I just received a press release for this book (click to embiggen), and I’m sure you’re all going to want to buy copies for friends, family and loved ones. From the email:
In what the New York Times described as “an insightful coming-of-age political autobiography”, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, humiliating fall, and surprising comeback in politics. In a series of compelling, behind-the-scenes stories, he recounts his dramatic personal and political setbacks, how he overcame them when he was written off, and reveals what he’s learned about effective political leadership that enabled him to enact marriage equality, gun safety, and balanced budgets.
The “humiliating fall” was a loss in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 2002, where he withdrew after saying something stupid. Judging from this blurb, you’d think that, after that devastating setback, our plucky hero–a man born in poverty, raised by his single mother, and given no advantages in life–picked himself up, dusted himself off and valiantly worked to achieve the success he enjoys today. As if, motherfucker.
If any of you wonder whether this delusional, tone-deaf splitter is going to run for President, wonder no more. Why else would Mario’s kid hire a ghostwriter to turn his silver spoon, born-on-third-base life into a saga of hard work and redemption?
Open thread because this pile of steaming horseshit doesn’t deserve a thread to itself.
feebog
Hillary will crush him like a bug. Don’t need no DINOs.
mai naem mobile
I know its been said a million times but I cannot believe Andrew is Mario’s son. Was he adopted maybe? Maybe he has a different baby daddy?
Seanly
So, I take it you’re not a fan?
It’s weird that he fell so far from the tree. When I was just out of college, it was speeches & interviews with Mario Cuomo (and Jesse Jackson) that cemented me as a Democrat.
Howard Beale IV
@mai naem mobile: He looks like a fucking gorilla.
Mandalay
When it comes to corruption, this guy makes Bob McDonnell look like an amateur:
It comes with the usual Republican disclaimers: “Witch hunt!”, “Suspicious timing!”, “Wait for all the facts to emerge!”, etc…
dmsilev
Is it just me, or are most of the NewsMax headlines blank right now? I miss my regular dose of concentrated insanity.
CONGRATULATIONS!
I’ll wait until a copy shows up in my local laundromat. That’s where all the shitty books published in America end up: laundromats.
I hope the George W. Bush of the left doesn’t get as far as his right-wing counterpart did.
Bobby Thomson
@feebog: Well, one could argue that Clinton is one, too, but as between the two of them, it’s no contest. And I see him as a real threat because of his money and organization, so the enemy of my enemy will do.
Cervantes
About @mai naem mobile:
And @Seanly:
It’s the usual thing: the past is always more complicated than we know or remember.
Citizen Alan
The more I learn about Andrew Cuomo, the more I realize that he is everything I hate about George W. Bush PLUS he has the unique potential to destroy the Democratic Party from within in a way that Bush never could.
HR Progressive
I wonder how long before Andrew Cuomo officially drops the (D), slaps an (R) up there, and then claims he’s above Democrats, and always has been.
Seriously, this guy would make a great Republican. Not sure why he continues kidding himself.
Cervantes
@HR Progressive:
You wonder in vain. It will not happen.
Gin & Tonic
@Cervantes: Ah, yes, bright moments in NYC politics. “Vote for Cuomo, not the homo.”
You have to admit, though, it was a catchy slogan.
feebog
@Bobby Thomson:
I don’t think you would ever see Hillary actively trying to keep a Republican majority in the Senate. The guy is a Douche with a capital D.
Karen in GA
I left New York in 1998. Has it always been this screwed up, or is this a 21st-century thing?
In other news, since this is an open thread, today’s the last day to vote for Iggy. He’s over 700 now, but I saw a couple that were over 900 last night, so I don’t know if he’ll make the top 10. But he’ll get treats either way.
Not bad for an ex-homeless ex-shelter pup.
Amir Khalid
Obama has two books to his name. Even Rick Perry, who gives dimwits a bad name, has two. But does a book actually help a politician’s campaign? As I recall, it was Obama’s presidential campaign that lifted Dreams From My Father‘s sales, not the other way around. And that was an actual good book
Gin & Tonic
@Karen in GA: It dates way back.
geg6
Ugh. All you really need to know about the guy is he is banging Sandra Lee. Sandra fucking Lee. I’m sure they have lovely “tablescapes.”
In even more depressing news, my staff assistant just made the appointment for the vet to come to her home to euthanize her 17 year-old border collie. She has been in tears all morning. I feel very bad for her. That sweet pup has been with her through single motherhood to her son’s college graduation, a bad marriage and divorce and a somewhat happier re-marriage. Very hard.
