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White House Green Jobs Adviser: Republicans Are 'Assholes'

He spent 2 years in prison and was a communist up to 4 years ago per Hannity and Beck. There has been no response from the commie in chief. I choose to believe them as I doubt they would slander the guy and open themselves up for a lawsuit. If you wish to not believe what is right before your eyes, no sense discussing it.

can we believe anything that those two cesspool slugs have to say!!
 
It's like, every time a member of Krewe Obama says something, they screw not only themselves, but the whole administration. I'm sure it will be explained with the usual, "oh, he just mis-spoke, that's all".

Recall when the TOTUS was offline? Last time that happened Doctors and Policeman turned against dear leader in one week. A little truthiness came out. Telling us how they really feel is not the way to win votes.
 
He spent 2 years in prison and was a communist up to 4 years ago per Hannity and Beck. There has been no response from the commie in chief. I choose to believe them as I doubt they would slander the guy and open themselves up for a lawsuit. If you wish to not believe what is right before your eyes, no sense discussing it.


He spent 2 years in prison?? This should be well documented online.. so.. umm link????

Here I'll help and even go with a biased source so you don't get information shock:

Van Jones, 'Green Jobs Czar', a self-described 'communist' arrested during Rodney King riots

hmmm no mention of prison there; although arrested and detained briefly is there:

In 1992, Van Jones founded another STORM project, Bay Area PoliceWatch, a "hotline and lawyer-referral service for victims and survivors of police abuse." This is fitting, perhaps, since Jones was himself arrested and detained briefly during a protest after the Rodney King verdict that same year.

I'm sure something as major as 2 years in prison is splattered all over the internet and is easy to find.

I'll give you a chance to move beyond regurgitating (inaccurately) what your puppetmaster is telling you, and actually support your statements with facts before we move on and discuss how Van Jones was ultimately compensated by San Francisco for his unjust arrest and brief period of detainment.
 
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please do because I double or triple whatever you can ppost or make up LOL

""I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best."— ""I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft."
My favorite = " Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" " "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

You wanna keep it rollin'? How about when PBO said that a, "tiny country", like Iran poses no threat? naw, you don't want to get into a gaffe-fer-gaffe contest. I think we both know that.
 
van jones, march, 2009:

"the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities"

this nutjob is not going away

gonna be a HUGE political story, another giant embarrassment for the most INCOMPETENT president in american history

so sorry
 
van jones, march, 2009:

"the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities"

this nutjob is not going away

gonna be a HUGE political story, another giant embarrassment for the most INCOMPETENT president in american history

so sorry

I see you need further training.

When posting quotes, it's generally a good idea to include LINKS. Otherwise we start to think that you are hearing voices or imagining things.

Come on, prof, try to keep up. It's really not that hard.:2wave:
 
hazelnut is a personality whore

van jones is gonna prove as hurtful to this prez as the rev wright was

and we're not talking campaign anymore

van jones is not going away

sorry
 
I see you need further training.

When posting quotes, it's generally a good idea to include LINKS. Otherwise we start to think that you are hearing voices or imagining things.

Come on, prof, try to keep up. It's really not that hard.:2wave:

Van Jones: “white polluters” and “white environmentalists” “steering poison into the people of color communities” RBO

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Zb0EVKOkY"]YouTube - GREEN JOBS NOT JAILS - The Third Wave of Environmentalism[/ame]

At 1:40

“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.”

Other selected highlights:

In 1992, while still a law student at Yale, Jones participated as a volunteer legal monitor for a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco. He and many other participants in the protest were arrested. The district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. Jones later said that "the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization."[10] His outrage over the verdict radicalized him: Jones said he was "a rowdy nationalist"[11] before the King verdict was announced. By August of that year, he said, "I was a communist."

When he graduated law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in Washington, D.C., and moved to San Francisco instead.[11] He got involved with Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a group explicitly committed to revolutionary Marxist politics[12] whose points of unity were revolutionary democracy, revolutionary feminism, revolutionary internationalism, the central role of the working class, urban Marxism, and Third World Communism.

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones]Van Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

This guy sounds like one of the biggest dbags imaginable. There's something seriously off about the type of people who join groups like this.

