The difference between Barack Obama and Cory Booker:

[George II]

Just saw him being interviewed in the hallway of the Capitol. The man is brilliant and well spoken and has great policies. But one thing about him that is different from Obama is, if he's elected President in 2020, his hair won't turn gray while in office!!!

[NCTraveler]

1. Flat earth anti-science crap!!!!!

[FM123]

2. I like the bald look 👍

[FM123]

4. Seriously though, it is what is inside that beautiful head of his that impresses me more!

[George II]

6. Yes, when I started losing my hair (in my late 20s) my father told me....

....."God made very few perfect heads. The ones he screwed up he covered with hair."

Booker is great, I really wish he would think about running in two years (yes, it's only two years to early 2020!!)

[BoneyardDem]

3. Booker had built some creds over years

if he became our nominee, I'd be thrilled.

[bearsfootball516]

5. I'm hoping for a 2020 ticket of Booker/Castro or Castro/Booker

[crazycatlady]

15. Sounds like a great ticket

But our country is not ready for a ticket without a white man on it.

[question everything]

7. Unfortunately, just as the country is/was not ready for a woman

it is not ready for an unmarried man (or woman)

[Iggo]

8. Wasn't ready for a black man, either. But we did it anyway. (n/t)

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. You think an unmarried Democrat is unelectable?

I can see how an unmarried Republican (Graham) might be unelectable because folks will assume he's gay and the GOP has issues with that. But Dems don't give a shit about sexuality.

[RandomAccess]

9. He has FAIR policies, not great ones.

Or at least not uniformly great. Too corporatist.

[George II]

10. How so?

[RandomAccess]

11. I should have known

that somebody would come along and expect me to fill in the blanks.

There's a LOT about Booker that's less than attractive. Here's just ONE. You want more? Google is your friend.

The Good Old Days Are Back
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2017/01/the-good-old-days-are-back.html

...We spent the aughts trying to get horrible Democrats to not be quite as horrible, and the media covering the whole thing to not be so horrible. If we couldn't stop the horrible things we could maybe at least stop the Democrats from owning all of them. Saving them (and us) from themselves was a big part of it. I didn't know if we could stop Republicans from privatizing Social Security (we did! yay us!) but we had to do our best to make sure it wasn't all bipartisany. It's the usual "if everyone is to blame, then no one is" combined with the Democrats' love of running on the slogan, "Not quite as evil as the other guys!"

... basically last night 13 Democrats in the Senate voted against allowing cheaper drug imports from The People's Republic of Canadia. Some hope you don't notice, and some don't care if you notice. Some do care. I bet Cory Booker, who took some time off rescuing pets in front of TV cameras and posting inspirational quotes on the website twitter dot com to show how woke he is to help to make sure you have to pay more for lifesaving drugs, cares quite a bit if you notice. Someone's gotta be the Dem candidate for president in 2020, after all.

[George II]

14. Did you read what the vote was all about, how it was worded, and Booker's rationale behind the vote?

And what's this garbage about "The People's Republic of Canadia"?

[mcar]

12. I like Booker

I'm paying no attention to 2020 talk right now, but he did a great job today.

[JI7]

16. He is also single with no kids

[bearsfootball516]

17. So are a large number of Democrats

I would think being single with no kids would be far less important for Democrats than Republicans.

[JI7]

18. It's not important to me

But it would be something different and i think positive.

[George II]

20. And?

[JI7]

21. I think it would be a good thing

[woolldog]

19. Hes less conciliatory than Obama

and not as naive. Good qualities, imo. He’ll be going into the office with eyes wide open.