Van Jones: "Republicans are A**holes"

Obama's Green Jobs czar, Van Jones, has made a load of questionable statements that are coming back to haunt him.

Jones describes himself as a communist. His radical links are documented.

Gateway Pundit has a video clip of Jones speaking at an event in Berkeley. What he says is hardly the most controversial or disturbing of his statements.

Nonetheless, I think it's troubling that Jones would make a comment so divisive at a public forum.

This video shows Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, during a lecture he gave at the 2nd Annual Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) event, February 11, 2009.

This was roughly a month before Jones was drafted by Obama to be his green jobs czar.

In the Q & A session, Jones is very candid about his opinion of Republicans.

A woman questions Jones:

When Bush was in office...it wasn't more than 60 [senators] but they pushed through all of these bills. But when we have 58, we seem to not be able to move things as progressively as many of us here would want, as Obama wants. I know that he has a strong interest in bipartisanship but when nobody in the Republicans are voting with him, how were the Republicans able to push things through when they had less than 60 senators but somehow we can't?

Jones responds simply:

Well, the answer to that is they're a**holes.

The crowd erupts in laughter and applause.

The woman replies, "I was afraid that that was the answer."

Jones goes on:

Barack Obama's not an a**hole. So, um, now, I will say this: I can be an a**hole. And some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity.

Video.



Good grief.

This isn't the campaign anymore. That guilt by association argument doesn't fly. Obama can't distance himself from Jones. Obama picked him to be his green jobs czar.

Of course, Jones is ultimately responsible for what he says and does and believes, but there must be some accountability on the part of Obama.