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Booker's big mouth ruins relationship with Obama, Cabinet hopes
It's bye-bye, Beltway for Cory Booker.Newark's mayor, who was gunning for a spot in President B.O.'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 Willard MittRomney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... 's record at private-equity firm Bain Capital were "nauseating" and made him "very uncomfortable." Posted by: Beavis 2012-06-08 |
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