Added: Oct 22, 2006
From: HoffmaniaDotCom
Duration: 10:4
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.
Channel: News
epitrochoid09 Says:
Jun 6, 2007 - 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.
Sideburns1986 Says:
Jun 17, 2007 - And he was voted out of the Governor's mansion in Albany because of a Billy Horton-esque ad. How shameful.
marblesdanica Says:
Jun 23, 2007 - aha lesbian rights lol
MelaleucaHalifax Says:
Jun 24, 2007 - 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).
WestVirginiaRebel Says:
Oct 13, 2007 - Cuomo was among a number of Democratic candidates who didn't run because Bush Senior seemed unbeatable so soon after the Gulf War.
billybluesrock Says:
Nov 26, 2007 - 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
uyd Says:
Feb 11, 2008 - Change? 2008-1992 some things never change. Republicans make the mess and Democrats clean it up. Republicans = status quo Democrats=CHANGE!!!!
jimfarrowlove Says:
Apr 18, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jun 23, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jun 25, 2008 - Abortion on demand is not the same as the holocaust, but the result is the same: millions of murdered innocent people.
MjoEm32 Says:
Jun 27, 2008 - There is little point in trying to debate with fundamentalists, but foetuses are not the same as people.
jimfarrowlove Says:
Jun 27, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 8, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 18, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 24, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 24, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 29, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 29, 2008 - 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?
EdwardP88 Says:
Aug 9, 2008 - 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.
nuness20 Says:
Aug 29, 2008 - 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.
villa72 Says:
Sep 5, 2008 - 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.
JuneauActor Says:
Oct 26, 2008 - The great Mario could have given this speech yesterday. He should have been president. Vote Obama/Biden, I know Mario will.
monauajiza Says:
Apr 1, 2007 - I'm totally speechless. Mr. Coumo delivered this speech with soul, spirit, heart, conscience, and mind.