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It's difficult to stay optimistic as a liberal. Between being drowned out by right wing media, ignored by the mainstream Democratic Party and dodging hippie punches left and right, it's easy to sink into a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness.
But that's what all those opposing forces want you to believe.
Van Jones has been studying the various effectiveness of political parties, movements and campaigns, and he thinks it's time for liberals and progressives to come together to use the most successful strategies to make our voice not only heard, but listened to. Van Jones Unveils Rebuild The Dream | Crooks and Liars
And for the benefit of the people that are going to jump all over this thread because they were given marching orders to demonize the guy...
The Van Jones Story
Pareene at Gawker has a good synopsis of who Van Jones was, how he evolved, and how he became an object of derision by the far right. The Van Jones Story « Alan Colmes' Liberaland
I think you have missed so much about Van Jones. For instance, the fact that after he got pitched under the Obama bus he went to work for CAP. Do you know what CAP is? There is a chance that it being the most powerful thinktank outside Obama's group may tell you quite a bit about why he is trying to establish this New American Dream. Yep people who want that crap seem to be just a bit willing to throw the American Dream to the ditch and try to institute the New American Dream.
Have you ever heard Van Jones speak other than someplace where his crap can be accepted by all listening? I am sure that you have heard his keynote speech at Power Shift09. Just in case you missed it here it is in its entirety. I dare you to listen from minute 11:00 through 12:00 and then tell me what I don't like about his words. YouTube - ‪Van Jones Keynote at Powershift 09‬‏
Hey, I loved your link to Crooks and Liars about Jones. When I listened to it I found exactly the same thing I heard in this link from MSNBC in which Cenk Uygur is trying to make Obama look really bad and Jones is trying to defend good old Barack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWzAgpjk_9Y&feature=fvst
....the right wingnut/Neocon/Tea Party radical agenda that is pushing this nation back to the stone age by destroying the middle class as they enrich themselves and their corporate puppet masters.
Geez, do you think you can cram any more frantic boilerplate conspiracy nut cliches in one breath?
It's been a long week and I really needed a laugh. Thanks for brightening my day.
It's ironic that a descendant of slaves would support compulsory labor for the benefit of another.
That's what collectivism is all about, whether socialism, communism, or marxism.
Of course, all the left wing pirates and thieves think they'll be on top, taking the skim from the sheeple they shear.
This is cracking me up, thanks for a good laugh today. Hard to believe in a slogan of REBUILD THE DREAM, when 14 family's you know of have lost jobs and a home, and some a year later, still are out of work. Realistically for these family's what dream, they lost their dream, the dream of home owenership?
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