VIDEO: "There is despair, Mr. President, in faces you never see."

[Bluebear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOdIqKsv624

Twenty-three years ago...

"maybe, Mr. President, if you asked a woman who'd been denied the help she needs to feed her children because you say we need the money to give a tax break to a millionaire or to build a missile we can't even afford to use — maybe then you'd understand."

Twenty-three years ago...

"A shining city is perhaps all the President sees from the portico of the White House and the verandah of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well."

Twenty-three years ago...

Watch this video, especially those of you who are too young to have heard the great Mario Cuomo give this brilliant speech the first time around. This is why we are Democrats, and this is why we must win next year.

Le plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Twenty-three years ago, and the words still ring damning and true.

[CatWoman]

1. kick

:kick:

[Bluebear]

2. thank you :)

[Bluebear]

3. for the a.m.

[annabanana]

4. Required viewing for those Reagan worshippers...

we just don't understand why we won't join in the chorus.

[Bluebear]

5. Indeed.

[hootinholler]

6. I'll visit after work. n/t

[smoogatz]

7. k&r

That Cuomo couldn't be induced to run in 1988 is one of the great disappointments of my political life. It still mystifies me. What a great president he would have made.