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How Van Jones Put A Green Job In The White House

First Posted: 05/21/09 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 02:15 PM ET

Van Jones

The Big Money:

When he wasn't running his fix-poverty, fix-the-planet nonprofit in Oakland, he was seeding Obama's transition team with ideas for an all-encompassing environmental/labor/energy/economic plan that would push the country toward a green future. After the New Yorker ran a glowing yet thorough profile of Jones in January, his ascendancy was complete. By the time the green-jobs-heavy stimulus bill passed, Jones may as well have been in the White House, since his philosophy had infected the place.

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When he wasn't running his fix-poverty, fix-the-planet nonprofit in Oakland, he was seeding Obama's transition team with ideas for an all-encompassing environmental/labor/energy/economic plan that wou...
When he wasn't running his fix-poverty, fix-the-planet nonprofit in Oakland, he was seeding Obama's transition team with ideas for an all-encompassing environmental/labor/energy/economic plan that wou...
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11:42 PM on 04/20/2009
unfortunately Tom Vilasack has more influence Berry Essence

http://www.willthomas.net/Chemtrails/Image_Library/pages/chemtrails_hampton111202.htm
09:12 PM on 04/20/2009
HE IS PHINE AS HELL!

I would luv to sit across from him everyday
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TJCole
04:35 PM on 04/20/2009
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03:05 PM on 04/20/2009
Now if they outlawed growth hormones and anti-biotic feed for animals and Legalized Hemp they might have something.........

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Liberalforsure
Love this country? Vote out all republicans!
09:14 AM on 04/20/2009
We need thousands like him! What a great man!
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LeLoup
Res ipsa loquitur, ergo tace!
09:26 AM on 04/20/2009
Ditto!
Given the unbelievable ignorance, when not the outright deception rampant in the MSM (see http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2009/04/no-not-bar-b-q.html for a particularly repugnant example) a lot of people will be needed to break the mental barriers of a significant segment of the population.