Posted on 08/15/2018 12:48:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have just handed Republicans a ready-made campaign ad for his rumored 2020 presidential bid – by declaring Wednesday that America “was never that great.”
The Democratic star made the seemingly offhand remark as part of his rebuke of President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan during a bill-signing in New York. But the line drew gasps from the crowd.
“We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great,” Cuomo said, to an awkward blend of gasps and chuckles.
“We have not reached greatness, we will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged, we will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women, 51 percent of our population, is gone and every woman’s full potential is realized and unleashed and every woman is making her full contribution,” he said.
But the "never that great" line tore through social media in a New York minute, as journalists and his political rivals seized on the remark.
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This from the ex-HUD Secretary who had sexual discrimination and harassment charges filed against him by HUD's Inspector General, Susan Gaffney. Plus is named in a sexual harassment suit in Federal Court that claims Cuomo allowed an aide to sexually harass a woman for nearly a year, and the State never acted on the complaints.
His father,the son of Italian immigrants,became a governor——that seems pretty great to me.
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PDJT has done many great things for our Constitutional Republic...but perhaps the greatest thing he has done is get the leftwing communists to unmask themselves for all to see their seething hatred of America and the morals and values it was founded upon.
Well finally....the semblance of truth about how demonrats really feel....
On the bright side, he will probably have give up any hope of running for President
Luckily, we were just great enough to save the rest of the world a few times in a row.
He’s definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed. Liberals need not worry. He’ll get re-elected anyway. You have to wonder who pulls the lever for these clowns.
Pandering to STUPID women!!!
I don’t know if the crowd was shocked.
Most of them probably lefties who agreed with him.
“All this for a flag?” “Basket of deplorables.” “They gonna put y’all back in chains!” “Wide stance.”
And that same father was voted out of office and replaced by a Republican by the rest of the State's voters. That was pretty great to me. And we could do it again with the son if we put our minds to it. That would be even greater.
IS he the brother known as Fredo?
Too late. It’s etched in granite for all the ages.
He’s running for Pres. in 2020?
Trump's Andy curse is coming true. Suffer Andy, suffer!
Didn’t Mario Coumo have a tear jerking
America the Hope immigrant story when he was running for one office or another? I wonder if THAT America was great...?
Build the wall to protect the world from white American racists!
Decades of liberal/progressive efforts to censor, erase and deny the underlying ideas of liberty upon which the U. S. Constitution was framed have had consequences.
Our Constitution embodied a UNIQUE IDEA. Nothing like it had ever been done before. The power of the idea was in the recognition that people's rights are granted directly by the Creator - not by the state - and that the people, then, and only then, grant rights to government. The concept is so simple, yet so very fundamental and far-reaching.
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America's founders embraced a previously unheard-of political philosophy which held that people are "...endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights.." This was the statement of guiding principle for the new nation, and, as such, had to be translated into a concrete charter for government. The Constitution of The United States of America became that charter.
Other forms of government, past and present, rely on the state as the grantor of human rights. America's founders, however, believed that a government made up of imperfect people exercising power over other people should possess limited powers. Through their Constitution, they wished to "secure the blessings of liberty" for themselves and for posterity by limiting the powers of government. Through it, they delegated to government only those rights they wanted it to have, holding to themselves all powers not delegated by the Constitution. They even provided the means for controlling those powers they had granted to government.
This was the unique American idea. Many problems we face today result from a departure from this basic concept. Gradually, other "ideas" have influenced legislation which has reversed the roles and given government greater and greater power over individuals. Early generations of Americans pledged their lives to the cause of individual freedom and limited government and warned, over and over again, that eternal vigilance would be required to preserve that freedom for posterity.
Footnote: "Our Ageless Constitution," W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5
ce of his nation's history is appalling!
But it could be, and maybe the greatness it once had was never properly understood by any number of poorly-informed souls.
Clan Cuomo does not appear to be included with the well-informed, choosing instead to remain deliberately ignorant of all that went into the founding of the that idealistic paragon we know as "America", a nation formed by imperfect men, all striving for some kind of new approach to the world of governance that may reconciled with the Christian concept of the Golden Rule and the Old Testament exposition of the Ten Commandments.
Anything else is a return to feudalism, strongman rule, and militaristic command and control forms of social structure, with the great mass of humanity in bondage to an unyielding hierarchy.
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