Cory Booker recently sat down with the Philadelphia Inquirer to discuss a possible 2020 presidential bid, bachelorhood, and, oh yeah, those pesky gay rumors that he can’t seem to shake.
According to the Inquirer, Americans haven’t elected an unmarried president in over 100 years, not since Grover Cleveland in 1884. Before that, the only president to take office as a bachelor was James Buchanan in 1857.
If he runs in 2020, Booker would try to be the third… which, inevitably, leads to the tired old question: Is Cory gay???
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The Inquirer reports:
In the last presidential campaign, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who is also single, faced questions about campaigning as a bachelor (he suggested a rotating cast of family and friends could be first lady). In past political campaigns Booker’s opponents have tried to use his single status to question his sexuality.
49-year-old Booker, who has talked openly about his orientation many times before, tells the Inqurer flat out: “I’m heterosexual.”
“Every candidate should run on their authentic self, tell their truth, and more importantly, or mostly importantly, talk about their vision for the country,” he adds.
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Booker goes on to say that conventional thoughts on the president and his (or her) family have changed.
Says he: “Clearly the norms of family relationships have been changed dramatically as you’ve seen people across this country being elected to offices with all different kinds of family situations, including the president who has had three spouses.”
(And, we should add, countless mistresses. Including two he tried to pay off for their silence.)
Booker concludes by saying that, if he does run in 2020, he’ll have nothing to hide.
“I’m going to run on who I am,” he says, “whether that’s running for reelection [to the Senate] or running for president. I’ve always trusted the voters enough to evaluate me on the content of my character, quality of my ideas, and my ability to do the job.”
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HereIAm
Gay or not, I fully support the Senator to run for the next presidency. He is a leader with tremendous charisma. Obama 2.0!
misterjack
I wish he wasn’t such a shill for the pharmaceutical industry.
charles_bell
At least he didn’t say anything like “I’m all man.”
JED08
No, he is not heterosexual. There is NOTHING authentic about Cory Booker. I used to like him a lot when he first came on the scene, but over time I figured out that he’s the very definition of an “empty suit”. Doesn’t mean anything that he says.
Black Pegasus
I will support him as a candidate only if he marries another black man. I need to see people like myself in loving powerful relationships. And if this offends some then you can kiss my black hairy ass.
And Don Lemon, you don’t speak for us so please shut the funk up!
Kangol
You betta lay down conditions! LOL
Blackceo
I felt that. I mean listen I am all for the love is love and I’m equal opportunity. I have dated and slept across the rainbow and interracial relationships don’t bother me. But yes…I want to see a high profile, successful gay Black man choose another Black man and not always go White or some other light bright Eurocentric featured kind of guy. That kind of representation matters.
Kangol
I’ve met Cory Booker, and let me state for the record that he is very handsome. Not only does he have a handsome face, but the man was a former football player and is still built like a linebacker. If he is gay or bi, he could probably come out and would be reelected without breaking a sweat in New Jersey, but it would be a huge challenge for the rest of the US. Senator Booker radiates charisma, he is very smart (he was a Rhodes Scholar), and he would be a good socially liberal and fiscally moderate president if elected. However, as misterjack pointed out, he also is a neoliberal and has courted Wall Street (NYC’s major industry), the pharmaceutical industry (big in New Jersey), and Silicon Valley (he’s a product of Stanford), and probably would, like our last Democratic President, be as willing to accommodate them as address the needs of everyday people. I also worry that as good a politician as he is, he is not ready for the all out war that Trump (or the GOP or both) will wage against him. He tries to square the circle and make nice, and they are about dropping nuclear bombs and waiting for their opponents to deal with the fallout. So I hope he thinks this through very, very carefully.
Gregorj
What do people here think about “Desmond is Amazing” (11y) dancing in a gay bar, with men throwing money at him?
dwes09
Why are you posting this on every article, day after day?
Do you have some sort of emotional problem?
Please seek help as obsessions can spiral out of control very quickly. As long as his parents are watching out for him and he is maintaining his school work it is none of your business.
But regressives like you make the basest and most grotesque assumptions about anything that does not fit neatly into your tiny little world view.
It is folks exactly like you that prey on kids like this while claiming “satan” made you do it.
Get help.
Get a life.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I dunno the kid is amazing. However someone who is seemingly obsessed with him posting on a thread that has nothing to do with him reeks of a pedo
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
It seems the Russian smcubag trolls are at it again ….