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Van Jones: Liberals feel ‘crushed’ by Obama
The Washington Post ^ | June 9, 2012 | Felicia Sonmez

Posted on 06/09/2012 6:49:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Throughout this year’s three-day Netroots Nations conference — as progressive activists have cheered on Elizabeth Warren, held Occupy-style general assemblies and attended seminars on topics ranging from voter ID laws to “Love, Compassion and Outrageous Forms of Activism” — present just below the surface of the discussion has been an undercurrent of dissatisfaction with President Obama.

A series of liberal favorites, culminating with former Obama environmental adviser Van Jones, took to the stage at the Rhode Island Convention Center to rally the Democratic base — and also to make clear that nearly four years after his election, Obama has not lived up to their expectations.

“He stands up for Trayvon; he stands up for gay marriage; we like him,” Jones said of Obama in the keynote speech of the evening. “But we’re not in love with him.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bho2012; communist; radicalleft; reclaimingrevolution; ri2012; storm; valeriejarrett; vanjones
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To: Free ThinkerNY

van jones belonged to clinton BEFORE obama and he has belonged to him ever since.


21 posted on 06/09/2012 9:16:09 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I just don’t get liberal thinking.

That's cause there's nothing to get - it's an oxymoron. "Liberal thinking" is right up there with "Stupid genius" and "Hot snow". They don't think, they "feel."

22 posted on 06/09/2012 9:24:28 PM PDT by MCH
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To: Free ThinkerNY

23 posted on 06/09/2012 10:52:22 PM PDT by goron (Revelation 13:18)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Jones was right in there smashing grapes, heads, anything he can stomp on.


24 posted on 06/09/2012 10:55:02 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: BobL

Yep—you’ve got it exactly.


25 posted on 06/09/2012 11:07:26 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama's former "Green Jobs Czar", Van Jones, links "Green Movement" to revolutionary communist movement

See "Goal is complete revolution" below...

VAN JONES (Obama's former 'Green Jobs Czar')

YouTube:
"Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama, speaks [lovingly] about Green Job Czar, Van Jones, at the Netroots Convention on August 12, 2009. Then Van Jones speaks about [a COMMUNIST] transforming [of] the whole society."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnDxzvc0OXk&feature=related
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"Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. That group, together with Jones' Elle Baker Center for Human Rights, led a vigil Sept. 12, 2001, at Snow Park in Oakland, Calif.

STORM's official manifesto, titled, "Reclaiming Revolution," surfaced on the Internet."--via TheObamaFile
http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf
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VAN JONES SHOCK ADMISSION [in his own words]: "Goal is Complete Revolution"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh4Z0V0zNQg
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Here is the transcript of the above YouTube video:

“Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said OK now we want reparations for Slavery, we want redistribution of all the wealth, and we want to legalize mixed marriages. If we’d come out with a maximum program the very next day, they’d been laughed at. Instead they came out with a very minimum. “We just want to integrate these busses…”

But, inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country.

And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages.

Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we’re not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression all together. But, that’s a process and I think that’s what’s great about the movement that is beginning to emerge is that the CRISIS is so severe in terms of joblessness, violence and now ecological threats that people are willing to be both pragmatic and visionary.

So the green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.

SOURCE for this transcript (it matches the video):
http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/2009/09/02/van-jones-obamas-green-czar-%E2%80%98green-jobs%E2%80%99-goal-is-%E2%80%98complete-revolution%E2%80%99-away-from-%E2%80%98gray-capitalism%E2%80%99/
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Here's the original source for the Van Jones quote about the time he spent in jail following the Rodney King/LA riots (Jones was arrested in "peaceful" protests in San Fran). It was in a 2005 interview he did with East Bay Express. They of course (what else?) claim he "renounced his rowdy Black Nationalist ways" since then (yet he's calling for "complete revolution" in Aug 2009! ...see above):

But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the-new-face-of-environmentalism/Content?oid=1079539&showFullText=true
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The 1992 LA/Rodney King riots were instigated by the Revolutionary Communist Party...

From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197

26 posted on 06/09/2012 11:50:31 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: BobL
They need to make Obama seem like a moderate so that independents still be willing to vote for him. Judging by some of the replies here, it seems to work.

Great observation. It is amazing how easily people can be duped and manipulating into believing things.

27 posted on 06/09/2012 11:54:09 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

TRANSPARENCY and the confidence of those in power or near it is a grand thing. We know who they are and where they are becuase they cant keep thier mouths shut. Jones is a jail bird in a suit.


28 posted on 06/10/2012 4:04:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“liberl thinking” is an Oxymoron!! They FEEL, they don’t THINK.


29 posted on 06/10/2012 4:13:23 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MCH

I SWEAR I wrote my post before I read yours. SWEAR!!


30 posted on 06/10/2012 4:15:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ETL

“It is amazing how easily people can be duped and manipulating into believing things.”

manipulated


31 posted on 06/10/2012 6:18:15 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

You’d think a politically correct guy like Van Jones would change his name to Chevy Volt Jones. Then, you’d see some fire!


32 posted on 06/10/2012 9:16:31 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: basil

Leftists have a blood lust. They want a dictator would will slaughter conservative “terrorists.” Obama has had Homeland inSecurity classify conservatives as domestic terrorists, but has yet to give the leftists the blood bath they so desparately want. Obama’s Chichago pals, Doran and Ayers, wanted 25 million Americans slaughtered on the way to change back in the 70’s. He has failed to fully overcome the constitution. They want a Stalin.


33 posted on 06/10/2012 12:01:29 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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