One of the most beautifully crafted political speeches I have ever heard. It's sad this speech applies to the world today just as much as it did back then.
Muzzy337 has everything he needs, you are a self appointed guardian of the status quo. Do you every wonder what it would be like to go without muzzy? I'm sure you haven't, we have a system whereby all the fruits go to the upper 1%, we need a solution. The Venus Project.
He should give this speech again, and give it to his son, the son who ignores the student who cannot pay his loan, the homeowner who cannot pay his mortgage, and the ghetto resident who gives his life to the drug dealer.
His son is a Republican, who 'gives the tax break to a millionaire" The millionaire is is his common law wife Sandra Lee.
This is the man who almost bought the New York Yankees in 1990 from George Steinbrenner and wanted to bring a Yankees team of talent like their past dynasty teams has not been seen since the late 1970s. But because of his commitment as Governor of NY changed his mind on the purchase deal.
Sorry, Mr. Cuomo. There's far too much dead weight in this god forsaken country for it to ever be a model society. THE USA SUFFERS FROM A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY GAP. It has done nothing but get bigger and bigger as time marches on. There will always be poor people, no matter how much charity there is. Face it everybody- the world is a tough fucking place. Wear a helmet and shut the fuck up. Stop complaining and get to work taking care of yourself.
@Muzzy337 Start talking when you break your fucking spine and can't find a decent job because you couldn't afford college tuition, or your school district is so poor that its a fight just to get through the day. Start talking when you're stuck in the ghetto and can't find your way out because some other assholes are cutting your job's pay so they can buy another yacht. Start talking when your own parents can't take care of you and you're on the street at the age of 9. You shouldn't be talking.
Democrats tell us what we want to hear, but don't act on it. Republicans come up with the shitty ideas, and act on it thus making a lot of people's lives shitty. The Government is supposed to be ran by the people for the people, but today's government is just a bunch of rich people who say "we're not having any problems, you shouldn't have any either". We don't need any more politicians in power, whose only goal is to get money and stay in power, we need the people, we see the need, they don't
Mario Cuomo is not only a great man, but he is also one of the greatest orators we've had in a long time. If he would've run in 88, he would have won, since he wouldn't have been as lackluster as Dukasis.
"Mario the pious" as Rush calls him. The liberal sanctimony just oozes from his mouth. Had he the balls to actually run for president while he was still in office, he would have wound up on the short end of a McGovern and Mondale style landslide.
This is why I'm proud to be an independent. I don't believe all the bullshit rhetoric that republicans and democrats say because they will do and say anything to stay in power, and both sides are clearly only looking out for the massive lobbies that run this country, and the independents are the only ones opposing this.
This is why I am proud to be a Democrat. 22 million jobs created during the Clinton administration, budget surpluses and only $6 trillion national debt. Then, 0% job creation from 2000-2008, a budget deficit of $1 trillion+ and $10.6 trillion national debt in 2008. And, lest we forget, 8 years of economic and regulatory decisions and policy-making leading to the worst financial collapse and crisis the US has endured in over a century. Quit grandstanding and allow us to fix the country again.
THIS IS WHY I AM PROUD TO BE A REPUBLICAN. 17 MILLION JOBS CREATED FROM 1982-1988. I LOVED PRESIDENT REAGAN. I LIVED IN THOSE YEARS AND I REMEMBER HOW PATHETIC CARTER WAS. 49 STATE LANDSLIDE-HARDLY DESPAIR!
This is a useful reminder of what a Democrat sounds like. Obama needs to listen to this speech every morning and get his head out of John Boner's ass.
@miljenko1 The Republicans are about redistribution as well, then, if Cuomo is. The only difference is that they transfer money from the already poor to the super-rich.
I love how a recording of a speech from 1984 as stirred up so many commenters.
I would say as a speech, that makes this a stemwinder. And Mr. Cuomo's delivery, his enunciation, inflection, timing, eye contact, volume and emotion were all first rate.
@axxizzer Most of the political speeches of that time were just as vapid and platitude-filled as most of the political speeches today (and, I imagine, of other times). Mario Cuomo is an exceptional orator, and this was a landmark speech. Also, the Democrats were out of power when this took place, and nothing forces a sharpening of "the vision thing" like having been trounced in a recent election.
I have to listen to this speech at least once a year to remind myself why I continue to vote for Democrats. President Obama — if he's ever heard it at all — should listen to it every day.
i guess i didn't see much substance in this speech besides demagoguery. all i got out of it was that i should feel a tinge of guilt if i'm successful. meh, i'll pass on that.
Whether or not one believes what Cuomo has to say, there is no denying his salesmanship of this speech, which is exquisite, passionate and rabble rousing, and historic.
Does anyone find any of this familiar? We were coming out of a horrendous recession in '84, but now we're in much worse shape - as a DIRECT result of the policies and ideology that Cuomo points to in this speech. So...
@robtran Exactly how did the policies and ideology Cuomo point to cause the economic shape we're in, when we've had 2 Democratic presidents since then, and overall Republican domination of Congress since then as well?
But don't let fax get in the way of your bullshitting.
@ColonelCharisma Oh that's easy - 30 fucking years of conservative economic policy, specifically deregulating the financial markets (already under way in '84, continued and enhanced by Republican Lite clowns like Clinton), letting the F.I.R.E. foxes help themselves to the hen house, only to be bailed out by none other than George W. Bush, who often described himself as Reagan's political descendant. Any other political history lessons you'd like shall be freely offered.
