Posted by
Bob Siegel on Friday, September 04, 2009 4:08:36 PM
Time for Obama to do another song and dance. Either he's going to have to convince us that he knew absolutely nothing about the background of his latest "Green Czar," Van Jones, or he's going to have to explain how he could have selected a man with such a lethal peddegree. Who knows? The denial might just fly. After all, it worked with Rev. Wright. Supposedly, in the twenty years Obama attended his church, he never heard one racist or anti-American statement. Obama said that with a straight face and people still voted for him. Obama also assured us that he barely knew self confessed, unashamed, terrorist, Bill Ayers. People let that slide too, even though the kick off event to Obama's political career was launched in Ayer's living room. See how it comes together? Obama probably figures that anyone stupid enough to vote for him is just as brain-challenged in the present time.
And so, yes, it could actually work again. "We didn't know. We didn't know the man was a proud, professing Communist who promises to use the environment as a tool to redistribute wealth, who says it's impossible to discuss climate change without discussing racism, who accuses white people of deliberately poisoning blacks, and who signed a petition to investigate President Bush for causing 9/11. We didn't know."
They didn't know. The president had resources like the FBI at his disposal to do a background check and he couldn't even come up with something that a simple Google search would provide. Or maybe he never heard of YouTube, where and abundance of speeches from this fine gentlemen have recently surfaced. Yeah, sure. He didn't know. I believe him, but I believe in the Tooth Fairy too, so don't go by me.
Or Obama could pull that other rabbit out of his hat. "Van Jones has changed. It was in the distant past that he called himself a Communist. He's reformed." Actually, this response has been floated already but without much success so they will either try it again or bag the tactic completely. For the record, Jone's Communist speech was a while ago, all the way back in March of 2009! Do you remember what you had for breakfast every day last March? No? Well, OK then, let's stop quibbling about ancient history.
Another possible course of action: "Oh, yeah, sure, Jones said all those things, but you are taking him out of context. When he said we might have been responsible for 9/11, he didn't mean to suggest that we might have been responsible. He only meant to say that we might have been responsible. See? You have to understand the context."
Of course, there is one other interpretation to all of this, so obvious, so simplistic and so outrageous, most people never think of it: Maybe a man smart enough to graduate Harvard and smart enough to pull off a successful presidential campaign, is also smart enough to properly vet a new adviser. Maybe Obama knows everything about this man and wants him on his team for exactly those reasons. Truth be told, many of his other czars are every bit as scary if not scarier. Maybe he was sure he'd get away with this since he has gotten away with everything else. Maybe he figured the worse case scenario would be that only the Right-Wing would notice what he's trying to do and he could quickly shut them up by saying they only object to him because he's black.
I am grateful for all that is now out in the open and comforted that Obama is getting such bad press (finally) over this venomous appointment. I believe we will see Van Jone's resignation in only a matter of days, if not sooner. But I'll be honest with you. I'm still gravely concerned. I'll give you my reasons:
1) For quite some time, our mainstream media refused to touch this story. It simply did not fit in with their role as Obama's Water Boy. With few exceptions, Glen Beck has been carrying the torch almost entirely on his own, even though, (as I said) the info is easily and readily available to anyone with even the most elementary internet skills. True, many Conservative Talk Show hosts have no love lost on Obama, but we are mostly hearing about health care type issues from them, and valid as those concerns are, they are not even in the same stratosphere as the stuff Glen Beck has been willing to touch despite threats to his family. True, some bloggers and local radio show hosts like me have passed on Beck's info along with information uncovered from our own research, but we are small potatoes, unlikely to come under as much fire, and Beck deserves credit for virtually fighting a one man battle. My admiration for the man is matched only by my utter disdain for today's mainstream news: They are run by a bunch of cowardly curds! And that is just about the nicest thing I can say.
2) Even though the mainstream media is now (only after kicking and screaming) on board, I fear that all those other deadly czars will be lost in the sea of discussion over Jones. For this reason, I dedicate a small series of blogs, to act as a simple concise list of other recent Obama czar appointees and their beliefs.
I guarantee, you will find it all quite chilling
See Part Two in my next blog:
A Czar By Any Other Name Might as Well Be Boris or Natasha: Part Two
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