What an effing circus. Before most normal people even knew who this guy was, he was whacked by the loonies. Worse than sad. I hope this wakes the progressive end up, these people are not messing around, they're way better at this game than the good guys. Time to step it up.
yes. i'm not one to be down on obama every time he doesn't do something super progressive, but it's disappointing how little support there was from his office. van jones was one of surprisingly very few truly inspiring people following obama to the white house. what next? i hope steven chu didn't say anything too true.
The irony is and will be that Van Jones was & will be far more effective getting people inspired about a green(er) economy back in the private sphere than he would have been as just another mid-level bureaucrat. Even with the fancy title of Green Job Czar. This is something that Glen "call me conspiracy theory wingnut" Beck doesn't get. His cognitive dissonance is approaching Rush Limbaugh levels by not reconciling operative differences between the totalitarianistic nature that was the W era with and the progressive agenda of the Obama administration.
Glen represents the side of conservative polities that think the only form of government is no government unless it's his form of government.
iamus, spot on, but beck's dissonance is far and above limbaugh. the man is out on crazy island, and i think if i ever met the man, i'd punch him in the teeth.
they're not going to stop at VJ, they'll keep whacking away - it's what scum does.
and then they'll claim victory because obama's school speech isn't political (even though reagan's and bushs's were) and probably never was, but they'll say it's because of their pressure.
a neutral question...
so are you all
1. ignoring Jones' past?
2. not ignoring his past, but letting the past be the past and assuming he is a different person now?
I understand the beck bashing and your angle but I don't entirely understand the resounding support for Jones.
beck: The American people stood up and demanded answers. Instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness. I continue to be amazed by the power of everyday Americans to initiate change in our government through honest questioning, and judging by the other radicals in the administration, I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future.
riiight, cos these bigots that actively pursued an agenda that attempted to undermine govement from the inside (a la norquist, placing underqualified partisan hacks in chief positions, etc) weren't 'radical'?
van jones' past is very much the reason i support him now.
- graduate of yale law school;
- served as legal monitor for a protest of rodney king verdict;
- involved with STORM, left-wing revolutionary group, antiwar, committed to feminism, worker's rights, international solidarity, and against police brutality;
- founded bay area policewatch, lawyer referral service against police abuse;
- founded ella baker center for human rights, for social justice in urban areas;
- founded color of change, grassroots organization to empower black americans;
- founded green for all, green-collar jobs and clean energy;
- wrote 'the green collar economy'
what is more admirable than working for social justice?
If this country is currently so far left, er, I mean 'progressive', and in such loving support of His Greatness Obama, why did this mid-level bureaucrat resign because of the words of a single host on a single tv station? Is the current administration bound by cable news ratings?
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What an effing circus. Before most normal people even knew who this guy was, he was whacked by the loonies. Worse than sad. I hope this wakes the progressive end up, these people are not messing around, they're way better at this game than the good guys. Time to step it up.
yes. i'm not one to be down on obama every time he doesn't do something super progressive, but it's disappointing how little support there was from his office. van jones was one of surprisingly very few truly inspiring people following obama to the white house. what next? i hope steven chu didn't say anything too true.
The irony is and will be that Van Jones was & will be far more effective getting people inspired about a green(er) economy back in the private sphere than he would have been as just another mid-level bureaucrat. Even with the fancy title of Green Job Czar. This is something that Glen "call me conspiracy theory wingnut" Beck doesn't get. His cognitive dissonance is approaching Rush Limbaugh levels by not reconciling operative differences between the totalitarianistic nature that was the W era with and the progressive agenda of the Obama administration.
Glen represents the side of conservative polities that think the only form of government is no government unless it's his form of government.
iamus, spot on, but beck's dissonance is far and above limbaugh. the man is out on crazy island, and i think if i ever met the man, i'd punch him in the teeth.
another win for lunatic fringe.
they're not going to stop at VJ, they'll keep whacking away - it's what scum does.
and then they'll claim victory because obama's school speech isn't political (even though reagan's and bushs's were) and probably never was, but they'll say it's because of their pressure.
scary. idiots.
a neutral question...
so are you all
1. ignoring Jones' past?
2. not ignoring his past, but letting the past be the past and assuming he is a different person now?
I understand the beck bashing and your angle but I don't entirely understand the resounding support for Jones.
didn't take long:
beck:
The American people stood up and demanded answers. Instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness. I continue to be amazed by the power of everyday Americans to initiate change in our government through honest questioning, and judging by the other radicals in the administration, I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future.
riiight, cos these bigots that actively pursued an agenda that attempted to undermine govement from the inside (a la norquist, placing underqualified partisan hacks in chief positions, etc) weren't 'radical'?
gonna be a long 8 years.
@awkeytect - I actually admire Jones' past, but that's not one of your options! ;D
van jones' past is very much the reason i support him now.
- graduate of yale law school;
- served as legal monitor for a protest of rodney king verdict;
- involved with STORM, left-wing revolutionary group, antiwar, committed to feminism, worker's rights, international solidarity, and against police brutality;
- founded bay area policewatch, lawyer referral service against police abuse;
- founded ella baker center for human rights, for social justice in urban areas;
- founded color of change, grassroots organization to empower black americans;
- founded green for all, green-collar jobs and clean energy;
- wrote 'the green collar economy'
what is more admirable than working for social justice?
If this country is currently so far left, er, I mean 'progressive', and in such loving support of His Greatness Obama, why did this mid-level bureaucrat resign because of the words of a single host on a single tv station? Is the current administration bound by cable news ratings?
yeah, i know you're having a tough time with that geoff, good luck on your journey to figuring that one out. it's soooo complicated.
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