Cory Booker Backs Off Criticizing Obama Campaign Bain Attacks

"As the Obama campaign doubles down on the use of Bain Capital to question Mitt Romney's economic philosophy, Newark Mayor Cory Booker is backing off his criticism of a line of attack he called "nauseating." During an appearance Sunday on "Meet The Press," Booker, an Obama supporter and rising star, seemed to equate the Obama campaign's Bain strategy with the scuttled plans of a GOP "super PAC" to raise Obama's past ties to Jeremiah Wright, a retired Chicago pastor whose controversial speeches became a campaign issue in 2008...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more from Michael A. Memoli on latimes.com: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/...

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[kurd55]

Booker = ZERO

[LeksServices]

You don't like Republican President Obama's policies? Stop crying you nit! You got exactly what you wanted. Just enjoy the wonderful frothy aroma of shit soup and you'll be golden showered!

[Madfoot713]

Cory Booker was right. Bain attacks were pathetic and partisan. Good for him for standing up to his own party. Between Chris Christie and Cory Booker, were the rest of us wrong about New Jersey? Wow.

[stkt1986]

Why is Cenk not in Gitmo? He will have his own prayer rug. The Young Turds can't afford stuff like that. Gitmo has much better living conditions than his mothers basement, where his show is filmed.

[stkt1986]

Booker made himself irrelevant, to both parties. He had a moment of truth, but backed down in fear, typical democrat coward. It's ok Booker, when Obama was a Senator, he voted present, like a coward. The Democrat party should be called the Coward Party.

[hellotommy]

The subprime mortgage crisis was the fuse that lit the great recession. Almost entirely progressive policies leading back to Jimmy Carter, expanded by Bill Clinton deregulated by Bawney Frank and ignored by GWBush. Obama should come clean and apologies for his party's criminal destruction of our economy rather than blaming Bush. Get ready to work till you're 80 thanks to democrats nanny state freebees.

Wherever you find waste and fraud you will find liberals and progressives.

[hellotommy]

"Minorities' Home Ownership Booms Under Clinton but Still Lags Whites'

It's one of the hidden success stories of the Clinton era. In the great housing boom of the 1990s, black & Latino homeownership surged to the highest level ever recorded. "

The story in the LA Times 5/31/99. Bill Clinton enforced the Community Reinvestment Act, forcing banks to give loans to minorities. Between 1993 and 1997, home loans grew by 72% to blacks and by 45% to Latinos, far faster than the total growth rate.

[hellotommy]

Obama "inherited" a recession started by the Clinton admin. forcing banks to give mortgages to home buyers with no income verification or proof of citizenship. Istead of investigating Fannie & Freddie for guaranteeing bad loans, Obama stole our healthcare industry & tried to defeat the oil industry with a naive criminal looting of trillions of our earned tax money with green energy takeover. Remember candidate Obama saying" under my energy plan, rates would necessarily skyrocket"? Lets get real.

[bjorgan freeman]

im not sure "bucket fulls" is correct English ... i believe it to be "buckets full"

[fomiz]

Should in a thousand years our species survives and this technology is accessible I wonder what that civilization will think of Cenk.