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Tutonic

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7. Rolling on the floor! This guy is ambitious indeed. Corey Booker desires to ascent to a senate

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 06:28 AM

Jan 2013

seat now held by Bob Melendez. However, Corey has a slight problem in New Jersey and elsewhere in that his sexuality is often questioned. Corey is fearful to run with this questioned sexuality. I'm not inferring that he is or is not gay. However, I am inferring that he is creating a narrative about how he is big strapping straight as a solid line heterosexual male that will then get repeated on MSNBC, FAUX and elsewhere. I'm disappointed that he has taken this step at this time. Too ambitious and self centered.

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Cory Booker: “I hated gays” [View all] DonViejo Jan 2013 OP

thank you! Voice for Peace Jan 2013 #1

People change, sometimes for the better. cheapdate Jan 2013 #2

Like George Wallace. n/t bitchkitty Jan 2013 #18

It's always easy to hate those who are different from you. craigmatic Jan 2013 #3

Many adults are basically children. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2013 #5

Weird Shankapotomus Jan 2013 #4

That kind of prejudice is often carefully taught from childhood--some parents think it is msanthrope Jan 2013 #10

I never did either and I'm in my 50s. LiberalFighter Jan 2013 #13

This story needs to be told, especially in the Black community qanda Jan 2013 #6

Rolling on the floor! This guy is ambitious indeed. Corey Booker desires to ascent to a senate Tutonic Jan 2013 #7

He wrote that Op-Ed twenty years ago. (nt) Captain Stern Jan 2013 #9

My parents gave me the boot out of home and school for being gay twenty years ago. Occulus Jan 2013 #19

were you rolling on the floor 20 years ago snooper2 Jan 2013 #14

He's going after Sen Lautenberg's seat nt DonViejo Jan 2013 #17

Well duh! Anyone who actually knows gay people personally has no problem lunatica Jan 2013 #8

It's an op-ed he wrote 21 years ago when he was at university, age 22 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #11

My bad, but I do feel that he inadvertently showed his true colors in 2012 lunatica Jan 2013 #12

Bingo. And when Rachel turned half of a show over to him because of it - forestpath Jan 2013 #15

This is why it is so hard to come out jinx1 Jan 2013 #16