January 2, 2015
Mario Cuomo, the former New York governor who died Thursday at the age of 82, was an unabashed, unapologetic liberal who wore his heart and his political philosophy on his sleeve. He wasn’t afraid to say that a lot of what was going on in this country was unfair; that there were two Americas and two sets of rules for each of them. In his most famous speech, at the 1984 Democratic convention, he disavowed “nice but vague rhetoric,” the politician’s stock and trade, to tell what he believed were some important, tough truths about the U.S. He closed that speech with a dozen sentences that began – “we believe.”Please click here to read the full article.