Addl Van Jones Idiocy

Van Jones, President Obama's Green Jobs Czar, was compelled to retire because of the content of his character (h/t Ed Driscoll).

Pat at So It goes in Shreveport unearths the only excuse being given for Van Jones resignation by those on the left: The color of his skin.
From HuffPo's Carl Pope:

There are three possible reasons. They are connected, and it is their connection that is important.

1) Van Jones, unlike everyone else I have quoted on the topic of our oil addiction and George Bush's complicity with it, is African-American.

2) By specifying that Bush's addiction was "crack-head"-like, Jones linked Bush to a drug largely used in the black community.

3) Van Jones works for the first black man to be elected president.

Carl continues, "This is about politics, but it is empowered by race. If you doubt that, consider that Fox and Glenn Beck have been after Jones for a month -- but only since Beck began losing advertisers over his accusations that Obama was a racist."

Stew's View:

The epithet "racist" is already the worst thing that can be said of someone in the US. The left is now (and has always) used it as the argument of last resort. It is being overused - and will soon lose its power to persuade all but the truly radical. But it will remain the the worst thing you can say about someone, with predictable results - to whit, the first person to use it in an argument, absent any evidence in support of it, will be presumed to have lost.

As an aside, My home state of Louisiana once had the choice between a Racist and a Crook for Governor. The crook won overwhelmingly.