Van Jones Closes NN12 With Pleas to Save Nation… and Obama from Tea Party
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The ghost of the 2008 candidate Barack Obama haunted Netroots Nation 2012 in Providence, Rhode Island. He hovered over every panel — at least the 10 or so panels I attended — and pervaded the general assemblies and closing session in which Van Jones gave the final pitch for progressives not to give up.
Obama’s re-election campaign provided a short video in the closing session featuring the President addressing the conference. It was an acknowledgment that he still owed a debt to progressive bloggers and would desperately need them again.
But as we watched Obama’s short recitation of ambiguous accomplishments, carefully avoiding the most