Why no more Dream speeches?

I heard Mario Cuomo interviewed on the radio today, the 40th anniversary of MLK's speech. When asked why we don't hear such inspiring oratory out of our politicians these days, Mario threw the blame in the lap of the public.

'We' don't want to hear it anymore. 'We' don't have the patience. 'We' only accept 30 second sound-bites and dumbed-down catch phrases.

Gee, if that's true, why are there blogs?


I think it's our 'modern' politicians who have been dumbed-down.