Posted by
Kenneth Hanson on Sunday, September 06, 2009 2:09:26 PM
In his letter of resignation, Obama's "Green Czar" stated the following:
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.
Yes, that forged signature on the “Truther” petition should have been our first clue! Oh that's right, he said he signed it but didn't read the whole petition. Right. It is amazing in this day of YouTube how lame this sort of response is. Anyone can go out on the web and watch not just his public speeches but can watch videos produced by the groups he has founded or runs.
The guy is a far-left bomb thrower. Like Obama, he is a community organizer. He is self described Communist and Black Nationalist that promotes the most virulent urban myths in minority communities. Last year, as executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an Oakland, California based community organizing group focused on “eco-justice”, he said the following:
…the white polluters and white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don’t have a racial justice frame.
How do you square Valerie Jarrett’s statement just one month ago that team Obama had been tracking Van Jones’ work for a long time and they were thrilled to be able to get him into the administration with yesterday’s assertion that Van Jones represented a failure in the vetting process?
The answer seems obvious. The administration knows exactly who Van Jones is and what he represents. It is just that none of it seems radical in the world of Obama, until it plays out in public. There are lots of people with these fringe views in the Obama administration. Even worse, many are one of the almost 3 dozen extra-constitutional czars and their staffs which have virtually no accountability.
When Obama broke into the Illinois state senate his mentor was Alice Palmer, a self-described communist who had attended communist party meetings in the Soviet Union. Obama and most of his closest advisors grew up in the world of radical Marxist-influenced south side of Chicago politics. You and I would recoil in revulsion at the thought of having frequent Obama dinner guest Rashid Khalidi in our homes. But for those like Valerie Jarrett all this seems perfectly normal. It’s the fish don’t know they’re wet syndrome. It is why they are constantly surprised by the way a majority of Americans react to the administration.
Not to go “all McCarthy”, but one wonders how many people there are in the administration that are “Truthers”, or self-described communists. Obama’s job approval has fallen farther and faster than any president since Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. One of the reasons I believe they keep misjudging the mood of the country is that too many in the White House have beliefs that probably only about 5% of the most liberal people in the country agree with. After running as a centrist, he has governed from the far left in a country where the number of people that self-describe as being conservative outnumber those who describe themselves as liberal by almost 2 to 1.
The administration seems confused and unable to comprehend why "the mob" doesn't want what they want. Maybe they'll learn from this, but so far there is no evidence that they get it.