@robtran Uh. Cuomo was and is a liberal, so I'm not entirely sure what you're ranting about. Or were you referring to what he was talking about in the speech? I read it as you talking about his personal ideology, which is why I was rather confused.
NYC had one of the highest deficits in its history under cuomos welfare programs. NYC was drowning in debt and every crack whore who needed a handout got one.
Just for the record, while this is a great convention speech, another that is up there is William Jennings Bryant's Cross of Gold Speech in 1896 where he said "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
Im not a Liberal bu this is by far one of the best political speeches i have ever come across.
Cuomo is a gifted orator.....no doubt that if the Democrats had of nominated Cuomo over Mondale in 84 Reagan would of had some competition and something to worry about.
The best Convention speech I've ever heard in my lifetime. I heard it live at 12 yrs. of age and it basically shows/tells the difference between Democrat's & Republican's. Neither Party is perfect but Democrat's have compassion and empathy.....and Republican's have always so woefully lacked in their concern for others .....except for the top 2% of wealthiest American's.......
@transitory9 interesting... does that compassion and empathy that you claim democrats possess extend to the wealthiest 2% as well? if not, that seems like a double standard.
@whatever678 The richest 2% do not NEED as much compassion as the poor do, precisely because they are the WEALTHY. They can provide for their families a thousand times over, even if their taxes are raised or their loopholes are vanquished. The point is that poor families can not do the same if programs specifically built to help the poor are defunded and crushed. We are not punishing the rich for being successful; we are simply asking them to shoulder a small part of the burden of the economy.
@whatever678 No, I am endorsing fairness. The rich can easily provide for themselves, even if we ask them to give a comparatively tiny amount of their vast fortunes (remember, the top 2% own about... 40% of all the private money in the United States) to help the poor and needy. The poor and needy, by comparison, cannot, by the very fact that they are poor and needy. What's wrong with getting the rich to support the vast underclass of the nation just a little bit?
@whatever678 Oh. OH. So you're a libertarian then. Well, you do realize that ANYTHING the government enforces is, well, force, right? And you do realize that taking away the programs for the poor in order to subsidize the rich and the corporations is just a different kind of force, right? The programs that the poor have were given to them. The tax cuts and loopholes the rich have were GIVEN to them. Don't give me crap about all the rich earning them; a large portion inherited their wealth.
Great speech - and who doesn't love this kind of message? I remember hearing it in 1984 and being brought almost to tears. "Government can do it all, government is the answer to everything that ails us". Except that...it doesn't work, Mario. It never has. It never will. This is America, and this country was built and made great by another philosophy and another approach. Your message was wrong then and it's wrong now.
Great speech - and who doesn't love this kind of message? I remember hearing it in 1984 and being brought almost to tears. "Government can do it all, government is the answer to everything that ails us". Except that...it doesn't work, Mario. It never has. It never will. This is America, and this country was built and made great by another philosophy and another approach. Your message was wrong then and it's wrong now.
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Socialist Mario, you failed. You ran NY into the toilet. And the voters finally kicked you out. Only punks blame others for their own failures. And you do so with such fineness.
Watching these older Democratic party speeches makes me both sad and hopeful - today's Democratic party has little regard for strong progressives. But if the party leadership believed in these things once before, surely it can return to these positions, someday.
The problem with politics is mainly that the candidates refuse to address the actual issues - one thing Bush was actually good at even if he was an evil satanic president - and just speak rhetoric... nobody has any sense any more, politics has honestly turned into a game.
you yanks are lucky we haven't had a great rhetorical speech since Churchill. Must admit this in my top 10, what is your problemo's you have Obamo giving great speeches we have boring fucking Brown.
Love how Bush waterboards people and uses war as an excuse to hand out billion dollar contracts to his associates while innocent low-income Americans die.
This is a great speech. It's very similar to John Edward's "Two Americas." America's sucess is not measured by GDP. It's emasured by how the least of us is succeeding. It's measured by if a middle class family can send their kid to college without worrying about a mountain of debt. That is the measure of America. We should be like Israel when the Queen of Sheba came to visit and said "Happy are your people"
Send their kid to college? Why? So they can drink, engage in hedonism and study a worthless subject only to come out with student loan debt while their kid moves back home with their parents while they struggle to find someone who'll hire a college graduate w/o any work experience?
And what's wrong with going to a trade/community college? You NEW Dems are completely divorced from traditional dem rootsbeing for the working man and labor unions
Take your college brochure and stick em up your @%$
Actually I am going to Community college before I transfer. I was just talking about the idea of helping students get a good education so that they can compete in the global market without being straddled with debt. I am all for the working class. They are the ones who build the buildings and make this nation great. We should ensure that All Americans have a shot at the American dream
And for those of you who say there is no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, I can only say you are one of two things: either a child, who hasn't experienced life ... or a greedy freak. There is no other choice.
(And forget the "third way." That is just for imbeciles who need to study the history of America more.)
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I'm glad he never became president. He's as phony any one of these political criminals. Mario Cuomo is as phony as a three dollar bill. If we could have all just agreed to not get into the business of "liking politicians," then we would be much better off today. Two criminal parties, their members trained in the same institutes and think tanks, all funded by the same international banking cartels; and we insist on treating them like normal people. They're lower than the lowest slime on earth.