Cervantes
@Amir Khalid:
Even if it does not sell or convince, the act and discipline of writing it can be useful in getting one’s head together.
geg6
@Mandalay:
Maybe they can put him in Don Siegelman’s cell. Hopefully, after Obama pardons him. And with the judge who put Siegelman there and who is a serial wife beater as his roomie.
Amir Khalid
@Cervantes:
That’s if one writes it on one’s own. I wouldn’t necessarily believe that Rick Perry wrote his book (the one without a co-writer credit) by himself.
srv
When can we have a book review? This is the man who calls himself the Conservatives’ anti-christ!
Will no FP’er take a stand against the Pumageddon?
Cervantes
@Amir Khalid: I agree that if the pol’s only connection to the book is his or her name on the cover, there’s no useful process to speak of.
skerry
“Vote for Iggy so your children don’t end up imbecile hostages with Ebola.” I was vote #736.
My daughter attends NYU. I got an email today telling me the measures the school are taking to prevent ebola there. Travel restrictions to W Africa, etc.
Oh, the smell of hysteria in the morning
Splitting Image
The story of a man born on third base, who was nearly picked off, telling how he hit a triple.
El Caganer
@mai naem mobile: Every bit as weird as Mitt being George Romney’s son.
Keith G
@Cervantes: It also creates an official record, as it were. Not saying that official record will be the final word, but it does become in a sense a reference point and a step in forming a type of positive narrative that a candidate would like to have.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Karen in GA: Vote # 745. Iggy’s the dog. Even if his site will no longer let me post (FYWP).
The Moar You Know
@geg6: Shit. My wife and I did this 1 year, 1 month and 17 days ago. She’d had the dog since she was 30. 15 years. I only had her for 4. Words utterly fail to convey just what a heart-crushing experience it was. I seriously wanted to die afterwards, the grief and helplessness and inability to “fix it” – fix anything – for my doggie and my poor wife was overwhelming.
We held her as she died. I have done this with all my pets, it is the right thing to do but oh so very hard.
Yeah, you can console yourself with the fact that it was necessary. It was. No question. That part I’m absolutely clear about. Would hope someone will do the same for me when the time comes. But goddamn if there isn’t a spot branded on my heart in the shape of a big black labrador mix that is never, ever, ever going to go away.
She’s going to have an awful next few weeks. Bear with her. It is just as bad, and in some ways far worse, than losing a family member. Probably very similar to losing a child.
skerry
DHS requires West Africa travelers to arrive at five airports
Security theater
raven
@The Moar You Know:
We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live within a fragile circle;
easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps,
we would still live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only
certain immortality, never fully
understanding the necessary plan.
— Irving Townsend
Seanly
@Cervantes:
I was 9 in 1977 & while my mother was a Long Islander, we lived in LR, AR at the time. Plus my own understanding & compassion towards people of other races, creeds & LGBT took a long time to evolve.
And as far as we’ve come towards full human rights, we still have a long way to go. I am sure that there are still many locations in the US that are very far from electing an openly gay person.
The Moar You Know
@raven: Yep. Would do it all over again, even knowing how it ends. That’s how life works. We all gotta go sometime. Accept that and don’t run from what life has to offer.
Hal
White guy trying to rip the flag out of the hands of a black protester is a terrible image with historical context.
http://socialjusticekoolaid.tumblr.com/post/100506241128/today-in-racist-fuckery-10-20-14-at-yesterdays
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@geg6: That’s a difficult loss to say the least. She’s lucky to be your assistant since you get that. No doubt among many reasons.
Speaking of difficult and emotional situations, how is John’s daughter doing following all the wedding then no wedding drama?
geg6
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Oh my. She’s not doing well at all. The only good news is that she finally got a job, even if it’s just bartending. First job she’s had in four years, so that’s good. But she’s really a mess, emotionally speaking. And the ex-fiance is not helping in that he keeps calling her and asking her to come and see him. IMHO, he’s just using her and she’s too much of a mess to see it. We had to drive to the town he lives to give her money to put gas in her tank after they had a fight and he wouldn’t help her. John and I wanted to have a conversation about just what she thinks seeing him is accomplishing, but she refuses to discuss it. It’s all going to finally end very, very, very badly, I think.
schrodinger's cat
@Amir Khalid: Dreams of my Father was not a campaign book, that was Audacity of Hope. I think only political Punditubbies must read these books. I think JFK started this trend.
