Mayor Booker has been the object of vicious criticism from Obama partisans for failing to parrot the president's political ads. That demonstrates how intolerant the Obama Hope and Change Express can be. But you are wrong to say that leveraged buyouts by Bain are a key question in this election campaign. The key questions are whether Obama's fiscal policy, crony capitalism and foreign policy blunders warrant a second term in office.

One thing left out here is the Mayor was talking about both sides, he said he was also against the ad's about rev. Wright. The point he was trying to make is the politics in this country is nauseating.

It was amazing how this story revealed the truth behind the Obama campaign. They pounced on Booker, and forced his recantation, for the high crime of disagreeing with the boss about Romney, and his work at Bain Capital. The last time we saw this when Joe Lieberman was nearly defeated for his senate seat for the high crime of supporting his country and its president in the war on terror. Obama would have been wise to listen to Booker, and stop these silly Bain ads. Trust that Romney will respond by highlighting the president's own venture capital record, and show all the jobs lost from the failure of Solyndra and other green energy boondoggles bank rolled by the US tax payer.

The Jacoby household was up early today! We have migh and Richmond12 but where are caroe and jspencer3153?

All Mayor Booker was trying to do is save the Obama administration from itself. With these attacks on private equity they come across as economic illiterates, which in my opinion they are. Stand back and take a look at the impressive Boston skyline. What you see wouldn't be there today were it not for private equity and venture capitalism.

The irony is the administration used many of the same private equity tactics/processes when it intervened in GM and Chrysler. The main difference of course being tax payer backing.

disagree with the ONE?

Hurrah for Booker...he is a thinker and we do need venture capitalists that create jobs. Let Pres. Obama explain all the auto dealerships that went under and the thousands that loss their jobs because of how he had the bail out for GM etc. The shareholders lost, auto dealers lost and the unions his backers won. That is thousands unemployed. At least with the steel mill that went under, Bain Capital put a hundred million into this failing company and held it open for 8 years. That is 8 years longer then it should have been open.

Maybe Mayor Booker understands economics - an unusual thing for a Democrat - and understands that private industry is what steadily creates wealth and therefore it creates jobs. The government cannot create wealth, only redistribute what others have created.

Politics has turned into a cult. No one has to agree 100% with one party's ideology. I like both party's for different reasons and it's ok to be a free thinker. But the fact Booker is being demonized by his own party troubling.

So much for the big tent of the Democrat Party. My way or the highway, baby! Booker has a tough job as mayor and he should be a political future force to be reckoned with. Were he a US Senator, he'd be a rubber stamp with feet for Harry Reid. A mere party apparatchik. That's what a rigid ideological driven party does with talent: turn them into yes men, and women, for the party bosses. That will be Liz Warren's fate as well. Sad, really.

what is the greatest part of Obama's life's work?? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

No. If you disagree with the chosen one you are evil

You know he can't deviate from the fearless leader. He is suppose to be a lemming not someone who can think for himself. That's the reason not to vote for Warren. If elected, she just be another lemming doing Obama and Reid's bidding.

Republicans do the same thing. I easily recall what happened to Gingrich when he called the House's budget plan to revamp Medicare as right-wing social engineering. The Republicans gave him hell for that.

Booker had no business conflating the issues of Rev. Wright and Bain capital. One is incendiary, the other the "job creator" issue.

So, Repubs can scrutinize Rev Wright too, since Obama spent 20 years in his church...correct Mr Globe? Booker made a big mistake backtracking...he now looks like an Obama "idiot".

Very amusing! If a seasoned Republican legislator steps out of line and expresses an opinion out of keeping with the "narrative", he is under the bus and gone without a thought. But if someone on the other side of the aisle exhibits free thought, suddenly it's all profiles in courage from the right wing. The GOP invented the kind of bare-knuckles political environment that we are subjected to every day. Unfortunately, Democrats don't fall into lockstep quite as quickly as their Republican counterparts. Happily, now Cory Booker can count on Governor Christie's unqualified support for all of Newark's needs, and his. Because after all, politics is a fair give and take.