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http://freebeacon.com/cory-booker-bain-has-done-a-lot-to-support-businesses
Lol.
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising Democratic star and occasional superhero, criticized the Barack Obama campaign this morning on "Meet the Press." What bothered Booker: Obama's attack ad this week hitting Mitt Romney for his time at private-equity firm Bain Capital.
“I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” Booker said on the "Meet the Press" roundtable. “To me, we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America.
"Especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people invest in companies like Bain Capital. 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 with.”
It was part of Booker's larger lament of divisive, distracting politics from both sides.
The Republican National Committee has already seized on that bolded quote. It blasted out a "They Said It!" email this morning to reporters, tying Booker to the higher-up Democrats as an Obama surrogate.
Booker compared the Bain Capital attack ads to the planned super PAC ads that would have brought up Obama's ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. And he absolutely tore into both sides for distracting the American public from the real issues.
"This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. It’s nauseating to the American public," Booker said. "Enough is enough — stop attacking private equity, stop attacking Jeremiah Wright. This stuff has got to stop. Because what it does is it undermines to me what this country should be focused on. It’s a distraction from the real issues. This is either going to be a small campaign about this crap, or it’s going to be a big campaign, in my opinion, about the issues that the American public cares about."
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What's even more pathetic is criticizing it and then going to multi-million dollar fundraisers at PE executive's (including Bain) houses.
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What's even more pathetic is criticizing it and then going to multi-million dollar fundraisers are PE executive's (including Bain) houses.
Check this out.
http://mobile.salon.com/2012/05/20/cory_booker_surrogate_from_hell
Lol!!!!! Sounds like the laments of 240.
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I've actually met the man before.
He is intelligent, hard working and despite being a democrat and black-- he tells it like it is with Obama and the members of his own party.
Booker is a decent human being.
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I've actually met the man before.
He is intelligent, hard working and despite being a democrat and black-- he tells it like it is with Obama and the members of his own party.
Booker is a decent human being.
I'm a Conservative, but he does seem to appear to be one of the few politicians who actually cares about other people.
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I was rather impressed how he stared down the police union in Newark TBH.
e called their bluff and they lost. F Them.
he also saved those people from the fire.
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I think he just became my favorite Democrat. You guys need to go to Realclearpolitics and look at that entire segment on Meet the Press. He was very impressive all the way through. In the segment he says that he cut government jobs by 25%. He said to call him a job killer if you want, that is the only way his government could survive. WOW. I never thought I would ever hear a Democrat speaking truth to power like that.
If this guy ran for President, depending on the circumstances, I could vote for him. It would depend a lot on who his oponent was.
Mike Murphy was great as always, espeacially when he educated everybody about the truth behind the GM bailout. Kimberly Strassel was pretty good. Jim Kramer was an idiot all the way through.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/cory-booker-slammed-for-meet-the-press-comments-2012-5
Lol!!!!! Libs in meltdown.
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http://freebeacon.com/cory-booker-bain-has-done-a-lot-to-support-businesses
Lol.
He's right about it. It was an obliterating ad but he's correct in what he says.....the problem is that the GOP didn't take issue with it when Gingrich and Santorum were running the exact same attack ad about it. It makes people wonder....why are they yelling at Obama when he's running the same ad as they were???
Romney responded with a GS Steel ad which was perfect in the situation. But its pretty bad when you have to fight back against ads that were caused in part by your own party
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He's right about it. It was an obliterating ad but he's correct in what he says.....the problem is that the GOP didn't take issue with it when Gingrich and Santorum were running the exact same attack ad about it. It makes people wonder....why are they yelling at Obama when he's running the same ad as they were???
Romney responded with a GS Steel ad which was perfect in the situation. But its pretty bad when you have to fight back against ads that were caused in part by your own party
Not true. It backfired on Gingrich in a big way. Ted Kennedy used it in 1994, so there is no question that Obama was going to use it now no matter what.
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Not true. It backfired on Gingrich in a big way. Ted Kennedy used it in 1994, so there is no question that Obama was going to use it now no matter what.
The best part is that the ad is a lie since it was the obama bundler who laid the people off!
I swear - its beyond embarassing the bs the libs fall for lately.
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Bain Backfire: Obama Camp in 'Full Damage Control Mode'
Breitbart ^ | 5/21/12 | John Nolte
Posted on May 21, 2012 8:08:15 PM EDT by Nachum
[Bain Capital] is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is gonna be about.
