#istandwithobama even with this bum ankle http://t.co/NWCjdZRQ
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Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) September 04, 2012Even a ridiculously swollen ankle won’t keep the Newark mayor from his Obama surrogate duties.
According to Politico, Booker twisted his ankle getting out of a car this morning. He went on to speak at a Florida delegation breakfast, where he told the audience, ““You can take out my ankle, you can take out my knee, I’m still going to stand up for Barack Obama.”
Booker has built up a reputation as quite possibly the country’s most heroic mayor, a reputation that, by all accounts, he deserves. So it should come as no surprise that he was able to power through the pain this morning and will do so again tonight when he addresses the Democratic National Convention.
The pressure is on more than Booker’s ankle, though. There’s little doubt that he feels he needs to go out of his way to “stand with Obama” given his negative remarks about the president this year. In May, he dared to call Team Obama’s attacks on Mitt Romney and Bain “crap,” and he paid dearly. After that kind of treatment, is it any wonder that Booker is now, literally and figuratively, treading carefully?
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Booker also spoke today at a Planned Parenthood rally:
RT @faunashaw: Awesome @PPact rally with @CoryBooker, Cecile, amazing men & women!! #dnc2012 http://t.co/K4QBTUfB—
Planned Parenthood (@PPact) September 04, 2012
During his speech, he revealed that he has fallen back into lockstep with Team Obama and promises to be a good little soldier from now on:
Cory Booker: Rs saying they love women ="I'm not a bigot bc I have a black friend…I love Latinos bc I go to Taco Bell every wk."—
Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 04, 2012
"that's like you're not a bigot because you have a black friend" Cory booker on republicans who say they love women—
Katrina Trinko (@KatrinaTrinko) September 04, 2012
To everyone who thinks he's moderate MT @mkhammer Cory Booker: Rs saying they love women ="…I love Latinos bc I go to Taco Bell every wk."—
Kate Hicks (@KateBHicks) September 04, 2012
Cory Booker says you don't love women if you oppose Planned Parenthood subsidies and abortion on demand.—
Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) September 04, 2012
We thought Booker was above race- and gender-baiting, but it looks like we were wrong. We’re disappointed in the mayor, and we’re not alone:
@mkhammer I actually kind of respected @CoryBooker, but he's let the Democrats bully him into being lockstep with radical left. Sad.—
Ian Essling (@ianessling) September 04, 2012
I'm pretty disappointed that Corey Booker is going in for the Republicans-are-bigots nonsense.—
Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 04, 2012
Much sadness for his caving. RT @melissatweets: Uh oh @CoryBooker is going all in to save his relationship with Obama. This won't end well.—
Scott Kuhn (@scotters) September 04, 2012
@CoryBooker I like you, Cory, but this is terribly disappointing: twitter.com/mkhammer/statu…—
Jason B. Whitman (@JasonBWhitman) September 04, 2012
I honestly thought @CoryBooker was different. But just another Dem who says Repubs dislike blacks, women and Latinos. #ScareTactics—
Nick Jacob (@nicktjacob) September 04, 2012
If @CoryBooker believes the #waronwomen nonsense his party is putting out, he isn't half the man I thought he was. #DNC—
Loren Heal (@lheal) September 04, 2012
This is just sad, @CoryBooker bit.ly/O90rFp You're so much better than that.—
Jeff Emanuel (@jeffemanuel) September 04, 2012
It is funny how quickly he tucked back into his hole after speaking his mind for a day or two. @nicktjacob @charlescwcooke @CoryBooker—
Johnny Gulag (@Jon_Rollings) September 04, 2012
@mkhammer really? Did he say this at Margaret Sanger's PP speech? @CoryBooker makes me sadder by the hour. Thought he was diff dem.—
(@sasimmons) September 04, 2012
I shake my head at @corybooker. His own party said he was dead to them and he got on his knees and kissed their asses & for what?—
Dywan Washington II (@DywanWII) September 04, 2012
If @CoryBooker is confused about where the shark is, he can look down, he's currently jumping over it at the #DNC2012.—
Bethany Mandel (@bethanyshondark) September 04, 2012
@bethanyshondark I see @corybooker is firmly back on the Democrat Plantation, after that terrible indiscretion of a few months ago.—
(@szysgt) September 04, 2012
Is getting Obama re-elected worth throwing away your self-respect and integrity? Cory Booker says yes.—
John Hayward (@Doc_0) September 04, 2012
What a shame.