Cause he was a leader and he was willing to lead unlike any of the nominees against Reagan. Carter was to honest and people don't want total honesty and Regan knew how to lead even if his ideas were backwards. I am 20 and wasn't even alive but this what my Dad has told me for years and when you look at it you know that is the fact.
Why is it that deficit spending is considered 'liberalism in action' while up to and including the Carter presidency the national debt in % of the GDP has lowered from 90% (Truman) to +/- 30% (Carter).
And not be partisan: Nixon & Ford lowered % from 40% to 35%.
With the exception of the Clinton presidency, we have only seen (republican) deficit spending during the 80's and 90's.
Trickle down fat cats like Hoover, Reagan and Dubya start class wars by running up record deficits, outsourcing jobs, and pumping billions of dollars into corporate welfare, handouts, and bailouts, but the minute somebody stands up and fights back you backward God, Guns, and Gays crowd start crying foul about "class warfare."
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but eventually enough people wise up. Who won in 1932? 2008?? LOL!!!!
Because while he was screwing the 95% over, he was cynically preying on their prejudices through demagoguery over bullshit cultural diversions. The only divorced President in history and a Hollywood elitist posing as a beacon of "traditional family values." Too funny. But enough of those 90% gobbled it up even as they bent over for his Star Wars, his corporate welfare, his record deficits, his gutting of the right to organize, and his Iran Contra. Be proud, Ronnie!
Mario Cuomo...a very effective speaker, but as glib and as vacuous as one can get.
He tries to be cute by half..when, on the one hand, he'll praise his opposition and then, but by bit, tear them down. Rhetorically, it works for the left..but the greatest number of those in the center can see right through it.
When he lost the NYS Governorship in 1995..he was about as angry as he's ever been. He mor eor less told reporters that the peoplem were ignorant.
The people *are* ignorant. Every statistical analysis and survey of the American public of the last 40 years shows that the majority are largely clueless about public administration and economics. It's about time someone said it and he is a brave man to do so.
If I recall properly, he was the son of immigrants. With that comes a fervor for Americanism (republicanism if you will, classic liberal philosophy). Cuomo captures it well in his speeches usually.
I need to say, this speech could be done today and it would ring just as true.. it is timeless.. I am a great admirer of this man... as for the Republican Christians... why the Hell are they courting the Christians? It is a political scam..How can you be Pro Life and Pro War and Pro Guns?? If the Christians were smart.. they would understand that taking care of the Poor and homeless is what Jesus would like ....not bombing other countries...
I think there needs to be a serious evaluation of faith. The gospels state very clearly that "..faith without works is dead" and the evangelicals put blind faith in their leaders, and do so thinking it is the right thing to do. An amazing thing Reagan did, was to get people to stop talking about things that matter, he did so by ascribing almost anything that matters to "politics". People don't want to talk politics, they just want to live their lives. Sadly, Reagan's made living hard.
Great stuff. Reagan did so many horrible things for humanity, and yet he's loved so much by Christian Americans...shows how uninformed people are. Very sad.
Well that seemed to be his primary base (and still does)...and his ideologies and actions are totally contradictory to the Gospels. Thus, it's worth noting the whole Christian angle on the sad, sad story.
I have had this on audio for years, and it is a privilege to be able to give it five stars on Youtube. I wish our current candidates had the courage to be as plain and passionate as this about the problems of this country. Truly eloquent and moving -
Has anyone seen the movie "Dave"? pheil58's statement here reminds of the scene when Dave is meeting with the cabinet and says something along the lines of "I don't want to tell a child he can't have a home because we want Americans to feel better about their cars". What good is it to feel better about America if the reality is that the country is going down the tubes?
shmaZZ in 1984 the country was not going down the tubes....Our economy was rounding into one the strongest recoveries in history.....Reagan won in a landslide......
Mario Cuomoo never ran for president for 1 simple reason... he was knee-deep in the mafia. Bill Clinton even referred to that in the Gennifer Flowers tapes and had to personally apologize to Cuomo. The NY governor was a crook through-and-through who left the state in tatters.
Mr.Cuomo's oration/diction here ranks amongst the best of American political speeches. Simple language; logical explanation; wide range of issues. Delivered with an honest empathy. There is a "Mark Anthony" element to the rhetoric. (Reference: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Act 3 Scene II.) A perfect podium version of "Italian Job", no puns intended. Brilliant. This man would have been the President. Seek out his speech where he accepts the DNC nomination for presidential candidacy. Real!
Cuomo really should have run for President.
Compared to Mondale and Dukakis, this guy had charisma, he talked a lot of sense. The USA would be a far better country if he had become President.
ottogunsche 1 month ago
One of the most beautifully crafted political speeches I have ever heard. It's sad this speech applies to the world today just as much as it did back then.
FitterHappier100 1 month ago
Muzzy337 has everything he needs, you are a self appointed guardian of the status quo. Do you every wonder what it would be like to go without muzzy? I'm sure you haven't, we have a system whereby all the fruits go to the upper 1%, we need a solution. The Venus Project.
rlittleton11 2 months ago
He should give this speech again, and give it to his son, the son who ignores the student who cannot pay his loan, the homeowner who cannot pay his mortgage, and the ghetto resident who gives his life to the drug dealer.
