cory booker...a fine example of the kind of democrats we have to deal with these days....

[spanone]

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President Obama’s re-election strategy of attacking Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s former private-equity firm, has made at least one fellow Democrat uneasy.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Sunday said he felt “very uncomfortable” with the attacks on Mr. Romney’s work at Bain.

“I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” Mr. Booker said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “To me, it’s just we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America, especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people are investing in companies like Bain Capital.”

“If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses. And this, to me, I’m very uncomfortable with,” Mr. Booker said.


http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/05/20/obamas-bain-attack-leaves-democratic-ally-uneasy/

[DonCoquixote]

1. I used to call people like Booker DINOS

Now I call them QUISLINGS. If you do not know the reference, than as they say on Fox news; google it.

[HiPointDem]

8. I call them NEOLIBERALS. There are a raft of them in the Democratic party.

[Scuba]

2. Cory's missing the point. It's not the positive things Bain and similar companies do that are ...

... being exposed and criticized. It's the negative. And there's plenty of it.

[spanone]

4. and faux news reports...'Cory Booker slams Obama campaign for attack on Romney's Bain record'

Cory Booker slams Obama campaign for attack on Romney's Bain record

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a surrogate for President Obama's re-election effort, slammed a recent Obama campaign ad on Sunday for its attack on Mitt Romney's tenure at private equity firm Bain Capital.
During a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press," Booker described as "nauseating" the ad released last week about Bain's involvement with a Kansas City steel company that later went bankrupt.
"I have to just say from a very personal level, I'm not about to sit here and indict private equity," Booker said.
"If you look at the totality of Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses," he added. "And this, to me, I'm very uncomfortable."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/20/cory-booker-slams-obama-campaign-for-attack-on-romney-bain-record/#ixzz1vRCP9bPq

[matt819]

15. I know that Booker has a large following

And he really does seem to be a pretty good guy.

But this kind of remark doesn't come out of nowhere. Over on Salon one commentator observes that notwithstanding the anti-Obama sentiment, it does set Booker up for personal gain down the road.

The cynic in me tells me to follow the money. You can bet that this remark was not offhand and that money and political support for #1, i.e., Booker himself, is at play, Obama be damned.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Not a Booker fan

Waiting for fellow Democrats to wake up.

[TheKentuckian]

5. Most vexing is he is probably in the top third of elected Democrats

This is around the best we have to work with.

Working within the system is mandatory, important, and fundamental but it isn't close to enough. The establishment must feel pressure from outside to respond from pressure from within, particularly when the interior pressure is completely managed and without influence.

One who cannot say no has no hand, all such a person can do is plead, cheer, and/or complain. There is no demand or leading on a direction because there are no consequences for ignoring them and always grave consequences for not saying yes.
Outside pressure creates political space to maneuver for interior pressure. Especially when it is the system it's self one is looking to impact rather than simple inclusion into what already is there. The more that reach the mountaintop that allows one to see into the "Promised Land" the more that can see it is a squalid serfdom built on a toxic dump.

[kentuck]

6. Maybe he has an offer to work in a private equity firm?

When his term is over?

[bigtree]

7. I was just on a rant about this

same old weak ass nonsense.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002708536

[bluestate10]

9. It was sad that Jim Cramer had to carry the argument that

what Romney did at Bain was wrong. Jim Cramer of all people. Bokker is a disgrace. He called himself an Obama surrogate, with people like that covering his back, Obama had better have eyes in the back of his head.

[GoCubsGo]

20. Actually, Cramer is the better guy to do it.

He's a financial guy, while Booker isn't. One would think that would carry more credence with a general audience, given the subject matter. Those to the right of center are more likely to believe this information coming from him than they would a Democratic politician. Had Booker said it, they would accuse him of trying to smear Romney with a bunch of lies.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

10. If he runs for higher office he's going to need Wall Street $.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. Private equity is not in and of itself terribly sinister

It is the corporate raiders like Mitt Romney and Al Dunlap who are the problem.

[spanone]

13. true, that should have been his answer. but he would not voice that.

[bigdarryl]

12. Not only that Booker seems to be the ONLY democrat here in NJ that likes Christy

I'm not a fan of his the party is trying to get him to run against Christy but it ain't going to happen he's Christy's boy he's a CORPORATE Democrat

[bongbong]

14. Cory is just protecting his buddies

Booker gets donations to improve Newark & Newark schools from oligarchs, so he has to tread lightly.

[vanlassie]

17. Yep he's a corporate tool.

Democrat? Not my sort.

[otohara]

16. Ugh - Boo(ker)

thanks for nothing dude

[hfojvt]

18. just for fun, I check his bio

"Booker was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the predominantly white, affluent town of Harrington Park in Bergen County, New Jersey.[1] His parents, Cary Alfred and Caroly Rose (Jordan) Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM."

Ah, the son of two executives.

Whoops

"While at Stanford, Booker also became good friends with Rachel Maddow."

His record looks like a mixed bag though, living in housing projects, taking on corruption. etc. Kinda sad to see Jesse Jackson there endorsing the corrupt Sharpe James. And those people were mayors, deputy mayors AND state senators? I am surprised that would even be legal.

http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/newark-mayor.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker

But he apparently also makes over $200,000 a year as mayor. Puts him very close to the 1%.

[Pisces]

19. This bord is disgusting at times. Cory Booker is one of the best Dems out there. He fights

For his constituents everyday. He lives with the people and physically helps when necessary. Sorry for the whiners that he said one thing you don't kike. His teachers unions and pension funds are tied with Bain. Again he is protecting his people . I wish more office holders were as concerned fot the people as he is!

Knee jerkering on this board is ridiculous !!!

[Drunken Irishman]

21. Posts like this are disgusting.

Booker is sabotaging Obama's narrative and enabling Romney and his corporate overlords. Shame on Booker. Shame on anyone who would tolerate or accept such a statement.

You know what's ridiculous?!? Democrats who continue to slam the President on national TV. They do it all the fucking time and I'm tired of it. That's ridiculous. Now take your outrage to the right place - Booker, and other Democrats who feel the need to undermine Obama at every turn.

[Pisces]

26. I am one of the biggest Obama cheerleaders on this board, I support the Bain ads, I do note support

trying to make Cory Booker into Harold Ford. He has been a dedicated democrat. He is lives and breathes for his people in
New Jersey. He makes a bad comment and people on this board forget everything else Cory Booker has said and done.
That is what is disgusting.

You don't like what he said one time fine, but the comments above and beyond someone who has backed and defended our President on all but 1 occasion, and he did not trash the President.

[Drunken Irishman]

27. I never said he was Harold Ford...

But the fact is, Booker equating the Bain ads to the Rev. Wright ads is a false equivalent and he should be shamed for it. Who is Booker trying to please by doing this? He's a smart guy. I know this! Which makes his comment all the worst because it wasn't just a slip of the tongue - it's what he really believes. That's scary. Is he Harold Ford? No. But that doesn't mean he fucked up majorly here.

[brentspeak]

22. Newark teacher union's pension funds are tied to Bain?

Link, please.

[spanone]

24. if it's true, shame on them

[Whisp]

25. I've only seen/heard the guy once on TV

and I pegged him as a climber full of himself.
I don't see the attraction to him others here do. He's a phoney.

[Dawson Leery]

23. Another corporate "Democrat".