Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where everyone, from elected leaders to the wealthy and super-wealthy, pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare; its patriotism.Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker • Delivering a speech to the Democratic National Convention tonight, in an adamant and impassioned style that provoked chants of both “USA, USA!” and “CORY, CORY!” The speech drew no comparisons between the President and his GOP rival Mitt Romney, and that’s not surprising – the Cory Booker political brand, much like Obama himself while a candidate in 2008, is built on a relentless positivity. There are plenty of Democratic figures who will make pointed attacks on Romney, but that wasn’t Booker’s role. Rather, his job was to deliver an affirmative speech, and launch the convention with a little electricity. source
A news website for the new generation: “Traditional news sources aren’t in any way talking to millennials,” Newark Mayor Cory Booker said. It’s a start-up company that aims to connect on the news and issues with the younger generations by using a ton of video content; “If more people could find their voice and be part of the national dialogue,” Booker said, “we could solve these problems.” Sound cool or not? source
Video of the Day: Chris Christie and Cory Booker Team Up
Two of America’s most charismatic and easily caricatured politicians have teamed up to poke fun at themselves: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory Booker. The Seinfeld-themed video makes sport of the frequent speculation that Christie is a potential Republican vice-presidential nominee as well as Booker’s extramayoral heroics, from rushing into burning buildings to shoveling residents’ sidewalks.
We won’t ruin the surprise, but it’s worth sticking with it until the end.
In which two of Jersey’s brightest look in the mirror.
Cory Booker on his rescue efforts: ”I’m now an out-of-shape 42-year-old man. In fact I was chiseled, now I just jiggle.” He had to fight off a detective to go into the building. Note his hand is broken injured. (Live video here; edit for clarity)
ivixxciii says: that does not qualify him to be a president. only a fireman, a courage award recipient, a nice guy.
» SFB says: We weren’t saying that this incident qualified him to be president. Rather, everything else he’s done would. He’s had an air of presidential speculation about him for years. In fact, Time Magazine wrote an article with just this premise back in 2009, before he saved any women from burning buildings. But, thus far, he’s been content with being mayor of Newark. Just because he saved a woman from a burning building doesn’t mean that this speculation is null and void. Either way, Cory Booker is awesome. — Ernie @ SFB
(Source: joshsternberg)
As with any story that sounds too good to be true, Twitter is all over the Cory Booker burning building rescue with jokes about Booker’s feats of strength. A few of the better ones we’ve run into this morning:
When Chuck Norris has nightmares, Cory Booker turns on the light & sits with him until he falls back asleep. #CoryBookerStories
— Miles Grant (@MilesGrant) April 13, 2012
Cory Booker was bitten by a radioactive Cory Booker. With great power comes Cory Booker. #CoryBookerStories
— Jesse Taylor (@jesseltaylor) April 13, 2012
When the threat is too big, The Avengers call him. #CoryBookerStories
— Razor (@SugaRazor) April 13, 2012
When there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call? #CoryBookerStories
— Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) April 13, 2012
I would’ve been at your committee mark-up, but I was figuring out cold fusion. #CoryBookerStories
— Brian Young (@BrianYoung) April 13, 2012
You know the reason another Titanic never crashed? Cory Booker. #CoryBookerStories
— Jesse Taylor (@jesseltaylor) April 13, 2012
Let’s not limit the fun to Twitter! Have your own additions to the mix?
Whether it’s shoveling an elderly person’s driveway when it snows or running into a house on fire to save someone, Booker loves helping people.
Note: Future president, if he wants it.
Tweet of the night: Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s dirty joke to cheer up the folks holed up in a city shelter ahead of Hurricane Irene. Only Cory Booker could get away with a joke like this as a cheer-me-up.
Tweet of the day: Newark Mayor Cory Booker, admitting the smelliness of Newark isn’t super-high on his agenda. (h/t The Awl)
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There was a rumor earlier today that Newark Mayor Cory Booker, famous for his faux-feud with Conan O’Brien a few years back, was considering a run at the US Senate. Booker is, without question, one of the Democrats’ brightest national prospects, and one of our favorite politicians here at SFB. His candidacy would be a major coup for the party. However, Booker quickly swatted down the rumors, insisting that he’ll finish his term as mayor. While this is a disappointment for national Democrats, it says a lot about his commitment to Newark, and by extension, his integrity as a politician (Booker often turns down appealing offers in order to remain Newark mayor). Once his tenure in Newark is up, however, we can’t help but hope he’ll set his sights on higher office. Way higher, if you catch our drift. source
Fawnworthy Newark mayor Cory Booker nails exactly why Paul Ryan’s speech was better than Bachmann’s.
passiveperfect asks: If you could choose any political member, currently, to run for President of USA, who would it be and why?
» We say: While Obama’s doing alright right now, and we think he’s certainly worthy of a second term, we think it’d be interesting to see what a guy like Michael Bloomberg does in such a position (we’ve said this before). But if we had to go strictly with a pie-in-the-sky choice, we’d love to see Rachel Maddow run someday. While she’s busy playing pundit right now, she totally has the right temperament for public office. And when’s Cory Booker going to decide that he’s bigger than Newark and take his mad political skillz to a national stage?
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