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Van Jones: Obama Detractors Have ‘Obama Derangement Syndrome’ (nice try, Van)
Cybercast News Service ^ | November 4, 2013 - 12:00 PM | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 11/04/2013 11:41:45 AM PST by Olog-hai

Former green jobs czar Van Jones, during a roundtable discussion over the rollout of Obamacare on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous,” said President Barack Obama’s detractors have “Obama Derangement Syndrome.”

“It’s silly season. Literally, they have this sort of Obama Derangement Syndrome where Obama is this absent, weak, ineffectual dictator and tyrant who’s destroying America,” Jones said. …

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To: Olog-hai

ABC gives Van Jones a forum now? A communist 9/11 truther? Man the MSM just gets worse and worse and we have not seen the bottom yet.


21 posted on 11/04/2013 11:56:53 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama is a swine and I wish him the same as you, Van the Maggot.


22 posted on 11/04/2013 11:57:40 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: Olog-hai

I admit, I suffer from fascist derangement syndrome.


23 posted on 11/04/2013 11:58:11 AM PST by Ancient Man
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To: Rummyfan

Yep, that’s even scarier than Van Jones himself.


24 posted on 11/04/2013 11:59:12 AM PST by Balata
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t know, I think if you don’t have Obama Derangement Syndrome by now, there’s something wrong with your brain. I’m wearing it as a badge of honor.


25 posted on 11/04/2013 11:59:59 AM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Olog-hai

2007

Jones, a civil-rights lawyer, is founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an innovative nonprofit that made its name working to prevent youth violence and incarceration. In 2005, the center unveiled an initiative that would put it at the cutting edge of progressive activism: Reclaim the Future, a program aimed at ensuring that low-income and minority youth have access to the coming wave of “green-collar” jobs. It’s an idea that’s gaining traction and support, most notably from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who last month invited Jones to join her at a San Francisco press conference and make the case for a national Clean Energy Jobs Bill.

2013

Ella Baker Has a New Boss; Meet Problem-Solver Zach Norris

OAKLAND, Calif. -- For Zachary Norris, the new executive director of the Ella Baker Center, a major turning point in his career came after his first arrest. Handcuffed during an act of civil disobedience protesting a new mega detention center in the area, Norris was taken to the nearby Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. That night, sharing a cell with a crowd of other young black men, he recalled, “I had this sense it was all too normal, too normalized.”

“I’m concerned about public safety and I think it’s important that people know that I have two daughters, and I want them to grow up safely,” Norris said. “But I just don’t think that what we’ve done over the past 40 years has actually made communities safer.”

26 posted on 11/04/2013 12:01:18 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Olog-hai

Literally, they have this sort of Obama Derangement Syndrome where Obama is this absent, weak, ineffectual dictator and tyrant who’s destroying America,” Jones said

Damn Jones you nailed it.
Obama is absent, is weak, is truly ineffectual leader that is trying to be a petty dictator. You did forget lying sack of crap though..........


27 posted on 11/04/2013 12:02:52 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Using the left’s tools won’t solve the problem, although I see the irony in his becoming a victim of same. And even if he did fall prey to that manner of depraved leftist institution, there would be another in his place.


28 posted on 11/04/2013 12:05:00 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Thats true..Commies are like cockroaches..you kill one and there is always another ready to take its place


29 posted on 11/04/2013 12:06:02 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Olog-hai

“I know this president is not a hands-off leader. He is famously engaged.”

OOOps. Van, read your emails.


30 posted on 11/04/2013 12:06:29 PM PST by mom.mom
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To: Olog-hai
"Literally, they have this sort of Obama Derangement Syndrome where Obama is this absent, weak, ineffectual dictator and tyrant who’s destroying America"

Yeah, he's not doing any of that.

Except the part where he is.

31 posted on 11/04/2013 12:08:48 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Olog-hai

www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org

11/4/2013

VAN JONES

•Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 “Rodney King riots” in Los Angeles
•Founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996
•Was active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER
•Suspected that the Bush administration “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war”
•Served as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Free Press
•In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called “green jobs czar.”
•Has been a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress

By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a Bay-Area Marxist-Maoist collective that had ties to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.

