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In reply to the discussion: Obama on John Edwards: 'The political equivalent of a boy band' [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,921 posts)to the 1984 Democratic National Convention. It's not that John Edward was the only Democrat who realized that there was a growing divide between have and have nots in America. He did a good job at messaging something that every left of center Democrat agreed with him on, including many if not most of our Presidential candidates when Edward ran for the nomination.
Cuomo's speech was called "A Tale of Two Cities."
"Cuomos speech, given on a July night at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco, was originally crafted as a response to Ronald Reagans frequent and cheery description of the United States as a shining city on a hill. Cuomo took that image and turned it, urging Reagan to look closer at the countrys condition.
This nation is more a tale of two cities than it is just a shining city on a hill, Cuomo said. There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces you dont see, in the places you dont visit in your shining city....
...President Reagan told us from the very beginning that he believed in a kind of social Darwinism. Survival of the fittest, Cuomo said that night. You know, the Republicans called it trickle-down when [Herbert] Hoover tried it. Now they call it supply side. But its the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cuomos-1984-speech-stirred-democrats-then-and-for-decades/2015/01/01/231fbe1a-922b-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html