Andrew Cuomo says America ‘was never that great,’ drawing gasps

[Dashinka 23,165]

The Cuomo's are having a tough week.

 

President Trump’s political knack, such as it is, is his ability to make his opponents overreach — to dangle bait in front of them and hope they take it.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) may have just swallowed it whole.

Appearing at a bill-signing ceremony in New York City, Cuomo took on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — ostensibly to build up his anti-Trump bona fides as he faces a primary challenge from former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon. But he may have protested a little too hard.

“We’re not going to make America great again; it was never that great,” Cuomo said, drawing audible gasps, apparently out of surprise, and some applause. “We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/15/andrew-cuomo-america-was-never-that-great/?utm_term=.3b32cca6e4bc

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

2 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

The Cuomo's are having a tough week.

 

President Trump’s political knack, such as it is, is his ability to make his opponents overreach — to dangle bait in front of them and hope they take it.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) may have just swallowed it whole.

Appearing at a bill-signing ceremony in New York City, Cuomo took on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — ostensibly to build up his anti-Trump bona fides as he faces a primary challenge from former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon. But he may have protested a little too hard.

“We’re not going to make America great again; it was never that great,” Cuomo said, drawing audible gasps, apparently out of surprise, and some applause. “We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/15/andrew-cuomo-america-was-never-that-great/?utm_term=.3b32cca6e4bc

The MDl hates America.

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57 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

The MDl hates America.

he's right. america has never been 'great' for all americans. it would be one thing if trump's slogan was 'make america great'. tacking on that 'again' can be interpreted many ways, but none of them good for the the country as a whole. the entire premise of #maga is a means to divide the country. case in point. 

[Dashinka 23,165]

Sure, America is only great to those that don't expect to be handed everything for free.

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Just now, Bill & Katya said:

Sure, America is only great to those that don't expect to be handed everything for free.

i was thinking more in terms of civil rights but if you want to go into class division and demonizing of the poor, we can go there too.

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6 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

i was thinking more in terms of civil rights but if you want to go into class division and demonizing of the poor, we can go there too.

I know a lot of folks from a lot of different cultures or ethnicities that bust their behinds everyday and have been successful not expecting a handout from the government.  Not really sure how their civil rights were violated, they were given a equal opportunity to succeed, some failed at times, but never stopped trying.  What a crappy country this America is (he said sarcastically). 

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3 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I know a lot of folks from a lot of different cultures or ethnicities that bust their behinds everyday and have been successful not expecting a handout from the government.  Not really sure how their civil rights were violated, they were given a equal opportunity to succeed, some failed at times, but never stopped trying.  What a crappy country this America is (he said sarcastically). 

so do i. none of this has anything to do with handouts. 

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I never was very fond of the Cuomos, however. America doesn't exist in a bubble of great vs not that great. On the one hand, we never stopped being 'great' (as in America is whatever you want it to be) and on the other we are not as 'great' as some think. We are an ever evolving experiment as a nation of individuals from all different backgrounds, religions, and philosophies united under the goals our founders laid out. We are not a perfect nation, and we'd do well to solve the flaws, or at least care enough to work on them.

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4 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

so do i. none of this has anything to do with handouts. 

In America everyone is given the same opportunity to succeed, sounds pretty great to me.

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Just now, Bill & Katya said:

In America everyone is given the same opportunity to succeed, sounds pretty great to me.

it's a nice thought, not reality, but a nice thought.

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How is it not reality?

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1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

he's right. america has never been 'great' for all americans. it would be one thing if trump's slogan was 'make america great'. tacking on that 'again' can be interpreted many ways, but none of them good for the the country as a whole. the entire premise of #maga is a means to divide the country. case in point. 

Perhaps YOU view it that way.  But more has been done in the past year to unite America than was ever done in the previous “administration of division”.  Hands down.

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42 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

In America everyone is given the same opportunity to succeed, sounds pretty great to me.

 

41 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

it's a nice thought, not reality, but a nice thought.

 

Yes, do tell us how it’s just a thought, but not reality.  

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

America is not great. Yet so many are risking everything to get here 

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2 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

America is not great. Yet so many are risking everything to get here 

Amazing, ain’t it?  The number of people claiming America isn’t great, or promising to leave if Trump was elected, and yet here they are, still around, still complaining.