What was Cory Booker doing at ComicCon?
, then leaves the convention center on foot to head into San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter, running a bit behind for an interview with an entertainment outlet.
Booker can fill no role but the Candidate here, complete with the dad jokes, and in that way I feel a bit sorry for him. Not because of the corniness; heaven knows I can be guilty of that. It is because Comic-Con is where people come to both be their fullest selves who they cannot be in public life and to hide somewhat, obscuring their faces behind intricate makeup and masks? It may sound contradictory, but that is the culture here.
That said, my sympathy is limited. I’m skeptical that he’s really just there to enjoy it. He is running for president of the United States, and therefore by definition, one of the most ambitious people on the planet. He and I spoke about how none of the other recent Democratic nominees, perhaps Hillary Clinton aside, were considered the favorite this far out in the race.
But I understand, from having just covered one of his Senate colleagues and competitors, that while being a presidential candidate isn’t working in the coal mines or some other form of menial labor, it does take its toll. Running to be the second black president after seeing what Trump did to the first one is no easy task, either. Folks need a break.“I grew up with a father whose life was changed by movies,” the Senator told me of Cary Alfred Booker, named for Grant and Hitchcock, respectively.
convention in history was held in Newark’s public library in 1969. He is giddy, as he often is, but this is somehow different. I can tell that he is thinking of his dad, those times when Kirk and Spock brought them together, as they did for so many fathers and sons. Present company included.
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