Posted on 02/01/2019 7:39:39 AM PST by Salman
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on Friday declared his bid for the presidency in 2020 with a sweeping call to unite a deeply polarized nation around a “common purpose.”
The New Jersey Democrat, who is the second black candidate in a primary field that’s already historically diverse, delivered his message of unity amid an era marked by bitter political division.
“I believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind; where parents can put food on the table; where there are good-paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood; where our criminal justice system keeps us safe, instead of shuffling more children into cages and coffins; where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel pride, not shame,” Booker said in the video, subtly jabbing at President Donald Trump.
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As Camille Paglia says: “Cory Booker has all the gravitas of a cork.”
I would like to see every democrat Senator run for President. All of them.
The democratic debates are gonna be a bloodbath.
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Most of us here, including the non hunters, have waterproof boots.
Someone could start selling special ones with MAGA on the sides.
So far I can’t say the Dems’ 2020 lineup is super enticing to me.
Drama queen Cory Booker has thrown his tiara into the ring.
Don’t tell me we aren’t blessed.
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True, but it’s most of the American people who vote for these vile people that is most concerning.
Much as I'd love to see an all-out political war between La Raza vs NAACP and the various other "minority" factions that make up the Democrats' various constituencies, the party has a way of falling into line behind a designated front-runner when the right time comes.
“I believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind; where parents can put food on the table; where there are good-paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood...”
Herbert Hoover promised voters a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage during the campaign of 1928.
You know what happened in 1929..........
So we are supposed to believe, that Obama presided over years if economic stagnation, but had policies in place which would yield economic growth once he was out of office??? Really????
Booker using the same catch phrases that Obozo and the Hag used and they were the most divisive scoundrels to ever hold public office. They both preached one thing and literally did the opposite while in office. Kampala Harris is preaching the same lies. Speaking with forked tongues they do.
They are REALLY going to have to build a BIGGER CLOWN CAR!!
Oh goody! One more clown for the car!
Looks like the Mayors of the worst run cities in America are running for President.
As Daniel Greenfield reports:
1) Peter Buttigieg has announced that he’s forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 run. Media reports have focused on the possibility that he might become America’s first gay millennial president, instead of on the fact that he’s headed a city since 2011 which has double the national and statewide violent crime rates. And a city where Hispanic poverty rates are 10% higher than the national average, African-American households have double the poverty rate, and Asian-American incomes are halved.
South Bend was recently rated one of the “worst cities” to live in. The unemployment rates are higher than average, the property values are lower, and even the water quality is below average.
Gushing media reports about the gay millennial mayor, a Harvard grad and a Rhodes scholar, overlook South Bend’s poverty rate of 24.7% and that 45% of households are living near the poverty level.
South Bend has a little over 100,000 residents, but there were over 100 criminal shootings in 2017 in the failed city which hosts murderous gangs such as the Latin Kings and Gangster Disciples.
2) Andrew Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor, coming off a humiliating defeat in the Florida gubernatorial race and still struggling with an ethics complaint tangled in an FBI investigation, also wants to throw his tattered hat into the 2020 ring.
Tallahassee’s murder rate tops bigger cities in Florida. And Leon County’s murder rate rose 83% in 2017.
“Tallahassee had the highest number of murders in history last year and we top the state for the highest crime rate,” his former chief of staff warned in his own campaign.
The poverty rate in Tallahassee is at 28.4%. That’s even worse than South Bend. One single zip code in Tallahassee has the highest concentration of poverty in Florida. 1 in 5 adults in Leon County have trouble reading. And even Florida State University had more violent crimes on campus than any other state school.
That’s another reason why the Florida city was also ranked as one of the worst places to live in America.
NOW THIS -— SPARTACUS HIMSELF.
3) Corey Booker first became a national figure as Newark’s mayor. The charismatic politician got famous by promising to turn the troubled city around using a Twitter account and viral stunts that got him national headlines, but did nothing for the city he was running into the ground. And then, as Buttigieg is trying to do, he got out of there as soon as he could, using his new celebrity as a springboard to higher office.
Like Tallahassee and South Bend, Newark is one of the country’s murder capitals. And it’s been listed as the most violent city in its respective state. It’s also one of the worst cities in the country to live in.
That’s why the majority of people who work in Newark actually live away from the troubled city.
Like South Bend and Tallahassee, around 1 in 4 Newark residents live in poverty. A report this year listed Newark as the 3rd neediest city in America. A year after Booker jumped ship to become a senator, a report found that 18% of children in Newark were living in “extreme poverty”.
The adult literacy rate in Newark is 52% making it the city with the fifth highest illiteracy rate in America.
How does the mayor of a city with the 5th highest illiteracy rate and the 3rd neediest residents actually aspire to higher office with that miserable track record of failure and human wreckage?
The mayors of the worst cities in America want to run America. Their cities have been rated as the worst places to live. Do Americans really want the country to be more like Tallahassee, South Bend or Newark?
You are wrong on that!! The Dems ONLY GO AFTER PUBS....they are SMARTER than our guys!
The Democrat field is shaping up to be a real rogues gallery.
Spartacus was a big loser ,thousands killed
I heard he likes gladiator movies
Sword and Sandal movies ,the guys with the Big Muscles ?
In the period prior to the Democrat primaries, the candidates will be very cordial to one another. The common message will be "we hate Donald Trump." However, once the primaries start and the polls start separating the candidates, that's when they'll turn on one another as each tries to claw their way into the lead. By the time they get to the 2020 convention, it will be all out war between the various factions.
Then they’ll turn to the one who can unite & save them ! - Hellary!
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