Meanwhile, back at campaign headquarters, Team Obama is in full meltdown mode after Newark Mayor Cory Booker went off script, undermining and mocking "what this campaign is going to be about."
ABC News:
The Obama campaign is in full damage-control mode one day after Newark Mayor Cory Booker publicly derided Democrats’ assault on presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney over his record at Bain Capital.
Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod today publicly rebuked Booker, a popular and high-profile surrogate for the campaign, saying he was “just wrong.”
“I love Cory Booker. He’s a great mayor. If I were, if my house was on fire, I’d hope he were my next door neighbor,” Axelrod said on MSNBC, referring to Booker’s rescue of a neighbor last month.
“I agree with what he said later. I think this was a legitimate area for discussion,” Axelrod said of Booker’s subsequent comments clarifying the issue.
But Booker isn't the only Democrat already tired and made uncomfortable by Obama's divisive attacks on the risk-takers who create the jobs and this country's wealth. Below you'll see an ad the Romney campaign released today with more Democrats going "off-script" on the subject of Bain -- an ad that not only proves Romney already has a rapid response team up and running but that it's a very effective rapid response team.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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He didn't apologize to Dems for what he said but he is denouncing the GOP for using his comments in a new ad. What did he expect?
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http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-matthews-on-cory-booker-act-of-sabotage-2012-5
ha ha ha ha!!!!
Chrissy is such a bitch.
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He is pathetic. Yet, we are to believe that there isn't an ounce of liberal bias in the media.
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May 22, 2012
Welcome to the Democrats' Julia Crow Era
By Christopher Chantrill
When I watch the Democratic attacks on Bain Capital, I wonder: just how do Democrats think the economy is supposed to work?
Take the Kansas City steel plant that Bain took private in 1993 and reassembled as GST Steel. Here we had a faltering unionized steel plant. Nothing remarkable about that, of course. Unionized steel plants had been going out of business for two decades previously, because they were just too expensive and antiquated to be profitable. I remember experiencing that visiting Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1970s. The grand old basic steel plants in the Cuyahoga valley south of town were already wastelands, shuttered and abandoned, and their "good union jobs" gone for good.
Bain struggled with GST Steel for nearly a decade and then shuttered the plant in 2001. Now, in 2012, the Democrats run an ad featuring a former employee calling Bain a "vampire." I assume he meant that Bain sucked the blood out of the company and then spat it out. That's after Bain had transfused $100 million into the company over ten years.
If Bain's actions are reprehensible, then what about the government's bank bailouts, in which the taxpayers stood bail on the banking system, or the auto bailouts when a Democratic administration showered benefits on Democratic constituencies with taxpayer money?
Just what is the principled Democratic way of dealing with industries in decline? What do Democrats think is the fair and efficient way to deal with failing corporations? What about Hewlett-Packard that just announced a layoff of 30,000 this week?
The world is waiting with bated breath for the answer, because, as we know, liberals and Democrats are the educated, the evolved, the intelligent people.
At the dawn of the postwar era the liberal prophet of cartel capitalism, John Kenneth Galbraith, barely worried in American Capitalism that there was "a chance that power developed and even encouraged to neutralize other power, will start on a career of its own." Fortunately, he assured us, these powers--big business, big unions, big government--had "so far comported themselves with some restraint." That was in 1952.
Since then there has been no sign that liberals have departed an inch from this top-down crony-capitalist model. In fact the Obama administration has seemed determined, while still splattered with the debris of the cratered auto industry and the housing bubble, to test their Big Unit capitalism to destruction with ObamaCare, green energy, and very fast trains.
Meanwhile, the private capital industry has developed to help entrepreneurstart-ups and to discipline corporations that have taken their eye off the ball. The only thing liberals can think to do is milk the private capitalists for campaign contributions.
There was another time in America when a whole sector of the nation chose to marinate in the past, standing against the future, and that was the Jim Crow era in the South. Defeated in the Civil War, their profitable system of plantation slavery demolished, Southerners could still use political muscle to maintain a bitter and twisted domination over the newly-freed slaves and keep the freedmen from challenging the white political and economic ascendancy. It was liberals that called the nation to abolish that racist abomination.
Today's liberals are in the same position as the Southrons of 1900. Their vision of good jobs, strong unions, defined benefits, and lifetime employment is gone with the wind, never to return. Instead we have the economy of "creative destruction" prophesied by that other mid-century prophet, Joseph Schumpeter.
