Even 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?
***
Booker also spoke today at a Planned Parenthood rally:
RT @faunashaw: Awesome @PPact rally with @CoryBooker, Cecile, amazing men & women!! #dnc2012 pic.twitter.com/K4QBTUfB
— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) September 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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."
— KBH (@KateBHicks) September 4, 2012
https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/243040060843360256
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:
https://twitter.com/ianessling/status/243038844390359041
I'm pretty disappointed that Corey Booker is going in for the Republicans-are-bigots nonsense.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 4, 2012
https://twitter.com/scotters/status/243039460097409025
https://twitter.com/JasonBWhitman/status/243040055583719424
I honestly thought @CoryBooker was different. But just another Dem who says Repubs dislike blacks, women and Latinos. #ScareTactics
— Nick Jacob (@nicktjacob) September 4, 2012
If @CoryBooker believes the #waronwomen nonsense his party is putting out, he isn't half the man I thought he was. #DNC
— Area Man (@lheal) September 4, 2012
https://twitter.com/jeffemanuel/status/243038526692810752
https://twitter.com/Jon_Rollings/status/243040557709017088
@mkhammer really? Did he say this at Margaret Sanger's PP speech? @CoryBooker makes me sadder by the hour. Thought he was diff dem.
— Good Dog, Blue. ? (@sasimmons) September 4, 2012
https://twitter.com/DywanWII/status/243041165912440832
If @CoryBooker is confused about where the shark is, he can look down, he's currently jumping over it at the #DNC2012.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) September 4, 2012
https://twitter.com/szysgt/status/243042222679937024
Is getting Obama re-elected worth throwing away your self-respect and integrity? Cory Booker says yes.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) September 4, 2012
What a shame.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member