Communist-group founder Van Jones yesterday admitted that he and the progressive movement stayed quiet about U.S. energy policy during the BP oil crisis two years ago because Barack Obama was president.

However, WND found Jones did indeed speak out during the disaster, blaming BP while strongly defending Obama.

Jones, Obama’s former “green” jobs czar, made the comments about staying quiet during a recent interview on C-Span’s Book TV,

Stated Jones: “I’m critical of myself, first, and the environmentalists. When the oil spill happened in the spring of 2010, there was another moment to say, ‘Hold on a second, let’s re-look at energy policy in America. Should we be subsidizing companies that are risking our health immediately and in the long-term?’”

He continued: “We didn’t do it. You’ve never seen the environmental movement more quiet during an oil spill. I guarantee you, if John McCain had been president, with that oil spill, or George Bush had been president with that oil spill, I’d have been out there with a sign protesting. I didn’t, because of who the president was. Well, that’s a bad, uh, uh … that’s not good for the earth, it’s not good for the cause, it’s probably not good for the president. It’s certainly not the way we should conduct ourselves. And so, I’m very tough on progressive movements and leaders, including myself, who did not stand on principle, based on who we looked across and saw as president.”

http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/look-who-wishes-he-had-criticized-obama-...