Obama Drafts Van Jones as Green Jobs Adviser

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this peace of crap should be in prison.

John Snead of AZ 9:45PM September 02, 2009

I don't know about you, but our new radical "Green Jobs Czar"
with his agenda translates "Green for all" = "Green(backs) for all" that sound communistic to me! why is he always grouping enviromental issues with the poor and indigent?
Last time I check I saw No connection...
Our Shadow Government is forming right before our eyes!

Smith of NH 8:28PM September 02, 2009

we now need the change back to what made America great. the majority doesn't want communism. the chairman and czars are one and done.

c.matt turner of WA 11:01AM September 02, 2009

How can we elect someone who turns to a communist and a racist for advice. These czars are nothing but window licker

berks quy of PA 10:07PM September 01, 2009

he is a communist.why did we elect obama

victor urquijo of FL 10:15AM September 01, 2009

I HAVE QUESTIONED MY SENATORS AND THE PRESIDENT BY E MAIL ON THIS GUY. HOW CAN THE PRESIDENT BE SO INCOMPETENT IN HIS SELECTION PROCESS? OBVIOUSLY, IT IS JUST ANOTHER ACORN FROM THE TREE OF BAD FRUIT. NOTE I HAVE NEVER RECREIVED A REPLY.

DAVID MCKNIGHT of MO 3:38PM August 27, 2009

To Michelle at Earthworks:
To promote a sensible personal approach to conservation is a very good idea and I am more than capable of making my own choices in support of that position. However, to promote the blatantly foolish proposition that CO2 is a compound that is responsible for the 1.5F degree warming of the planet over the past 150 years is just plainly irresponsible. I know Al Gore, Van Jones, OBama and the entire progressive movement is salivating at the chance to gain access to another 5-10% of diposable income to fund their collectivist agenda. The absurdity that CO2, a benign gas that is required for all life to exist on the planet, which represents just 4% of gaseous content of our atmosphere - only 3% of that number being manmade, are the facts that make the continuance of the argument essentially juvenile. The lie that CO2 is the grandaddy of all planetary monsters has been exposed and the Copenhagen Conference will resound with the aftermath of the Australian decision to NOT embrace a Cap and Trade Program. It's the start of the dominos and what hopefully comes from rhetoric, is a global awareness that will benefit us all.
Unfortunately will this be the end of the argument! - No! - The Van Jones and Andy Stern's of the world have no real zeal for the "Green Movement". For people like this, they only embrace the issue because it becomes a "... means to the ends!" The movement provides resources in may ways - Bodies - Money - Funding and most of all a road to power. So for all of you Green Movement acolytes, with the Apollo Alliance, The Tides Foundation, SEIU and ACORN running the show - Remember!... "The Road to Serfdom is Not paved with "good intentions"!

gregson 10:13PM August 25, 2009

If you read Van Jones' bio, you see he is proud to be associated with communist/radical/anarchists. News flash: those are not the types of people that made this the greatest nation on Earth over the last 200+ years. THOSE are the types of people that have turned other nations into tyrannies with monstrous central governments that controlled every citizen's life from cradle to grave. They made nations into places to escape from..to need political asylum from...nations where personal achievement was punished..where there was no point into working harder than the next guy and taking risks to build something better for yourself, because if you succeeded, much of what you acheived would be taken away from you and given to those who had no interest in working hard themselves--they'd rather just have the government give them your money. I can only find solace in that as Obama, Pelosi, et al push this radical agenda through and the awful results become obvious, it will lead to the total destruction of the Democratic Party, which has lost any semblance to anything with truly American values. The elections of 2010 & 2012 will bear this out. Obama will go down in history as a disastrous one-term President who people voted for out of misplaced racial guilt, rather than any legitimate qualifications for the job.

M Sullivan of NY 4:37PM August 25, 2009

Talk about "scary" I once knew woman who thought CNN stood for "sin" and that I should not watch it...and that was back in the 80's!!
No, I will take Obama and his cabinet for the next 7.5 years over the right wing "crazies" anytime!

Zeke of MN 5:50PM August 24, 2009

Van Jones is an avowed Communist . . . by his own words. Any normal person *who was paying attention* in the run-up to Obama's election should not be surprised by any of this. Obama hung with socialists, an unrepentant domestic terrorist started his Senate career. His dad was a commie and that's the short list. I smelled a rat when his wife only got proud of America when her hubby got nominated. Man, what does it take to wise-up people?

Oscarphone of WA 5:19PM August 24, 2009