Before I saw that, I had been inclined to say that as a result of this publicity, he might end up pulling a "leaving this position to pursue opportunities in the private sector." Somehow, I don't think he's they type of guy to go quietly like that.
 
thanks, the only links i could find all led to beck

i knew what womanish hysteria would ensue if i dropped the sneakers wearing pundit's name

even if the quotes all were in van's own words

and i'd much rather having em talking about ME than beck

cuz that way i always win

LOL!

thanks for the stronger source

here's some more van jones for y'all, some wild, whacky stuff (to quote johnny carson)

Van Jones speaks to David Room | Global Public Media

this dude aint goin away, he's pretty far out there
 
You seriously think the 57 state comment was out of ignorance on Obamas part??
Was he speaking "Austrian" at the time? :lol:
 
thanks, the only links i could find all led to beck

i knew what womanish hysteria would ensue if i dropped the sneakers wearing pundit's name

even if the quotes all were in van's own words

and i'd much rather having em talking about ME than beck

cuz that way i always win

LOL!

thanks for the stronger source

here's some more van jones for y'all, some wild, whacky stuff (to quote johnny carson)

Van Jones speaks to David Room | Global Public Media

this dude aint goin away, he's pretty far out there

That link is legitimately aggravating me. This guy is just spouting absolute and utter falsehoods.

Van Jones said:
Well in California alone you’re spending six billion dollars a year locking people up, eighty percent for non-violent drug offences. I’ll say that again – eighty percent of the people who are locked up right now are locked up for non-violent drug offences. So, eighty percent of your six billion dollars could be freed up to get the prisoners and the prison guards out of the jailhouse and back into the community helping to solve these problems

Reality said:
California's prison population has been growing rapidly. It was 100,000 as recently as 1990, but now tops 170,000.

...

Prop 5 will reduce the severity of this awful overcrowding. Roughly 30,000 inmates are in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.

California Proposition 5: Rehab Instead of Prison for Nonviolent Drug Crimes ? YES - California Progress Report

So that's 17%, not 80%. Close though.

Van Jones said:
DR: Should people of color be particularly concerned about America’s addiction to oil?

VJ: Yeah- rich people don’t fight wars. If you look at the front lines it’s mostly working-class kids, disproportionately kids of color, from the United States that get pulled into these petro-war conflicts.

Reality said:
Whites and blacks make up almost exactly the same percent of the enlisted personnel as they do in the general population.

The recruit-to-population ratio for whites is 1.06, and for blacks it is 1.08. Hispanics, meanwhile, are significantly underrepresented among enlisted personnel, with a recruit-to-population ratio of just 0.65. (It should also be said that this entire report groups together personnel from all four service branches, which means that the aggregate numbers do not necessarily represent any one of the branches separately.)

...

There’s a further important point that can’t be found in this report but can be found in another one, which compiles race-specific U.S. military fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of March 1, 2008, there were 2,964 white fatalities in Iraq, representing 74.8 percent of the total; in the general population, meanwhile, whites in that age cohort make up about 62 percent of the population, so whites are overrepresented among Iraqi fatalities. Blacks and Hispanics, meanwhile, are both underrepresented; the same is true in Afghanistan.

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Who Serves in the Military Today? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

Yea, it really looks like its only those people of color fighting those "petro-wars"

This guy seriously sounds like a 24 year old sitting in his Colloquium on "Race and Society: The Diaspora." What a douche.
 

To be honest, that was very surprising to me. I'm trying to think of an explanation for why the military would attract upper-middle-class kids in greater proportion, but I can't think of any. I wonder if the results would be dramatically different if one examined family income data instead of neighborhood income data. Perhaps poor kids in Beverly Hills are more likely to join the military than rich kids in Detroit? Or perhaps the poorest kids get filtered out because they're also the least educated? Or perhaps the poorest kids are more likely to view crime instead of public service as a more lucrative career path? Or perhaps it's harder for recruiters to contact potential recruits in the poorest neighborhoods?

It's hard to tell...maybe I'll think of a better explanation later. Very interesting chart though.
 