geg6
@schrodinger’s cat:
You are correct. And it’s why Dreams of My Father is such a lovely book. I think he’s a very talented writer and I sure hope he writes something equally lovely after the WH.
beltane
My grandmother actually read this book and came away impressed. Of course, she is 100 years old and has lost most of her memory of events that occurred after 1930 or so.
raven
@The Moar You Know: I’m at the point in life when I’m starting to calculate how many doggies I may have left in me. Frances McDormand and Bill Murray Joke About Suicide in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ Trailer
“I’m waiting for the dog to die, so I can shoot myself”
cmorenc
What’s the expected half-life of Cuomo’s book before it hits the remainder bins? I’d say a month. That’s where all the ghost-written political biographies go to die, usually fairly quickly. In the case of the Cuomo book, instant remainder-dom would be a kind act of euthanasia.
Don’t overlook the fact that Cuomo’s book might actually be useful – to balance a chest that’s missing a foot, but be sure to take the paper dust jacket off first so visitors to your house won’t easily see what it actually is and make negative assumptions about your reading tastes or politics.
MomSense
@raven:
I shared that poem with my son after he lost his cat and our dog and he really appreciated it.
Thank you.
raven
@MomSense: It’s probably more helpful down the line.
shelley
Cue the ‘walked two miles to school thru the snow every day; uphill both ways”
Can he get in a little rail splitting there?
Karen in GA
@skerry: Thanks!
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Thank you! And I have no idea why FYWP is doing that to you.
For anyone who’s already voted, Iggy points out that you can vote again, every day. Iggy would really like it. A bit too much, if you ask me.
Gin & Tonic
So, is there a Russian submarine in Swedish waters or not? Will we ever know? Does this make Sweden’s joining NATO more likely?
Davis X. Machina
In the era Hal alludes to above I voted for Francis Hatch, (1978 Mass gubernatorial election) the one time I ever voted for a Republican, because Ed King was just impossible to vote for. Of course, that was in the days when there were not-batshit-insane Republicans out there to vote for instead.
Cuomo is rapidly approaching Ed-King-standard. Luckily I don’t live in NY.
Karen in GA
@geg6: Ugh. Very sorry to hear that.
Villago Delenda Est
Noisemax, your source for comedy gold:
Bill Kristol: Tying Ebola to Racism Is Nuts
And yet we have the Maple Shade NJ phenomenon staring us in the face.
The Moar You Know
@raven: I’ve got at least two. Three might be too much to hope for.
No kids, so we’re not going to adopt a new dog in our 70s. No way am I leaving some poor pooch behind.
burnspbesq
I’d like to give a shit about this, but i’m conserving them for things that matter. Sorry.
burnspbesq
I’d like to find out which record company exec it was that thought having Dame Annie Lennox do a standards album was a good idea, and hand him over to ISIS for beheading. Gaak!
shelley
Wow, the reviews over at Amazon. Ouch!
raven
@The Moar You Know: We just did our wills and decided that we’d add the pups (if we have them) at the next update.
Amir Khalid
À propos of nothing, Google Translate sucks at translating into Malay.
@geg6:
Anything Obama writes will be better than Decision Points. Even the title of George Walker Bush’s book is empty, Pointy Haired Boss talk.
raven
@burnspbesq: I don’t know, Medusa was all covers and it was great. Did you see the Thompson family has an album coming out?
Punchy
@skerry: Are they taking deplaning passengers’ temps rectally? Most accurate and all that.
Mnemosyne
@The Moar You Know:
FWIW, a lot of shelters now have “Seniors for Seniors” programs where you can adopt an older dog or cat for a reduced fee.
japa21
@geg6: That is devastating for someone to go through.
We have made our appointment for next Monday. Maggie has been around 16 years , 2 months. We keep trying to find reasons to put it off. She has about 1-2 good hours per day, and “good” is a relative term. But we know what the winter is going to do to her and don’t want to see her suffer. But I can see us putting it off. Damn, it is hard.
The Moar You Know
@raven: I’m thinking if the nephews fuck up and don’t get into college, than I’m going to insert a provision to donate whatever’s left to the NAACP and the Brady Campaign in Pat Lang’s name.
In seriousness, I’m taking a lot of time to find a worthwhile dog/cat rescue organization to give the potential spoils to. Harder than it would seem once you start really digging into a lot of them.
raven
@The Moar You Know: Lot’s o overhead and admin costs.
The Moar You Know
@Mnemosyne: I know. I’m actually a big fan of adopting elderly animals (I’m on my third) but at the same time it’s hard – you just don’t get that long with them.
