By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer Will Lester, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – The White House environmental adviser under fire for inflammatory statements made before he joined the administration resigned after what he called a "vicious smear campaign against me."
Van Jones "understood that he was going to get in the way" of President Barack Obama's agenda, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Sunday.
The resignation was disclosed without advance notice by the White House in a dead-of-the-night e-mail on a holiday weekend. It came as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.
Jones, who specialized in environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the Sept. 11 attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.
Gibbs said Obama did not endorse Van Jones' comments but thanked him for his service.
Okay, what this article doesn't even mention is that Johnson is a self-avowed communist and a supporter of Hugo Chavez.
Well, I guess if I say that liberals are assholes, I can never be a "czar" of anything. Oh, wait, I haven't signed up for the commie party either. I'm just sorely lacking in czar skills!
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