Nothing, we know, is forever in the economy -- or ever was. Railroads, the wonder of 1850, were replaced by oil and steel, the wonders of 1900, and they were replaced by autos and electricity in the 1920s, electronics in the 1950s, computers in the 1980s, and the information revolution of the 1990s.
You can see the new economy in the flap over Jack Welch and women in business. Never mind "diversity, mentorships and affinity groups... 'Over deliver,' Mr. Welch advised. 'Performance is it!'" Predictably the feminazis exploded, so the Wall Street Journal's John Bussey went to 18 woman CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to ask their opinion. They agreed with Welch. "Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control," said one woman. "I have stepped up to many 'ugly' assignments that others didn't want," said another.
But the liberals are stuck in the past, marinating in their acidic Julia Crow politics. They still have to power to defame and deny, but lack the goodwill do lend a hand and help. And as for "the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment?" Today's trustafarian liberals don't believe in getting their hands dirty any more than the scion of yesterday's cotton plantation.
America deserves better from its educated elite.
Christopher Chantrill is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. See his usgovernmentspending.com and also usgovernmentdebt.us. At americanmanifesto.org he is blogging and writing An American Manifesto: Life After Liberalism.
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He is pathetic. Yet, we are to believe that there isn't an ounce of liberal bias in the media.
Do you watch FOX ???
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Do you watch FOX ???
NO. 240 watches FOX all day, every day.
Do you watch CNN, MSNBC, and Jon Stewart's idiotic show? Your answer: YES
FOX is clearly on the right. Difference is, you morons refuse to admit that most of the media is liberal.
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NO. 240 watches FOX all day, every day.
Do you watch CNN, MSNBC, and Jon Stewart's idiotic show? Your answer: YES
FOX is clearly on the right. Difference is, you morons refuse to admit that most of the media is liberal.
CNN & MSNBC = No
Stewart = Hell yes
and you should too
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I listen to FOX radio just about all day. not every day, but a lot of days. very little msn these days... its boring. espn radio & fox radio alternating
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Top Obama Donor Tied to Bain Layoffs
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The Obama campaign’s latest attack tells the story of workers at an Indiana office supply company who lost their jobs after a Bain-owned company named American Pad & Paper (Ampad) took over their company and drove it out of business.
Here’s what the Obama Web video doesn’t mention: A top Obama donor and fundraiser had a much more direct tie to the controversy and actually served on the board of directors at Richardson, Texas-based Ampad, which makes office paper products.
Jonathan Lavine is a long-time Bain Capital executive and co-owner of the Boston Celtics. He is also one of President Obama’s most prolific fundraisers. He has already raised more than $200,000 for the Obama campaign this election, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Lavine started working for Bain in 1993. He was one of three Bain executives who served on the board of directors of Ampad for several years, a post he held until 1999. Here’s a news release announcing his departure from the company in April 1999.
Lavine’s placement on the board of Ampad suggests he had a more direct role than Romney in the series of events surrounding the layoffs, labor disputes and eventual bankruptcy of the Marion, Ind., factory featured in the Obama campaign video.
Asked about Mr. Lavine’s role, Obama campaign spokesman Ben Labolt put the focus back on Romney.
“No one aside from Mitt Romney is running for president highlighting their tenure as a corporate buyout specialist as one of job creation,” Labolt said. “The president has support from business leaders across industries who have seen him pull the economy back from the brink of another depression”.
And, Labolt argued, Romney, as the CEO of Bain, would have been the one ultimately responsible for what happened with Ampad.
“He made profit at any cost for himself and his partners by outsourcing jobs and bankrupting companies,” Labolt said. “From buyout to bankruptcy, Mitt Romney was CEO and sole owner of Bain. The managing director working on Ampad reported directly to him and has said Romney could have ordered him to settle with the union but didn’t.”
UPDATE: Alex Stanton, a spokesperson for Bain Capitol, does not dispute that Lavine was on the board of Ampad, but insists that he had nothing to do with the workers being laid off in Marion, Indiana.
“Jonathan Lavine was not at Bain Capital when Ampad was acquired by the firm, and was not involved on the investment during the challenging situation at the Marion plant. The assertion he had any involvement with those events is totally false,” said Stanton in a statement.