His son is a Republican, who 'gives the tax break to a millionaire" The millionaire is is his common law wife Sandra Lee.
mrjiveyjr 3 months ago
too bad his son, governor 1%, doesn't see things this way.
alfredcaulin 3 months ago
This is the man who almost bought the New York Yankees in 1990 from George Steinbrenner and wanted to bring a Yankees team of talent like their past dynasty teams has not been seen since the late 1970s. But because of his commitment as Governor of NY changed his mind on the purchase deal.
BBQFanNo1 3 months ago
Sorry, Mr. Cuomo. There's far too much dead weight in this god forsaken country for it to ever be a model society. THE USA SUFFERS FROM A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY GAP. It has done nothing but get bigger and bigger as time marches on. There will always be poor people, no matter how much charity there is. Face it everybody- the world is a tough fucking place. Wear a helmet and shut the fuck up. Stop complaining and get to work taking care of yourself.
Muzzy337 3 months ago
@Muzzy337 Start talking when you break your fucking spine and can't find a decent job because you couldn't afford college tuition, or your school district is so poor that its a fight just to get through the day. Start talking when you're stuck in the ghetto and can't find your way out because some other assholes are cutting your job's pay so they can buy another yacht. Start talking when your own parents can't take care of you and you're on the street at the age of 9. You shouldn't be talking.
AngelOfDeath373 3 months ago
I watch this today, in 2011, and think to myself, NOTHING HAS FUCKING CHANGED.
drawnm 4 months ago 12
@drawnm Correction: it's become even worse :(
Seasass 3 months ago
Democrats tell us what we want to hear, but don't act on it. Republicans come up with the shitty ideas, and act on it thus making a lot of people's lives shitty. The Government is supposed to be ran by the people for the people, but today's government is just a bunch of rich people who say "we're not having any problems, you shouldn't have any either". We don't need any more politicians in power, whose only goal is to get money and stay in power, we need the people, we see the need, they don't
BSNewsandStories 4 months ago
Mario Cuomo is not only a great man, but he is also one of the greatest orators we've had in a long time. If he would've run in 88, he would have won, since he wouldn't have been as lackluster as Dukasis.
SplendidTuesday 5 months ago
"Mario the pious" as Rush calls him. The liberal sanctimony just oozes from his mouth. Had he the balls to actually run for president while he was still in office, he would have wound up on the short end of a McGovern and Mondale style landslide.
blanchelincoln 5 months ago
This is why I'm proud to be an independent. I don't believe all the bullshit rhetoric that republicans and democrats say because they will do and say anything to stay in power, and both sides are clearly only looking out for the massive lobbies that run this country, and the independents are the only ones opposing this.
SterlingSilverArcher 6 months ago 2
This is why I am proud to be a Democrat. 22 million jobs created during the Clinton administration, budget surpluses and only $6 trillion national debt. Then, 0% job creation from 2000-2008, a budget deficit of $1 trillion+ and $10.6 trillion national debt in 2008. And, lest we forget, 8 years of economic and regulatory decisions and policy-making leading to the worst financial collapse and crisis the US has endured in over a century. Quit grandstanding and allow us to fix the country again.
gadgadgadzooks 6 months ago 3
THIS IS WHY I AM PROUD TO BE A REPUBLICAN. 17 MILLION JOBS CREATED FROM 1982-1988. I LOVED PRESIDENT REAGAN. I LIVED IN THOSE YEARS AND I REMEMBER HOW PATHETIC CARTER WAS. 49 STATE LANDSLIDE-HARDLY DESPAIR!
BillyBlues34 6 months ago
It's scary how his words 27 years ago...are STILL true today.
mrchrisj316 7 months ago
3:19-3:34 is the best part out of the whole video
Flybkmami 7 months ago 17
Good 'ol class warefare
FatTony726 7 months ago
This is a useful reminder of what a Democrat sounds like. Obama needs to listen to this speech every morning and get his head out of John Boner's ass.
progressiveguy2007 7 months ago 2
Quite a New York accent… :-)
MartinUnterlaa 8 months ago
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MartinUnterlaa 8 months ago
One of the best explanations about the differences between the policies of the Democratic and Republican Parties. Makes me proud to be a Yellow Dog!
KCShinn 8 months ago
This man is a communist.
miljenko1 8 months ago
@miljenko1 How so?
SplendidTuesday 8 months ago
@SplendidTuesday well, he's all about redistribution.
miljenko1 8 months ago
@miljenko1 The Republicans are about redistribution as well, then, if Cuomo is. The only difference is that they transfer money from the already poor to the super-rich.
SplendidTuesday 8 months ago
@miljenko1 Not everyone who doesn't worship at the altar of Reagan is a communist.
Ry112390 8 months ago 2
@miljenko1 no...he's a christian.
nognilk 7 months ago
I love how a recording of a speech from 1984 as stirred up so many commenters.
I would say as a speech, that makes this a stemwinder. And Mr. Cuomo's delivery, his enunciation, inflection, timing, eye contact, volume and emotion were all first rate.
CrankyOldBatt 9 months ago
God, why cant politicians do this anymore? When did they become soundbite spewing celebrities?
axxizzer 10 months ago 3
@axxizzer Most of the political speeches of that time were just as vapid and platitude-filled as most of the political speeches today (and, I imagine, of other times). Mario Cuomo is an exceptional orator, and this was a landmark speech. Also, the Democrats were out of power when this took place, and nothing forces a sharpening of "the vision thing" like having been trounced in a recent election.
