Sep 07 2009
Far Left Going Mad Over Van Jones, Imploding From Slap From Reality
Americans don’t support progressive or socialistic or liberal policies. End of fact. As long as this eludes the left they will continue to sink in the polls and doom the Democrats to political suicide in 2010.
Americans know there are endless ways to protect the environment, provide health care, educate the children, care for the needy, support the elderly and provide everyone a shot at their dreams without destroying our free markets, removing personal success from society, attempting to de-modernize our society to use less energy and push everyone into government rationed health care.
In short, we know there are plenty of solutions without socialistic or fascistic solutions – where the superior elites control the lives of the rest of us rubes.
Van Jones is a perfect example of reality slapping the liberal/progressive left up side their ignorant heads. The left wing response to the fact this nation tolerates their diversity, but would not follow them to a grocery store (no clue what ditzy faux food products they may pick – probably something made of algae) indicates how delusional these people are. They claimed they would work with others to solve this nation’s problems and were elected to an opportunity.
They lied. Since coming to power they have been trying to cram their bizarre and failed world views down our collective throats. They should have realized the danger after a period when the ‘true conservatives’ overstepped their cone of support and were ousted. As I noted yesterday, instead of listening to the people of American, they intend to force us to do what they want, come hell or high water. Well, Hell is here – with the high water.
In their minds, the left cannot really be as out of touch with this nation as the entire month of August signaled. Instead of reading the warning signs (loud, blaring and intense as they were) these people doubled down and kept pushing rejected left wing notions. They tipped their hand, the facade of a partnership was ripped away.
The problem, in their minds of course, is America is obviously  a nation of racists who are blocking their liberal/progressive dreams:
This was a lynch mob and, when it started forming a month ago, we didn’t take it seriously enough.
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What we underestimated was the power of the fact that both Jones and the Barack Obama are black. Yes, the hysteria was about politics — I don’t think Fox News really cares about Jones’s ethnicity — but it was enabled by race.
A convenient self delusion. How could it be their superior liberal ideals?!
Let me point out the obvious to the little Einsteins on the far left trying to avoid the truth of reality in America. If America was afraid of the uppity black man (a) he wouldn’t have been elected in an incredible wave of support and (b) would not have taken office with incredibly high approval ratings (nearly 70%). President Obama would never been given the honor and opportunity he was openly and happily given. He and the DC Libs squandered that opportunity. That has nothing to do with race and everything to do with his blaring lack of experience in DC.
This ain’t about race folks. It’s about the fact the far left is basically tolerated in this country, not admired. The far left is not respected.  Period. You can blame Fox News and Glenn Beck all day long, but you miss the essence of the fact:
In his statement, Jones was defiant. “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,†he said. “They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.â€
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs cast the move the same way.
“What Van Jones decided was that the agenda of this president was bigger than any one individual,†Gibbs said, agreeing with the show’s host, George Stephanopoulos that Obama “doesn’t endorse†Jones’s remarks on race and politics, his apparent flirtation with the “9/11 Truth†movement, and his advocacy for the convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Jones was ‘attacked’ with his own liberal views and statements. If it was a ‘lynch mob’, the noose was created by video and audio recordings of his words and views. Here’s the kicker folks: Jones’ words would not have resulted in his utter failure if they were not political poison. If Jones’ was simply tolerable to the nation, he would still be in his job. Jones and his type (now sprinkled throughout the administration, like ticking PR time bombs) are not acceptable to the voters, and that is why he is gone. This is the slap of reality hitting the far left right now.
There are plenty of people who support supposed lefty concepts who don’t see this kind of rejection (though, as I noted you can be for a clean environment and not require the removal of all oil-based products from the planet). For example, health care reform is supported in the electorate (reduce barriers, reduce cost, increase options), but a government rationed system is not. It is quite obvious that you can only pretend to use a good cause so far to destroy America’s core infrastructure and ideals. Americans are not stupid, they are tolerant. This truly American characteristic is demeaned by the fringes left and right as ‘mushy’ and ‘squishy’ – a.k.a. moderate. But it is quintessential Americana – we accept huge diversity of personal views and ideals.
