nobody to blame but himself on this one.

I also refuse to give Obama a pass on this one. Even if Obama really didn't know about it, Obama should have told Jones to be open and honest about it rather than pretending it never existed. Remember, Obama promised to have an open administration. I can forgive an oversight but, once again, Obama made himself out to be an ass by blaming everybody else except himself.

Why is it so hard for politicians to be honest about themselves? They absolutely refuse to learn from their past mistakes.

Another question I have is why did Jones have to resign? I thought the conservative movement and the Republicans were in hiding? I thought that the *VAST* majority of people in the country were liberal? If Jones believed in the 9/11 conspiracy, why not be honest about it?

starpath is hogground.

Like I said last week.

9/11 is the third rail of politics.

Posted by D-Vega

2009-09-06 14:59:15

Ha. Well Trooferism dang sure is D.

Personally, my biggest problem against Jones is not that he's a truther or a socialist but he refuses to acknowledge these as fact. Who, among us, has never committed some type of wrong in the past? Considering the fact that we're all imperfect, Jones would have gained my respect if:

1) He would had admitted that the accusations against him were true;

2) He has acknowledged his past mistakes and states what he believes in now.

Excellent point, Kingfisher. Taking a recent example, Sotomayor, pretty much locked up the SCOTUS slot when she agreed during her confirmation hearings that the "wise Latina" comment was just a case of getting carried away and saying something stupid. Reasonable grown-ups can accept imperfections. What they shouldn't accept is a song and dance about how those imperfections aren't imperfections and you're too stupid to understand, anyhow.

More to the point about the Van Jones story, what this dust-up reveals is a serious problem with staffing on the Obama team. The claim that Jones was somehow or another insufficiently vetted is nonsense. The problems around Jones could have been found with a simple Google search. Rather, the problems with Jones came from the fact that the administration didn't see a problem in the first place. "Sure, some of what he said might seem a little loopy," the thinking goes, "but he's a Yale Law grad, so there's got to be either some insight or legitimacy into his point (Yes, I've actually seen this defense)". For a large portion of the political class, membership in the club (the right schools, the right resume, face time on the right shows, etc.), equates with legitimacy. Consequently, you can have a Van Jones, a member of the club, spouting off rubbish that should disqualify him from polite society, let alone the corridors of the White House, without anyone even questioning him, while those outside the club even raising these questions get treated like cranks and extremists.

We were had. Jones was just the only one in Obama's clique that had come out and made public what they believe in. Now he is gone, and the others will just be more careful making sure they do not say what they believe in public. But the agenda to destroy this country and remake it into a two-bit collectivist shit hole, will continue. This resignation should not allow the other scumbags off the hook.

Eh, Alex, he was in trouble because of stuff he said before he was appointed, not after. Being careful now for these guys is too late, all of them have left a trail of public statements, petition signings, and various media. Van Jones was just the first to be found out.

Eh, Alex, he was in trouble because of stuff he said before he was appointed, not after.

CT, I know that. My point was that Van Jones and the other Obama nutjobs all believe this stuff. They might not say it out load like Jones, did, but they believe it.

Being careful now for these guys is too late,

I bet they are flabbergasted that they still have to be careful. After the media won them the election, they felt untouchable. The media frenzy and inability to save Jones will make the ones that agreed with Jones but did not say so in a public venue for all to see, skittish and careful now. But we should not for a second doubt that Van Jones got that job because they agreed with this nut talk he does/did.

all of them have left a trail of public statements, petition signings, and various media.

I sure hope so. But I think it will be on us to expose them for it. the media certainly has no interest in this.

Van Jones was just the first to be found out.

From your mouth to his ears man. I want everyone of these radical leftist truther a-holes to crash and burn. I want people to see that this kind of lunacy is toxic. While my guess is that it will not stop the left from believing stupid crap, it certainly will no longer allow them to say so without consequences.

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You can bet that they're now scouing YouTube and other internet sites hoping to erase those embarrassing political statements now that they realized that conservatives can and do use search engines.

After the media won them the election, they felt untouchable. Posted by AlexinCT

2009-09-06 22:48:26

LOL

George W. Bush and Governor Palin won Obama the election.

George W. Bush and Governor Palin won Obama the election.

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-06 23:12:26

Wow that's some seriously bat shit insane crap your posting.

George W. Bush and Governor Palin won Obama the election.

2009-09-06 23:12:26

Yeah, I know. I kept telling Bush, "Don't run for a third term, don't run for a third term!" But, Bush wouldn't listen.

George W. Bush and Governor Palin won Obama the election.

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-06 23:12:26

I know, I am feeding a lover of Hitler and admitted Nazi who claimed the Jews had it coming to them, but Sarah Palin is responsible for the McCain candidacy remaining relevant up to election night.

Still dressing up and playing pretend nazi warrior there M77tha?

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-06 23:12:26

I actually believe there is some truth to this statement. If we had an honest media in our country, Barack Obama couldn't be elected dog catcher. But the push was on to demonize Bush & Co. and we ended up with Commie-lite running our nation. If the election were held today, I doubt Obama would come within 10 points of John McCain. If America wanted a liberal President, they should have voted for McCain instead of the angry racist commie they put in office.

McCain really blew it with his "I'm suspending my campaign" crap and then going and doing nothing to stop the TARP, or, at least making it a wise piece of legislation. Prior to that, he had every state that Bush won, had a few that Kerry won, and was putting many other Blue states in play. After that? Crash.

I bet if this had come out about Van Jones before his resignation, all would have been forgiven. Here he is bashing Israel and saying that it has no right to exist.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/09/024…

Human rights has [sic] no borders. Wherever there are human beings, I support it. We're human rights activists, and show support, show solidarity.

What we want to see at this point is the rights of the Palestinian people being respected. And at this point, the end of the occupation, the right of return of the Palestinian people. These are the critical dividing lines, global dividing lines, questions of human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days, let alone 54 years.

We see violence against poor people, and poor people of color, within the US border, at the US border, and beyond the US border. And you see US tax dollars funding all of it. And so we have now a global struggle against the US-led security apparatus and military agenda that impacts people here and impacts people around the world, and I think that we need to see our problems as linked.

I agree, if Senator McCain had gone through and fought against TARP and tried to stop it, he'd have looked like a hero of the people, but all he showed is that he's a legislator buddy of congressmen cronies first and presidential candidate sort of a distant "I deserve this, you plebian wretches" second.

LIES, but especially lies about George W. Bush and Governor Palin won Obama the election.

Fixed that for you, you liar.

Was it before or after you implied that children in caesarian birth have no soul?

I never implied anything of the kind, you lying POS.

Have a nice day.

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