The idea behind Waywire is interesting, but I can’t help but believe that Cory Booker is a made man in the Silicon Valley Cosa Nostra. There are worse groups, especially for a North Jersey politican (see HBO’s The Sopranos), but I don’t like the way they made Booker a potential millionaire without even expecting him to do any actual work.
I also don’t like how Booker has been caricatured by so many on the left as some kind of Wall Street sell out. It’s much more complicated than that. If he’s been captured, in some real sense, he also has real ideas about how to utilize the power he’s gained to help the poor and the marginalized. I don’t think he’s lying when he argues that social media is an important democratizing force.
He has over 1.4 million Twitter followers and has made over 30,000 tweets. That’s real commitment. I think I am too old to know what it means.
