Is racism a subtext in all these attacks on Cory Booker?

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38. Just Competence

This is about Competence 101.

Booker was on as a surrogate, with his "surrogate notes". Any job, low to high, requires one thing: ability to execute. Booker, Stanford educated, Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law grad failed to just do what he was there to do.

He wasn't on to speak for Cory Booker. He had been given the high honor of speaking for the President of the United States. He didn't state something the President could embrace, no matter how grudgingly (Scarborough says the VP staff is persona non grata). He objected to the presidents judgment, publicly; rank insubordination. Booker's a politician. He rebuked the head of his own party, publicly. Why's he tryin' to change the rules? Because another brother's in the white house?

Booker had a 10 minute job to do. He failed. Not only that, but his failure to realize what he later said he did, in the moment; his false equivalence between Jeremiah Wright (under what circumstances should an Obama surrogate volunteer that name) and Romney's Bain record begs the question of his judgment and or his intellect. We know he's not stupid. He's got the papers to prove it. So he was just wrong, emphatically.

When the president gives you a job, you do it. If you don't feel you can, run yourself or support someone else.