Jones helped organize an October 1999 rally in Oakland, California, calling for a retrial on behalf of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal.

Jones’ new approach was modeled on the tactics outlined by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, who stressed the need for revolutionaries to mask the extremism of their objectives and to present themselves as moderates until they could gain some control over the machinery of political power. Jones still considered himself a revolutionary, but a more effective one thanks to his revised tactics.

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks made a deep impression on Jones. Just hours after the attacks, Jones and his fellow STORM members publicly denounced the United States for having brought the disaster on itself. The following day, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity not only with Arab and Muslim Americans, but also with those whom Jones described as victims of “U.S. imperialism” around the world. In a press release announcing this vigil, Jones stated: “Anti-Arab hostility is already reaching a fever pitch as pundits and common people alike rush to judgment that an Arab group is responsible for this tragedy. We fear that an atmosphere is being created that will result in official and street violence against Arab men, women and children.”

Around 2002, Jones, who had experience as a record producer, produced (for the Ella Baker Center) an album that starred cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. That album featured lyrics depicting America not only as a place where “terrorists are made,” but also as “a piece of stolen land led by right-wing, war-hungry, oil-thirsty ... mother f***ers” who “got people of color playing servant to do that sh** for them.” Jones himself performed on the album as well, reciting the following anti-Israel lyrics:

“The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in 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. U.S. tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the U.S. borders and outside the U.S. borders.”

Also in 2005, Jones co-founded Color of Change (COC), an organization that views the United States as a profoundly racist country, and whose mission is “to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.”

During the George W. Bush administration, Jones likened the president to “a crackhead” because of Bush’s supposedly insatiable desire to drill for oil.

In 2006, Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide “resistance” against police, whom he accused of having exploited the 9/11 attacks as a pretext upon which to carry out policies of torture. A notable fellow signer was the radical attorney Lynne Stewart.

Soon after attending the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Jones launched Green For All, a non-governmental organization “dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.” A major funder of Green for All was George Soros’s Open Society Institute.

According to Jones, America is plagued by “eco-apartheid,” where low-income people typically live in more polluted environments than wealthy people. In a January 2008 speech, Jones said: “The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities because they don’t have a racial justice framework.”

After the Bush administration left office, Jones lamented that during Bush’s eight years in the White House “an authoritarian sentiment [had] seized control of the reins of power in our country, burned the Constitution, enshrined torture, launched an unjust war under false premises ... turned [the American flag] into a war flag, and used it to beat and whip and lynch anybody who didn’t agree that we should be bombing people and torturing people.”

At a February 11, 2009 speaking engagement, Jones asserted that congressional Republicans had been able to pass some of their legislative initiatives, even without majorities in the House and Senate, because they were relentlessly persistent, determined “assholes.”

Later that same month in Berkeley, California, Jones made clear his desire to incrementally socialize, by stealth, the U.S. economy:

“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 altogether ... until [the green economy] becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.”

On March 10, 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called “green jobs czar”; the formal title for the position was “Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation” for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. At the time, Jones was a senior fellow with John Podesta’s Washington, DC-based Center for American Progress. He described his new role with the Obama administration as that of “a community organizer inside the federal family.”

Amid mounting controversy over his radical past, Jones resigned his post as “green jobs czar” on Labor Day weekend 2009, claiming that he had been victimized by “a vicious smear campaign.” Jones was later asked whether President Obama had been aware of Jones’ controversial history before appointing him as green jobs czar. Jones replied: “I was fully candid, I mean, about my past, about the ideas that I explored....”

After stepping down from his Obama administration post, Jones was offered office work space in the DC offices of the Center for American Progress (CAP). In February 2010, he officially rejoined CAP. That same month, Jones received the NAACP’s President’s Award, for achievement in public service. He also announced that he had secured a one-year assignment to teach a seminar on environmental and economic policy at Princeton University, beginning in June 2010.