We just took in my fuckup of a sister-in-laws brown lab. 11-12 years old. Poor critter was a mess. Now is much less of a mess, preventive care, topical antibiotics and light painkillers and adherence to a daily routine (something my sister in law will never be capable of) has turned her around nicely.
Supposedly this is temporary, but since taking her back would require them to get (and pay for) a place with a yard, we will have her for the rest of her life. Which we knew going in.
The elderly animals know pretty well what they’ve been saved from and the gratitude alone makes it more than worth it.
Lurking Canadian
@geg6: I hope he writes something snarky after his time in the WH. I’m sure he sees the ridiculousness of his opponents at least as well as anybody else and every now and then the mask slips, but he has to pretend to be all statesmanly and shit while he’s got the big job.
After January, 2017, though…My dream is that Random House will release, “An Airing of Grievances: The Festivus of Barack Obama”. In four volumes.
raven
@The Moar You Know:
The Senior Dogs Project
“Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog.”
– Sydney Jeanne Seward
catclub
@skerry: Of course, if they first travel to Europe, what happens?
Nothing? Do passports show where you have been? I can imagine someone with a West African passport who has been in Europe for months, and now comes to the US. Or a MSF worker who has travelled from Africa to France to the US. Which one gets checked? oy.
JPL
An American has been released from North Korea. I’m sure this is bad news for Obama.
HIs name is Jeffrey Fowle.
Villago Delenda Est
The Grey Lady has less dignity than the streetwalkers on Seventh Avenue.
JPL
Losing a dog is heartbreaking. Although I haven’t adopted elderly dogs, my last two have been adults. Finch was five and Moxie three. They come with baggage but don’t we all.
Belafon
@dmsilev: Must be your computer, because I’m seeing them today, though I’ve had other days where they’re blank. The top title is:
I’m hoping the subtitle for this is “He’ll never win a third term now.”
raven
@JPL: Lil Bit didn’t! Unless you count here anemia, double eye surgery, and 4 meds a twice a day in her eyes for life! And she’s bad!
Villago Delenda Est
@Belafon: Laura Ingraham gives blonde bimbos a bad name.
Roger Moore
@catclub:
You’re supposed to get an entry stamp when you go into another country, and in some cases you’ll get an exit stamp, too. The people you’d need to look out for are Europeans who have been in affected areas, when home to Europe, and then traveled to the US immediately afterward.
SRW1
@Amir Khalid:
I sincerely hope you had to read W’s oeuvre for professional reasons.
Amir Khalid
@SRW1:
I saw it in the bookstore. No freaking way I’d actually read the damn thing, even if you paid me.
fledermaus
Enjoy the hippie-punching of Clinton/Cuomo ticket of 2016
Jay C
@dmsilev:
Dunno: I still see them all: though perhaps they were offlined for a bit to edit in a higher level of derpitude: last I recall, the tag said: “Obama Orders 4 Million Green Cards for Illegals“, now it reads “34 Million”.
Amir Khalid
@Jay C:
Why not? One number is as meaningful as the other.
Belafon
@Jay C: “And you get a greencard. And you get a greencard. And you get a greencard. Everyone gets a greencard.”
This sounds like “The DoD is buying all the bullets” again.
burnspbesq
@raven:
Thanks for the heads-up on the Thompson family thing. That could be really interesting.
Villago Delenda Est
@Belafon: Or the EPA shuts down all ammo production in the US story they ran some time back.
AxelFoley
Is it me, or does it seem like Cuomo struggles to even make an attempt to smile?
smintheus
Sounds a bit like a college application essay. I bet he talks a lot about his volunteer work at the dog park.
burnspbesq
@fledermaus:
Can’t happen. Pres and Veep can’t be from the same state.
VOR
@Keith G: Yeah, except Mitt Romney retroactively edited his book after his positions shifted.
A book give the politician an excuse to tour nationally, with heavy concentration on the readers in Iowa, New Hampshire, and early primary states. It provides a reason to book the politician on interview shows like the Sunday shows or late night (Letterman, Daily Show, etc…) Plus it provides some intellectual gravitas among the MSM. Yes, even if the whole thing was ghost-written.
geg6
@Lurking Canadian:
That would be the most awesome thing ever. Seriously.
