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[cheddarmustard]

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Calls Obama Attack on Bain Capital “Nauseating”

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a surrogate for President Obama’s re-election effort, sharply criticized President Obama’s recent attack ads criticizing Mitt Romney’s private Equity firm Bain Capital. During a roundtable discussion on “Meet The Press” Booker called the Obama ad released last week “nauseating”. The ad targeted Bain’s involvement with a steel company that eventually went bankrupt.

Booker said to the moderator,

“I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses and this, to me, I’m very uncomfortable.”

[JustDan]

Contain your glee Ched...


Shit on rye toast man....With friends like that, does Obama really need enemies?...

[cheddarmustard]

Contain your glee Ched...

I am pleased as punch, Dan. My comfort level with Booker should he ever become governor just went up tenfold.

[JustDan]

Oh c'mon Ched...You know you'd never vote for a Lib like this guy...

[cheddarmustard]

Dan... I've voted Dem in NJ races at least 80% of the time in my 30 years of voting.

Regardless, I didn't say that I necessarily would vote for Booker. But his standing up for private equity makes me a lot more comfortable should he ever win.

[Chuck]

Dan... I've voted Dem in NJ races at least 80% of the time in my 30 years of voting.

You live in NJ? Who knew?

[RummagingBedouin]

Dan... I've voted Dem in NJ races at least 80% of the time in my 30 years of voting.

Regardless, I didn't say that I necessarily would vote for Booker. But his standing up for private equity makes me a lot more comfortable should he ever win.

You've given away your undisclosed location.

[RummagingBedouin]

Oops. The re-education of Cory Booker.

Later that same day - “Let me be clear. Mitt Romney has made his business record a centerpiece of his campaign,” he says in the video. “He’s talked about himself as a job creator. And therefore it is reasonable — and in fact I encourage it — for the Obama campaign to examine that record and discuss it. I have no problem with that.”

For good measure, Booker goes on to endorse the Obama ad’s message.

“In fact, I believe that Mitt Romney, in many ways, is not being completely honest with his role and his record even while a businessperson, and is shaping it to serve his political interest — and not necessary include all the facts of his time there,” continues the mayor, sitting at his desk with a flag draped in the camera shot.