Comments on: Obama’s Green Jobs ‘Czar’ is Appropriately Named

By: Laura Bramble

Laura Bramble — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:32:49 +0000

And you never said anything stupid or agitated to “rebel against the system” when you were young? How many staunch Conservatives in Congress who became Republican yuppies in the 1980′s were liberal hippies who protested the war and called all police officers “pigs”?

By: Laura Bramble

Laura Bramble — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:29:32 +0000

One of the things then that you have not done is read “Das Capital”. In a true communist state, everything is controlled by the people. It is the addition of conniving people of ambition like Lenin, Castro, or Minh that make communism into the despotic and sycophantic system it is. Just like representitive democracy or republicanism in theory is not the same as in practice. I agree, a Sovietologist has no business in a US government position. But someone who believe’s in the power of the people, in the worth of all men and their labor- how is that so diametrically opposed to the values espoused in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution? They are not the same, but they are not enemies of each other. I am a Catholic that happens to be pro-choice and in favor of gay rights, but does that mean that I cannot be a Catholic or I have to automatically oppose everything the church believes in just because I don’t see eye to eye with them on some issues?

Is he in league with foreign governments? Has he committed treason? Do his personal feelings keep him from acting in the best interests of the public? Have his actions in office shown that he cannot be trusted with the job? Different people in government believe in many different thingsand hold faith in many different things. As long as they are doing the job they were elected or hired to do, who cares? There are presidents and national leaders who relied on the advice of astrologists and psychics (Reagan and Harding, for starters). As long as they did a good job (and Reagan is a god to most Republicans), who cares?

Let the paranoia go- you have more to worry about from Madison Avenue, Microsoft and big business getting into your affairs. But wait… that’s free market and more power to them, right?

By: Erik the Red

Erik the Red — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:07:45 +0000

P.S: I also never suggested that he shouldn’t be free to voice his opinion, I just suggested that a known communist shouldn’t be included among the White House staff for more reasons than one.

By: Erik the Red

Erik the Red — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:04:54 +0000

Laura,

He admitted to being a communist ( http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Van-Jones-Green-Jobs-Czar-a-selfdescribed-communist-arrested-during-Rodney-King-riots ) . Those aren’t paranoid McCarthy-ism words on my part based on wishful thinking. Communism is the antithesis of a Republic. Though the term wasn’t popular until approx 60 years after the signing of the Constitution (Marx’s ‘Communist Manifesto’), the Framers were well aware of the types of governments that wanted to expand themselves and control the people and, therefore, set up a system that would prevent govt from doing that.

By the way, I don’t instill anything into my articles that I can’t verify. Even if you happen to dislike or disagree with the source, that doesn’t mean that I have “damned” the truth. You are always free to research it for yourself. Of course, based on the perspective of most of those on the Left who I have spoken with, it is likely that even if you verify that he is a self-proclaimed communist, you won’t have a problem with it.

By: Laura Bramble

Laura Bramble — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:36:57 +0000

There was something missing from the article you linked to and the quotes in it. You claim that Van Jones is guilty of ” radical anti-American sentiment being presently or formerly conspicuously practiced”. Where in the quotes from the very slanted article you referred to did Mr. Jones say anything anti-American? Where did he say anything that constituted a slur on America? Last time I checked, and you all have argued for it, the right to protest in and of itself is alive and well, whether it has any basis in fact or validity or not.

I don’t know the man or what he stands for to condemn or support him, but you are drawing conclusions on little to nothing and that is not fair. Or balanced… But I guess anyone will see what it is they want to see, the truth be damned…

By: Consti Tution

Consti Tution — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:39:08 +0000

Additionally, these Czar’s are not elected representatives of the people. Yet they are given the power to shape policy that effects us all. They do not answer to congress or the senate, so they have no accountability. I’d like to know EXACTLY where in the constitution these people get their power from. If the captain of a ship is responsible for the lowest seaman then the president as head of the ship of state is responsible for their failures.