第一篇：克林頓提名奧巴馬演講(中英文版)

克林頓提名奧巴馬演講

We’re here to nominate a President, and I’ve got one in mind.I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty.A man who ran for President to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before the election, saw it suffer the biggest collapse since the Great Depression.A man who stopped the slide into depression and put us on the long road to recovery, knowing all the while that no matter how many jobs were created and saved, there were still millions more waiting, trying to feed their children and keep their hopes alive.I want to nominate a man cool on the outside but burning for America on the inside.A man who believes we can build a new American Dream economy driven by innovation and creativity, education and cooperation.A man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.I want Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States and I proudly nominate him as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party.我們在這里提名總統候選人，我心里已經有一個人選了。

我將要提名的這個人的妻子已經分享了他的逆境與不平坦，他競選總統挑戰選舉六個月前自大蕭條以來最大的經濟危機，他正在努力阻止這次經濟危機變成經濟蕭條，也正在帶領我們走上經濟恢復的征程。他知道不管已經創造了多少工作機會，都有上百萬的工作機會需要而去養孩子也讓人們更有希望。

我將要提名的總統候選人外冷內熱，他相信我們能用我們的智慧，創造力，教育，和合作建立新的“美國夢”經濟，這個男人很幸運的娶到了米歇爾。

我將提名巴拉克 奧巴馬為下屆總統候選人，我將提名他為美國民主黨的標桿。

In Tampa, we heard a lot of talk about how the President and the Democrats don’t believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everyone to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy.The Republican narrative is that all of us who amount to anything are completely self-made.One of our greatest Democratic Chairmen, Bob Strauss, used to say that every politician wants you to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself, but it ain’t so.We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity.We think “we’re all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you’re on your own.”

在坦帕，我們聽到了不少關于奧巴馬和民主黨不信任自由企業和個人主義的言論，還有我們希望每一個人都依靠政府的力量，還說我們不了解我們現在的經濟情況是多么糟糕。

共和黨把我們所有的人描述成完全是為自己。一位民主黨主席鮑勃 斯特勞斯總是說每一個政體都想要你相信他出生在自制的小木屋，但事實不是這樣的。

我們民主黨認為一個國家的中產階級強大了，這個國家才能強大，給他們提供實質的工作機會讓他們能自力更生，讓他們參與國家的發展，商業和政府的工作結合起來去讓國家發展繁榮。“我們一直在一起”的口號比“你可以依靠自己”聽起來舒服多了。

Who’s right? Well since 1961, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24.In those 52 years, our economy produced 66 million private sector jobs.What’s the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million!

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.誰是對的呢？從1961年開始，共和黨執政了28年，民主黨執政24年，在這52年中，在經濟發展基礎上創造了6600萬個工作機會，這些工作在兩黨之間是怎樣分配的呢？共和黨是240萬，民主黨是420萬。

這表明促進經濟機會和能力的增長在平等權力和經濟上起到了平衡的作用，因為種族歧視，貧窮無知限制了經濟的發展，而在教育，基礎設施建設，科學研究上的投資在增長，這樣就能創造更多好的工作和更多的財富。

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.After all, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to my home state to integrate Little Rock Central High and built the interstate highway system.And as governor, I worked with President Reagan on welfare reform and with President George H.W.Bush on national education goals.I am grateful to President George W.Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we’ve done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.Through my foundation, in America and around the world, I work with Democrats, Republicans and Independents who are focused on solving problems and seizing opportunities, not fighting each other.When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better.After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.All of us are destined to live our lives between those two extremes.Unfortunately, the faction that now dominates the Republican Party doesn’t see it that way.They think government is the enemy, and compromise is weakness.雖然我經常不贊同共和黨的政策，但是我從沒有像他們現在討厭奧巴馬總統和民主黨那樣討厭他們，畢竟，艾森豪威爾總統曾經派遣軍隊去我的家鄉整合小鹽城并且在那里建立了高速公路網。作為州長，我也曾同里根總統在福利改革政策上共同努力，也和喬治 布什總統一起工作區完成國家教育目標。我對喬治 布什總統充滿了感激，因為他為艾滋病緊急救援計劃作出了很大努力，這次行動挽救了貧困地區的數以百萬的生命，我也很感激兩屆布什總統和我一道在南亞海嘯，卡特里娜颶風和海底地震后的努力工作。

