Posted on 06/08/2012 3:15:07 PM PDT by chessplayer
When the Obama campaign sent popular, telegenic, man-of-action Newark Mayor Cory Booker out to do a little surrogate-advocacy on their behalf last month, something happened that the Democrats certainly did not intend: Cory Booker made a very public display of intellectual integrity (I know, I know — a rare beast in politics, but it can happen). On “Meet the Press,” Booker said that Team Obama’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at private-equity firm Bain Capital and other such petty campaign tactics were “nauseating” and made him “very uncomfortable.” And it felt so good.
But the Democrats didn’t take kindly to Booker making such a distasteful spectacle of himself and shooting one of their most prominent attack memes straight through the heart, and before the day was out, Booker had released a four-minute explanation that even the MSNBC anchors called a “hostage video." Then, Booker went on Maddow’s MSNBC show and made it look like he had been commanded to walk back his comments from on high — and the hits just kept on coming.
Booker is a relatively young and clearly pretty ambitious politician — but he’s going to paying for this one for a long time yet.
"Newark’s mayor, who was gunning for a spot in President Obama’s Cabinet, lost the chance after he shot his mouth off during a blunderingly honest TV appearance last month, sources told The Post."
“He’s dead to us,” one ranking administration official said of the prevailing feelings at the White House and Obama headquarters in Chicago.
Time for a little snook fishing on Lake Tahoe?
I bet he eventually will.
Wouldn’t that be a kick in someone’s azz. lol
You mean all the other RINOs and GOP-elite, like: Susan Collins, Arlen Spector, George Voinovich, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, etc etc etc.
“I really wonder if the dopey Obama has much control at all in his admin.”
I’ve always read him as a sock puppet. He goes where he is sent and says what he is told to say.
The only reason Obama is not the ass of the Nation is because he has maintained total loyalty in the media and Dem Party. He will sink fast if he starts springing leaks with people pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.
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