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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Foreget Reagan, Forget Mondale, Forget Hart
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Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 10:06:38 EDT
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Forget Cuomo too.  If you will recall, the speech was full of
rhetoric without substance.  It was exactly what it was supposed
to be, a call to arms.  Even Mario, in a local interview on WMCA,
admitted that much.  A keynote address at any political event is
supposed to try to set a tone or rally the masses.  Mario's speech
did just that, and quite well, but it had no answers, if you will
recall.  The speech was full of accusations, as it should be, full
of pulling togethers, as it should be, full of motherhood and apple
pie, as it should be.  It was not supposed to be a campaign speech
designed to inform.  Cuomo is a very effective keynote speaker.
Maybe one of the best around right now.  He is not, however, one
of the best leaders around, re. New York's current budget problems.
Further, he is not a team player.  For some reason, he will not be
stumping for Mondale outside New York State.  I have the feeling
that he does not want to be associated with a loser  just in case
he wants to take a run at it in '88.  In the WMCA interview with
Barry Farber, he admitted that he thought that Mondale did not
have a chance, and might not even carry New York.

What has this to do with the keynote speech?  Only that you should
try to remember that keynote addresses are really earwash.  The
ability to make great speeches has little to do with an ability
to govern.  The media thrives on words.  The better those words
are presented, the more adulation the speaker receives from the media.
Check out how they fall all over RR's speeches.  He has discovered
the media's weakness and uses it to full advantage.  Check again
the substance of Jesse Jackson's speech tuesday night.  Rousing
and soul stiring though it was, he did not apologize to the
Jewish community for his slurs or the slurs of his followers.
He only apologized in general for some things he might have said.
Jewish leaders in the New York area are very upset.  (NY area
listeners might tune into WMCA between 4 and 6 pm to hear how
upset.)  The media, on the other hand, was once more carried
away by the rhetoric and can't praise Jackson enough for the
speech.

As long as I am at it, I will put in two cents worth of my thoughts
on Fritz Mondale.  Given the last six months of campaigning, here is
a guy who seems to be ready to cave into any special interest group
that controls more than 1/2% of the local votes.  So far, he has
caved into labor's demands, southern politicos (Lance), California
Liberals (Monat), NOW (Ferraro), and several others that tend to
make him look very suspicious as being his own man.  I'm afraid
Mondale was cut from the same cloth that gave us Jimmy (indecisive)
Carter.  His stock answer as to taxes is to raise them for the middle 
class, and to slap surcharges on Corporate and upper income payors.
Who do you think will end up paying these surcharges?

I have only one real gripe with Ferraro.  She has been touting her
residence as being lower middle class.  Balderdash!  Ferraro lives
in a HIGHLY exclusive area called Forest Hills Village.  Not one
home in this privately owned, privately maintained enclave sells
for less than $400,000.  The district she claims to be Archie
Bunker territory is preponderatly upper middle class to quite
wealthy.  Only about one tenth of her district is lower middle
class.  You cannot even drive your car past Ferraro's house as
the guards at the entrance to the enclave won't let you in
without damn good reason.  So, I wish she would stop telling
the rest of the poor folks out there that she lives in a poor
nieghborhood.  It's just a bunch of malarky.

Well, I'm putting on my asbestos shorts.  Maybe we can get some
fire going in this newsgroup?
T. C. Wheeler