Many people are looking back to Mario Cuomos Tale of Two Cities speech delivered to the Democrats in Convention in 1984, my favorite is his imperceptible undercurrents attack on George HW Bushs bland reliance on the business cycle to (eventually) bring recovery. In Madison Square Garden in July of 1992 Cuomo took on Bush: The ship of state is headed for the rocks, the crew knows it, the passengers know it, only the Captain of the ship, President Bush, appears not to know it. He seems to think ... that the ship will be saved by imperceptible undercurrents directed by the invisible hand of some cyclical economic god that will gradually move the ship so that -- at the last moment -- it will miraculously glide past the rocks ....
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:14:10 +0000
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