Even Van Jones is defending Cory Booker from left-wing attacks

The Daily Caller ^ | 5/22/12 | Will Rahn

[Nachum]

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat who landed in hot water with his party on Sunday after criticizing President Obama’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital, may have found an unexpected ally in left-wing activist Van Jones.

“An urban mayor who nearly DIED saving neighbor from a fire, has earned right 2 demand integrity & courage from other leaders,” Jones tweeted on Tuesday in a message addressed to Booker’s Twitter handle.

Booker, who indeed did save a neighbor from a burning building earlier this year, has been on the receiving end of much criticism from Democrats and liberal pundits for calling the Obama campaign’s attacks on private equity “nauseating.”

“As far as that stuff, I have to say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” Booker said on “Meet the Press” Sunday. “It’s just, to me, we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America.”

MSNBC host and former Democratic political operative Chris Matthews blasted Booker’s comments as an “act of sabotage,” while the left-wing ThinkProgress website highlighted the donations he received from private equity executives during in his first run for mayor in 2002.

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“An urban mayor who nearly DIED saving neighbor from a fire, has earned right 2 demand integrity & courage from other leaders,” Jones tweeted on Tuesday in a message addressed to Booker’s Twitter handle.

Translation:

1) I will need a cushy job when Obama loses the election, can you get me one, Cory, pretty please?

2) Everyone else, shut up.

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[Jeff Head]

Booker is on the Board of Directors of a pruivate capital firm very similar to Bain Capitol.

Booker probably hopes that his company cn do as good as Bain.

If Bain was raping companies, nobody would hire them...but that's not the case. They have over a 70% success rate and for a company that is otherwise looking at going under, those are pretty good odds.

Booker knows this and spoke to it on Sunday before Bent-Axle-and-a-thrown-Rod, got to him and he pressured him to walk back his comments. What Booker said on Sunday was what he really feels...and everyone knows it. Obama is just making it worse by bringing the pressure in front of the whole world and showing what he really is.

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