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Oh Look! It’s Part-Time Firefighter, Cory Booker.

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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!)

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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.

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  3. 3.

    Chat Noir

    I have been hunkered down in the arena for an hour and a half because I heard rumors that they would be locking this joint down at 3 p.m. so the Secret Service can sweep for any bombs or fake birth certificates the Kenyan and his terrorist pals may have hidden in the rafters.

    Excellent!

  4. 4.

    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.

  10. 10.

    JGabriel

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    ABL, From the click through at ABLC:

    I have to thank John Cole and the fine people at Balloon Juice for sending me here …

    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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  13. 13.

    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).

  15. 15.

    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.

  16. 16.

    catclub

    One of the two people in that picture has learned to spot any operating camera within 100 yards. And it isn’t ABL.

  20. 20.

    Quaker in a Basement

    he was nice enough to stop for a photo

    Of course he did. Who wouldn’t? Just lookatya!

  21. 21.

    Legalize

    Mrs. Legalize has a dress (I’m assuming its a dress) kinda like that. Let’s just say I’m a fan.

  24. 24.

    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.

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    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:

    You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

    max
    [‘Well, he told them guys, didn’t he?’]

  29. 29.

    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.

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    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….

  31. 31.

    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.”

  32. 32.

    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.

  34. 34.

    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.

  36. 36.

    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…

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    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.

  39. 39.

    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!

  40. 40.

    Fred Fnord

    From the full article:

    …but needless to say there are Negro clusters throughout this convention…

    Sounds like a breakfast cereal.

  41. 41.

    Citizen_X

    @ABL:

    He will probably stink of booze and desperation.

    Whew! I’ll still fit in around here, then.

    (Seriously, you an’ Hizzoner are classing up this joint something fierce!)

  47. 47.

    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.

  50. 50.

    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…

  51. 51.

    Heliopause

    Careful. Doug called him a “whore”. John said that he was “paid for.” It was even worse in the comments, needless to say.

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