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Arianna Huffington was kind enough to allow her good friend and former campaign manager Van Jones to post his preliminary reflections on being unceremoniously booted from the Obama administration on the Huffington Post.

It's the least she could do.

Jones is President Obama's former green jobs czar.

He believes the Bush administration caused the 9/11 terrorist attacks to happen.

He also denounced the United States on Sept. 12, 2001 blaming America for the atrocities the day before.

He also mourned the deaths of the people killed in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center but only the ones who were working class.

In what will no doubt find its way into the memoirs he might be contemplating writing, Jones compares himself to Winston Churchill, which is odd for many reasons but especially because of the apparent contempt that President Obama holds for the late great British prime minister. With all the modesty one has come to expect from a community organizer, Jones writes

Of course, some supporters actually think I will be more effective on the "outside." Maybe so. But those ideas always remind me of that old canard about Winston Churchill. After he lost a hard-fought election, a friend told him: "Winston, this really is just a blessing in disguise." Churchill quipped: "Damned good disguise." I can certainly relate to that sentiment right now. :)

He likens himself to the wrong Churchill.

Van Jones is more like Ward Churchill.