Cuomo Nominates Clinton 1992 - Part 2

[NYerintransit]

In 1992, they were calling the country's economic state "more than a recession".

Sound familiar? It should. This kind of fear-mongering shows up every generation.

[Ammovir]

07:28 It's mr. Singh :D

[maple2000new]

It's ironic to revisit his speech. After sixteen years, candidate Obama used the same slogan "change" and win the presidency. Will he be another Bill Clinton? After about two years, I am afraid he is not. We face similar challenges after 18 years, the only difference is now that a democrat is the president. Although we cannot blame him for the mess but it looks like he doesn't have the cure.

[JuneauActor]

The great Mario could have given this speech yesterday.

He should have been president. Vote Obama/Biden, I know Mario will.

[villa72]

It's amazing hearing actual progressive social policy from sixteen years ago. What Cuomo is saying is simple economic truth. This is the truth. I'm afraid that poverty in America is now permanently off the table.

[nuness20]

Cuomo remains the greatest American orator since perhaps William Jennings Bryan and perhaps in all American history. He is the absolute master of the art.

[EdwardP88]

We need him to speak at the 2008 DNC because even though he's talking about big Bush it sounds like he's talking about (now) president Bush; which means that both of them are one in the same. We need Barack Obama to bounce our economy back.

[jimfarrowlove]

Mr, Cuomo is a talented speaker, but a snake. This rat support abortion on demand. Fine words can't cover up this holocaust. Adolf Hitler was a talented speaker too.

[MjoEm32]

Unlike you, who is just a snake. Abortion is not the same thing as the Holocaust, and it's offensive to imply it is. What a moronic remark.

[jimfarrowlove]

Abortion on demand is not the same as the holocaust, but the result is the same: millions of murdered innocent people.

[MjoEm32]

There is little point in trying to debate with fundamentalists, but foetuses are not the same as people.

[jimfarrowlove]

I am not a fundamentalist, I happen to share the same faith as Mr.Cuomo. Take a look at a photo of seven month old aborted "fetus", see the hair, the eye color, little feet and hands, eyebrows, eyelashes - this is not a person?

[MjoEm32]

I am not aware of anyone - even those self-describing themselves as in favour of "abortion on demand" - as advocating abortion at 7 months. You're confusing the issue deliberately.

Oh, and you're not a fundamentalist: you just compare abortion to the Holocaust, and Cuomo to Hitler. If you don't want the label, pick your language more carefully. So far the description seems a pretty accurate one in any case...

[jimfarrowlove]

When they support abortion on demand it therefore leads to babies being murdered during the seventh month of pregancy. You are ignoring this FACT deliberately. If you realize that there is something amiss w/killing said baby it calls into question abortion on demand. I do appreciate that there are rare circumstances when an abortion is necessary. Cuomo used fine words/polished speech to lay ideologoical platform for the murder of innoncent people. In this and only this - he is like Hitler.

[MjoEm32]

Well I am British, not American, so you show me the examples of states that allow abortions at 7 months. FTR, I don't believe there should be at that stage, unless there is a medical need.

In the UK, the test is whether the foetus has any kind of decent chance of surviving outside the womb, and we've just had another debate in parliament about whether to ban (the v small number) of abortions between 20 and 24 weeks. It was decided not, because the foetus's chances of survival are so low.

[jimfarrowlove]

States are allowed to regulate abortions after the the first trimester except in cases of "health". The thing is that "health" can be and is interpreted so broadly that the baby can be aborted at ANY stage of the pregnancy. We have therefore throughout the USA - abortion on demand. There are abortion doctors who specialize in late term abortions.

[MjoEm32]

Well I obviously don't agree with such late-term abortions on a whim - though as you admit there are genuine cases where late-term abortions are reasonable, since there is a genuine threat to the mother's health. I frankly think it would be a lot better if the US had passed abortion through a legislative process, not by Supreme Court judgment - but that's to get into a whole other debate. Presumably therefore you are not against abortion per se?

[jimfarrowlove]

I am not against abortions per se. Abortion has always been a reasonable, albeit unfortunate, choice when the mothers health is truly at risk. But that is the only time that abortion is reasonable that I can think of. Otherwise the "choice" that the woman has is not to get pregnant in the first place (not including those pregnancies that occur because of rape of course).

[framptonorchablis]

If you actually believed abortion was murder, you are an evil, morally weak person.

If you truly believed that millions of innocent people were being murdered, it would be your obligation to do anything in your power to blow up the nearest clinic, and would be willing to face prison.

"Pro-lifers" don't actually believe abortion is murder. It's just part of their angry rhetoric which is driven by their desire to control people's sex lives and reproductive decisions.

[jimfarrowlove]

I have no desire to control people's sex lives. You abortionists use clever euphemisms like "reproductive decisions" to cover up what you are doing. Take a good hard look at an aborted baby and then claim it isn't a baby. The abortion mafia loves it when people blow up clinics because it helps them to raise even more millions of dollars to kill more babies, thats why it wouldn't help to blow up the nearest clinic. Do you know that people have actually survived abortions?

[uyd]

Change? 2008-1992 some things never change. Republicans make the mess and Democrats clean it up. Republicans = status quo Democrats=CHANGE!!!!

[billybluesrock]

Mr. Cuomo is more than the best of orators in our history.More,much more than this,he is a sincere,genuine American leader who brings it home.Straight from the heart.......TRUTH

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Cuomo was among a number of Democratic candidates who didn't run because Bush Senior seemed unbeatable so soon after the Gulf War.

[MelaleucaHalifax]

Cuomo was one of the best orators in US politics. Amazing. No wonder Clinton was relieved in 1992 that Cuomo declined to run (remember, he was seen as the leading candidate on the Democratic side).

[marblesdanica]

aha lesbian rights lol

[epitrochoid09]

cuomo refused to allow clinton's campaign see the speech in advance. they were worried he might be lukewarm in his support of clinton. when they heard this speech, they went wild with suprize and joy.

[monauajiza]

I'm totally speechless. Mr. Coumo delivered this speech with soul, spirit, heart, conscience, and mind.

[Sideburns1986]

And he was voted out of the Governor's mansion in Albany because of a Billy Horton-esque ad. How shameful.

[bigmysterio]

why can't democrats speak like this anymore? simple, honest, and strong. they have become so pussified they are terrified of retalation from the wealthy pockets they are protecting. they are no less corrupt than the republicans. as a lifelong deomacrat, i can honestly say that the deomcrats are at a historical low who are continuously committing political suicide. it's time for a new revolution.

[masslib]

At an historic low? Are you out of your mind? We're the majority party again if you haven't noticed. Yes I do agree that more Democrats need to speak and act as former Governor Cuomo did, but to say we're at an historic low when we're in the majority? Sorry, but that's crazy.

[bpfitzgerald]

impressive