Yes, Obama surrounds himself with radicals, extremists that are way out of the mainstream -- Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright.
That says something about Obama. There's no way around it.
That fact that Valerie Jarrett and others on Obama's team embraced Van Jones and saw nothing wrong with his radicalism is, as Charles Krauthammer puts it, "a reflection of the boss."
Video, from Breitbart.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: What you also learn about the White House is when [Valerie] Jarrett said, as we saw on tape, 'We've been watching [Van Jones] all these years.' Well, that means you've been watching him and you must know something about his history of quite radical politics and statements. And that apparently was undisturbing to Jarrett and to Obama people. And that tells you, it's a reflection of the boss.
The boss also had a history, before he became a candidate, of being around and friends with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers. Liberals scolded us last year how irrelevant all of that is, how it's a smear campaign against Obama. But if you live in that environment and you find nothing inherently wrong with that kind of radicalism, then a Van Jones will show up. You'll watch him years and years and you'll think this guy is perfectly mainstream.
Jones wasn't the victim of a smear campaign anymore than Wright or Ayers.
They are what they are: fringe Leftist radicals.
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