Governor Mario Cuomo (1984) complete speech DNC

[Douglas Carpenter]

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[99th_Monkey]

1. Whatever happened to Mario?

I vividly remember watching this video, and wanting with all my heart for Mario to
be the next POTUS. But thin he kind of went off the rails, and never really ran for
Pres.

I know I can google to find out -- which I probably will anyway -- but just curious
on what DU peeps remember as to what ever happened to Mario.

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. It was around Thanksgiving time in 1991 that he announced that because of his obligations as

Governor of New York and the difficult battles with the legislature over the budge - he didn't feel that he could take the time off to enter the race. Of course - polls had him as the front runner at the time for the Democratic nomination - but his withdraw opened the way for the Governor from Arkansas.

[99th_Monkey]

7. Damn. Sometimes integrity is a sharp two-edged sword

Thank you for the summation & clarification.. it's much appreciated.

It's so ironic and so sad ... maybe I didn't want to remember; but
sincerely .. thank you.

[George II]

3. He didn't go off the rails, he decided he didn't want to run because he had unfinished business....

....as Governor.

He also backed out as a Supreme Court justice just as Clinton was about to appoint him. He felt he could speak out more as a private citizen than a Supreme Court justice.

He's been out of the limelight for a number of years, but we'll still miss him and what he stood for.

[99th_Monkey]

8. Yes, "off the rails" was a poor choice of words

I meant he failed to seriously run for POTUS, for whatever reasons -- and in his case, it was for the best of reasons.
I certainly didn't mean to imply anything other than that, I just didn't recall how that all played out.

A sad irony, how integrity can be such a two-edged sword.

[George II]

9. Yes, if he wasn't so dedicated to NYS, he probably would have been President....

...and perhaps Bush wouldn't have been (nor his inept son) and who knows where we'd been today - no doubt in much better shape.

[appalachiablue]

4. I'm sure the reason will appear soon. What a great Democrat and American, last of the real Liberals

[George II]

5. Many would think that he was the first of the real liberals, too.

[appalachiablue]

6. How so? I'd think many in FDR's era, esp. his cabinet & staff, same with the Kennedys & LBJ were

liberals in the modern American political sense. I thought C. was great, what a loss. For the next election the Dems. should play this magnificent speech, daily- anything to try to help this lot and the corrupt system. Reagan, Bush were the end. I knew Cuomo came through the Depression, b. 1922. Same as my parents who for the first time I think of as liberals, looking at it now.