Cory Booker's comments on Obama's 'nauseating' campaign: Gaffe or calculated tactic? [View all]

[FarCenter]

The day after Cory Booker, a surrogate for the Obama re-election team, went on NBC’s "Meet the Press" and let the nation know he was nauseated by one of the president’s campaign tactics against Mitt Romney, the Democratic mayor of Newark found himself embroiled in a national conversation. What did he mean? Was this a gaffe or calculated? How big a headache did he cause his party?

Booker, known for meticulously crafting his own image on Twitter and television, appears to have lost control of that message.

Or did he?

Democrats are on defense, but some politicians think Booker may have scored points with those looking for people willing to criticize their own party, while others in the party acknowledge his words will play well in the private equity world.

"I think that what he did is in his interest," Newark Councilman Ras Baraka said. "The press is going to go away, they will forget this comment. But the people who finance campaigns, they will remember."

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Who finances the campaigns of Democratic politicians?

People with money, that's who.