從我的角度出發，我在美國甚至世界各地，我和民主黨，共和黨，還有自由黨派一起努力工作是為了解決問題，抓住機會，而不是互相攻擊。

在艱難的時代里，持續的紛爭可能是好的政治手段，但實際上，在當今世界，合作會更好。我們每一個人注定要生活在這兩個極端之間。但很不幸，現在掌控共和黨的小部分人卻不這樣想，他們認為政府就是敵人，妥協就是軟弱。

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation.He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation.He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008, and trusted him to oversee the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation of the recovery act.And Joe Biden did a great job with both.He appointed Cabinet members who supported Hillary in the primaries.Heck, he even appointed Hillary!I’m so proud of her and grateful to our entire national security team for all they’ve done to make us safer and stronger and to build a world with more partners and fewer enemies.I’m also grateful to the young men and women who serve our country in the military and to Michelle Obama and Jill Biden for supporting military families when their loved ones are overseas and for helping our veterans, when they come home bearing the wounds of war, or needing help with education, housing, and jobs.President Obama’s record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.He also tried to work with Congressional Republicans on Health Care, debt reduction, and jobs, but that didn’t work out so well.Probably because, as the Senate Republican leader, in a remarkable moment of candor, said two years before the election, their number one priority was not to put America back to work, but to put President Obama out of work.Senator, I hate to break it to you, but we’re going to keep President Obama on the job!

美國應該繼續選奧巴馬當選總統的一個很重要原因就是他始終致力于以“合作”為執政原則。他任命共和黨的國防部秘書，還有軍隊和運輸上的一些官員。他任命在2008年與他競選的副總統，并信任他為伊拉克戰爭的結局建議和一些恢復條款的執行。于此同時，喬 拜登在這方面也做得很好，他任命在總統預選時候支持希拉里的內閣成員，而且，他居然能重用希拉里。我為她感到驕傲，也很感激我們整個國家安全局，為把我們的國家建立成更安全更強大，多一些伙伴少一些敵人作出的努力。我也很感謝在軍隊服役的年輕人，更感謝米歇爾 奧巴馬和吉爾 拜登當軍人們遠赴他鄉時他們對軍人家屬的鼓勵支持，而且他們還從教育，居住和就業方面幫助受傷歸來的老兵。

奧巴馬總統在國家安全上貼的標簽是他的力量，公正，還有他對于黨派的包容和愛護。他也一直在為共和國會衛生保健，債務削減，和就業機會努力。但是他沒有解決得那么好。坦率的講，也許是因為共和黨參議員領導在兩年前表示，他們的首要任務不是為國民創造更多工作機會，而是讓奧巴馬下臺。

參議員，我本來不想這樣說，但是我們正努力讓奧巴馬繼續執政。

In Tampa, the Republican argument against the President’s re-election was pretty simple: we left him a total mess, he hasn’t cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.In order to look like an acceptable alternative to President Obama, they couldn’t say much about the ideas they have offered over the last two years.You see they want to go back to the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place: to cut taxes for high income Americans even more than President Bush did;to get rid of those pesky financial regulations designed to prevent another crash and prohibit future bailouts;to increase defense spending two trillion dollars more than the Pentagon has requested without saying what they’ll spend the money on;to make enormous cuts in the rest of the budget, especially programs that help the middle class and poor kids.As another President once said – there they go again.在坦帕，共和黨有關奧巴馬連任的論調非常簡單：‘我們留給他一團糟，他還沒有清理完，所以讓他下臺，讓我們來搞定。’

為了能更像奧巴馬的競爭對手，他們不能對過去的兩年間他們提供的想法做過多評論。你們很清楚他們將會用一些同樣的舊的政策把我們帶入麻煩中：為高收入美國人減稅，人數多于當初布什執政時減稅的人數；廢除討厭的金融條款阻止破產，但也阻止了將來的救助；增加兩萬個億的國防支出，這比美國國防部要求的還多，而且他們沒有說把這些錢用在哪里；減少大量的支出預算，特別是在幫助中產階級和貧困孩子的項目上。正如另外一位總統所說，在那里他們又可以做主。

I like the argument for President Obama’s re-election a lot better.He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators.Are we where we want to be? No.Is the President satisfied? No.Are we better off than we were when he took office, with an economy in free fall, losing 750,000 jobs a month.The answer is YES.我其實更喜歡總統奧巴馬連任的論調。他接手了一個嚴重受損的經濟，開始了漫長的恢復之路，并為籌劃更現代化、更平衡的經濟奠定基礎。這是創造數百萬良好就業、充滿活力企業及為企業帶來新財富的前提。”

