An Open Letter From Van Jones: 'What you can do'

[Nonno]

"Van Jones e-mailed this message to friends and supporters on Tuesday, Sept. 15. It's his first public comment since resigning from the White House on Sept. 6:

Dear Friends:

My family and I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support that we have received over the past week or so. I resigned from the White House on Sept. 6, and I have remained silent since then—in keeping with my promise not to be a distraction during a key moment in the Obama Presidency.

Over the past several days, however, many people have been asking how they can help and what they can do.

The main thing is this: please do everything you can to support both President Obama and the green jobs movement. Winning real change is ultimately the best response to these kinds of smear campaigns.

I ask everyone to:

1. Support President Obama’s efforts to fix our nation’s health care, energy and education systems. His victory last fall did not represent the “finish line” in the fight to renew America; his election was just the “starting line.” This autumn, it is time to make history again—with victories on health care and clean energy.

2. Sign up to support groups that are working for green jobs.

3. As others seek to vilify or marginalize the movement for a clean energy economy, the leading groups deserve increased support. This is the year to ensure that the clean energy transformation creates good job opportunities for everyone in America.

4. Spread the green jobs gospel. The ideas and ideals of the green jobs movement are grounded in fundamental American values—innovation, entrepreneurship, and equal opportunity. My true thoughts can be found in my book: "The Green Collar Economy." Check it out from the library—or order a copy and share it with a friend. See for yourself why clean energy and green jobs are good for our country.

5. Stay connected and speak up for me via your favorite blogs (e.g., Huffington Post, Grist, Jack & Jill, etc.), on message boards and all of your favorite social networking platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Supporters have set up a couple of them, to help you stay engaged, including: I Stand With Van Jones and I Love Van Jones."

More at source: An Open Letter From Van Jones: 'What you can do' (Stop Global Warming - Change.org)

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Thank you! There was really no kewl way for the GOP Hate Machine to drag Van back into the public debate.

[Tilted]

Originally Posted by Nonno

I ask everyone to:

1. Support President Obama’s efforts to fix our nation’s health care, energy and education systems.

No problem - when he does some things that can reasonably and honestly be described as 'efforts to fix our nation's health care, energy and education systems', I'll consider supporting them. And, if the description of them as such is accurate, I likely will support them.

But, isn't Mr. Jones putting the cart before the horse? I mean, shouldn't he be asking President Obama to make such efforts before he asks people to support such potential, maybe-they'll-happen-maybe-they-won't, efforts?

As it stands now, I haven't heard anything about such efforts on President Obama's part.