This is where Booker's Heroic act get's lost...

[Miss Tam-Tam]

http://www.ajc.com/news/hero-newark-...s-1416225.html

Roland Martin, a CNN political analyst, in his examples of African American reform mayors forgot to mention former DC Mayor Adrian Fenty. Maybe Booker will break the logjam that happens when activist mayors attempt to ascend to higher office. The nature of local politics can be very fractured and sandbag a rising political career. (Things like removing city residents from municipal jobs.) Congressional representatives have a better shot at the statehouse because they don't have to get their hands dirty with street politics. Who knows, maybe Booker will break that trend.

Article excerpt:

"Emory University professor Andra Gillespie said political observers in New Jersey believe Booker is mulling a run for governor or U.S. Senator, with senator being a more likely option.

But Roland Martin, a national political analyst, warned about moving too fast.

“Cory Booker is one of many black mayors who have a bright future, but what I always caution people on is trying to anoint somebody as the next national black hero,” Martin said. “You have had Sharon Pratt Kelly [in Washington, D.C.], Kirk Schmoke [in Baltimore], Ron Kirk [in Dallas]. All good, solid, strong, young African-American mayors, but as you go up the ladder it becomes harder. Let Cory Booker be a great mayor in Newark and let things happen naturally.”

[brotherderek]

but I don't think he can do anything"naturally.”

[Make Newark Clean]

Have you noticed how the comedian's "viral response" to Booker's deed cannot mention Booker without taking a shot at his buddy Chris Christie? Nothing gets more laughs than a cheap fat joke. I wonder if that might put a strain on their convivial relationship?

[Miss Tam-Tam]

Originally Posted by Make Newark Clean

Have you noticed how the comedian's "viral response" to Booker's deed cannot mention Booker without taking a shot at his buddy Chris Christie? Nothing gets more laughs than a cheap fat joke.

That's because Americans despise fat people. This despite the fact that at least 72 million (or more than one-third) Americans are obese. Fat people are seen as lazy, shiftless and a burden on society. This attitude is borne out of ignorance. Chris Christie may be many things, but lazy isn't one of them. In fact Christie helps to debunk the assumption that low income folks are more likely to be obese because of their dependence on cheap, unhealthy fast-food. That may be true to some degree, but the obese can hail from all classes.

Here's a picture taken from Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train as it traveled from New York City to Arlington, Virginia in 1968. The fact that most of these folks appear to be of healthy weight dramatizes how in just three to four decades this problem has spread. (No pun intended.)

[brotherderek]

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

[Miss Tam-Tam]

No comment.

http://articles.philly.com/2012-04-1...-floor-bedroom

Alive, grateful, but hazy
On this, she's clear: Mayor Booker is a hero.
April 18, 2012|Associated Press

NEWARK, N.J. - The woman pulled from her burning home by Mayor Cory Booker says that she would be dead if he hadn't come to her rescue but that she was in such a fog at the time, she doesn't remember his lifting her out of bed or carrying her to safety.

Zina Hodge, who was released from the hospital Tuesday, told Fox TV station My9 before her discharge that she was gasping for air and delusional when Booker pulled her from her smoky second-floor bedroom late Thursday.

Hodge said she was asleep when the fire broke out, apparently in the kitchen next to her bedroom, but remembered little about the ordeal or the mayor's actions.

"I didn't even see him. I don't even remember him picking me up. But I heard him - calling me," she told the station.

But, Hodge said, she knows she owes her life to him.

"I'm blessed, man. You know what I mean," she said. "If Cory wouldn't have come in there and rescued me, I would have died in there."

Hodge, 47, was admitted in serious condition to the burn intensive-care unit at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. Her injuries included burns to the back and smoke inhalation.

The mayor suffered smoke inhalation and burned his right hand when, against the wishes of his security detail, he rushed up the stairway of his neighbor's burning house to rescue Hodge.

Once they were outside her house, which is next door to Booker's home, the mayor's main concern was getting her into an ambulance, Hodge said.

His office confirmed that the mayor had visited Hodge in the hospital but declined further comment.

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[Miss Tam-Tam]

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerletters/201...ayor_cory.html