我們想要在這樣的國家嗎？不！總統會滿意嗎？不！他執政后經濟會呈自由下落的趨勢下，一個月失去75萬工作機會嗎？答案是“會的“。

I understand the challenge we face.I know many Americans are still angry and frustrated with the economy.Though employment is growing, banks are beginning to lend and even housing prices are picking up a bit, too many people don’t feel it.I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995.Our policies were working and the economy was growing but most people didn’t feel it yet.By 1996, the economy was roaring, halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in American history.President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did.No President – not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years.But conditions are improving and if you’ll renew the President’s contract you will feel it.I believe that with all my heart.President Obama’s approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.我明白我們現在面臨的挑戰，我也知道很多美國人都對美國現在的經濟感到氣憤和沮喪。雖然就業率正在增長，銀行也正在發放外貸，甚至房價也上漲了一點，但是太多人沒有感受到這一點。

我在1994年和1995年早期經歷了同樣的事。我們的政策正在起效，經濟也正在恢復，只是大部分人都沒有感受到而已。到1996年，經濟開始繁榮，也基本到了美國歷史上經濟最穩定發展時期。

奧巴馬在現在著手的經濟問題比我當年要弱很多，沒有一個總統，包括我和所有前任總統能夠在短短四年時間就修復所有經濟問題。但是情況正在改善，如果你們再給奧巴馬四年，你們就會感受到。

我相信這也是來自我們心底的聲音。

奧巴馬總統正在努力把美國建立成21世紀新的擁有美國夢價值觀念的國家，在這里全民有同樣的機會，共享繁榮，一起承擔責任。

第二篇：克林頓提名奧巴馬演講全文(英文)

克林頓提名奧巴馬演講全文

We're here to nominate a President, and I've got one in mind.I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty.A man who ran for President to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before the election, saw it suffer the biggest collapse since the Great Depression.A man who stopped the slide into depression and put us on the long road to recovery, knowing all the while that no matter how many jobs were created and saved, there were still millions more waiting, trying to feed their children and keep their hopes alive.I want to nominate a man cool on the outside but burning for America on the inside.A man who believes we can build a new American Dream economy driven by innovation and creativity, education and cooperation.A man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.I want Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States and I proudly nominate him as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party.1 / 16

In Tampa, we heard a lot of talk about how the President and the Democrats don't believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everyone to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy.The Republican narrative is that all of us who amount to anything are completely self-made.One of our greatest Democratic Chairmen, Bob Strauss, used to say that every politician wants you to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself, but it ain't so.We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity.We think “we're all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you're on your own.” Who's right? Well since 1961, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24.In those 52 years, our economy produced 66 million private sector jobs.What's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million!

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics，2 / 16

because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.After all, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to my home state to integrate Little Rock Central High and built the interstate highway system.And as governor, I worked with President Reagan on welfare reform and with President George H.W.Bush on national education goals.I am grateful to President George W.Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.Through my foundation, in America and around the world, I work with Democrats, Republicans and Independents who are focused on solving problems and seizing opportunities, not fighting each other.3 / 16

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better.After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.All of us are destined to live our lives between those two extremes.Unfortunately, the faction that now dominates the Republican Party doesn't see it that way.They think government is the enemy, and compromise is weakness.One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation.He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation.He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008, and trusted him to oversee the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation of the recovery act.And Joe Biden did a great job with both.He appointed Cabinet members who supported Hillary in the primaries.Heck, he even appointed Hillary!I'm so proud of her and grateful to our entire national security team for all they've done to make us safer and stronger and to build a world with more partners and fewer enemies.I'm also grateful to the young men and women who serve our country in the military and to Michelle Obama and Jill Biden for supporting military families when their loved ones are overseas and for helping our veterans, when they come home bearing the

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wounds of war, or needing help with education, housing, and jobs.President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.He also tried to work with Congressional Republicans on Health Care, debt reduction, and jobs, but that didn't work out so well.Probably because, as the Senate Republican leader, in a remarkable moment of candor, said two years before the election, their number one priority was not to put America back to work, but to put President Obama out of work.Senator, I hate to break it to you, but we're going to keep President Obama on the job!In Tampa, the Republican argument against the President's re-election was pretty simple: we left him a total mess, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.In order to look like an acceptable alternative to President Obama, they couldn't say much about the ideas they have offered over the last two years.You see they want to go back to the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place: to cut taxes for high income Americans even more than President

