Mario Cuomo's famous "Tale of Two Cities" keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, one of the all-time greatest speeches, but I'll post it here again:
THIS is oratory. The man should have been president just on this speech alone. He was the only person in the country who could have beaten Ronald Reagan, but Cuomo believed he wasn't good enough to be president. Our loss, indeed.
Try to persuade me Barack Obama is remotely in this league, and I've heard him in person twice.
Mario Cuomo is the standard by which ALL orators in world history should be judged against. He composes speeches, not writes them, as symphonies, with perfect timing, cadence, and delivery. He is the Beethoven of oratory.
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