<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/293d1680-979d-41a5-8d91-e11293e411bc/EFFA2666-6E99-4BAB-A9C2-F1A3DA2754A8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html" style="font-size: 11px;">voices.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html"><DIV id="bog-banner-indiv"> <H1><A class="blog-title" title="The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/"><SPAN>The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008</SPAN></A></H1> <DIV class="bog-toplinks"> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/">Post Politics: Stories, Polls and More</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/politics-mv.html">Today's Most Viewed Politics Stories</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/politics_on_the_go.html">Politics On the Go: Get Mobile Updates</A></LI> </UL> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html"><H2>White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/voices.washingtonpost.com/img/43104435-10F8-4DAD-9B61-16A79D56D3FA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html"><P><STRONG>Updated 2:52 p.m. 9/6/09</STRONG> <EM>By Scott Wilson and Garance Franke-Ruta</EM> White House environmental adviser <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/08/AR2008120803569.html">Van Jones</A> resigned late Saturday after a simmering controversy over his past statements and activism <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090403563.html">erupted</A> into calls for his ouster from Republican leaders on Friday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html"><P>White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Sunday explained the resignation on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," saying, "Van Jones decided was that the agenda of this president was bigger than any one individual." The president does not endorse Jones's past statements and actions, "but he thanks him for his service," Gibbs said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html"><P>The result was the revelation of a controversial past that, administration officials acknowledge, caught the White House off guard.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EFFA2666-6E99-4BAB-A9C2-F1A3DA2754A8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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