Sep 5 2009
Jeremiah Wright behind a White House desk
The key point about the Van Jones affair is what it tells us about Barack Obama. Jones isn’t someone who slipped through the cracks of the vetting process. We know this because, as Scott pointed out earlier today, top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett has said, “So, Van Jones, we were so delighted [...]
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Sep 5 2009
What Van Jones signifies
Not that we’re inclined to do so, but it would be a mistake to write off Van Jones as a one-off nutjob in the Obama administration. He signifies. The Obama team sought him out and signed him up for his job as green jobs commissar precisely because he is who he is. [...]
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