Obama Aide Van Jones Resigns After GOP Attacks

[SavageEagle]

This is a BIG win for America! It wan't just the GOP making a stink about it, and they don't address all the issues why people wanted him gone in the article, but the fact is that he stepped down.

Keep up the good work America!! I'm proud of you!!!!!



Obama Aide Van Jones Resigns After GOP Attacks | NBC Washington

 

[Agent 007]

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[SavageEagle]

 

[Whosyer]

One down. Now on to Mark Lloyd, Cass Sunstein, John Holdren and Carol Browner. Or better yet, the guy that handpicked these bozos.

 

[Mgderf]

One down. Now on to Mark Lloyd, Cass Sunstein, John Holdren and Carol Browner. Or better yet, the guy that handpicked these bozos.

And Eric Holder, and Timothy Geithner, and ...

They are beginning to hear the giant stirring!

 

[Dogman]

I bet it's getting crowded under the bus, with everyone that's been thrown under it.

 

[melensdad]

Obama's "GREEN JOBS CZAR" resigns . . .

Apparently the truth came back to haunt him, that and calling all Republicans A**holes? But while he is no longer the CZAR, he is apparently still an Obama advisor.

Obama 'green jobs' adviser quits amid controversy

By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
28 mins ago
Print Story: Obama 'green jobs' adviser quits amid controversy - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's environmental adviser Van Jones, who became embroiled in a controversy over past inflammatory statements, has resigned his White House job after what he calls a "vicious smear campaign against me."

The resignation, announced early Sunday, came as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.

Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.

Jones issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones "continues to work in the administration."​

 

[4sarge]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]'Green Jobs Czar' Van Jones resigns[/FONT] White House's first casualty

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones quit late last night after pressure mounted over his extremist history first exposed in WND.

The last straw for Jones was being caught on tape in an expletive-packed rant, directly attacking Republicans in the Senate who he said abused their majority position in the past to push legislation through. He admitted after the statements were released that the comments were "inappropriate" and "offensive."

"They do not reflect the experience I have had since joining the administration," Jones said in the statement.
Jones was also linked late last week to efforts suggesting a government role in the Sept. 11 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.

When the White House press corps grilled White House press secretary Robert Gibbs about Jones on Friday, a reporter asked how the administration could reject "conspiracy theories" about his birth certificate while employing someone who previously charged the U.S. government with masterminding Sept. 11.

Gibbs said only that Jones "continues to work in the administration," a non-ringing endorsement that set the stage for his ouster.
Jones' name appeared on a petition calling for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officials had orchestrated the attacks.

Jones flatly said in his statement that he did not agree with the petition's stand and that "it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever."

As for his other comments he made before joining Obama's team, Jones said: "If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize."

In April, Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for WND.com, broke the first major story on Jones who was identified as a self-described radical communist and "rowdy black nationalist" who said his environmental activism was actually a means to fight for racial and class "justice."



Succeeding revelations by WND included:

• Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director.
• Jones was co-founder of a black activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program. The revelation followed Beck's reports on WND's story about Jones' communist background.
• That Jones and other White House appointees may have been screened by an ACORN associate.
• One day after the 9/11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world.
• Just days before his White House appointment, Jones used a forum at a major youth convention to push for a radical agenda that included spreading the wealth and "changing the whole system." Jones' Maoist manifesto while leading the group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, was scrubbed from the Internet after being revealed by WND.
• Jones was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged "resistance" against the U.S. government – a demonstration sponsored by an organization associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party.
• In a 2005 conference, Jones characterized the U.S. as an "apartheid regime" that civil rights workers helped turn into a "struggling, fledgling democracy."
• Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide "resistance" against police, accusing them of using the 9/11 attacks to carry out policies of torture.

While talk radio and cable television picked up WND's reporting and increased the pressure on the administration to cut Jones loose, there was no significant news media coverage of the scandal by the major U.S. news media until late last week.