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Rep. James Clyburn (D., S.C.) described Mitt Romney and Bain Capital’s record as one of “raping companies” in a Tuesday interview with MSNBC.
ANCHOR: But, congressman, what about the counterargument to that? What about the counterargument that these attacks on Bain Capital — many see them as an attack on free enterprise as well.
CLYBURN: This is not an attack on free enterprise. I would say to you, [unclear] free enterprise–I don’t take contributions from payday lenders. I refuse to do that. That’s free enterprise. but there’s something about that enterprise that I have a problem with. And there’s something about raping companies and leaving them in debt and setting up Swiss bank accounts and corporate businesses in the Grand Caymans. I have a serious problem with that.
ANCHOR: So you’re fine with this line of attack?
CLYBURN: Yes, I am. In fact, I think it is the — not just fair to do it–I think it’s fundamental to the campaign to run this kind — this is this man’s resume. This is what he’s holding out to the American people. I would like to ask my friends, what are we supposed to be comparing President Obama to if we don’t compare it to the record that this man has with Bain Capital? He doesn’t talk about his Massachusetts governorship.
Despite Clyburn’s remarks, the congressman has previously taken money from private equity giant Blackstone Group. Blackstone announced Tuesday it will buy Motel 6 for $1.9 billion.
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Rendell: Hey, can you believe these Bain attacks from Obama? [The saga continues]
Hot Air ^ | MAY 21, 2012 | Ed Morrissey
Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:27:03 PM by RobinMasters
Ed Rendell joins Harold Ford and Cory Booker as critics within Barack Obama’s own party of his electoral strategy of demonizing private equity. In a BuzzFeed article that focuses on the larger disconnect between Obama and Democratic Party institutions, Zeke Miller gets the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania — a state critical to Obama’s re-election hopes — on the record as decidedly uncomfortable with the tone of Team Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital:
Rendell joined the chorus of criticism of Obama’s attacks on finance, whose leaders have written checks to many members of both parties.
“I think they’re very disappointing,” Rendell said of the ads attacking Bain. “I think Bain is fair game, because Romney has made it fair game. But I think how you examine it, the tone, what you say, is important as well.”
As for Booker, “I admire him,” Rendell said. “People in politics should tell the truth. He could have qualified it better, he could have framed it better, but if you’re in this business, none of us like negative ads.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
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Even Van Jones is defending Cory Booker from left-wing attacks
The Daily Caller ^ | 5/22/12 | Will Rahn
Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:03:58 PM by Nachum
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat who landed in hot water with his party on Sunday after criticizing President Obama’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital, may have found an unexpected ally in left-wing activist Van Jones.
“An urban mayor who nearly DIED saving neighbor from a fire, has earned right 2 demand integrity & courage from other leaders,” Jones tweeted on Tuesday in a message addressed to Booker’s Twitter handle.
Booker, who indeed did save a neighbor from a burning building earlier this year, has been on the receiving end of much criticism from Democrats and liberal pundits for calling the Obama campaign’s attacks on private equity “nauseating.”
“As far as that stuff, I have to say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” Booker said on “Meet the Press” Sunday. “It’s just, to me, we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America.”
MSNBC host and former Democratic political operative Chris Matthews blasted Booker’s comments as an “act of sabotage,” while the left-wing ThinkProgress website highlighted the donations he received from private equity executives during in his first run for mayor in 2002.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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Former venture capitalist Sen. Warner defends Bain
byCharlie Spiering Commentary Staff Writer
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This morning on MSNBC, former venture capitalist Sen. Mark Warner D-Va. admitted that Bain Capital was "very successful" and "did what they were supposed to do."
When asked about whether attacks on private equity were fair, Warner said that he was "proud" of his previous career in the private sector but noted that public service required a "different skill set."
"Bain Capital was a very successful business. They got a good return for their investors. That is what they were supposed to do," Warner said.
Warner, is the founder of Columbia Capital Corp. in Alexandria, Va. which made him a multi-millionaire before he ran for Virginia governor. In spite of some early presidential buzz for the Democratic primary in 2008, he ran and won a race for the U.S. Senate.
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you cnut flaps suddenly love van jones again.
I love how he's a non-credible nutbag when he wants to know why we didn't test 911 pools of molten metal for explosives...
but whenever he attacks obama, he's a reasonable thinker.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/05/22/RNC-Catches-Obama-Campaign-In-Lie-Coverup
Hahahah. Obama BUSTED lying his ass off.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/228795-obama-raised-35m-from-private-equity-in-2008
Obama equals lying sack of shit.
