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ThePeter
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"Obama 'green jobs' adviser quits amid controversy

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AHL8O80&show_article=1

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.

Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.

The resignation comes as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.

Jones issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones "continues to work in the administration."

The matter surfaced after news reports of a derogatory comment Jones made in the past about Republicans, and separately, of Jones' name appearing on a petition connected to the events surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. That 2004 petition had asked for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officials had allowed the attacks to occur.

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."

Jones said he has been "inundated with calls from across the political spectrum urging me to stay and fight."

But he said he cannot in good conscience ask his colleagues to spend time and energy defending or explaining his past.

Jones flatly said in an earlier statement that he did not agree with the petition's stand on the 9/11 attacks and that "it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever."

As for his other comments he made before joining Obama's team, Jones said, "If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize."

Despite his apologies, Republicans demanded Jones quit.

Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana said in a statement, "His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate." Missouri Sen. Christopher Bonds said Congress should investigate Jones's fitness the job.

Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser co-founded, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck's show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist.

James Rucker, the organization's executive director, has said Jones had nothing to do with ColorofChange.org now and didn't even know about the campaign before it started.

Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to environmental and energy issues. He is known for laying out a broad vision of a green economy.

Nancy Sutley chair of the council, said in a statement released early Sunday that she accepts Jones resignation and thanked him for his service.

"Over the last six months, he had been a strong voice for creating jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources," she said. "We appreciate his hard work and wish him the best moving forward." "


Good riddance.

[Edited on September 6, 2009 at 3:59 AM. Reason : His racist side is shown in other articles about his past. This article doesn't hit on those.]

9/6/2009 3:56:14 AM

ggBro
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jews did wtc

9/6/2009 3:57:24 AM

jataylor
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is he racist with the 'green' people?

9/6/2009 4:45:38 AM

wolfpackgrrr
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Which color of people does he hate? Honkies, chinks, abbos?

9/6/2009 5:21:40 AM

not dnl
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1 czar down...495843079607 to go

9/6/2009 5:24:45 AM

mellocj
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thats lame, they should have quoted some of the more serious things he actually said:

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"“The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities because they don’t have a racial justice frame.”"


video here
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/van-jones-white-polluters-and-white-environmentalists-steering-poison-into-the-people-of-color-communities/

9/6/2009 8:48:13 AM

Wlfpk4Life
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LOL what a piece of shit.

9/6/2009 8:52:01 AM

synapse
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^^ haha it's not racial, it's economics + profits and losses.

9/6/2009 9:54:03 AM

Optimum
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turdblossom

9/6/2009 9:58:31 AM

Drovkin
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^^ I'm sure if you replaced white with black in that sentence, it would still not be a racial comment?

9/6/2009 11:12:33 AM

chocolatervh
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geez, everybody appointed seems to have controversy.

i'm gonna need to talk to my boy about who he surrounds himself with.

9/6/2009 11:17:54 AM

Optimum
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politics is a disgusting bloodsport.

9/6/2009 11:21:04 AM

AceInTheSky
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Obama fucking up? NO!!! You don't say!!!

9/6/2009 11:21:44 AM

moron
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^^^ i think the big difference is that the Obama admin actually fires the people who are incompetent, vs. the previous admin who fought to defend their incompetent members.

[Edited on September 6, 2009 at 11:22 AM. Reason : ]

9/6/2009 11:22:28 AM

chocolatervh
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true... nobody has been shot in the face quite yet.

i am still gonna have a talk with him.

dear obama... i know you read tww... come to charlotte and have a beer with me.

9/6/2009 11:25:34 AM

ScubaSteve
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kill whitey!



[Edited on September 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM. Reason : .]

9/6/2009 12:01:28 PM

jackleg
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just wondering, has anyone actually called them czars besides conservative radio show hosts?

9/6/2009 12:34:58 PM

Paul1984
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I never go to the soapbox for a reason!

9/6/2009 1:51:53 PM

Ytsejam
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"just wondering, has anyone actually called them czars besides conservative radio show hosts?"


The administration refers to them as czars...... The term has been used for some time to refer to that sort of position in an administration.

9/6/2009 2:05:06 PM

kdawg(c)
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Boone will defend in 5....4.....3....

9/6/2009 3:03:24 PM

wolfpackgrrr
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"I'm sure if you replaced white with black in that sentence, it would still not be a racial comment?"


You obviously didn't understand what synapse was saying.

9/6/2009 5:51:15 PM

Fermat
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ive gotten into a bad habit lately of calling douchebaggy guys I don't know "hair-cut" to their face.
like "sure thing, hair-cut"

its not so bad actually as I am terrible with names

9/6/2009 6:26:26 PM

Optimum
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nga plz?

9/6/2009 6:32:53 PM

aaronburro
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haha, seriously, Obama's nominees make the Sara Palin pick look like the best vetted candidate in the history of mankind. I mean, how much worse can you get than a Treasury Secretary that didn't pay his taxes or a "Green Jobs Czar" who openly calls Republicans "assholes?"

9/6/2009 7:56:32 PM

Optimum
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Obviously neither of them had set their status to "titty."

9/6/2009 8:16:03 PM

aaronburro
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it might have helped

9/6/2009 9:59:17 PM

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