Posted on 08/15/2018 3:05:31 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) office on Wednesday walked back his remark earlier in the day that America "was never that great," insisting the governor believes the U.S. is great but that it has not reached its "maximum potential."
"The Governor believes America is great and that her full greatness will be fully realized when every man, woman, and child has full equality,” spokeswoman Dani Lever said in a statement. “America has not yet reached its maximum potential."
Lever said Cuomo's comments were meant to address President Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again."
"When the President speaks about making America great again - going back in time - he ignores the pain so many endured and that we suffered from slavery, discrimination, segregation, sexism and marginalized women's contributions," Lever said. "The Governor believes that when everyone is fully included and everyone is contributing to their maximum potential, that is when America will achieve maximum greatness.""
Cuomo at a bill-signing event on Wednesday said sexist discrimination was holding the U.S. back.
"We’re not gonna make America great again," Cuomo said at the event, where he signed anti sex-trafficking bills into law. "It was never that great."
"We will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women, 51 percent of our population, is gone," he said. "And every woman’s full potential is realized and unleashed and every woman is making her full contribution. When that happens, this nation is going to be taken even higher."
Cuomo's Republican opponent Marc Molinaro quickly said Cuomo should "apologize" for the comments.
Lever in the statement later on Wednesday called out GOP strategist Jessica Proud, who tweeted it was "shocking that a governor of a major state would make such an ignorant, insulting comment."
"Jessica Proud, spokesperson for the Republican Party said, 'America is & always has been the greatest,'" Lever said. "She should talk to President Trump who says make America great again - which obviously means he doesn't think it is great now."
Everybody equal? Well, then I want Zuckerberg’s wealth, Walter William’s intelligence, some hot chick’s looks and youth, and the voice of an opera singer.
Cuomo, Cuomo, you’re done-o, go home-o!!!
He made it worse.
Cuomo stuck his mouth up his azz that time...
It doesn’t matter how his “staff” tries to turn this, he flat out said, “America was never that great.”
Sorry Cuomo...you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Too late. He let his real feelings slip out. Bye bye any hope of becoming president...
Maximum potential. Yeah, that’s the ticket, that’s what I meant to say.
“I’m glad my grandaddy got on that boat!” — Mohammad Ali after returning to America from Africa.
The progs are never about having every man achieve his or her potential but making everyone equal.
How Harrison Bergeron.
You said what you meant, now wear it.
Too late, he got busted.
“We’re not gonna make America great again,” Cuomo said at the event, where he signed anti sex-trafficking bills into law. “It was never that great.”
LOL! There goes his political career all in one statement. Buh bye. Proves he’s a moron just like his brother.
Max Maxine has a co-star in the greatest Republican campaign commercial ever.
Most of those things were 97% the result of Democratic Party actions, not Republican. The Republican Party was formed with the singular purpose of the abolution of chattel slavery within these United States. The Democratic Party was the party of slavery, the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Confederacy, Jim Crow, lynchings, the KKK, the Know Nothings, segregation, George Wallace, Robert Byrd, Lester Maddox, Bull Conner and so much more...
In a moment of pure candor, just like Hillary Clinton and her “deplorables” comment and Obama and his bitter clingers remark, Cuomo took off the mask and showed what democrats REALLY think of America and it’s voters.
I’m comforted by the thought this jackass will never go above or beyond NY State Governor
The left is so full of commies
Actually, we should promote the narrative that the USA is a genocidal, violent, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, indentured servitude prison camp run by the psychopath Vladimir Putin and his transnational billionaire buddies.
That just might solve our immigration problem.
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