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Did You Know That Obama’s Blackstone Backers Laid Off Over 800 People? Beck Explains
The Blaze ^ | 5/22/12 | Glenn Beck
Posted on May 22, 2012 11:45:07 PM EDT by Nachum
Ironically, despite making Mitt Romney’s former company Bain Capital and other private equity firms the target of its latest attack, the Obama campaign held a near-$36,000 per plate fundraising dinner at the home of Tony James, president of the nation’s largest private equity firm, Blackstone Group. Citing the president’s latest Romney-hit-piece, Glenn Beck blasted the hypocrisy shown by the president when it comes to private equity firms.
Obama’s condemnation of private equity hinges on the familiar narrative that the industry is renown for commandeering companies and slashing jobs, leaving untold numbers jobless — which is why it is doubly ironic that Blackstone has done just that. In August of 2006, just two months after closing the deal to purchase Travelport Ltd., Blackstone Group fired “scores of employees,” who, according to the Wall Street Journal, were “lugging boxes of personal belongings to their cars.” Blackstone laid of 841 employees, or 10% of Travelport’s workforce, and recouped its investment almost immediately.
Beck reviewed a mere fraction of the employees who lost their jobs and have suffered dire consequences as a result of Blackstone’s buyout.
Watch below as Beck dissects President Obama’s latest fact versus fictional reality.
One interesting point to note is that in contrast to staunch Obama supporter James, his boss, Stephen Schwarzman, is in fact an avid Romney-supporter, and has been an outspoken critic of Obama’s economic policies and routine vilification of private equity.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
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Democrats balk at Obama campaign’s sustained attack on Bain Capital ('move forward')
The Hill ^ | 5/22/12 | Cameron Joseph
Posted on May 23, 2012 5:22:50 AM EDT by Libloather
Democrats balk at Obama campaign’s sustained attack on Bain Capital
By Cameron Joseph - 05/22/12 08:35 PM ET
Some influential Democrats on and off Capitol Hill are refusing to give President Obama political cover for his attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital.
Despite pushback from more than a half-dozen Democrats, the Obama campaign on Tuesday defended how it has scrutinized Romney’s business background.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a widely respected member of Congress, stopped short of criticizing the president, but made it clear that the campaign should pivot.
“It’s done,” she said. “Go on to other things now.”
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told The Hill, “I think the average American … hopes that this campaign will focus on competing visions for how to strengthen our economy, help create jobs and move the country forward.”
Pressed on whether he thought Obama’s campaign had operated within those guidelines, Coons paused.
“I’m not going to comment on President Obama’s ad,” he said, shaking his head vigorously.
Coons and Feinstein are not alone. Other Democrats who are less than enthusiastic to Obama’s Bain ad include former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, ex-Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (Tenn.) and Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker. Rendell called negative ads “disappointing,” while Booker called the specific ad “nauseating.”
Those negative reviews fit with the GOP’s playbook of portraying Obama as one of the most polarizing presidents. But Democratic operatives say Obama’s 2012 campaign tactics must be different than 2008, when he ran on the slogan of hope and change. Drawing a contrast between the president and Romney is the key to winning a second term, they maintain.
While Obama’s campaign is not retreating, the White House was put on the defensive Tuesday, less than 24 hours after Obama said Romney’s private-sector experience was “what this campaign is going to be about.”
During the White House briefing, press secretary Jay Carney faced a string of questions on the issue.
Romney is “running as a businessman who can do for America what he did for private equity,” Carney told reporters. “I think Americans would expect that credential deserves some scrutiny.”
The comments echoed those made by other senior administration officials on Tuesday who said that Romney hasn’t been touting his record as governor but highlighting his experience as an industry executive in an election where the economy has taken center stage.
The senior administration officials said that while people on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” set might have a problem with their handling of Romney’s business background, voters think it’s highly relevant.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday backed the president up, saying, “I believe that Gov. Romney, who holds himself out to be this great businessman, should have his record looked at. I have no problem with this.”
Other Democrats also defended Obama. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Bain was “absolutely a legitimate focus.” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) made similar comments.
In an indication of how rocky the day was for Obama, however, one surrogate for the president generated controversy in his defense of the ad against Romney.
Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), the third-ranking House Democrat, said Romney’s business practices amounted to “raping companies and leaving them in debt” for his own profit.