Seasass 3 months ago
I have to listen to this speech at least once a year to remind myself why I continue to vote for Democrats. President Obama — if he's ever heard it at all — should listen to it every day.
vicworldDOTorg 10 months ago 2
i guess i didn't see much substance in this speech besides demagoguery. all i got out of it was that i should feel a tinge of guilt if i'm successful. meh, i'll pass on that.
whatever678 11 months ago
GREAT convention GREAT party !!!!!!!!!!
Michthemitch 1 year ago 2
Whether or not one believes what Cuomo has to say, there is no denying his salesmanship of this speech, which is exquisite, passionate and rabble rousing, and historic.
scottreiburn 1 year ago 2
for those of you complaining about debt, think about how much debt reagan put us in.
gsnax22 1 year ago
The Ascent Of Everest !
CKoiCeBordelCorp 1 year ago 4
@CKoiCeBordelCorp
Fuck yeah Ascent of Everest . Best post-rock song ever.
CommodiousVicus 1 year ago
Does anyone find any of this familiar? We were coming out of a horrendous recession in '84, but now we're in much worse shape - as a DIRECT result of the policies and ideology that Cuomo points to in this speech. So...
What are we going to do about it?
robtran 1 year ago
@robtran Exactly how did the policies and ideology Cuomo point to cause the economic shape we're in, when we've had 2 Democratic presidents since then, and overall Republican domination of Congress since then as well?
But don't let fax get in the way of your bullshitting.
ColonelCharisma 1 year ago
@ColonelCharisma Oh that's easy - 30 fucking years of conservative economic policy, specifically deregulating the financial markets (already under way in '84, continued and enhanced by Republican Lite clowns like Clinton), letting the F.I.R.E. foxes help themselves to the hen house, only to be bailed out by none other than George W. Bush, who often described himself as Reagan's political descendant. Any other political history lessons you'd like shall be freely offered.
robtran 1 year ago
@robtran Uh. Cuomo was and is a liberal, so I'm not entirely sure what you're ranting about. Or were you referring to what he was talking about in the speech? I read it as you talking about his personal ideology, which is why I was rather confused.
ColonelCharisma 1 year ago
NYC had one of the highest deficits in its history under cuomos welfare programs. NYC was drowning in debt and every crack whore who needed a handout got one.
Fuck cuomo and his union fucking union handouts.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
NYC had its worst years under cuomo. The only thing that saved NYC was Reagan and maybe a little bit of Koch, maybe.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
Just for the record, while this is a great convention speech, another that is up there is William Jennings Bryant's Cross of Gold Speech in 1896 where he said "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
jojopuppyfish 1 year ago 3
ANdrew Cuomo's adversary of the Rent is too high party's Jimmy Mcmillan aught to see this one
infoanalysis 1 year ago 2
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
haarp35117 1 year ago
amazing
cutiepiykat 1 year ago
t dot (com) and theZeitgeistMovement dot (com) for a resource based economy not based on money that is sustainable.
Look for the Zeitgeist Addendum movie here on face book to see how the money system works and to learn of the Venus Project.
SpiritLadyArtist 1 year ago
I liked him.
SpiritLadyArtist 1 year ago
Im not a Liberal bu this is by far one of the best political speeches i have ever come across.
Cuomo is a gifted orator.....no doubt that if the Democrats had of nominated Cuomo over Mondale in 84 Reagan would of had some competition and something to worry about.
fenderboy88 1 year ago 5
This is truly a great moment in history, I felt the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.
Bless you that posted this. I wish our politicians would speak and address the American people like this today.
SisterD7 1 year ago 2
all I can think is Michael Corleone.
DCUPtoejuice 1 year ago
The best Convention speech I've ever heard in my lifetime. I heard it live at 12 yrs. of age and it basically shows/tells the difference between Democrat's & Republican's. Neither Party is perfect but Democrat's have compassion and empathy.....and Republican's have always so woefully lacked in their concern for others .....except for the top 2% of wealthiest American's.......
transitory9 1 year ago 5
@transitory9 interesting... does that compassion and empathy that you claim democrats possess extend to the wealthiest 2% as well? if not, that seems like a double standard.
whatever678 11 months ago
@whatever678 The richest 2% do not NEED as much compassion as the poor do, precisely because they are the WEALTHY. They can provide for their families a thousand times over, even if their taxes are raised or their loopholes are vanquished. The point is that poor families can not do the same if programs specifically built to help the poor are defunded and crushed. We are not punishing the rich for being successful; we are simply asking them to shoulder a small part of the burden of the economy.
SplendidTuesday 10 months ago
@SplendidTuesday so in other words... yes, you endorse double standards. good thing you don't make policy! ;)
whatever678 10 months ago
@whatever678 No, I am endorsing fairness. The rich can easily provide for themselves, even if we ask them to give a comparatively tiny amount of their vast fortunes (remember, the top 2% own about... 40% of all the private money in the United States) to help the poor and needy. The poor and needy, by comparison, cannot, by the very fact that they are poor and needy. What's wrong with getting the rich to support the vast underclass of the nation just a little bit?
SplendidTuesday 10 months ago
@SplendidTuesday Force.
whatever678 10 months ago
@whatever678 Oh. OH. So you're a libertarian then. Well, you do realize that ANYTHING the government enforces is, well, force, right? And you do realize that taking away the programs for the poor in order to subsidize the rich and the corporations is just a different kind of force, right? The programs that the poor have were given to them. The tax cuts and loopholes the rich have were GIVEN to them. Don't give me crap about all the rich earning them; a large portion inherited their wealth.
