The Wrong Lesson from the Van Jones Resignation
Conservatives are elated by the fact that Obama finally frog-marched Van Jones to the door, but the country must be careful not to draw the wrong conclusion from his “resignation.” The point is not that President Obama will not tolerate people with Van Jones’ views to serve in his administration: he obviously will, because he did and he defended Jones to the bitter end. The point is Jones is becoming part of Obama’s increasingly familiar pattern: associate with radical leftists, give them as much power and prominence as possible in their own right, and disavow them only if they begin to hurt your ability to radicalize the system from within.
After all, Obama first pretended he had slept through 20 years of Jeremiah Wright’s stemwinders, then defended Wright as no worse than his granny, and only jettisoned him when Wright refused to be quiet. He began his political career in Bill Ayers‘ living room and financed his “education” goals with philanthropic funds, then pretended it did not matter because the unrepentant terrorist did most of his active work when Obama was a child. Jones continued to serve despite his belief in Communism, and the White House backed him up even after his 9/11 Truther background came to light. Only the continual drip of revelations about this continual drip drummed him out of office.
Van Jones is a revelatory case. Obama will appoint radicals as high as possible for as long as possible, because he does not see their views as out of the mainstream. He hears his own thoughts in their words and feels his heart race in their assaults. The radicalization of America will proceed as long and as far as we allow him to get away with it.
You’re exactly right. And until all of the media begins to put the pressure on Obama, we more than likely won’t see any change. Barack knew going into this that Fox News wouldn’t be on his side, so it’s not going to be until ABC, MSNBC, NBC, CNN, and others start commenting on these controversies that he sees we’re fed up. He can get it away with it for now.
Great blog, I’ll be back!
Rick
http://theconservativejournal.wordpress.com
Funny thing is, the people who listen to the “mainstream” media outlets are gonna be surprised by his leaving. After all, they have no idea what’s been going on and who this guy is, because the “mainstream” media hasn’t reported on any of it.
I’d like to see what the NYT reports as the reason. I’d be willing to bet that it won’t be because the guy is a friggin’ COMMUNIST!
The question I ponder is…what do Obama’s cabinet members (appropriately appointed, tested and vetted) who worked long and hard to get where they are really think about his czars; and perhaps more important how do they feel holding such high office and having been given negligible responsibility?
JBT
Say it loud, Obummer is the one of the best deceiver/liars that has been on the political stage,
his end game is quite evil, he wants to bring it all down, he does not care about you, look to what he does, you cannot trust what he says, his only joy is to convince you, my joy is KNOWING that history will place him in the file of all socialists who have tried this and it’s a dead file.
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Van Jones was hand picked by this President. Once again this President hides a few feet back and looks at Van Jones like some kind of aberation that he had nothing to do with. Deception, Dishonesty, and pervasivenss are all a part of this Socialist radical agenda. Anyone with half the ability to reason should know what they are looking at, and see through this huge fasade.
As far as Obomalamdingdong goes, the only mistake Jones made was to NOT spend over $1,000,000 to hide his past.
We are engaged in a WAR. Van Jones is only one battle won. Many battles remain. We need to fight until there is UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!
That’s very true, I hadn’t thought about the fact that MSNBC watchers (Among many other networks) probably know nothing about Van Jones’s sketchy past. And I doubt they’ll know any more about it after his resignation is reported on their favorite network. I’m interested to see how they go about doing that.
Rick
http://theconservativejournal.wordpress.com