The Obama campaign quickly distanced itself from those remarks, telling media outlets it “strongly disagrees with Congressman Clyburn’s choice of words — they have no place in this conversation.”
With less than six months to go before the election, both parties are focusing intently on fundraising. Some Democrats are privately worried that Obama’s effort to highlight Bain will scare off big donors.
The Hill reported earlier this year that over the last three cycles, Democrats have accepted far more than the GOP in political donations from executives at Bain Capital.
While Obama’s team has presumably accepted a possible fundraising backlash from private-equity donors, many congressional Democrats don’t want that well to dry up.
Over the last several weeks, Democratic lawmakers have noted that Obama’s campaign has not yet committed to transferring money to Democratic congressional campaign committees.
When a reporter on Tuesday asked Carney if it was hypocritical for Obama to rip his opponent while holding Wall Street fundraisers for his campaign, Carney responded that “those individuals are not running for president.”
Romney has pushed back hard, claiming that Obama is demonizing the private sector. His campaign sent around edited clips of Booker, Ford and former Obama auto czar Steve Rattner, who all indicated Obama had crossed the line.
It also sent out a clip of Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) saying Bain was “a very successful business.” But it didn’t include his next comment that public service requires a “different skill set” and that Romney’s time at Bain is “a valid topic of debate.”
Warner told The Hill that the release showed “a pattern of the Romney campaign [using] partial quotes.” Warner, who made millions of dollars in the telecommunications industry, walked away before he could be asked any follow-up questions.
Rendell on Tuesday said he thought Romney’s time at Bain is fair game. But if it were his campaign, Rendell added, he would have crunched the numbers and found out if Romney created or lost more jobs at Bain.
“I would’ve run the ad, but I would’ve run it a little differently, and I would’ve tried to get the net number before — that’s the key,” he said.
Following his Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Booker walked his comments back. He also cried foul about being used by Romney’s campaign, saying GOP officials were “plucking sound bites out of that interview to manipulate them in a cynical manner.”
Ford said he agreed “with the core” of Booker’s original statements. Former Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), who regularly rebukes his party and has spoken of joining the GOP, said the ad followed “a lazy, sloppy trend of discrediting professions instead on focusing on how a given professional carried out his ethical responsibilities.”
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So, what are your plans for today?
Oh wait, I think I can guess.
Seriously, you do this shit for 18 hours a day, every day.
There is no way you have a job, girlfriend or work out. Ever.
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Obama Says Private Investment is Bad For The U.S. Economy (What a Moron!!!)
Townhall.com ^ | May 23, 2012 | Donald Lambro
Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:22:54 AM by Kaslin
WASHINGTON - President Obama's anti-capitalism attacks on Mitt Romney's long career as an investor who bankrolled businesses and created jobs isn't playing well in some Democratic circles.
Indeed, the Democratic backlash Obama's campaign has been getting about its ads attacking Bain Capital, Romney's venture capital investment firm, is the political equivalent of a "man bites dog" story.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a close ally of Obama and a rising star in the Democratic party, called Obama's ads "nauseating to the American people."
Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr., another party leader who once headed the centrist-leaning Democratic Leadership Council, said he agreed "with the core of" Booker's remarks defending Bain Capital's numerous success stories.
"Private equity's not a bad thing. As a matter of fact, private equity is a good thing in many, many instances," Ford said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Even one of Obama's own economic advisers winced at the sorry spectacle of the president's campaign trying to argue that Romney's private capital investment company has been bad for the economy.
"I don't think there's anything Bain Capital did that they need to be embarrassed about," said Steven Rattner, who was the Obama administration's car czar and one of the president's economic advisers.
To the contrary, what Rattner and others seem to be suggesting is that Obama ought to be embarrassed by ads that are attacking private investment that is the mother's milk of business expansion and job creation.
"I have to just say from a very personal level, I'm not about to sit here and indict private equity [investment]," Booker said on Sunday's Meet The Press when David Gregory asked him about Obama's ad.
The TV ad singles out one of Bain Capital's investments in an Indiana steel company that ended up laying off 250 workers, but says nothing of dozens of companies Bain invested in that ended up creating thousands of jobs.
In the ad, a laid off worker at the plant calls Romney a "job destroyer."
Booker suggested this kind of sleazy distortion is both dishonest and reprehensible.
"If you look at the totality of Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses," Booker said. "And this [Obama's attack ad], to me, I'm very uncomfortable with."