In April 2010, Jones said the following about the nature of the Obama administration: “You look at the New Party, which is now the Working Families Party, the idea of a new politics — that you could actually in this country bring together labor and civil rights and feminists, etc., and actually make a difference ... is the basic framework for what just took over the White House.”

Jones serves as one of 20 advisers to the Presidential Climate Action Project (based at the University of Colorado), which makes climate-policy recommendations for the Obama White House. He has been praised for his environmental work by such notable leftists as Thomas Friedman, Tom Daschle, Nancy Pelosi, Arianna Huffington, Ben Jealous, Laurie David, Gavin Newsom, Carl Pope, Tavis Smiley, Fred Krupp, and John Podesta.

Speaking at a March 31, 2012 “All In For The 99%” rally in Los Angeles, Jones denounced libertarians and their principle of economic liberty, saying: “They’ve taken their despicable ideology and used it a wrecking ball, that they have painted red, white and blue, to smash down every good thing in America.” Portraying libertarians as racists, he continued:

“They say they’re Patriots but they hate everybody in America who looks like us. They say they love America but they hate the people, the brown folk, the gays, the lesbians, the people with piercings, ya know ya’ll.... You can’t be an anti-immigrant bigot and a Patriot at the same time.”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=2406


32 posted on 11/04/2013 12:09:33 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Olog-hai

www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org

Date: 11/4/2013 2:10:34 PM

REBUILD THE DREAM (RTD)

P.O. Box 411256
San Francisco, CA
94141
Email :info@rebuildthedream.com
URL :http://rebuildthedream.com/

•Founded and headed by Van Jones
•Opposes “right-wing attacks on the middle class”
•Opposes “conservative” policies such as “giving tax breaks to the rich” and “slashing vital services [which] families depend on”
•Closely tied to the International Socialist Organization

Alternately known as the American Dream Movement (ADM), Rebuild The Dream (RTD) was formally launched by Van Jones at a June 23, 2011 New York City rally that was co-sponsored by MoveOn.org. For details about the sequence of events that led to RTD’s founding, click here.

Created to serve as a “progressive” counterweight to the Tea Party movement, RTD vowed to “stand up to say ‘No’ to right-wing attacks on the middle class”—attacks that allegedly had placed “the American Dream ... under siege.” “Instead of investing in our shared future,” RTD charged, conservative politicians were “giving tax breaks to the rich,” “slashing vital services families depend on,” and “trying to gut workers’ rights.”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7728


33 posted on 11/04/2013 12:11:30 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
I read some of the rest of the article about Norris. After he says that little bit of pro-family stuff, he immediately plows into proposing more of the failed problem as the solution.
“What we’re trying to do is build out our grassroots organizing capacity and be in partnership with likely and unlikely allies to move a books not bars, jobs not jails justice reinvestment agenda,” Norris said. …

On the national level, Norris said the Center is working with Justice For Families, Strong Families and other coalitions to plan and develop a national, community-driven research project looking at the multi-generational impact of incarceration on families from an economic and public health standpoint. “In some ways, families unlocking futures was the tip of a larger iceberg and we want to look at the iceberg,” he said. …
Neither of those mentioned organizations are actually pro-family. The so-called “Strong Families Movement” is particularly leftist; their slogan is “All families matter” and they push for Medicaid expansion, sex education, abortion, even promotion of single parenthood and other types of “family” than the real type.
34 posted on 11/04/2013 12:15:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Cockroaches do have this above communists: Each cockroach has two brains. (Second brain is in its posterior.)


35 posted on 11/04/2013 12:17:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

he’s not very good using alinsky tactics.


36 posted on 11/04/2013 12:20:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai
Van rallies his fellow Comrades to fight against the capitalists.
37 posted on 11/04/2013 12:23:40 PM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

That’s because those have limited mileage.


38 posted on 11/04/2013 12:23:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Communists make my skin crawl..they want us all dead so I wish the same for them


39 posted on 11/04/2013 12:28:26 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: KC_Lion

A dirt nap is better.


40 posted on 11/04/2013 12:35:11 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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