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To be honest, that was very surprising to me. I'm trying to think of an explanation for why the military would attract upper-middle-class kids in greater proportion, but I can't think of any. I wonder if the results would be dramatically different if one examined family income data instead of neighborhood income data. Perhaps poor kids in Beverly Hills are more likely to join the military than rich kids in Detroit? Or perhaps the poorest kids get filtered out because they're also the least educated? Or perhaps the poorest kids are more likely to view crime instead of public service as a more lucrative career path? Or perhaps it's harder for recruiters to contact potential recruits in the poorest neighborhoods?

It's hard to tell...maybe I'll think of a better explanation later. Very interesting chart though.

I wish they had family data as well, but I don't think that's collected by the military.

The only main explanation I can really come up with is that to a large degree, the military weeds out those with criminal histories and those without high school degrees. That could be enough to skew it that way.
 
White House Green Jobs Adviser: Republicans Are 'Assholes' - Political News - FOXNews.com

Yup, this is the sophistication and "nuanced" thought we were told we were missing out on for the past eight years.

And I'm sure there's nothing racially biased in his thought. Certainly not, I mean, after all, he's a liberal, right?

You got to be kidding considering Cheney was telling people to "F" off on the Senate floor!

Please tell us what we should expect from the "FAMILY VALUES PARTY" should you come to power again?
 
I think he meant to say Libertarian and forgot to add act classless when nobody except 15 kids on the internet agree with them. It's like a requirement that in order to be Libertarian you have to be an asshole and make personal attacks because nobody except for you wants to live 19th century. He got the wrong people. Misspoke!
 
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Van Jones: “white polluters” and “white environmentalists” “steering poison into the people of color communities” RBO

YouTube - GREEN JOBS NOT JAILS - The Third Wave of Environmentalism

At 1:40



Other selected highlights:





Van Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This guy sounds like one of the biggest dbags imaginable. There's something seriously off about the type of people who join groups like this.

Before I saw that, I had been inclined to say that as a result of this publicity, he might end up pulling a "leaving this position to pursue opportunities in the private sector." Somehow, I don't think he's they type of guy to go quietly like that.

He absolutely sounds like a douchebag. Give me a break. What the hell was Obama thinking in making this anti-white person an adviser?
 
i knew what womanish hysteria would ensue if i dropped the sneakers wearing pundit's name

How is this sexism allowed? Hysteria already has negative sexist connotations, but to further the relationship by putting "womanish" as if women were the only crazy ones in this country. Why not put Glenn Beckian hysteria? The guy probably yells and cries more than any man or woman in this country.
 
He spent 2 years in prison and was a communist up to 4 years ago per Hannity and Beck. There has been no response from the commie in chief. I choose to believe them as I doubt they would slander the guy and open themselves up for a lawsuit. If you wish to not believe what is right before your eyes, no sense discussing it.

According to Hannity and Beck? Well that's just a reliable source there I guess I should just take your word for it. Beck who had people believing that there were fema concentration camps did many shows on it and then disproved it in one show after spreading bull**** on all the other shows. These guys aren't credible. He was arrested after being a monitor during the riots. The police just arrested a whole bunch of people and the charges were dropped and the city ended up paying money to him and others. So no he didn't spend 2 years in prison. He called himself a communist over a decade ago. Would you like to try again?

Slander is a hard case to prove in court. Beck slanders people all the time. So again do you have any actual proof of your claims?
 
While it is unprofessional, what racial bias is there in calling Republicans assholes? Unprofessional yes, but a racially biased comment? No

Well come on, isn't it OBVIOUS....

Asshole is CODE LANGUAGE for "Uppity White Cracker", I mean, its patentedly obvious to anyone that can see it. They can't actually say "Uppity White Cracker" so they substitute it with "asshole" as a secret code. I mean, look throughout time, there's plenty of historical evidence of white people being called "assholes"...code language. Its my judgement call.

;)


PRICELESS.

Shall we remind people of this, too?

CNN.com - Sources: Cheney curses senator over Halliburton criticism - Jun 24, 2004

Should Bush have to apologize for his Vice President's foul mouth?

The double standard is incredibly glaring......

:doh

Okay, Joe and Former specifically....

For the past months with this idiotic nazi thing and this idiotic "republican plants" thing and everything else we've been hearing this drum beat of "Oh look, the republicans are bringing up the past again. Does two wrongs make a right? Why don't you stop making excuses and focus on condemning your own people. Who cares about thep ast. OH look republicans bringing up democrats again, wah wah wah".