@japa21:
Sadly, I think my household will be going through the same thing very soon with our Otis. He’s almost 14 (pretty old for a big ol’ golden retriever) and his rear legs pretty much don’t work at all anymore. We use a harness to help him walk, but his front legs are starting to go now, too. It’s horrible because he seems fine in every other way–he eats and evacuates just fine and he’s as loving and sweet as ever (with the exception of when his harness twists and ends up pinching his pen1s–that makes him very, very understandably grumpy). But he’s at 100 pounds and we can’t carry him everywhere and he’s not happy about being disabled at all.
Villago Delenda Est
@burnspbesq: Tell that to the deserting coward and the Dark Lord.
Felonius Monk
@VOR:
and complete Bullshit.
There. Fixed it for you.
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
Not strictly speaking true. Electors are not allowed to vote for a president and vice president both of whom are from their state. In practice, this usually means that campaigns pick a VP candidate from a different state from their presidential candidate, but it is not absolutely necessary to do so. They could pick two from the same state if:
1) They thought they were unlikely to win that state anyway.
2) They thought they could win the election without that state’s votes.
3) They thought they would have a majority in the Senate, so they could elect their choice for VP by giving that state’s VP votes to a third candidate, have no candidate with a majority, and have the final outcome decided in the Senate.
Bobby Thomson
@Roger Moore: The House decides ties (by state delegation), not the Senate.
SiubhanDuinne
@Roger Moore:
Honestly, I don’t think most electors are quite that subtle.
TerryC
@skerry: I was at the VA this morning. Every station has Ebola screening forms (big letters, lots of white space) but it seemed as though everyone was pretty much ignoring them. Certainly no one asked me.
Roger Moore
@Bobby Thomson:
That was the original system. The Twelfth Amendment modifies that so that lack of a majority winner (not just ties, but also the case of a more than two-way race with no majority) for President is decided by the House, but lack of a majority winner for VP is decided in the Senate. Presumably a party that thought it would be able to win in the House under the weird “voting by states” system but not in the Senate could give an outright victory to their VP candidate and a non-majority to the Presidential candidate, but there’s a lot more room for shenanigans in the Presidential procedure, so it’s possible that the VP could wind up acting as President for a long time.
Of course the whole thing is rather academic anyway. The VP isn’t important enough for a party to stick with a VP candidate if doing so has the potential to cause this kind of electoral problem.
Tree With Water
I live a continent away, and have never payed much attention attention to Cuomo. But even so, and fair or unfair, I’ve always sensed a definite Richard Nixon vibe emanating from the guy. Too bad, too, if only because I once so admired his father’s mean mouth.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s not the electors who have to be that subtle, just the party bosses. They’d go to the candidates for elector in the one state affected and tell them how to cast their votes to bring about the desired outcome.
danielx
Including, no doubt, a complete explanation of his shenanigans vis-a-vis the Moreland Commission. Also, too, why he’s a putz of biblical proportions.
Xantar
@geg6:
Do you think they have Kwanzaa Kake during the holidays?
Laertes
Good God. Did he choose that photo? Is that really the best they can do? He looks creepy as hell. Like, almost Rick Scott-level creepy. That’s the kind of photo you use on your story if your editorial line favors the other party.
Mike in NC
Exactly like how John McCain and Mitt Romney pulled themselves up by their bootstraps!
Violet
@Karen in GA: Hi, Karen! I posted about Iggy last night in the late night threads. Got him a few votes I think. I voted on my phone and was vote 810.
Belafon
@Mike in NC: Hey, McCain had to work very hard to become the perfect trophy husband!
rikyrah
Morning Plum: It’s not over yet, but Democrats have their backs to the wall
By Greg Sargent October 20
I’ve been saying for months that Republicans are marginally favored to take the Senate. With the major forecasts shifting a bit more towards the GOP, Republicans have improved their position and are probably more-than-marginally favored to take control.
Democrats do still have paths to retaining control. But they are increasingly narrow.
Look at the map this way. If Democrats can hold on in just one of the four following toss-up states in which they are currently trailing — Colorado, Iowa, Arkansas, or Alaska — their hopes of holding the Senate remain alive. That is plausible. But a lot has to go their way after that.
Let’s give Republicans West Virgina, Montana, and South Dakota up front, while giving Democrats North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Michigan — outcomes that are consistent with the polling averages. If Dems can limit Republicans to wins in three of these four (CO, IA, AR, AK), that puts the GOP at 51 seats.
