This is going to seem even more Right-Wing bashing and a slap to their face. But I feel that President Obama’s green job “czar” should keep his job. Because at the end of the day, he is the subject matter expert in that field and should stay there. There are many charges laid on him and we would go through them one by one.

The first charge is that he signed a statement asking for investigations into the events that led up to 9/11. I think that he has got no defense to this and he should stop dancing on the facts. At best he should say that “ Yes, I was wrong to sign it;” Rather than beat around the bush and making excuses.

That being said, I think that this alone should not disqualify him for the position. I would never fire a competent writer who thinks that the sky is falling on his head or that the Earth is 6000 years old. In fact, I fully endorse another 9/11 truther, should he want to run for the position of Senator : former Governor Jesse Ventura. I myself, categorize the 9/11 conspiracy theory as nonsense, but that would not stop me from liking Governor Ventura. I would apply the same standards for Van Jones.

The second charge is that he was a communist and is against capitalism. This charge is half true. He was a communist. This is also what he had mentioned before especially after the racial riots in the 90s. However, he did change. He became the father of eco-capitalism. That is a fact that no one can deny.

This is the quote that many people refer too in this charge : “… We want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to eco-capitalism…. No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the system of exploitation and oppression altogether….” What he is saying here is not that he is against he eco-capitalism which was more or less his creation, but he is saying that having a laissez-faire approach to solving environmental problems is not the way and there need to be intervention. Therefore, I dismiss this charge.

The third charge is that he said President Bush acted as is he was on crack and that Republicans are a-holes at separate events. Again, why is this such a controversy? How many Republicans believed that President Clinton was the moral decay and the shame of America? Should they be removed from office for saying that? Since when was speaking your mind a crime in America? In fact, on the a-hole statement I think that he was right. He called himself one too. Though, I would replace the words a-hole with aggressive and “Democrats are not” with “Democrats are spineless.”

The fourth and most confrontational charge is that Van Jones is a race baiter and a racist. This is based on a speech he gave where he said that “polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities because they don’t have a racial justice frame.”

Wrong choice of words but essentially, the meaning resonates sense. Nearly all environmental activists are white. By going into Black communities and arguing being aggressive with them, you would get people going against you. That was the gist of the interview and the message that he is saying. He is not racist by any means at all. If this is the standard of racism that he is going by, then Glenn Beck should be fired by FOX a long time ago!

I am very disappointed that Van Jones would be all but gone within this month. He is clearly the man for the job. He is to environment capitalism as was what Einstein was to the nuclear bomb. Without him, it would just not have happened. I think that the Right has won again and the Left’s lack of guts disgust me.

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