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Posted on 09/04/2009 9:44:02 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Asked if controversial White House official Van Jones continues to enjoy the confidence of President Obama given recent revelations about his involvement with those who suggest the Bush administration knew about the 9/11 attacks and allowed them to happen in order to justify a war for oil, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Friday morning would only say "he continues to work in this administration."
Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, last night issued a statement apologizing for past controversial remarks and said a petition which he signed suggesting that President Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen" perhaps to justify war in Afghanistan or Iraq, "does not reflect my views now or ever."
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Da bus be comin down da skreet.
Not a good sign. Is this the obligatory expression of confidence before someone gets thrown under the bus, or are they going to keep him on as a punching bag for the foreseeable future, during which he will be watched like a hawk, and, in effect, neutralized?
LOL yeah they spun for him just a bit but the bus is a coming.
I don’t really care. Since President Bush and Vice President Chenney left, as far as I am concerned there is no White House.
i guess Van can say hi to “typical white person” zero’s grandma.
he’ll probably just figure he has to take one for the cause.
He is going to need new buses by the time his first, second, third whatever term is over
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/11/13/obamaquestionnaire.pdf.pdf
Let's push our media to ask for a copy of Van Johnson's application. For that matter any of the folks where are paid by the Whitehouse as a Czar.
what a great question
LOL
Jones, meet undercarriage of bus. Bus undercarriage, eat Jones!
Who wants to bet Jones is unceremoniously dumped this weekend (Labor Day weekend) when everyone is at the lake, playing golf, watching football, etc...
Van under the van!
Zer0 hired him. 0bama’s confidence is what got him hired.
This really puts into perspective for me how far we have fallen as a nation.
They'll just let him in the back door like they do Tom Daschle.
If not, why is he close to the President and why is he an advisor? This admin continues the lies.
http://www.colorlines.com/article.php?ID=230&p=1
July/August 2007
The New Environmentalists
By Van Jones
EXCERPT
The celebrated “lifestyles” sector is probably the most racially segregated part of the U.S. economy; at present, it is almost exclusively the province of affluent white people. Few entrepreneurs of color are positioned to reap the benefits of the government’s push to green the economy. We are seeing a major debate about the direction of the U.S. economy—in which communities of color apparently have nothing to say. Our near-silence on such key issues has no precedent, at least not since before the Civil War.
How can this be? Black, Latino, Asian and Native American communities suffer the most from the environmental ills of our industrial society. Our folks desperately need the new economic activity, investments and opportunities that this major transition is beginning to generate. To put it bluntly, people of color have much more directly at stake in the greening of America than white college students do. Why are they marching for carbon caps, while most of us just yawn and change the channel?
More people of color have not yet grabbed the microphone for three reasons: our long-standing pattern of viewing environmental issues as luxury concerns; the mainstream media’s “whites only” coverage of the green phenomenon; and serious structural impediments to action within the racial justice movement itself.
First of all, too often we have said: “We are overwhelmed with violence, bad housing, failing schools, excessive incarceration, poor healthcare and joblessness. We can’t afford to worry about spotted owls, redwood trees and polar bears.” But Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath taught us that the coming ecological disasters will hit the poor first and worst. More of us are beginning to see that there can be no separation between our concern for vulnerable people and our concern for a vulnerable planet.
Secondly, any U.S. magazine’s “Special Green Issue” typically will not show many people of color, despite the incredible achievements of numerous environmentalists of color across the country. Many racial justice activists see this kind of coverage, shrug our shoulders and understandably assume that green equals white.
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