cory booker is actually A TOTAL SELL OUT

[trueblue2007]

talking with david gregory... AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA, he was fully focused, totally in control. He was saying what he meant to say and what he truly believes.


"Booker has come to the defense of Mitt Romney and specifically, Romney's time at Bain Capital, strongly defending what he did at the job-destroying company. It's truly vile. But it reveals something about Cory Booker. As Josh Marshall from TPM points out regarding Booker's pro-Romney, pro-Bain comments, “This was not a mistake. This was not a gaffe. This was not something that Cory Booker got backed into by David Gregory on ‘Meet The Press’. Throughout his career, Booker has relied heavily on the financial sector and Wall Street in particular." http://video.msnbc.msn.com/...

Cory Booker was protecting his friends, the guys he went to Stanford and Yale with, who now work as Hedge Fund Operators, making billions annually. Booker wants to keep in good with them. They are much more important than the other 99% of us. It's really not that tough to understand. http://www.youtube.com/...

Now, with his latest comments, where his "progressive" mask obviously slipped off, Booker's entire career has been exposed.

Will we sit back and allow Cory Booker to get his career back on track, worm his way into higher offices, and then "pay back" his billionaire backers with policies that concentrate even MORE wealth into his hands? Or will we know see who Booker is and make sure he NEVER gets elected to anything again?"


VOTE IN THIS POLL FOR TELLING IT LIKE HE IS, BOOKER'S A SELL OUT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/22/1093875/-Cory-Booker-Sellout-or-Dumbbell-

[patrice]

1. I knew the 2nd time I saw him. What looks too good to be true, usually is. nt

[trueblue2007]

3. NOW HE IS ALL OVER THE PLACE... TRYING TO COVER HIS LIES

the DAILY KOS article really tells it like it is. Booker is a GOP

[KamaAina]

4. Sadly, he is not GOP

This is not your father's Democratic Party.

[piratefish08]

18. +1

[Lionessa]

2. So are you equally angry about Obama's ties to banksters and WallStreeters?

[trueblue2007]

5. Stay on point. my thread is about BOOKER.

you want to talk president obama ties etc... do it in your own thread please

[rhett o rick]

10. Her thread says we should forgive Booker because he only said he sold out once. It was an obvious

slip. We should look the other way. Sadly, good Democrats are very hard to find today.

[rhett o rick]

9. Hell yeah!! Arent you? nm

[Lionessa]

12. Yes, but I'm not going to throw Obama as a whole under the bus. Will I keep heckling about

where I disagree, as I do disagree with Booker here on this issue and some mentioned here at DU that I didn't know about, but I'll still vote him.

[rhett o rick]

19. I still believe we must change the system from within the system even tho

a number of my friends say I am foolish. But our biggest threat is not the Republicans that clearly support the corporate-overlords, but those that claim to be our friends, yet take their bribes from the same corporate-overlords.

Venture/vulture capitalists are the epitome of the corporate pirates that are destroying our country very quickly.

Some are saying that the system is so flawed that it is impossible to achieve change within the system. It's hard for me to argue.

[TBF]

22. I guess it depends upon whether you agree with the systems.

Do you agree with democracy (political) and capitalism (economic)? If not, which would you change? Personally I'd like to see a socialist economic system (economic), ok with democracy (political system). So, how do we change that. We may be able to do it from within, but I highly doubt we'll do it just by trying to find more progressive people to vote for. I think it will also involve serious resisting/protesting of the current status quo.

Cory Booker is just another stooge for the status quo.

[rhett o rick]

27. Before one decides on a "system" one must decide on principles.

That may sound obvious but when you speak to others you find that they might see things differently.

I believe in freedom to a specific level. Certainly not the level of natural law. Not even to the level of Libertarianism which I see as economic/social Darwinism.

I believe that a constitutionally controlled, democratic republic can provide the best balance between individual freedoms and the necessary control for a functioning society.

Choosing an economic system is tough. My basic principles would include the freedom for all humans to survive with a certain level of comfort. Of course this is extremely subjective and difficult if you think that society has an obligation for its own survival, even at the cost of the individual. This is a very tricky area. Basically, from my limited knowledge I would say a carefully regulated marriage between capitalism and socialism is about the best we can hope for recognizing that the basic instinct of greed (IMO) will tend to control all systems.

That is a bunch of rambling and I hope it makes sense.

And Cory Booker walks like a duck. Just sayin.

[TBF]

28. Can't disagree with any of that -

at this point I would even go for the mixed economy as a stepping stone, sure beats the road we've been headed down the past 30 years.

[rhett o rick]

29. I see a hard road ahead. We are fighting complaceny. I am currently reading

"They Thought They were Free", and I especially recommend the section "But Then It Was Too Late":

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

I dont think we are as bad off as the Germans because we have a history of freedom unlike them at the time. OWS gives me hope that we wont go quietly.

[SoCalDem]

6. He and Harold Ford are opportunists

and it would not surprise me a bit, if down the road they switch parties.

They are EXACTLY the "types" of guys who are actively courted by what's left of the GOP leadership.

GOP leadership has to be embarrassed by Herman Cain & that goofball in Florida (name escapes me now), but they love guys like Ford & Booker. They used to like Michael Steele until he ended up chairman, and then they could not get rid of him fast enough.. They prefer perception to reality

[trueblue2007]

7. Exactly what ED Schultz said....

video here

&feature=endscreen


Cory Booker is not to be trusted.

[sandyshoes17]

8. Unfortunately

Booker, Ford, and Ratner will be ok if Romney becomes president, we won't. They don't care, they would actually do better under a repub.

[flamingdem]

11. Dumb dude

He didn't have to screw up like that, he's lacking analytical ability, not so talented and his undies/bain capital connection are showing..

[supraTruth]

13. Your PASSION is MISdirected. He already went on Rachel Madow's show to say that the CONS JUMPED on

his statement OUT of context.

GO AFTER FIXEDnewsCORP that has SPREAD THE LYING SMEAR!

PLEASE!

[AtomicKitten]

17. His statements were NOT taken out of context.

He said the president's "attacks on the free market" were the same as the GOP's attacks using Jeremiah Wright. There is so much wrong with that sentence. First of all it is a lame ass false equivalency and secondly Pres O is attacking RMoney specifically and exclusively on Bain. The wingnuts have been in synch today bellyaching about the president's "attacks on the free market."
Golly I forget ... where'd they get that idea again? Aaaarrrggghhh.

[battchief]

25. No One Used Booker

He went on Maddow because she's a classmate from Stanford and fellow Rhodes Scholar, who could be relied upon not to put him on the spot he clearly deserves.

He said what he said. He knew what he was saying, though, on Maddow, he tried to say he didn't. All of a sudden all that vaunted intellect wasn't working when he was on Meet The Press. What a weasel.

[vaberella]

26. You obviously did not watch him on Meet The Press.

If he was so used Obama would never have responded to his statements directly at an event. The man said his shite and defended a corporation and now he's running around doing damage control. He was not thrown out of context, he turned and bowed down to his elitist leaders when Obama turned on them.

[ErikJ]

15. I wonder if they set up the fire rescue.

[freshwest]

16. The whole story was a bit odd. IDK, but the timing of this makes me think it.

Because I've been in politics long enough to see stories that were held back for months or years, or blown up to be more than they were, to influence public opinion.

HIs reaction on television was strange to me. I've just seen these games played too many times so I don't trust them. People get hurt behind a lot of the manufacturing of consent the media does, making a story to get something else done.

Could have been as reported, but look at the condition the media is in. They don't tell the truth about Obama, Occupy or half of what is going on in the country. But they always have time for their right wing mouthpieces. Just my jaded opinion having seen too much chicanery.

N/T

[battchief]

21. Nothing Odd At ALL

His reaction was strange because it was "strange" for a "surrogate" of a political campaign to completely ignore the talking points of the candidate, who happens to be the President of the United States. He was on air, in front of cameras and said what he said because he wanted to assure Caucasian America that he's a good "one", unlike Obama. That's the only explanation. Booker's own, I didn't know what I was saying defense, the next day, on Maddow, his classmate's show, notwithstanding.

It's like Romney refusing to be held accountable for his record at Bain. Booker now wants to deny his stock in trade, intellect, and say, on that Sun. afternoon, he didn't know what he was saying or understand its impact. Bullshit.

[Mr.Turnip]

33. O god.

You can have Issues with Booker, you can criticize Booker but please don't bring this kind of paranoid nonsense here.

you are sounding JUST LIKE people on Fox Nation and Free Republic after the fire thing happened.

Just because you dislike someone what they said or what they stand for doesn't mean that they are evil.

[battchief]

24. Pay Attention

Booker has been on the national stage since he moved to Newark in 1998, fresh out of Yale Law. Oprah has been a supporter ever since. Remember the $100 million dollar Zuckerberg gift on her show a few months ago? Booker was not catapulted, he was escorted on to the main stage, as if he were a prince. Deemed Newark's savior in 2000 ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996967,00.html). He has kept his names in the news ever since, this is his 1st screw up on the national stage, though, those of us in NJ have been watching his hubris get the best of him for a while.

At one point it was anticipated he would be the 1st African-American in the White House. Gwen Ifill wrote a book about new African-American politics a few years ago. She chose 4 African-American pols to focus on, Booker was one of them. You don't get to be on Meet The Press out of the blue.

[battchief]

20. Cory Booker's Been A Fraud All The While

Booker is a fraud. Google David Giordano, the high school educated, former fire director, who listed "little league MVP" on his official biography, and little else.

Giordano got caught retiring one day and being hired as a "consultant" to the Booker administration the next, becoming Booker's "$206,000 man". Booker couldn't take the heat and decided to let him go. Giordano went to they mayor's office and, by all accounts, threatened him, in an obscenity laden tirade, that he would tell where the bodies were buried. Booker relented and kept him in his $83,000 a yr. job, with official car and free gas. He's also the guy who spent 18 yrs. on paid leave as a union official.

He also created an entire bureaucracy; multiple layers of staff, cars and expense, for another "ally", Anthony Campos, who had to have a job with prestige, even though all Booker had to do was give him his old job, for less money (savings). He had to reconfigure the entire city organization to create this bureaucracy, because state law didn't allow for it. Today, this "essential" department no longer exist, because Campos went back to his old job anyway. For two years, though, the city had to support a "Department of Public Safety" so that Campos' political allies would be assuaged that he had an important enough position. Booker has raised taxes something like 30+% in a little over 4 yrs. Fiscal management was a joke with overtime, for those politically favored, sky rocketing to over 30% of salary.

So for Booker to loudly declare "I'm a job cutter, too", which he also said, bragging about the "25%: (1000jobs) he cut, is extremely offensive to all the $20-30,000 a year employees he let go to keep his political ambitions afloat. It's "crap" and "nauseating". He could have kept 20-30 secretaries and clerks, with children and families, working for the $3-400,000+ that went to Giordano and Campos for busy work.

Booker is hedging his bets in case Obama loses. Why else do you attack the multi-million dollar strategy of the sitting head of your party, especially given that Romney's Bain record IS at issue? No one said he shouldn't make money. We question his record of being a "job creator" only because he brought it up; because Romney believes "corporations ARE people".

Booker is a self-appointed arbiter of political currency, just as he's a self-anointed "hero".

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/former_newark_fire_director_is.html
http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2010/12/where_theres_smoke_theres_fire.html
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/newark_mayor_cory_booker_confi.html
http://www.nj.com/newark/index.ssf/2008/10/new_plans_for_police_chief_in.html

[Scurrilous]

31. Thanks for the info.

[ananda]

23. Post MTP, Booker comes across as a real asshole.

nt

[girl gone mad]

32. Yes, but people are angry at him for saying..

what they all say behind closed doors.

His mistake was saying it on camera.