SplendidTuesday 10 months ago
Great speech - and who doesn't love this kind of message? I remember hearing it in 1984 and being brought almost to tears. "Government can do it all, government is the answer to everything that ails us". Except that...it doesn't work, Mario. It never has. It never will. This is America, and this country was built and made great by another philosophy and another approach. Your message was wrong then and it's wrong now.
noonze1 1 year ago
Great speech - and who doesn't love this kind of message? I remember hearing it in 1984 and being brought almost to tears. "Government can do it all, government is the answer to everything that ails us". Except that...it doesn't work, Mario. It never has. It never will. This is America, and this country was built and made great by another philosophy and another approach. Your message was wrong then and it's wrong now.
noonze1 1 year ago
man thank god mario was wrong
maharajakal 1 year ago
This makes me cry.. in a good way.
foxh8er 1 year ago
I absolutely loved this at the time. I still do. A year and a half later he spoke at my commencement at Syracuse University.
birdleson 1 year ago 3
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Socialist Mario, you failed. You ran NY into the toilet. And the voters finally kicked you out. Only punks blame others for their own failures. And you do so with such fineness.
The6000Sabre 1 year ago
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This man was not good for the country. now his son will be NY gov. Yuk
bad times are ahead
STU676 1 year ago
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The democratic party is and always will be the party of losers. This speech is horrible, whiny,Marxist trash.
alashieve 1 year ago
amazing
Radders123 1 year ago
great speech
brickman73 1 year ago
barack obama couldnt fuck with mario cuomo
goldhillkid 1 year ago
The Democratic party is lost and rapidly moving down the same path as the Republicans: corporate prostitutes.
ptl1143 1 year ago
I agree completely. It's a terrible shame
MrPontiusPilate 1 year ago
Watching these older Democratic party speeches makes me both sad and hopeful - today's Democratic party has little regard for strong progressives. But if the party leadership believed in these things once before, surely it can return to these positions, someday.
h4KK 2 years ago 10
This is why I am proud to be a democrat.
jgrisso07 2 years ago 27
Hey Giuliani backed this guy in 1994. He voted for a Democrat!!! Then he lost.. such a looser Rudy is..
klabkebash 2 years ago
king of the hill huh?
Keither9 2 years ago
wow, i really love this speech... Great rhetorical performance..
skieskipper 2 years ago
Man, why the hell did Cuomo not run in '88?!
manbearpig8402 2 years ago 3
Sadly, they "loss" that election to illiterates.
The word is LOST.
hazmat70666 2 years ago 3
They loss that election right
Triumphit1 2 years ago
Brilliant! Where are my generation's RFK's and Mario Cuomo's!?! Cmon, we can do better!
JakeMorrisonMusic 2 years ago
god bless the ones that cant afford help and I hope you do feel comfort in your future
kickplus 2 years ago
The problem with politics is mainly that the candidates refuse to address the actual issues - one thing Bush was actually good at even if he was an evil satanic president - and just speak rhetoric... nobody has any sense any more, politics has honestly turned into a game.
youvebeenthunderstru 2 years ago 2
Brilliant speech, powerful, moving and true.
ro3ox 2 years ago 3
This speech still rings true, 25 years later.
1970ralph 2 years ago 6
you yanks are lucky we haven't had a great rhetorical speech since Churchill. Must admit this in my top 10, what is your problemo's you have Obamo giving great speeches we have boring fucking Brown.
kickplus 2 years ago
Australia has ''boring fucking Kevin Rudd as P.M
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You suck Mario!
Amiel912 2 years ago
I wasn't even born until 1989 but my Dad went to that convention. Sounds like a blast for sure!
NickJCL07 2 years ago
my grandfather (Richard P. Charles) gave him his first gig. no bullshit
SEMAT56 2 years ago 3
One of the best speeches of all time!
clemson3564 2 years ago
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Cuomo.....nothing but a Communist lover
gopconservative78 2 years ago
One of the best speeches in modern political history- The Tale of Two Cities.
JPSwerve 2 years ago 3
3:19
schnork 2 years ago
The Democrats nominated the wrong guy. Though no one would have beaten Reagan that year.
jwill5587 2 years ago
yeah, its too bad. seems like he didnt want the job and never will though.
schnork 2 years ago
Mondale was just simply incapable of running a good campaign
bluesboy25000 2 years ago
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LOL i love the way liberals pretend to care about the poor just to fleece them and get their votes . . . Obama was taught well!
CartoonFanatic1 2 years ago
Love how Bush waterboards people and uses war as an excuse to hand out billion dollar contracts to his associates while innocent low-income Americans die.
What sounds worse?
schnork 2 years ago 3
Bush is the worst President in 30 years
bluesboy25000 2 years ago
1,000,000,000 agree with ya. And the american dumb asses wants another bush in office.
harlem0987 2 years ago 2
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Why did the Dems even bother having a convention or a candidate in 1984? They knew they didn't stand a chance lol
CartoonFanatic1 2 years ago
This is a great speech. It's very similar to John Edward's "Two Americas." America's sucess is not measured by GDP. It's emasured by how the least of us is succeeding. It's measured by if a middle class family can send their kid to college without worrying about a mountain of debt. That is the measure of America. We should be like Israel when the Queen of Sheba came to visit and said "Happy are your people"
bluesboy25000 2 years ago 3
Send their kid to college? Why? So they can drink, engage in hedonism and study a worthless subject only to come out with student loan debt while their kid moves back home with their parents while they struggle to find someone who'll hire a college graduate w/o any work experience?
