Happy Labor Day, Mr. Jones
Jimmie at Sundries Shack has the final say on Van Jones:
There are three things that struck me about this story.
1) There wasn’t a single left-wing crackpot conspiracy that Jones didn’t believe, from “Bush knew” to “The CIA is poisoning black people” to “Mumia-Abu Jamal was framed”. Jones showed no independent thought at all. You could get a perfect summary of his political beliefs by reading the signs and banners at an International ANSWER rally. The idea that someone so utterly hidebound in his political thought could ever be in charge of an innovative and dynamic “green jobs” economy is laughable. So how did he end up in the White House? How did he get past the most intrusive vetting questionnaire in the history of vetting questionnaires? Well, it’s pretty clear that the White House thought him perfectly mainstream, which should tell you all you need to know about today’s Democratic Party.
2) Jones picked a really bad time to become a communist. According to Jones, he converted in prison in the early 1990s, not all that long after the Soviet Union collapsed and the Berlin Wall fell. By that point, communism was a thoroughly and loudly discredited political and economic system which had never been successful anywhere it had ever been tried. People were so eager to flee communism that they tore down a wall with their bare hands to get away from it just a couple years before Van Jones declared it an awesome life philosophy. In other words, Van Jones went running toward a completely failed political ideology at the same time that most everyone who had ever followed it was running in the other direction. His conversion was like someone deciding to become the Detroit Lions biggest fan the week after the team went 0-16.
3) Isn’t it something that the MSM spent less time digging into Van Jones’ background than it did Joe Wurzelbacher’s? If the New York Times and the Washington Post had spilled half the ink the man named to an important and highly visible government post as it did on a plumber who dared to ask a question of a Presidential candidate who showed up on his front lawn one day, Jones would have resigned long before now.
Thanks Jimmie — I’ll point all people who wonder why Van Jones was fired…err…resigned to this post.
Not sure if his resignation is a good thing or not. At least with him being part of the administration he kinda could be watched and follow his moves. Now he will probably be appointed somewhere in ACORN and we won’t be able to know any shady dealings he is doing for King Hussein.
I expect him to come out on a talk or TV show one of these days and play the old tired race card.
His getting shit-canned is absolutely a good thing. He should have never been allowed anywhere near the WH, let alone in it.
To drop the other shoe, this watermelon(green on the outside…red in the inside) did not fill out the lengthy Øbama questionnaire to get a job in this administration.
White House: Van Jones Did Not Fill Out 63-Question, Seven-Page Questionnaire.
I figured as much, he had all the right qualifications for this president, an avowed communist, a rabid racist, and a former community organizer/rabble rouser/communist agitator.