 

[Boilers]

I'm sure that it was a right wing conspiracy and RACIST AT THAT, that contributed to the pressure to see him gone.

 

[Phil502]

I'm sure that it was a right wing conspiracy and RACIST AT THAT, that contributed to the pressure to see him gone.

yea those a$$holes always try to keep a man down.
He will try to collect unemployment now and get paid by Obammy under the table.

 

[SigSense]

You can thank Glen Beck for this.....because the liberal-controlled-mainsteam-drive-by-media didn't report it at all.

 

[Boilers]

And it begins...

“Coarse rhetoric” only OK if you’re a Republican

The Van Jones resignation: “Coarse rhetoric” only OK if you’re a Republican | Daily Loaf


This is good, though.

American Thinker Blog: Jones was recruited not in spite of his wacky beliefs but because of them

One of Paul's friends is quoted as saying, "Van Jones is simply Jeremiah Wright behind a White House desk." How true, indeed.

 

[SC_Shooter]

I wonder if it is even possible for people to begin to relate one idiotic choice after another to the Chosen One. Will the sheeple every see that they voted for his fantasy of what the office should do in a perfect world as opposed to voting for his capability to actually do what the office needs to do in the world in which we actually live?

Probably not.

 

[don't_tread_on_me]

It's about time!! I think it's funny Jones stated he was stepping down due to a vicious smear campaign against him. Guess he can't believe the average folks out here don't go along with his crazy beliefs. Now we just need to get rid of the rest of the non elected, poorly screened Czars! We should demand Congress investigate every one of their backgrounds and their fitness to be in the position.

 

[4sarge]

Van Jones resignation is a victory of sorts BUT he should never have been appointed in the first place. I am very curious where he will turn up in this administration and if this will be covered in the media as well. A rising Obama Socialist Star such as Jones cannot afford to be wasted

 

[55spartan]

Thank Glenn Beck people. We need to support him more than ever. They will really be coming after him because of his role in this.

 

[Joe Williams]

"They launched a smear campaign against me!! How DARE they repeat MY OWN WORDS!!! How unfair is that? How dare they use my own words to illustrate that I'm a racist, and utterly unfit for the position I hold! Why couldn't they have just made something up? Noooo, they had to use my own words to make it as bad as possible!!"

HA HA!! Good bye, ***hole

 

[Joe Williams]

Oh, but we do owe him thanks for one thing. Until he let me know, I wasn't aware that surburban white kids were the only ones gunning down other kids.

 

[Dryden]

Anyone want wager where and when he'll be back on the Obama Graveytrain??

 

[melensdad]

Anyone want wager where and when he'll be back on the Obama Graveytrain??

Anyone want to wager that he NEVER goes away? While he is no longer the CZAR, he is apparently still an Obama advisor.

Obama 'green jobs' adviser quits amid controversy

By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
28 mins ago
Print Story: Obama 'green jobs' adviser quits amid controversy - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's environmental adviser Van Jones, who became embroiled in a controversy over past inflammatory statements, has resigned his White House job after what he calls a "vicious smear campaign against me."

The resignation, announced early Sunday, came as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.

Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.

Jones issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones "continues to work in the administration."​

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Van Jones resignation is a victory of sorts BUT he should never have been appointed in the first place. I am very curious where he will turn up in this administration and if this will be covered in the media as well. A rising Obama Socialist Star such as Jones cannot afford to be wasted

Why does Obama have 30+ "CZARS" in the first place? Is it because he is trying to work around the Senate oversight & confirmation process? Many of these CZARS are doing what Cabinet level advisors have done in past administrations but the CZARS do not have to be publicly vetted by the Senate in their confirmation process.

I suspect that Obama is simply trying to get his socialist buddies into power without having to do it in a public way. He is simply packing people into policy positions that could NEVER, in any other way, get into public power at anywhere near the level he is placing them.

In essence it is a way to subvert public will.