And what's wrong with going to a trade/community college? You NEW Dems are completely divorced from traditional dem rootsbeing for the working man and labor unions
Take your college brochure and stick em up your @%$
Roguemember 2 years ago
Actually I am going to Community college before I transfer. I was just talking about the idea of helping students get a good education so that they can compete in the global market without being straddled with debt. I am all for the working class. They are the ones who build the buildings and make this nation great. We should ensure that All Americans have a shot at the American dream
bluesboy25000 2 years ago
Fantastic speech. You can see where the roots of Obama's keynote speech were. Especially at the end.
averyj 2 years ago
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Reagan ruled! Only chumps like my liberal professor liked this clown. Ipod gravitas, that's what we've got now.
railgeek404 2 years ago
Maybe you should actually listen to the speech, even if it doesn't have any glib, meaningless putdowns like "iPod gravitas" in it.
kingfelch 2 years ago 2
I remember this speech. Superb.
And for those of you who say there is no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, I can only say you are one of two things: either a child, who hasn't experienced life ... or a greedy freak. There is no other choice.
(And forget the "third way." That is just for imbeciles who need to study the history of America more.)
Shell5960 2 years ago 5
You go Cuomo!
IsisStarlights 2 years ago 2
He was a great GOV and I hope his son gets elected and clean up New York for good.
harlem0987 2 years ago 3
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I'm glad he never became president. He's as phony any one of these political criminals. Mario Cuomo is as phony as a three dollar bill. If we could have all just agreed to not get into the business of "liking politicians," then we would be much better off today. Two criminal parties, their members trained in the same institutes and think tanks, all funded by the same international banking cartels; and we insist on treating them like normal people. They're lower than the lowest slime on earth.
thirdpositionist 2 years ago
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Reagan was re-elected, because the nation didn't buy into all this bulls--t.
NYerintransit 2 years ago
Reaganomics sucked
jayhawk88z 3 years ago 6
Damn Right!
AaronApolloCamp 2 years ago
You can kind of see. We were warned. But we didn't listen including me. I bought "the shining city on a hill" crap so I'm to blame too.
lucki39284 3 years ago 11
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I Guess We See Where Obama Gets His Swag From !!! LOL
07liberian 3 years ago
how the hell did reagan get re elected!
chaddy91 3 years ago 6
Cause he was a leader and he was willing to lead unlike any of the nominees against Reagan. Carter was to honest and people don't want total honesty and Regan knew how to lead even if his ideas were backwards. I am 20 and wasn't even alive but this what my Dad has told me for years and when you look at it you know that is the fact.
NickJCL07 2 years ago 5
This is an excellent orator; one of the best convention speeches ever.
iamprov 3 years ago 34
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And yet Reagan won handily over Walter Effing Mondull 49 states to Mondull's one state and D.C.
BassmanII 3 years ago
Why is it that deficit spending is considered 'liberalism in action' while up to and including the Carter presidency the national debt in % of the GDP has lowered from 90% (Truman) to +/- 30% (Carter).
And not be partisan: Nixon & Ford lowered % from 40% to 35%.
With the exception of the Clinton presidency, we have only seen (republican) deficit spending during the 80's and 90's.
agsibarani 3 years ago 5
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I can't believe anyone actually thinks that Cuomo is sane. If Reagan was only pleasing the top 5-10 percent, then why did 58 percent vote for him?
KabaneTheChristian 3 years ago
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Because people believe hype/style over substance. Just ask Obama voters....
CharvakaJim 3 years ago
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That's great Mario...doom and gloom....and class warfare.......Who won in 84? ...I can't remember???....lol
pheil58 3 years ago
Trickle down fat cats like Hoover, Reagan and Dubya start class wars by running up record deficits, outsourcing jobs, and pumping billions of dollars into corporate welfare, handouts, and bailouts, but the minute somebody stands up and fights back you backward God, Guns, and Gays crowd start crying foul about "class warfare."
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but eventually enough people wise up. Who won in 1932? 2008?? LOL!!!!
spyder130 3 years ago 27
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jd24717 3 years ago
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And handouts and bailouts? Why, their biggest supporters are none other than Pelosi, Frank, and Reid. Oops on your part.
You're attacking straw men. You can't tax your way to prosperity, and you can't pass a law to ban the market.
jd24717 3 years ago
Because while he was screwing the 95% over, he was cynically preying on their prejudices through demagoguery over bullshit cultural diversions. The only divorced President in history and a Hollywood elitist posing as a beacon of "traditional family values." Too funny. But enough of those 90% gobbled it up even as they bent over for his Star Wars, his corporate welfare, his record deficits, his gutting of the right to organize, and his Iran Contra. Be proud, Ronnie!
spyder130 3 years ago 7
that was a great speech
Triumphit1 3 years ago 5
I hope his son gets in as governor of New York.
harlem0987 2 years ago
svaccim!!!!
BAhern63 3 years ago
Mario Cuomo...a very effective speaker, but as glib and as vacuous as one can get.