That would probably send us into overtime, with Louisiana and Georgia likely to head to run-offs due to election rules. To keep the Senate at a 50-50 split, Democrats would then have to win one of those run-offs (so they cancel one-another out) and Greg Orman would have to win in Kansas and he would have to caucus with Dems. Without Kansas, Democrats would have to win both those runoffs. This is not entirely impossible. As Harry Enten has explained, recent history doesn’t tell us much about how these runoffs will go, and high African American turnout could scramble them. But it’s a very tall order, partly because the outcome of these red state run-offs would decide which party controls the Senate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/10/20/morning-plum-its-not-over-yet-but-democrats-have-their-backs-to-the-wall/
SWMBO
@geg6: Google dog wheelchair and you’ll get some ideas for what is specifically needed by Otis. Then go to the hardware store and build it out of heavy duty pvc. It will be light enough you can manage it, sturdy enough that he can use it and washable enough that you can tolerate it after it gets dirty. You will need to make it easy to get him into and out of it but the relief on old bones/muscles/joints may make it easier for him to move easier. You can also try a canvas sling instead of a harness which would make it less pinchy.
WereBear
Laudable. OR… you could adopt a senior pooch.
WereBear
Possibles:
Alley Cat Allies
North Shore Animal League
The Paw Project
The Search Dog Foundation
4 Paws for Ability
are all organizations I’ve supported after checking them out, and the first three I have personal experience with.
WereBear
@WereBear: Aaaaand I read you basically already have gotten an older dog. Kudos!
I don’t know what I will do when my life expectancy starts to exceed the pet’s, with my old guy, James Bond, getting to 18 in people years. That’s over ninety in kitty years!
Setting up someone to take the pet would be essential at some point.
burnspbesq
@Villago Delenda Est:
Cheney was a resident of Wyoming. Surely you know that.
Violet
@geg6: FWIW, a friend’s daughter’s dog was older and having mobility problems. She got dogupuncture treatments for the dog. My friend reported that the dog was a whole new dog. My friend and his wife took care of the dog when their daughter traveled so they knew the dog well. He was kind of amazed at the change. The only thing that had changed was the doggy acupuncture. Something to consider.
Chickamin Slam
Cuomo’s book is about him taking a dump and then, shocked that people saw him do it in public, came back later to do it again. “All things possible … since I’m a 1% er”
But never mind that … I have a cat to occupy my time and a class to go to after I eat first.
geg6
@Violet:
We’ve already tried that. It’s actually a disease that he has (can’t remember the name) where the nerves in his legs can no longer tell where his feet are. There really isn’t anything that can be done other than making him as comfortable as we can.
@SWMBO:
I’m going to look into that. Thanks!
Tree With Water
@Laertes: All photos of Cuomo look like that. Which probably explains why he reminds me of Richard Nixon.
Violet
@geg6: Oh well. I hope the wheelchair idea helps. Always tough to assist an aging pet. You feel helpless.
gene108
@Tree With Water:
To be fair to Nixon, he’d probably want to strangle Cuomo by his intestines, because Nixon had a real problem with the fact some folks were born on third base.
Andy reminds me of GWB. A man with serious daddy issues, who wants to one-up his old-man to prove his own manliness. Andy’s just a bit more of a control freak than GWB ever was and lacks GWB’s “humanizing” charm, i.e. Andy can talk coherently and has no problems with basic subject-verb agreement.
jake the antisoshul soshulist
Cthulhu deliver us from Andy Cuomo. Sounds like a cross between a Democratic GWB and a Democratic Mitt Romney.
geg6
@Violet:
Yes, helpless is exactly right.
sparrow
@El Caganer: In a weird way wealth is more of a test of someone’s innate humanity than anything else. Maybe that’s what that (mistranslated) “it is easier for a camel (rope, actually) to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven” is about. It’s damned hard to grow up in a life of luxury and not become an asshole, apparently.
Villago Delenda Est
@burnspbesq: Not until he changed his residency to Wyoming from Texas in 2000….after he decided he was the best choice for the GOP vice presidential nominee.
Karen in GA
@Violet: I’m very late to this, but thank you so much!
Howard Beale IV
@Tree With Water: Still say he looks like a fucking gorilla.
Tree With Water
Aside from Nixon, Cuomo also reminds me of that little prick, Charles Krauthammer (sic[k]). They each have a pained, shifty eyed bead that can’t escape the camera.
“That man never drank a duff beer in his life”. Homer Simpson about Richard NNixon
Epicurus
Back on topic, Gov. Cuomo can not be happy about his sales numbers (apologies for the HuffPo link, other sources available.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/andrew-cuomo-book-sales_n_6028496.html
945 copies in the first week. Yikes. Couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole.