So-called "Democrat" Cory Booker nauseates the hell out of me....

[matmar]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/20/cory-booker-bain-attacks-obama-campaign-mitt-romney_n_1531036.html

Go away, freak. Last time I checked, Newark, NJ is still a sh*thole and jobless smelly armpit of NYC.

[ecstatic]

1. That's disappointing

I hate when dems conflate the issues like that. It's just sloppy!

[n2doc]

2. Following the Harold Ford pathway

Get elected as a Democrat, then spend all your time talking about how bad, left wing and out of touch democratic party people are. Then when you get your butt tossed out of office, hit the talk show circuit. He's prepping for his next job!

[butterfly77]

13. Also,another Scarbor fave

Mayor Adrian Fenty.

[Chan790]

19. One of the proudest days of my life...

was the day that all my hard work to defeat Fenty in the DC primary and get Michelle Rhee fired came to fruition.

Make no mistake, new mayor Vince Gray is no prize either but he's not Adrian Fenty. Henderson is a vastly better school chancellor than Rhee was.

[KamaAina]

29. Just for you...

http://rheefirst.com

[butterfly77]

35. They seem to think..

they are invisible and we haven't been watching them.

I have been watching taking names and spreading the news about them all to family and friends,fake.lying bastards claim to be speaking for us.

Harold Ford double up on his attacks on the President on Scar today.

I knew Scar would bring him on to dig in even more

[rsmith6621]

3. Booker Is The...

Keynote Speaker at the Washington State Democratic Convention in two weeks. I am glad now I did not spend the $$$$ to have dinner and hear him speak. His Sunday talk show tour was just ICKY to hear.

I hate half baked cake.

[marlakay]

9. I live near where the dinner will be

at first i was sad i was going to be out of town and couldn't go, now I am not...

[butterfly77]

14. The media has hyped him up..

and think we will just follow along.

I know about his saving the woman in the fire and other things in the community but,I have been watching him for a while and he quotes more republicon bullshit than I can stand.

[HiPointDem]

30. why? what is the relevance of booker to washington state?

jesus christ, everything is infiltrated by these sorry pod-dems.

[Skinner]

4. I suspect he wants to run for governor someday.

Lots of New York finance people live in New Jersey. Might be a rich source of campaign cash.

[CTyankee]

6. makes sense. He's now a semi regular on Morning Joe, one of the ones talking about

false equivalencies...the usual...

[jenmito]

5. And of course CNN played video of him speaking out against the Bain attacks. He also got attention

for his "playful" video he made with Chris Christie.

All the comparing the Bain criticism with the Rev. Wright planned attack on Obama make me sick.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. GOP has already got the video running as an online ad

thanks Cory.

[Fumesucker]

8. I wonder if he will be described as "fucking retarded" by someone within the White House?

[matmar]

10. No. That's reserved for people who think Social Security and Medicare should be defended.

[AtomicKitten]

11. Are you going to defend Booker for doing this on national TV?

... cuz that might be accurately construed as 'fucking retarded.' Just sayin'.

Cory Booker: Surrogate from hell.
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/20/cory_booker_surrogate_from_hell/

If Cory Booker went on “Meet the Press” on Sunday with the intent of helping President Obama, then his appearance was an utter failure. But anyone who’s followed the enormously ambitious Newark mayor’s career closely knows he’s not one to pull a Joe Biden. He’s just too smart and too smooth to screw up so epically.

- snip

Playing up Romney’s Bain record is, of course, central to Obama’s general election plan. Romney is running as a business-savvy “job creator” and relying on the public’s tendency to associate private sector success with economic competence. There is no overstating how vital it is for Obama and his campaign to break that link, and to establish that Romney’s real expertise is in making investors rich – not adding jobs and improving the quality of life for middle class workers.

In belittling this strategy, Booker isn’t just breaking with Obama, he’s breaking with just about everyone who’s ever run against Romney – including Ted Kennedy, who used criticisms of Bain’s treatment of workers to pull away from Romney in their 1994 Senate race. Essentially, Kennedy created the blueprint that Obama is now using. Booker is also providing Republicans with a dream talking point: A top Obama surrogate not only disapproves of Obama’s use of Bain, he finds it nauseating!

- snip

This is why it’s not at all surprising to see Booker going to bat for private equity. The allies he’s cultivated on Wall Street and in the financial industry (think, for instance, of his chummy relationship with Michael Bloomberg) have made Booker a prolific fundraiser, and when he ventured into the ultra-expensive statewide game, he’ll need them more than ever. Many of them have turned fiercely against Obama over the past few years, convinced that he’s unfairly targeted them. Booker’s words on “Meet the Press” may have enraged the average Obama supporter, but to the Wall Street class they were probably close to heroic – finally, a big-name Democrat with the cojones to call out Obama on his class warfare!

[Fumesucker]

12. matmar in post #10 caught my drift..

My point was less about Booker and more about who gets what rhetoric aimed at them..

Rhetoric like "fucking retarded"..

[JNelson6563]

26. Yes, about quote from staffer no longer there...

Honey, we all got it. We're all pretty much in on the inside "joke" regarding how you feel about...well...stuff.

Julie

[HiPointDem]

31. that rahm isn't on the WH staff anymore doesn't seem of great significance. He was, and now

he's the mayor of a key US city, one which is also Obama's base of financial and political support.

[Fumesucker]

33. Bless your heart..

[Arkana]

16. No, but then again--I'm confident that liberals are capable of reading comprehension.

[scheming daemons]

17. If you don't want to be called "fucking retarded"...

...then don't do something that is fucking retarded.


Cory Booker is fucking retarded.


And if you defend Booker, then you are too.

[Fumesucker]

18. Oh, I'm quite sure he won't be called fucking retarded by the White House..

And my point didn't have that much to do with Booker, a lot more to do with loaded rhetoric and the manner and target of its use.

[CakeGrrl]

21. Still on with this thing?

And still incorrect. NO ONE was called "fucking retarded". But never mind the details.

[Fumesucker]

23. I'm just interested in the use of rhetoric and language..

It's often very revealing of attitudes..

Criticism from the left is fucking retarded, criticism from the right like Booker's however is never condemned in such a harsh manner.

ETA: If you visit Help & Meta a bit you'll find a lot of arguments about the use of language on DU, it's really quite fascinating seeing the different perspectives.

[scheming daemons]

25. I guarantee you that those within the campaign

Are calling Booker retarded today

[JNelson6563]

27. Interested and practicing.

Fun with hyperbole! Especially in the name of agenda.

Rock on. We have no idea what you're up to, you're much too clever for us!1!

Julie

[Fumesucker]

28. Eh, I wasn't the one who coined the term in the first place..

Perhaps you should take up agendas and the application thereof with the person who first made that term so potent.

Moving on:

My agenda is easy enough to figure out..

See for yourself, here are a few of my more political OPs:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002691753

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002668905

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002567962

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002557185

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002531711

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002374653

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. Isn't he good pals with Christie?

I thought that Good Morning America had described Booker as a Democrat that Christie could "reach across the aisle with". Guess that makes pretty good sense now. *ugh* I guess he's decided to play this year's "Democratic turncoat" role just like Zell Miller (2004) and Joe Liberman (2008) have done during the past two elections. Wonder if he will be a guest speaker at the RNC. I can bet the Obama campaign is going nuts over this right now!


Hopefully, Booker's denunciation can and will be dismissed as an aberration. I'm sure that- at the very least- he won't have an ongoing role as a "surrogate" for the campaign. *smh*

[Blue_In_AK]

22. I'm not a fan.

I wondered why he was doing those veep promos with Christie. What's up with that?

[Shankapotomus]

24. Could Booker not be as smart

as we are being led to beleive? I think that's a distinct possibility.

[KamaAina]

32. Careful! There are a lot of Booker worshippers here.

A "nauseating" example here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002667532

[spanone]

34. i'll bet he's lost quite a few since yesterday.