(Mayor Cory Booker's power play causes chaos at Newark City Council meeting)
It was a great plan. Mayor Cory Booker was going to stick to a strategy that had made him one of America's most admired mayors - using the visibility of his public office to launch profile raising publicity stunts for himself. And not just any headline grab, but one that would help define Mayor Booker as a true man of the people in these trying times. He would become a man, nay, a symbol of the dispossessed and suffering.
In other words, Cory was going on food stamps.
Obviously it would only be for about a week but the optics were perfect. And without fail the merry band of morons who had just helped ensure an Obama re-election by trivializing rape and recommending immigrants "deport themselves" took the bait and committed another Fox Pas.
Analogizing cosmetic dieting with brutal poverty? Yes! Winning. Booker was not only going to get great press for his heroic act of not eating the more expensive foods he likes for a week, he would also get an honorable mention from every liberal establishment stroke artist as epitomizing the sensible alternative to a right-wing gone mad.
Meanwhile, back in Newark ...