We believe in the right of people to follow their own paths. We DO NOT believe in the right of zealots to dictate the paths of everyone else so they can live out their white knight fantasies. Van Jones and a lot of people on the left feel this is their moment to play white knight – and they are getting soundly (and rightly) rejected for their arrogance. Just like the far right was rejected when it stopped trying to find common cause and went into its white knight madness.
America doesn’t have a European or Asian history of relying on the Kingdoms and Royalty (the government) to take care of them. We are individuals – very rugged and independent ones. We have always been individuals. We don’t mind projects for the common good as long as they don’t squelch our ability to chase our individual dreams, make our own decisions, take care of ourselves. Government is a tolerated nuisance, not the answer to problems (outside national defense).
Liberals, progressives and socialists all misunderstood the opportunity the American people gave them in 2008. The extreme tolerance Americans have for diversity (individual quirks) allowed them a chance to show they could work with others on common ground. They instead tried to demand, like petulant children, everyone else listen to them and be quiet. And as long as they react like petulant children who need to be told they cannot have all they want and they cannot insult others, they will deepen the rejection of America.
Finally, once America realizes these petulant children on the left cannot work well with others, they will be relegated back to the sidelines of the minority. Where they will always be tolerated, but never respected.
“This is our moment, this is our time, to fundamentally change America”, no Barack, it is not, no George Soros it is not, you do not know America, you do not understand Americans!
Well said AJ!
AJ, I disagree slightly. This IS about race. Or, to be precise, race is becoming a bigger issue.
To the Left.
Obama played the race card masterfully during the election. He put it on stage, but avoided playing the reverse-racist lunatic in public – and was able to persuade people to vote for him as a proof of their lack of racism.
Now the facade has come off – and if Obama is not a card-carrying reverse-racist, he certainly associates with a lot of them. And his supporters are eager to charge anyone opposed to Obama with racism.
The Left is obsessed with race. It fits their desire to shove people into broad categories, as well as fueling the regional prejudices prevalent on the Left.
I’ve long been concerned that Obama would set race relations back a good twenty years. I suspect that was an underestimate.
Mike……for the non-blacks of this country, it is not about race. I think that is a true statement.
The White House refused to properly vet Van Jones. A few resourceful and dedicated bloggers found it easy to. What happened is that bloggers did in public with full transparency the job that the MSM refused to do. The public was rightly outraged and Van Jones was found sufficiently wanting. He’s out. Imagine how the grand and regal gatekeepers feel when events force them to cover a story after the fact. They were really slackjawed on Meet the Press.
What’s so pathetic and almost overlooked here is that Jones keeps being described as “Incredibly important in the environmental movement” when in fact he was simply a marxist street hustler who learned that he and his group could scoop up some big donations from leftist foundations for mouthing the “right” kind of nonsensical platitudes about the environment that those UNscientific groups wanted to hear.
Jones, the “Green Jobs Czar” NEVER created a single “green job” – in fact, up until the day he resigned, he had never even defined what a “green job” was. 8 months of hard work, I guess he was still unpacking the boxes and was gonna a get a staffer on right on that.
It wasn’t just the man who was a farce and a fraud, the entire POSITION he was filling was a farce and a fraud!!!
Yes, Mike. How ironic that the man who portrayed himself as a “healer” and a “uniter” has indeed set race relations back years if not decades as you speculate.
Obama portraying the police as “stupid” in the Gates case was worth at least ten years by itself.
The idea that conservatives are “racist” falls apart when one realizes they would gladly stand in line for hours to attend a lecture by someone like Clarence Thomas, who incidentally officiated at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding.
It’s not about race. It’s about ideology. The difference between an Obama world-view and a Thomas world-view is what’s at issue, not the way light reflects off their faces. Obama thinks the constitution is flawed and inadequate, granting too much power to the people (angry mobs) at the expense of the wonderful government. He would be in favor of its complete overhaul. Thomas recognizes its unique, timeless brilliance and thinks it’s just fine as it is — and fights for it being followed and preserved on a daily basis.
