Van Jones--admitted, proud communist--Obot

You all know (or should know, if you don't rely on MSN to be informed) of his background. Just to focus on the "admitted, proud communist" angle, here is the brilliant Mark Steyn on Hugh Hewitt's show, summing it all up:

"Mark Steyn was a guest on Hugh's show Thursday, and bored in on the little known fact outside of conservative media that Jones was an avowed communist. Here's" target=_blank>Here's a key exchange.

"MS: ...What I found interesting about the guy is that he’s a communist. Now I assume when people say oh, he used to be a communist, that they were communists in the 60s or 70s, you know, when it was cool, the spirit of 1968 and all that. This guy became a communist in the 90s. He became a communist after the Russians and the Bulgarians and the Romanians and the Czechs and even partly the Chinese, and even the Vietnamese had all given up on it.

"HH: Yup.

"MS: And yet he’s somehow, he’s right there in with the Obama administration...

And some bonus observations from Hugh: "No, it's not a matter of parents all over the country being crazy. It's parents not trusting a president who has put together an eight month track record anyone with cognitive skills would deem as a cause for concern when it comes to their children. Barack Obama is a Saul Alinsky disciple. He spent twenty years listening to the very radical Reverend Jeremiah Wright. He worked with the equally radical Father Michael Pfleger.

"He assured us he severed relations with the radical associations like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and promised as president his cabinet would look like America. Maybe my America looks different than President Obama's, because I don't think the ratio of self-described communists is as high across America as it appears to be in the czar ranks. He has taken over the banking system, the U.S. auto industry, AIG, ballooned the annual deficit and piled hopelessly onto the national debt. And now he's trying to socialize the health care system..."

"Election results establish who will be the next president of the United States. There is a window of trust that follows that election. It's up to the new president's actions, statements, policies and character that define how long that window will remain open, and how long that trust will last. In Barack Obama's case, when you look at the composite of every major poll in the country right now, the window is closed, the trust is not there. The mainstream media cannot bully trust back for Barack Obama by calling dissent crazy. Barack Obama will have to earn that trust all by himself. .."