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.
