Cuomo Nominates Clinton 1992 - Part 2

Part 2 of 4. Mario Cuomo gives an amazing speech at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. In nominating Bill Clinton, he also laid down the party platform (which many Democrats seem to forget these days). This speech is even more relevant today.

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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?

[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 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).