PROJECTION! Does anyone see the irony here?

Progressives are foaming at the mouth again, demeaning the Democrats, and in particular Obama, for throwing good people "under the bus" and for not standing up to the power elite.

But isn't that exactly what progressives have been doing? I can go back into threads on this site and most other sites and find the most abusive comments about Ralph Nader and those who voted and supported him. Progressives threw this good man "under the bus" - A man who has devoted his entire life to the progressive cause and fighting against entrenched power - for the good of the people and this country. They called him names: egotist, nagging, nasty, spoiler, selfish, moron, Hunter Thompson called him "the village idiot" (just before killing himself) ....

Does no one see the irony here?

Don't expect anyone to do what you are not willing to do yourself. Unlike politicians, your career won't suffer as a result.

For starts, stop throwing good people under the bus in favor of political shills.

I wonder what's behind him rescinding his signature on the petition!

Bring America Back !!!!........!...I've gotta think that if Prez Barak was backing Van Jones, he would have stuck it out until he was back under the Neocon Radar !!

****But, as to the why, why why ....it was the vulgar epithet, dummies..you just cannot be a Prez Advisor and be
giving out with vulgarities, or blasphemous verbosities.
Once the Rightwing Pundits had him with the epithet, they just threw in the 9/11 petition for good measure !!

****There was absolutely nothing wrong with the 9/11 Petition except that now infamous NY Attorney General
Elliott Spitzer ignored the heck out of it !!

**Therefor, any time ill will, or embarrassment is brought to Prez Barak==such as Van Jones, those folk will be thrown under the proverbial bus---
=====just like Rev Wright was thrown under the bus
=====just like Grandma Obama was thrown under the bus
=====just like General Wesley Clark was thrown under the bus

If we think that Team Obama is Ultra Sensitive to these kinds of associations, then the recent history proves that
He IS !!!! Obama is Soft on embarassments and criticisms, and he WILL cave-in just as He has on each and every campaign Promise he made to America !

All His campaign promises are under the same damn bus!

***This coming Friday, let us NEVER FORGET SEPT 11, 2001 !!!

Conservatives are those with the most money to conserve who own the MSM whose job is to wage deceitful class warfare to keep the public fighting among themselves instead of with it, the oppressing oligarchy whose money determines which of its pawns gets elected and re-elected regardless of how much the public complains about health care, war profiteering, socialist bailouts for banks and corporations and crimes committed by the oligarchy's praetorian guard and useful idiots about which no politician can do anything about if he or she wants to keep his job in a perverted system of representative government whose greatest enemy is direct democracy. Sheesh...

Here's a quote by Yale educated Van Jones in his book 'The Green Collar Economy': "[W]e are entering an era during which our very survival will demand invention and innovation on a scale never before seen in the history of human civilization. Only the business community has the requisite skills, experience, and capital to meet that need. On that score, neither government nor the nonprofit and voluntary sectors can compete, not even remotely. So in the end, our success and survival as a species are largely and directly tied to the new eco-entrepreneurs - and the success and survival of their enterprises."

Oh, yeah, thats a 'communist' alright. Think you'd ever have heard that quote from Glen Beck? And yet, out of all the Jones-quotes Beck has published, how many of them said anything, as this quote does, about GREEN JOBS? The only subject about which Jones was being tasked for an opinion is the ONE subject Glen Beck and company had nothing to talk about. I find it disturbing that a person can be driven out of a job over everything he said EXCEPT on the subject for which he was employed. If Beck himself were held to such a standard, he'd be out of a job this afternoon.

To all the posters who have mentioned the obvious validity of the real truth behind 9/11: THANK YOU. Maybe Van Jones' resignation will re-invigorate those of us who know the official story is the political equivalent of horse manure. "Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good."

Now Obama is letting the repugs silence a man that is doing his job for this country. I am a white man and I believe everything Mr Jones said. He and his boss should have stood up to the no plans loud mouth repugs.

As many have noted, Van Jones didn't resign so much as get resigned -- another Obama sacrifice.

Obama has surrendered every time push has come to shove. It is very clear that he is a politician in the true Clinton mold -- not a person moved by principle, but one moved solely by expedience – whatever it is that will win him the most of whatever it is he seeks to win.

The catch is, now that the singular goal of the presidency is won, the goals are too many, the people needing pleasing to diverse.

From before his inauguration, Obama had thrown progressives and true liberals under the bus.

Health care, Middle East policy, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, openness, change, the middle-class and poorer Americans.... At what point has he clearly sacrificed conservative votes he never had anyway to fulfill promises he made during his campaign.

Whom won't he throw under the bus? The Israel lobby, Wall Street billionaires and his major campaign contributors, massive health insurers and big Pharma.

Money. That's what Obama won't sacrifice.

Is Obama TRYING to recapitulate the Clinton maladministration?

Dawn Johnsen, Obama's "pick" to head the OLC, has been left twisting slowly in the wind. Remember Lani Guinier?

And remember Surgeon-General Joycelyn Elders, who Bill Clinton fired because she revealed herself to be objectively pro-autoeroticism?

Obama is pathetic.

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Jones resigned? Just call it what it really is Fired. Obama's tomming his way to the top only goes so far. At a certain point it becomes counterproductive. What is the role of a sheepdog anyway?

How do you like that? Firing someone who tried to bring green jobs to the forefront and perhaps try to help divert people from being suckered into jobs related closer to the MIC and yet this same government doing more war funding ! Call me mad but this now is a DISASTER SIGNAL that more people will find themselves under even more pressure to work in DOD and less in the green jobs market. America, the Green Jobs Project or whatever Obama has promised is now DEAD ! So once again, we the people LOSE yet again no matter how hard we try to pressure Congress and the White House. Not only that but look for more people to find themselves falling into more temptations into signing up just to make a few bucks and try to avoid the severity of the economic crunch. I wish everyone of you the best of luck. All I can do is give the warning signals at this point and I'll try to keep you informed about the general trends but so far, it ain't looking good.

Inspiring Van Jones speech that puts so many good ideas together. It's addressed to the young; us oldsters can watch it too. He has a future. Maybe it is a blessing in disguise that he broke out from the smothering mud of governmental service in this day and age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVNtoAiOh1k

Joe

The following is a CNN interview with David Sirota and fiend David Frum on Van Jones' resignation forced by the Obama administration, which caved in to extremist, ... right-wingers and, as explained by David Sirota, not because Van Jones signed a petition about the 9-11 attacks in 2004 questioning the Bush administration about what it knew regarding 9-11 and whether the admin. deliberately allowed the attacks to happen. David Sirota clearly says that Van Jones said signing the petition was a mistake and that he hadn't thoroughly read it, and adds that it's nevertheless not why Van Jones has been forced to resign for the intense targeting against Van Jones seriously began before it was known that he had signed the 9-11 petition.

The interview is a little over six minutes and was posted Sept. 7, 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoXGwNPonU