Call her out!

Who is Corey Booker?

He's like Gayle. He just works so much he can't find the right girl. He and Gayle her very close. They often get together to binge watch RuPaul's Drag Race.

Good for him. A Democrat with a backbone.

Blocked and blocked r1&2. These are not times to disparage people who speak truth to power.

I will stand for NO humor on my Datalounge!

Thank goodness for Booker. He and Harris are the future for the party.

This Corey person is a cry-baby, drama-queen guilt-tripper of the first degree.

Where are the tears?

Kamal Harris and Booker should run 2020.

It is obvious that both are them are going to run r8.

Is it obvious? How so R9?

[quote]Is it obvious? How so [R9]?

Their grandstanding makes it obvious. I like them both but they could dial back a bit on the theatrics -- especially Corey, who is going to get the Howard Dean treatment from Repugs if he doesn't watch it.

Yeah, I get what you mean. I think though that his passion is real. He does need to dial it back a few notches.

But, will he run? Probably. I hope so.

Yeah the grandstanding is a big sign. But there is also just look at what they are doing. Kamala for instance has been meeting with bigwig democratic donors, going to all right events. Things that make it obvious you are trying to prepare a presidential run.

Kirsten Gillibrand is another one who CLEARLY has been preparing for a presidential run.

That's our guy.

WaPo pointing out Corey Booker's grandstanding.

Kamal, Cory..............who else......?

Biden? Meh.

[quote] Yeah, I get what you mean. I think though that his passion is real. He does need to dial it back a few notches.

White nationalists marched through the streets this summer wearing khaki pants and polo shirts because their cult leader is in the White House. Cory is on exactly the right spot on the dial.

That is really going to work against him r14. Booker is seen as far too cozy with corporate America. Big connections to wall street and pharma.

The progressive wing of the party hates him for it.

Big Pharma Booker....we have no one....

Miss Corey should do Swan Lake with Miss Anderson, Miss Andy Cohen & Miss Donna LeMon.

Slap her, Wilona!!!!

R17 huh?

Booker & Harris are my choice.

I went to law school with Corey. He seemed asexual back then. Nice guy tho

What's with the shaved head?

Is he semi-bald?

Americans demand that most of their presidential-wannabes look good.

Bald and wild facial movements look weird. The OPs picture looks really unappetising.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

Gorgeous!

Yeah, it was grandstanding and he's more than a bit of a drama queen, but that woman was such a nasty cunt, the whole thing was quite entertaining and brought a smile to my face. I get tired of the nasty racists repug who lie when they get called out, so it's kind of fun to watch one of them be dressed down in public.

Did I mention that woman was a Gold Star Cunt?

You say the whole thing was quite entertaining and it makes good TV.

But we have PAY for these rich people in expensive clothes play like children in Washington.

[quote]I went to law school with Corey. He seemed asexual back then.

Thanks for confirming he is gay!

Does that mean she’s never been fucked r27?

^

Yes. Asexual=gay

R29 I don’t know if he’s gay or not but am and was a good looking sexually-active dude with keen gaydar.

I suspect he’s gay with a low sexual drive

Doubt he has a low sex drive, lol.

I hope he runs (and wins, of course).

Perhaps if he had sex he could sublimate his anger and reduce his anger on broadcast TV. We don't want a hot-head cry-baby as president.

hmmm....2013:

This week, in an interview with The Washington Post, Booker, 44, talked about his "great dismay" that he has not "settled down with a life partner." He said he has been dating more at the encouragement of a pastor friend but tries to keep that part of his life private.

"Because how unfair is it to a young lady to put them in the spotlight if they haven't signed up for that yet?" Booker said. "And people who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.' "

That's not how Booker responded Wednesday on Twitter.

He told one person who had asked him about the rumor he's gay, using derogatory language, that, "Your bigotry is no less heinous than race bigotry." When another person encouraged Booker not to lower himself by responding to such comments, Booker wrote back, "Hate filled Trolls need to be called out."

Gurl, they needed Mother Maxine "RECLAIMING MY TIME" Waters up there to really thoroughly read this bitch!

R36 "hate-filled Trolls" so he cruises DATALOUNGE?

^^^

LOL!

This angry man (and lunatic transvestites) aren't suited to be in Washington.

Hot-heads who rant about 'heinous bigotry' and 'Hate filled Trolls needing to be called out." aren't stable enough to exist in Washington.

He is a 'Loose cannon' and will explode before actually achieving anything.

Gayling

Do you want to win back the White House, or not? Run a woman or a person of color and we lose. That's just the way it is.

Booker was a shade on the screamy side today, but that bitch deserved it. He tore her a new one so hard she was almost in tears. He ripped into her beautifully. Her collapse is complete.

Dee Plorable's all over this thread.

Yes, history shows that running a person of color works out terribly for the Dems r42!

