639. “This Country Kicks My Ass All the Time”

You may recognize this voice, especially if you watch a lot of C-SPAN. I was on an airplane not too long ago where I sat down next to this mother and daughter, 80 and 60. They wanted to know who I was. Why are people paying attention to me? Asked me if I was a professional athlete, which at my age is quite the compliment.

That is Corey Booker. He did play college football at Stanford, but that was a long time ago. He's 56 now, and he is a United States senator from New Jersey. And I said, no, I'm a United States Senator. And they suddenly did what most Americans would do when they meet a congressperson out in the wild and they don't know what party they're in.

They want to know, are you on my team or their team? They said, Republican or Democrat? And I said, ma'am. I'm a Democrat. And she looked at me so angrily, crossed her arms, and said, well, I should have brought my Trump hat and swiveled away from me.

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