My brush with political hotness.
I tracked down Cory Booker this morning, and yelled, “Mr. Mayor! I’m AngryBlackLady!” He looked at me, his eyes widened a bit, and he said, “Oh!” He said it with a tinge of “No seriously?” and “WTF?!” and “Charming!” (At least that is the gamut of emotion I read into his brief exclamation.) Then he was nice enough to stop for a photo (maybe he never read this critical piece I wrote about him for The Grio. Yo, Cory! I ain’t mad atcha, homey — call me!)
Dude is handsome as hell. Ferreals.
Let’s see… what else —
[The dreaded click-through!! — read full post at ABLC]
UPDATE (from the full post): I have to thank John Cole and the fine people at Balloon Juice for sending me here, and a special shoutout to @dvnix for hooking me up with my Angry Black Wifi Hotspot. I am having a blast. You guys rock my business socks.
Rosalita
yeah, he’s a hunka-hunka…did you grab his ass?
? Martin
My, there’s hotness all over that photo.
Chat Noir
Excellent!
Mary G
You are totally ruining your image as angry. Your smile is beautiful. Of course, I’m sure Mayor Booker had something to do with it.
Steve
You two are a hot couple. Have you ever been to Newark, by the way? Dude has a tough job.
Southern Beale
Just read that Gabrielle Giffords is delivering the pledge of allegiance tonight.
jharp
Good you for.
You two are a damn good looking pair.
And you have a beautiful smile.
AliceBlue
Any sign of Cole?
Punchy
Any pictures of Cole?
JGabriel
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ABL, From the click through at ABLC:
I love ya, ABL, and I never complain about the click-throughs, but: Isn’t kind of cognitively dissonant to make the people who helped send you to the convention click away from Balloon Juice to be thanked?
Just seems a little misfiled, is all I’m sayin’ …
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Allan
@Steve:
And Cory Booker’s handsome, too! *rimshot*
Jim C.
To think it was only a few short months ago when Booker was undercutting one of our key attack themes against Romney’s Bain career.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/21/1093429/-The-End-of-Corey-Booker-s-Political-Career
My how time flies. It’s been a bit weird to watch him figured so prominently at the convention after doing this, but memories are short I guess.
I suppose everybody makes mistakes. Hope he won’t be pulling this sort of **** again.
patroclus
Senator Barkley and I are gonna win this election and make these Republicans like it, now don’t you forget that! I call it the D0-Nothing Republican 80th Congress!
(Oh, sorry, I was just channeling the ghost of Harry S. Truman).
Yutsano
As I recall Cory is single. Just sayin’. :)
Mary G
People are calling into C-SPAN, now we have a Republican who is going to vote for Obama because his daughter applied for a federal job (he didn’t know that and sounded horrified) and she had to give five years of tax returns. Since Romney won’t he’s suspicious.
catclub
One of the two people in that picture has learned to spot any operating camera within 100 yards. And it isn’t ABL.
patroclus
This is No Ordinary Time. (oops – now, I’m channeling Eleanor Roosevelt).
gogol's wife
@Yutsano:
Wouldn’t that be the start of a political dynasty to remember?
Violet
Nice photo! Have you seen Cole today? If he misses the Pres speak that’s just sad
Quaker in a Basement
Of course he did. Who wouldn’t? Just lookatya!
Legalize
Mrs. Legalize has a dress (I’m assuming its a dress) kinda like that. Let’s just say I’m a fan.
The Other Chuck
The funny thing is, for a supposedly Angry Black Lady, I’ve never seen anyone smile so much. As opposed to our Surly Blog Owner, for instance.
Carnacki
WTF? I thought you loved me and me alone!
cmorenc
ABL:
Ditching Cole turned out to be a great move in the meeting-handsome guys department, n’est pas? Cole may have done all right on his wanderings too, provided he burned some more use on his credit card for a round of drinks for some single female delegates needing um…someone who’ll buy ’em drinks if they’ll be glad in his company for a half-hour.
ABL
@JGabriel: Fair enough.
Cole will be here in a half hour or so. He got credentials from Erica Sackin. He will probably stink of booze and desperation.
Soonergrunt
Now up on the stage at DNC 2012–Rep Mel Watt, D, NC12 (Charlotte)
tulip
http://angryblackladychronicles.com/2012/09/06/secretary-clinton-watches-president-clintons-speech-and-its-like-awwwww/
I hope the link works because it’s rather sweet.
