I'm rewatching Cuomo's speech from the '92 convention right now. I think of JE when I hear him.

[Bonobo]

Believe it or not, not on YouTube, but on an old, old videotape I have. Wow.

15 years ago he was talking about, warning about what was to come -the economic damage that would come from this unchecked greed on the part of corporations, etc.

IMHO, it is Edwards that is the only one that speaks with the same fire of Cuomo, with the same rage at the injustice.

I see the fire in Cuomo, in his eyes. I feel his righteous anger at the injustices perpetrated against the working class. I feel the same with Edwards, but sadly not really with Barack and certainly not with Hillary.

Please everyone, please reconsider John Edwards.

[Purveyor]

1. Cuomo had the ticket but, imho, there is something filthy in his closet that he knew would

come to light.

Don't think for a minute that the intel agencies, both foreign and domestic, don't play a major influence on our "body politic"..

[Bonobo]

2. Who knows? Maybe it was Andrew.

[Hart2008]

5. More like he was human. Cheney and the D.C. Madam proves the double standard with the MSM.

Cheney was obviously soliciting prostitutes and it is now an open secret to all but those who get their news from the MSM. Cheney, however, is a Republican so his repeated phone calls to the D.C. Madam isn't news.

The most likely explanation is that Cuomo had a girlfriend and the MSM would slime him with that, like they did to Hart, while refusing to ask Bush the same kind of questions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Fitzgerald

In Hart's case in '88, his phone was likely tapped. The individual who sold the Donna Rice's copyrighted photos to the National Enquirer without her permission is believed to be a British woman who also had a role in a similar scandal in the U.K. which was published in a Murdoch paper.

And no, Hart did not suspend his '88 candidacy because of Donna Rice and the Miami Herald. It was the Washington Post. Paul Young resigned over it.

[bigdarryl]

8. no he was smart not to inter the race I only wish Obama did the same thing

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. One of those years.

One of those years where the guy who makes the dynamite convention speech doesn't get the nomination. That one and Teddy Kennedy in 1980.

Or gal. Like Barbara Jordan's keynote speech to the Democratic Convention in 1976. She truly sounded like the voice of God.

[DaveinMD]

4. I grew up in NY

and never got all the hysteria about Cuomo. I'm glad he didn't run in 92. He never would have beaten Bush. I was always more of a Bill Bradley guy.

[tokenlib]

7. On an intellectual, logical level...

Cuomo could "make the case" (in terms of defending traditional "New Deal" democratic values)without relying so much on "talking points." He could actually "debate."

[unc70]

6. I agree about the speech. Several other great convention speechs

Cuomo in 1984 or maybe 1988.

Jesse Jackson in 1988.

I think it would be good for all of us to watch these and others in addition to those of the 1960's such as MLK's "I have a dream". In each case, the entire speech, not just a few highlights.

Also agree with you wrt Edwards.