"This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity," he said.
Soon after Booker condemned the ad, the president's chief campaign strategist David Axelrod must have come down on him like a ton of bricks: Shortly after that, Booker released a hastily-made You- Tube statement to "clarify" his remarks and reiterate his support for Obama, though he stood by his earlier comments.
Speaking at the end of the NATO Summit in Chicago, Obama responded with a confused statement that said private equity investing in the economy was "not always going to be a good thing for businesses or communities or workers."
His position grew even more entangled as he talked with reporters, saying, "When you're president, as opposed to the head of a private-equity firm...your job is to think about how those communities can start creating clusters so that they can attract new businesses." Huh?
In Obama's government-centered world, private venture capital is okay up to a point, as long as the investors don't make too much money and aren't too successful. Profit's okay, but only up to a point.
He wants the middle class to do well, but does not see the role that people with risk-taking capital play in building job opportunities for economic advancement at all income levels.
His anti-capitalism ad focuses on one of Bain Capital's failures as if this proves that Bain Capital's investments were not a good thing for the overall economy. But failure can be a byproduct of risk- taking which is what made our country the greatest economy in the world.
Henry Ford's first car company went out of business in 1908 before he invented the manufacturing assembly line that put automobiles with the reach of average Americans.
R. H. Macy weathered repeated failure in his retail career before he succeeded. Something on the order of half of all new businesses fail. But most try again and many succeed.
Obama should know something about failure. Several of the "clean energy" firms he invested went bankrupt. But in his case, the taxpayers had to pick up the tab. When a private equity firm's investment fails, it usually comes out of the investors' pockets.
One of Obama's biggest bankruptcies -- the solar panel company Solyndra -- cost taxpayers half a billion dollars.
This election is going to be decided by the economy and the jobs picture, both of which remain weak. The Gallup Poll has Obama and Romney tied in a dead heat, and the Washington Post poll has them on who can best fix the economy.
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a state-by- state report on the nation's high unemployment levels. The national news media ignored the story, but BLS said that "Just 16 states have seen job growth since President Obama took office," Investors Business Daily reported.
"The remaining states have lost a combined 1.4 million jobs since January 2009. Even 34 months after the recession officially ended in June 2009, there are still 11 states that have fewer people people working now than at the start of the recovery," IBD said.
Meantime, Obama really believes he can win a second term by trying to convince enough Americans that more private investment in our economy is "not always going to be good for businesss" or new job creation.
Think about that, for a moment.
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"No, they’re not a bad company," Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) said about Bain Capital on CNN tonight. "Nobody is saying they are, including the president. You know, it's a remarkable thing. If you take a little step back to watch how good the Republicans are good at changing the subject."
"This is not about Bain. It’s not about private equity in general. It's about a guy who is holding himself out to be a job creator, whose record is fair game at doing that," Gov. Patrick tells CNN's John King.
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So, what are your plans for today?
Oh wait, I think I can guess.
Seriously, you do this shit for 18 hours a day, every day.
There is no way you have a job, girlfriend or work out. Ever.
We all know this dont kick the guy when he is lying down
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Bam on Cory: ‘He’s dead to us’
nypost.com ^ | June 8, 2012 | JOSH MARGOLIN
Posted on June 8, 2012 1:16:14 AM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
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.”
“I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” said Booker, a rising Democratic star tapped by the president’s campaign as a “surrogate” speaker for Obama. “If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses.”
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So what are your weekend plans?
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So what are your weekend plans?
Troll.
Landslide coming. Gaybama going down further than Michelle on Ellen.
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Bam on Cory: ‘He’s dead to us’
nypost.com ^ | June 8, 2012 | JOSH MARGOLIN
Posted on June 8, 2012 1:16:14 AM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
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.”
“I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” said Booker, a rising Democratic star tapped by the president’s campaign as a “surrogate” speaker for Obama. “If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses.”
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That's what happens when you speak the truth and tell it like it is. Team Obama gets their wittle feewings hurt.
But, let them keep deluding themselves and they'll get pummeled, Tom Barrett-style.
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That's what he gets for having a mind of his own.
After Miscue, Refined Role For Booker
By HEATHER HADDON
NEWARK—Since Mayor Cory Booker called attacks on private equity "nauseating," he hasn't appeared once on national television as a surrogate for President Barack Obama. At the Democratic National Convention next month, one of the party's rising stars won't have a headlining speaking role.
