I feel a strange disturbance in the universe. Twice in the past week, Van Jones has said something true and reasonable.
Last week, the former Obama red green czar accused AG Eric Holder and the media of racism over how both have handled the deadly Fast and Furious scandal. Today, Jones is tweeting in defense of Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
That’s hard to argue with. Booker was, until this week, the sort of Democrat that Barack Obama could only claim to be. Booker had worked across the political divide, and he had succeeded in one of the most difficult mayoral jobs in the country. While Obama has run around touting his “gutsy call” to do what any president would have done regarding taking out Osama bin Laden, Booker made a real-life gutsy call to save his neighbors from a burning building.
And the thanks Booker gets for speaking his mind against the Obama campaign’s pathetic attacks on Bain Capital? The Democrat dog house, and a humiliating hostage video. Van Jones gets one right: Cory Booker deserved better treatment than he is getting by the president’s people.
Van Jones has become the classic house fool, “speaking truth to power”- though Shakespeare didn’t use that phrase.
In the last several weeks he has done the following.
1)Admitted that environmental groups kept their mouths shut during the BP well blowout in the Gulf, to not embarrass Obama.
2)Accused Holder of racism on Fast and Furious.
3) Didn’t toe the party line on Corey Booker.
I have no clue as to Van Jones’s motives here, so I’ll just cross my fingers and tell myself that he’s decided that honesty trumps partisanship in this. I suppose it might be a little payback since Obama did throw him under the bus. Of course we all enjoyed that but I could also see how Jones might see it a little differently. lol I’ll just take his comments and be happy with them.
Jones is a nut, but he’s got about 50 IQ points on Obama. He sees what a train wreck Obama has been not only for the donkeys in general, but for black politicians in particular.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many of the critics of this full frontal attack on Wall Street are black. They see the potential for 50 years of no black politicians ever being elected to national office if somebody doesn’t get Obama off the stage post haste.
It must be embarrassing to have Obama as your icon.
“It must be embarrassing to have Obama as your icon.”
Unless you are a NC school teacher.
I see Booker as being offended as most would be that an admirable Person who happens to be black too, is being belittled in public and made to step in line. He sees the public humiliation towards a man who spoke honestly as nothing more then despicable behavior, as if Booker or anyone is below Obama.
Now he gets it? Because I did not see where Obama or his wife ever saw anyone as their equal.