We found ourselves at Cooper Union the other week waiting to film John Edwards speak about his campaign, his solutions for poverty and then sit down for a Q&A with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer.
We’ll be releasing a number of videos like this during the election cycle, and kicked off the series with Newt Gingrich, Mario Cuomo and Tim Russert outlining the importance of real debate, and real substance, in American politics.
So we waited for Edwards. And waited. And then some more until Mario Cuomo took the stage to, essentially, kill time. And kill time he did with a 20-minute non-partisan riff* on problems facing contemporary politics, the election process and actually having real discussion and debate about the present and future direction of the country.
* Or, to pre-empt snarky comments, as non-partisan a riff as a Democratic icon could deliver.