A larger black turn out and Clinton would be in the White House right now.

R43 I agree I thought she was going to break down crying. Corey should’ve dialed it down about 30% and it would’ve been perfect

R43 What do you mean bysaying "He tore her a new one so hard".

What does that mean? Are you using the English language?

He tore a new WHAT for her?

That was then, R45. We live in Crazy Land now. We need a sure winner next time. A woman or a person of color won't get us there. It would be great if ANYONE could run and win, but we don't live in that kind of country, sadly.

R6 writes,

[Quote]Thank goodness for [Cory] Booker. He and [Kamala] Harris are the future for the party.

😆

[quote]What's with the shaved head? Is he semi-bald?

Uh, are you blind? Do you also wonder why George Costanza shaves his head?

[quote]That was then, We live in Crazy Land now.

Before Obama got elected the talk was always that a person of color could never win. Even when the polls showed he was up, people were convinced it was the Bradley effect and they would never vote for him when it counted.

He wins two elections (by large margins I might add), and we still go right back to thinking a person of color can't win. The sad height of absurdity.

R50 So this Presidential-wannabe is bald at just 44.

Lousy genes. What else do voters need to know about this candidate —apart from the fact he's an immature screamer!!!

R26, why would someone with such pretty blonde hair want to dye her roots dark?

R4 You say 'these are not times to disparage people who speak truth to power.'

Corey Booker has the power. He has the chauffeured car. He is part of the Washington machine that the las election tried to depose.

He seems like an angry black man. He needs to chill.

I can't imagine Cory having a boyfriend.

Have the trolls arrived?

R45, a larger black MALE turnout is what is needed. And due to the extensive sexism endemic to black males, a black woman candidate won't cut it. Sorry Kamala & Oprah.

[quote]Dee Plorable's all over this thread.

This.

[quote]Their grandstanding makes it obvious. I like them both but they could dial back a bit on the theatrics

So much has been written and said about Dems not standing up to Repugs who constantly spew bile, and when politicians of color (Waters, Harris, Booker) actually do (and they seem to be the only Dems who will), they are “grandstanding” and “angry”. Typical. Fuck off.

R41, he looks unsettlingly like Matt Sanchez there.

R42, unfortunately, you're right.

R11 Yes, he needs to dial back a bit on the theatrics.

Here he's singing "Mammy" as interpreted by Al Jolson.

'Madam Secretary, I hope you remember me. We were together in two meetings last week.'

Yes, Mr. Durbin! Show the children how to throw some classy, concerned-team-dad shade...

R62 Why are you talking about children?

She's saying we need MERIT-BASED migration and not Open Doors.

LOL yes, R62.

Can anyone else in class give another example of deflection?

Booker treads the line between Politics and Religion.

He may play the Messiah in his Unitarian Church but he should keep his emotionalism and theatrics contained there.

Bestowing the adjective "Dreamers" on unknown strangers who want to get US Welfare is just too hokey and mawkish.

Sorry, R63. I Called You By My Name. I promise that by the end of the semester, I'll have memorized everyone's name.

R65, where should Pres. Trump store his puerile emotionalism and regional-production theatrics? Come on class, chime in!

First he saved that dog from the burning building, and now he'll save Democracy.

[quote]He is a 'Loose cannon' and will explode before actually achieving anything.

Oh, yeah. Because we all know that loose cannons NEVER get anywhere politically.

GTFOH

Saw the clips.w Bookers speech.. but was the DHS sec almost in tears? If so, good. We need more Demos w a spine.

We need Al Franken back.

No we don't, R70.

Well, you're right there. We need someone with that kind of demeanor.

Yes we do R70

Do any of you cynics believe that maybe his rage was sincere?

I do.

Hey, bigot at R65, the Dreamers aren't unknown strangers (for instance, I count some among my friends and professional acquaintances), they're not here to get welfare (those I know—like the majority above school age—are gainfully employed), and "Dreamers" isn't an adjective (it's a noun). So you're not just a bigot, you're fucking stupid.

R76 You need to tell us about your dreamers.

Have you slept with them? Are you in love? Do you know them by their real name?

Slap her, Willona!

R78, see R21

Willona needs to look at a dictionary and it'll tell her that a dreamers are humans whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world.

Fantasy people and religious nutcases (who worship perfect Gods) aren't useful for our economy

I’m so grateful for Booker and Harris, finally people with guts to speak up!

I’m so grateful for Booker.

He's just like Vin Diesel.

I'm really looking forward to Cory doing something greater.

I like what Booker stands for... I just... I can't help but get the impression that everything he says is a publicity stunt, and comes off fake.

I don't know what it is about him though.

The OP's picture looks like this.

O.T.T.

too dam bad there aint more demmy crats like him !!!

give em hell man!

The lady doth protest too much.