WWS- This is what I have been trying to figure out – what is it that Van Jones has done to create jobs? When he gives speeches – what is it that he talks about to further the goal of job creation? It seems to me – he has just figured out way to snag tax payer money to promote the notion that anyone to the center or right of center is evil, especially if they are white. What has he ever done to create an actual, long term, lifetime job?
A convenient self delusion. How could it be their superior liberal ideals?!.
Good!
May my opponents always be self-deluded; it makes them less effective.
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Jones and the entire “green jobs” crowd thinks some unicorn is going to show up and poop efficient “alternative” energy if we all “just believe” hard enough.
We have the technology to completely eliminate all CO2 from coal power plants right now if we went on a program of replacing them with nuclear plants.
We have the technology to completely eliminate the nuclear waste problem by recycling the nuclear fuel rather than burying it. We have the technology to completely eliminate the risks of transporting this fuel and waste by co-locating the processing reactor with the generation reactors. Once fuel comes in, it never leaves for over 100 years. And what waste IS produced is only 5% in volume from what is currently produced. Not only that, but the waste produced decays to safe levels in only several centuries instead of hundreds of centuries. Additionally, the same plant used for reprocessing can be used for transmutation of such things as long-lived medical nuclear waste into isotopes that decay much faster.
See “Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste” from Scientific American in (I believe) December 2005.
We don’t need to wait for the unicorn. We have this technology now. Carter and Clinton killed it. It is time to revive it. France uses it, Japan uses it, India uses it, China uses it.
Van Jones WAS VETTED. Valerie Jarrett VETED HIM, Obama vetted him, he is their guy.
Take a look at the other CZARs. They are just as bad as Van Jones or worse. That tells me that Obama, MO, and Valerie Jarrett wanted these people so they bypassed the vetting process.
The more we get these CZARs out, the worse Obama looks. Maybe? Or Americans’ memories are still too short?
“Take a look at the other CZARs”
I still like the word KAISERS better. Same word, different language, closer connotation to the reality.
Or commissars?
Saw at another site posting WH’s answer to why Van was not vetted in spite of the new rigorous vetting process containing 63 questions.
Answer?
That rigorous vetting process is ONLY for Senate confirmation.
Ya, right.
As I think I said in another thread here, you DON’T just vette people just so they can squeeze through a senate confirmation.
You vette them so that the crazy shit they’ve done doesn’t jump up and bite you in the ass at the worst possilble time for you.
Funny, someone with even minimal managerial experience would have known that already.
“Take a look at the other CZARsâ€
“I still like the word KAISERS better. Same word, different language, closer connotation to the reality.”
Well, let’s just cut to the original root for both of them – CAESAR. (first C has the hard K sound in latin)
But maybe Obama’s planning on reserving that one for himself.
Kaiser has the correct connotation to me. Caesar brings something totally different to mind. When I think if Kaisers I think of that group in an entirely different way.
Commissar, by the way, is just German for Commissioner .
I was reading the comments made on mainstream articles describing the resignation of Van Jones. What stunned me was the typical leftist responses. Some of them were claiming racism but most were saying how out of touch the republicans were and how much we are going to pay for it in the next election. These people live in an intellectual and moral cocoon. When everything – the polls, the political momentum, the floundering of their own president, their inability to get anything substantial passed disputing having huge majorities – says they are out of touch, they still tenaciously and ignorantly claim that we are out of touch.
These people are delusional! I cannot wait to see how they react when they loose big time in 2010, assuming the present course continues!
One thing I am beginning to fear (for the sake of the country) is that with the hyper-racialism brought about by this administration, we are now about to see a racial divide bigger than we have experienced in generations.
This is going to get incredibly nasty, and it’s led from the top.
1. AJ, the link on “a nation of racists” is busted up.
2. I will say this… having watched Glenn Beck’s show, I think he comes across as a person whose heart is in the right place. He and I don’t agree on everything, but he and I could work together. He’s not a screaming ideologue like Mark Levin.
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