# Farewell Cory Booker **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 13, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356 "2020-01-13T16:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/41 "2020-01-31T19:34:51Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Now that monthly reporting is a thing. I think we will see the rest of the fringe drop. _Monthly_ reporting?! We’ve got a primary or caucus every _week_ in February, and then the floodgates open on March 3. Having to report their financials isn’t gonna be the straw that breaks any campaign’s back. Having to read the results from Iowa, NH, NV, SC, and Super Tuesday, though… :eek: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/42 "2020-01-31T19:55:24Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Please let me re=phrase it more specifically then. > > I don’t find Booker’s speaking to be special. Obama was a great speaking, a motivating speaker, a “special” speaker. Booker is better than many but not special. Reagan was another example of a “special” speaker. I just saw this so I’m late to the party. You are dead wrong about Booker in that regard. Obama was a great speaker with a prepared speech. That’s a skill no doubt and one not everyone possesses but let’s not overstate it. Off the cuff Obama is a good but hardly great speaker. I saw Booker in person speak twice. Three times really but the third was just brief remarks. The two long speeches I saw were given without notes. No TelePrompTer. Just off the top of his head. He was the definition of charismatic. The best speaker I have been in the presence of. He was truly impressive. Personally I think he made a mistake when he went against his strengths. In the senate post-Trump and when he decided to run he tried to be more forceful. Quite frankly more angry and Trumplike. I didn’t get it. Charismatic Cory gets votes. Angry Cory does not. As for Pallone being senator, I’ve heard things I can’t verify that make me glad he isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/43 "2020-01-31T20:03:53Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > _Monthly_ reporting?! We’ve got a primary or caucus every _week_ in February, and then the floodgates open on March 3. > > Having to report their financials isn’t gonna be the straw that breaks any campaign’s back. Having to read the results from Iowa, NH, NV, SC, and Super Tuesday, though… :eek: 😛 Yeah, but filing out all those damn reports is expensive and no shoestring ego campaign can afford it. Who wants to get a fine? Yang will stick around but at least he has a cult, an agenda, and books to sell and speaking engagements to get. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/44 "2020-01-31T20:10:59Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I just saw this so I’m late to the party. > > You are dead wrong about Booker in that regard. Obama was a great speaker with a prepared speech. That’s a skill no doubt and one not everyone possesses but let’s not overstate it. Off the cuff Obama is a good but hardly great speaker. > > I saw Booker in person speak twice. Three times really but the third was just brief remarks. The two long speeches I saw were given without notes. No TelePrompTer. Just off the top of his head. He was the definition of charismatic. The best speaker I have been in the presence of. He was truly impressive. > > Personally I think he made a mistake when he went against his strengths. In the senate post-Trump and when he decided to run he tried to be more forceful. Quite frankly more angry and Trumplike. I didn’t get it. Charismatic Cory gets votes. Angry Cory does not. > > As for Pallone being senator, I’ve heard things I can’t verify that make me glad he isn’t. I think we will be seeing more of Booker and Harris in the future. I think they were both victims of their campaign strategies and I’m sure they and their staff wish that Biden and Bernie would have sat this one out. If there is a President Biden, I’m sure Booker along with many others, will be keeping a sharp eye open for 2024 in case it’s a one term Biden. Booker, with a big state senate seat, will be in an excellent position especially given his love of getting on the cable news shows. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/45 "2020-01-31T20:12:25Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > Favorite Cory Booker piece of trivia is that in his mayoral re-election campaign he appeared in a commercial shaking hands with the man who killed Malcolm X. One of the men convicted of murding Malcolm X? Nope. One of the men charged with murdering Malcom X? Nope. Someone who shares the name of someone that a single convicted killer has since named as a gunman? Yep, he was in a commercial with Cory Booker. Might have killed Malcolm X; might not have any involvement whatsoever; we certainly don’t know either way. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/46 "2020-02-12T14:24:03Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > 😃 😃 > And of course the ‘forgotten but not gone’ trio: Michael Bennet, John Delaney, and Deval Patrick. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > OK, now John Delaney’s both forgotten [and](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-delaney-drops-out-democratic-primary-race-after-anemic-poll-numbers) gone. 😃 Michael Bennet dropped out last night, leaving Deval Patrick as the last of the ‘forgotten but not gone’ trio still in the race. Apparently getting 0.4% of the NH vote wasn’t enough of a hint for Patrick. > [@dalej42](#): > > Yang will stick around but at least he has a cult, an agenda, and books to sell and speaking engagements to get. Yang dropped out last night too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/47 "2020-02-12T22:45:44Z")
Just took a few more hours for it to sink in maybe, but Deval Patrick has pulled the plug on his campaign. Too bad, I was looking forward to the slogan “Better the Deval you know…” ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/48 "2020-02-13T01:25:11Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Just took a few more hours for it to sink in maybe, but Deval Patrick has pulled the plug on his campaign. > > Too bad, I was looking forward to the slogan “Better the Deval you know…” He says, on his website: “Having delivered health care to 99% of Massachusetts residents . . . I believed and still believe we had a strong case to make for being able to deliver better outcomes.” It must be painful (should I say deceitful?) to have to stoop so low that you try to steal the glory from someone like Mitt Romney. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356/49 "2020-02-19T16:57:36Z")
I was a Booker fan after meeting him two years ago at a fundraiser in Ohio - friendly, very charismatic, and gave a great speech. I liked most of what I read about his work as mayor and U.S. senator. Sorry he got out when he did - I would have liked him to at least get to Iowa and New Hampshire - but I don’t fault him for it. Hope he’ll be the Dems’ VP pick this year, or run again for the top job sometime down the road. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-cory-booker/846356.md?page=2)