And as such, the next thing to logically do is.........have something happen with someone on your side and defend/ignore it by turning around and going "But look, but look, republicans did this".

Seriously?

Could someone explain me these rules? Joe, Former, do you get to bitch about republicans bringing up when democrats have done the exact same things as them in years past but then get to turn around and do the exact same thing?

At least be a little bit consistant in your asinine arguments.

IMHO seriously, this is a minor issue, it was a minior issue with Bush and Cheney saying it about some reporter. Politicians are human. I can't think of anyone I know that's never said someone is a dick, an asshole, a jerk, etc. Its not exactly uncommon. "OMG A politician swore", who the **** cares. There's a great many liberals and conservatives on this very forum that I don't doubt if put around people of their own type would have no issues calling some members of the other side "assholes".

A big to do about nothing, with the writer trying to make this a big story looking like an asshole himself.
 
van jones, march, 2009:

"the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities"this nutjob is not going away

gonna be a HUGE political story, another giant embarrassment for the most INCOMPETENT president in american history

so sorry

the bolded part, is true....

chemical companies aren't going to even exist in rich communities, much less dump their wastes into the waterways....
It was in the news quite often, on 20/20, prime time, etc.

In the 70's in particular, when the anti-nukes were in full bloom, it was funny that the environmentalists were protesting nuclear power while chemical companies from LA to NJ were dumping poison into streams and we had plenty of cancer clusters to show for it.
 
For the past months with this idiotic nazi thing and this idiotic "republican plants" thing and everything else we've been hearing this drum beat of "Oh look, the republicans are bringing up the past again. Does two wrongs make a right? Why don't you stop making excuses and focus on condemning your own people. Who cares about thep ast. OH look republicans bringing up democrats again, wah wah wah".
And as such, the next thing to logically do is.........have something happen with someone on your side and defend/ignore it by turning around and going "But look, but look, republicans did this".

Seriously?

Could someone explain me these rules? Joe, Former, do you get to bitch about republicans bringing up when democrats have done the exact same things as them in years past but then get to turn around and do the exact same thing?At least be a little bit consistant in your asinine arguments.

IMHO seriously, this is a minor issue, it was a minior issue with Bush and Cheney saying it about some reporter. Politicians are human. I can't think of anyone I know that's never said someone is a dick, an asshole, a jerk, etc. Its not exactly uncommon. "OMG A politician swore", who the **** cares. There's a great many liberals and conservatives on this very forum that I don't doubt if put around people of their own type would have no issues calling some members of the other side "assholes".

A big to do about nothing, with the writer trying to make this a big story looking like an asshole himself.

If we don't object to bad behavior, soon bad behavior becomes the accepted norm....:(
Keep complaining, everybody...
 
Was he speaking "Austrian" at the time? :lol:

No, he was speaking American at the time, not [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_German"]Austrian German[/ame]. ;)
 
If we don't object to bad behavior, soon bad behavior becomes the accepted norm....:(
Keep complaining, everybody...

Oh I understand. If you think somethings wrong, say its wrong. If you think Cheney doing that was wrong say it. If you think this guy doing it is wrong, say it.

My issue is when people have it pointed out to them "Hey, the crazies on your side did this too" and they respond back "Gah! Can't we stop talking about the PAST. Two Wrongs don't make a right. Stop deflecting and defending and focus on apologizing for your side"........and then when the tables are turned immedietely start going "Hey, the crazies on your side did this too".

That's not actual objection to bad behavior, its pitiful pathetic playing of partisan politics. (yay for aliteration)
 
Oh I understand. If you think somethings wrong, say its wrong. If you think Cheney doing that was wrong say it. If you think this guy doing it is wrong, say it.

My issue is when people have it pointed out to them "Hey, the crazies on your side did this too" and they respond back "Gah! Can't we stop talking about the PAST. Two Wrongs don't make a right. Stop deflecting and defending and focus on apologizing for your side"........and then when the tables are turned immedietely start going "Hey, the crazies on your side did this too".

That's not actual objection to bad behavior, its pitiful pathetic playing of partisan politics. (yay for aliteration)

yes, that is what I am saying, both sides do it, feel obligated to do it, just because the other guy is doing it, and end result is that it becomes the norm....putting both sides at fault for the dumbing down of America...
 
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