Posted on 08/17/2018 8:28:20 PM PDT by mdittmar
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running for a third term and a potential candidate for president in 2020, acknowledged Friday that he was “inartful” when he said this week that America “was never that great.”
The Democrat went on to expound on something that few elected officials ever need to spell out.
“I want to be very clear: Of course America is great and of course America has always been great,” Cuomo said on a teleconference with reporters.
Cuomo’s appraisal of the nation was somewhat different Wednesday when, speaking at a Manhattan bill signing, he critiqued Republican President Donald Trump and his slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
“We’re not going to make America great again — it was never that great,” Cuomo told the audience, which reacted with gasps and laughter. “We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged.”
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Andrew Cuomo was never that great.
Dude, it’s on tape - you felt it...you said it.
Lying POS...He committed political suicide and now he walks it back...What a stooge...
Lets hope the Democrats run this idiot against Trump!
Hoisted on his own petard. Can you imagine the campaign adds you could make of this.
I am not tired at all of the winning, the whining OTOH just makes me grin ear to ear.
“I didn’t mean America sucks.” Yea right.
So why did all his Democrat supporters cheer and applaud when he said, “American was never really that great”?
Democrats are such losers...Even their lies fail miserably.
DEMs love to rip America, especially its history, then state they didn’t mean it.
Ahhhh, the old “inartful” excuse. That’s like “My comments were taken out of context” excuse.
Except, every one has seen the full video by now.
He might have been inartful but he was saying what he really believed. You can't walk that one back.
Dude, it’s on tape - you felt it...you said it....I agree with you. Exactly.
I wonder if this flip-flop will hurt his chances with wooing undecided voters in the 9/11 NY Dem primary?
Kookoo Cuomo is clearly not fully ‘engaged’.
“When your enemy is angry, irritate him” —Sun Tzu Trump
They make mistakes and reveal themselves
Way too late Moron. You exposed yourself really well. It’s gonna’ stick like super glue to you.
And bammy got a pass for “you didn’t build that!”. Cuomo was just born wrong.
#5. Re “campaign ads you could make of this”.
Here’s one for his next political campaign (which I wrote on FR a couple days ago):
“MMGA” - Make the Mafia Great Again
Show a picture of his opponent and write “Horseheads Make Great Gifts”
“The New Three Stooges - Mario, Andrew and Chris”.
“If you loved the characters in “Dumb and Dumber”, you’ll love me!”
“Mussolini once said American wasn’t so great either”
FU traitor.
Stalinists lie. Always
Then, as Dems just always, absolutely must always, always do, he lied to try to cover his tracks...
“I want to be very clear: Of course America is great and of course America has always been great,” Cuomo said on a teleconference with reporters.
We know who you are, liar, liar, liar (liar) Mister Cuomo.
And your lies just make you a Democrats' Democrat.
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Liar.
Ironic.
“Inartful” is not a word, at least according to various dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster.com.
So, Cuomo was being too cute by half in his backtracking.
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