Posted on 06/08/2012 4:27:38 AM PDT by RobinMasters
It’s bye-bye, Beltway for Cory Booker.
Newark’s mayor, who was gunning for a spot in President Obama’s Cabinet, lost the chance after he shot his mouth off during a blunderingly honest TV appearance last month, sources told The Post.
“He’s dead to us,” one ranking administration official said of the prevailing feelings at the White House and Obama headquarters in Chicago.
Booker had been angling for the housing secretary gig in a second Obama term, according to sources in the administration and close to the mayor.
The job was certainly a possibility, given Booker’s work in New Jersey’s biggest city, according to administration and Democratic Party sources.
Thinking highly of Booker, Obama’s campaign asked him to appear on “Meet the Press” on May 20 to act as a mouthpiece, but he proceeded to eviscerate one of the president’s key campaign themes.
Booker told a national TV audience the president’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at private-equity firm Bain Capital were “nauseating” and made him “very uncomfortable.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Cabinet hopes? I don’t think there will be too many opening in the next Administration for Booker.
Let's hope Obama doesn't say that to another group of homosexuals...
“...second Obama term” ?
Don’t count on it.
housing secretary? try acorn housing secretary.
I’d answer:
“Nothing could make me celebrate more than to have those generals of the Legion consider me dead to them.”
OBEY!
FMCDH(BITS)
Actually, Booker may have improved his chances of becoming Secretary of HUD next year...under a Republican President.
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