Anyway, if not click through and scroll down, you’ll see the article.
:)
max
I ain’t mad atcha, homey—call me!
Maybe you can ween him off that Wall Street addiction.
Any pictures of Cole?
I am keen to see what journeys Cole’s hand have taken since last we saw it. It’s a shame we didn’t get a picture of Cole’s hand on Booker’s ass.
This is No Ordinary Time. (oops – now, I’m channeling Eleanor Roosevelt).
Hah. You forgot William Tecumseh:
max
[‘Well, he told them guys, didn’t he?’]
Mary G
NC congresscritters giving good short speeches. Great messages – “we care about all Americans, not just the wealthy few.” OMG CLASS WARFARE.
In an embarrasing proof that I am a snoop who has no life, I sent my first Tweet asking ABL if Cole was with her. I’m guessing it’s Heather because this picture looks really good.
CarolDuhart2
Relieved to see Cole is ok. A strange town, drunken women, who knows? Tell him he’s on lockdown until he gets back to West Virginia. (Man needs a wife, I swear….:)
BTW, I demand a proof of life picture with something of today’s date on it….
Ash Can
You two are an absolutely gorgeous couple. I hope you gave him your most brilliant smile, batted your lovely eyes fetchingly at him, then leaned over and whispered sweetly into his ear, “You know, Corey, Bain Capital fucks livestock.”
Mary G
Opening video is killer! Now James Taylor!
ETA: I saw him at the Shriner Auditorium in LA in 1972. Forty years. I am old. “Carolina in My Mind” is one of my favorite songs. Perfect for today.
Soonergrunt
James Taylor is up at 4:00 PM CT
“Carolina in my mind”
Of course.
patroclus
@max: How about Bobby Kennedy in 1964? “Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…Mr. Chairman…”
But then, he quoted Aeschylus.
Villago Delenda Est
OK, all kidding aside, ABL, that’s one helluva dress you’ve got on there.
Anna in PDX
What a gorgeous photo. Before this trip I imagined you in your old gravatar image of a black South Park character. Never again! I wish to be a quarter as photogenic as either one of you…
beltane
I think my mom is in love with Cory Booker. To hear her go on about him you’d think she was one of the people he rescued from the fire.
raven
@Soonergrunt: Shoulda done Knockin Around the Zoo!
Paul W.
I’m really enjoying living vicariously through you guys, especially since Labor day week is one I absolutely could not get off.
Keep kicking ass, give O some of my love!
Fred Fnord
From the full article:
Sounds like a breakfast cereal.
Citizen_X
@ABL:
Whew! I’ll still fit in around here, then.
(Seriously, you an’ Hizzoner are classing up this joint something fierce!)
Culture of Truth
Anyone can claim to be Angry Black Lady
BruceFromOhio
@Mary G: Smile, indeed. More ABL image action, por favor! =)
Yutsano
@gogol’s wife: The angry black bebehs! Practically superheroes with those genes!
EriktheRed
Sorry ABL, but I gotta say it again:
You’re a pretty woman.
SteveinSC
@Jim C.:@max: Yeah she was looking for Deval Patrick but found Harold Ford III.
Waynski
ABL allow me to say you are fine in every way imaginable. You’re a fine American. You’re a fine reporter and a fine writer, and a fine spokesperson for our little community… and well, you are fine. God bless from happily married Waynski + 4. Keep up the great work.
SiubhanDuinne
@Southern Beale:
Damn. That brings tears to my eyes.
MonkeyBoy
@Punchy: sez “Any pictures of Cole?”
I snagged the Cole pic last night before it was rolled but it would make him very cranky if I offered to share it.
mclaren
And counting down to Anti-Liberal Black Lady’s first verbal assault from the DNC convention floor on the only people (Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Alan Grayson, Russ Feingold) speaking out against America’s headfirst slide into fascism in…3…2…1…
Heliopause
Careful. Doug called him a “whore”. John said that he was “paid for.” It was even worse in the comments, needless to say.
rmirth
Have to add to the chorus: Beautiful smile, ABL.
Pretty and photogenic!
Beth
Look at these handsome people! Great smiles, intelligent looks, just a gorgeous pic!