He tries to be cute by half..when, on the one hand, he'll praise his opposition and then, but by bit, tear them down. Rhetorically, it works for the left..but the greatest number of those in the center can see right through it.
When he lost the NYS Governorship in 1995..he was about as angry as he's ever been. He mor eor less told reporters that the peoplem were ignorant.
Not missed...
km2711 3 years ago
The people *are* ignorant. Every statistical analysis and survey of the American public of the last 40 years shows that the majority are largely clueless about public administration and economics. It's about time someone said it and he is a brave man to do so.
ultramagellan 3 years ago 4
Why we don't have BRIGHT people like you who's not quick to kiss ass and bend over? Wonderful comment you made.
harlem0987 2 years ago
If I recall properly, he was the son of immigrants. With that comes a fervor for Americanism (republicanism if you will, classic liberal philosophy). Cuomo captures it well in his speeches usually.
CharvakaJim 3 years ago 5
he used to work under my grandfather's law firm. no bs
hateoprah49 3 years ago 3
I need to say, this speech could be done today and it would ring just as true.. it is timeless.. I am a great admirer of this man... as for the Republican Christians... why the Hell are they courting the Christians? It is a political scam..How can you be Pro Life and Pro War and Pro Guns?? If the Christians were smart.. they would understand that taking care of the Poor and homeless is what Jesus would like ....not bombing other countries...
ninababy8 3 years ago 15
I think there needs to be a serious evaluation of faith. The gospels state very clearly that "..faith without works is dead" and the evangelicals put blind faith in their leaders, and do so thinking it is the right thing to do. An amazing thing Reagan did, was to get people to stop talking about things that matter, he did so by ascribing almost anything that matters to "politics". People don't want to talk politics, they just want to live their lives. Sadly, Reagan's made living hard.
o0xst 3 years ago
Great stuff. Reagan did so many horrible things for humanity, and yet he's loved so much by Christian Americans...shows how uninformed people are. Very sad.
o0xst 3 years ago 2
"Christian" Americans? Why do you make that distinction?
swami1 3 years ago
Well that seemed to be his primary base (and still does)...and his ideologies and actions are totally contradictory to the Gospels. Thus, it's worth noting the whole Christian angle on the sad, sad story.
o0xst 3 years ago
You're a bigot.
swami1 3 years ago
You are right on the money!
ninababy8 3 years ago
I have had this on audio for years, and it is a privilege to be able to give it five stars on Youtube. I wish our current candidates had the courage to be as plain and passionate as this about the problems of this country. Truly eloquent and moving -
CharlestonArtist 3 years ago
Mario Cuomo is the Best of the Best *****
billybluesrock 3 years ago 4
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This speech was great...
At getting it's ass kicked by Reagan...
StoneThrowingDevil 3 years ago
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Reagan made america feel good about america again!!!!!!
pheil58 3 years ago
Has anyone seen the movie "Dave"? pheil58's statement here reminds of the scene when Dave is meeting with the cabinet and says something along the lines of "I don't want to tell a child he can't have a home because we want Americans to feel better about their cars". What good is it to feel better about America if the reality is that the country is going down the tubes?
shmazz19 3 years ago 2
shmaZZ in 1984 the country was not going down the tubes....Our economy was rounding into one the strongest recoveries in history.....Reagan won in a landslide......
pheil58 3 years ago
The end result of that moving speech was victory in Minnesota.
fingerbang666 3 years ago
Yep, at least they got Minnesota... the same place that later gave us Jesse Ventura and Al Fraken.. Way to go Mario!
davidab23 2 years ago
And yet what was the result of the election?
Sage80 3 years ago
I must say that Obama's nomination speech earlier tonight echoed much of what Cuomo said in 1984.
mlderr1 3 years ago 4
Yes! This is what real Democrats sound like!
progressiveguy2007 3 years ago 5
reagan was just a showman.
KiNPiN1835 3 years ago
doom and gloom
SVACCIM!!
BAhern63 3 years ago
Mario Cuomoo never ran for president for 1 simple reason... he was knee-deep in the mafia. Bill Clinton even referred to that in the Gennifer Flowers tapes and had to personally apologize to Cuomo. The NY governor was a crook through-and-through who left the state in tatters.
encierro75 3 years ago
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Wow, could this guy have been more misguided? Thank you, Ronald Reagan, for saving us from these losers.
Dallascaper 3 years ago
Why hasn't this man run for President yet? This speech still affects me all these years later, and I'm 20.
coolgamer1677 3 years ago
If Cuomo were right on abortion, he'd be great. It is irinic that he was opposed to abortion.
jhravens 3 years ago 4
Mr.Cuomo's oration/diction here ranks amongst the best of American political speeches. Simple language; logical explanation; wide range of issues. Delivered with an honest empathy. There is a "Mark Anthony" element to the rhetoric. (Reference: William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Act 3 Scene II.) A perfect podium version of "Italian Job", no puns intended. Brilliant. This man would have been the President. Seek out his speech where he accepts the DNC nomination for presidential candidacy. Real!
telectroscope 3 years ago 5
MARIO CUOMO IS THE BEST OF THE BEST
billybluesrock 3 years ago 106
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All that fucker Mario Coumo could do was to attack Ronald Reagan.
But in truth Mario, you could never hold a candle to the Gipper, and you never will!
mopar2fast 3 years ago
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Cuomo, he's doing his Al Pacino immitation here.
mopar2fast 3 years ago