Mr. Booker has moved to a mostly off-camera role for the president's campaign after his unscripted remarks on May 20 about ads Mr. Obama was running about Bain Capital, the former company of presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
But the Newark mayor also remains a force for Mr. Obama, campaigning for the president in Michigan last week, hosting Democratic fundraisers and helping to draft the party's platform for the convention in Charlotte, N.C.
Mr. Booker said he worried his Bain comments had jeopardized his standing with the party and Mr. Obama, but he has been reassured that isn't the case. The mayor said he sought out Mr. Obama personally at a Plaza Hotel fundraiser he helped organize on June 14.
"I wanted to talk to him about it," Mr. Booker said in an interview. He said the president indicated to him that "it's all small potatoes." The Obama campaign declined to comment on any exchange between Mr. Booker and Mr. Obama.
"The hardest aspect of all this for me was that my words were being used to hurt my friend. That was the most discouraging thing," Mr. Booker said.
"The moment has come and passed," he said. "In terms of the campaign, it's not today's issue."
An Obama campaign spokesman, Ben LaBolt, said: "We appreciate Mayor Booker's efforts to support the president on the campaign trail."
The "Meet the Press" comments were an unusual problem for Mr. Booker, who like Mr. Obama rose to prominence as a gifted orator and leader of a new generation of black politicians.
In answer to a question about whether the Bain ads were "character assassination," Mr. Booker said: "From a very personal level, I'm not about to sit here and indict private equity. We're getting to a ridiculous point in America." Mr. Booker, who has raised campaign funds from financial firms and worked with them on Newark projects, said the ads were "nauseating."
The sound bite set off a firestorm. Mr. Obama was asked to comment at the NATO summit in Chicago the next day. The Republican National Committee created a petition called, "I Stand with Cory."
Mr. Booker received a call from an Obama campaign staffer whom he wouldn't name asking him to clarify his remarks and underscore the campaign's message on Bain, Mr. Booker said.
"It was in no way telling me to do things," Mr. Booker said. "It was more like, 'Help us understand what you were trying to say.'"
Mr. Booker released a nearly four-minute video on May 21 saying Mr. Romney's business record deserved scrutiny. It only helped fan the flames.
"I made the dumb decision to do the hostage video," said Mr. Booker, using the nickname he calls it because he looks like he is doing it against his will. "The whole thing became more myth than fact."
Mr. Obama had tapped Mr. Booker as an important surrogate before the controversy. He campaigned vigorously for the president across the country and is co-chairman of first lady Michelle Obama's antiobesity campaign.
Mr. Booker's Obama campaign role remains a highly public one. While he hasn't done television appearances for the president since May 20, he has been invited to speak at several state Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners—key Democratic Party fundraisers—including two days after the taping.
Last week, he stumped for the president on a three-day tour through Detroit and Flint, Mich. He sat at a round table with small-business owners, made radio appearances and talked to editorial boards before leading a convention platform meeting on Saturday during which Democrats for the first time officially endorsed gay marriage.
Mr. Booker said he never expected a speaking role at the convention and that, as co-chairman of the platform, he has a bigger role than he did in 2008.
"The polite way to say why I didn't have expectations is that I'm an African-American, North Eastern Democrat in a safe state," Mr. Booker said, noting he doesn't help court important constituencies. The keynote speaker is Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio.
It is possible to survive a political gaffe. In the days after the Bain remarks, Democratic Party leaders called Mr. Booker afterward and shared their own verbal embarrassments, including former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Mr. Booker said.
Diana Owen, an associate professor of political science at Georgetown University, said Mr. Booker's comments were a "strategy mistake" that could hurt him with party insiders. But it has done little to damage Mr. Obama, she said.
"At that time in the campaign, it's only political junkies who are paying attention," she said.
Brigid Harrison, a professor of political science and law at Montclair State University, said that Mr. Booker's appeal to the Democratic base is too important for the campaign to brush him off over the Bain statements.
"The reality is, he's emerged as one of the go-to guys," she said.
Mr. Booker said he stands by the Bain comments. "I spoke from my heart," he said. "A lot of people felt the same way I did. I expressed myself very emotionally."
He said the episode has made him consider word choice more carefully.
"There are definitely lessons to be learned," Mr. Booker said. But "the reality is, I'll never stop speaking from my heart and speaking passionately."
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