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Bush did;to get rid of those pesky financial regulations designed to prevent another crash and prohibit future bailouts;to increase defense spending two trillion dollars more than the Pentagon has requested without saying what they'll spend the money on;to make enormous cuts in the rest of the budget, especially programs that help the middle class and poor kids.As another President once said – there they go again.I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better.He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators.Are we where we want to be? No.Is the President satisfied? No.Are we better off than we were when he took office, with an economy in free fall, losing 750,000 jobs a month.The answer is YES.I understand the challenge we face.I know many Americans are still angry and frustrated with the economy.Though employment is growing, banks are beginning to lend and even housing prices are picking up a bit, too many people don't feel it.6 / 16

I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995.Our policies were working and the economy was growing but most people didn't feel it yet.By 1996, the economy was roaring, halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in American history.President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did.No President – not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years.But conditions are improving and if you'll renew the President's contract you will feel it.I believe that with all my heart.President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.So back to the story.In 2010, as the President's recovery program kicked in, the job losses stopped and things began to turn around.The Recovery Act saved and created millions of jobs and cut taxes for 95% of the American people.In the last 29 months the economy has produced about 4.5 million private sector jobs.But

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last year, the Republicans blocked the President's jobs plan costing the economy more than a million new jobs.So here's another jobs score: President Obama plus 4.5 million, Congressional Republicans zero.Over that same period, more than more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been created under President Obama – the first time manufacturing jobs have increased since the 1990s.The auto industry restructuring worked.It saved more than a million jobs, not just at GM, Chrysler and their dealerships, but in auto parts manufacturing all over the country.That's why even auto-makers that weren't part of the deal supported it.They needed to save the suppliers too.Like I said, we're all in this together.Now there are 250,000 more people working in the auto industry than the day the companies were restructured.Governor Romney opposed the plan to save GM and Chrysler.So here's another jobs score: Obama two hundred and fifty thousand, Romney, zero.The agreement the administration made with management, labor and environmental groups to double car mileage over the

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next few years is another good deal: it will cut your gas bill in half, make us more energy independent, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and add another 500,000 good jobs.President Obama's “all of the above” energy plan is helping too – the boom in oil and gas production combined with greater energy efficiency has driven oil imports to a near 20 year low and natural gas production to an all time high.Renewable energy production has also doubled.We do need more new jobs, lots of them, but there are already more than three million jobs open and unfilled in America today, mostly because the applicants don't have the required skills.We have to prepare more Americans for the new jobs that are being created in a world fueled by new technology.That's why investments in our people are more important than ever.The President has supported community colleges and employers in working together to train people for open jobs in their communities.And, after a decade in which exploding college costs have increased the drop-out rate so much that we've fallen to 16th in the world in the percentage of our young adults with college degrees, his student loan reform lowers the cost of federal student loans and even more important, gives students the right to repay the loans as a fixed percentage of

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their incomes for up to 20 years.That means no one will have to drop-out of college for fear they can't repay their debt, and no one will have to turn down a job, as a teacher, a police officer or a small town doctor because it doesn't pay enough to make the debt payments.This will change the future for young Americans.I know we're better off because President Obama made these decisions.That brings me to health care.The Republicans call it Obamacare and say it's a government takeover of health care that they'll repeal.Are they right? Let's look at what's happened so far.Individuals and businesses have secured more than a billion dollars in refunds from their insurance premiums because the new law requires 80% to 85% of your premiums to be spent on health care, not profits or promotion.Other insurance companies have lowered their rates to meet the requirement.More than 3 million young people between 19 and 25 are insured for the first time because their parents can now carry them on family policies.Millions of seniors are receiving preventive care including breast cancer screenings and tests for heart problems.Soon the insurance companies, not the government, will have millions of new customers many of

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them middle class people with pre-existing conditions.And for the last two years, health care spending has grown under 4%, for the first time in 50 years.So are we all better off because President Obama fought for it and passed it? You bet we are.There were two other attacks on the President in Tampa that deserve an answer.Both Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan attacked the President for allegedly robbing Medicare of 716 billion dollars.Here's what really happened.There were no cuts to benefits.None.What the President did was save money by cutting unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that weren't making people any healthier.He used the saving to close the donut hole in the Medicare drug program, and to add eight years to the life of the Medicare Trust Fund.It's now solvent until 2024.So President Obama and the Democrats didn't weaken Medicare, they strengthened it.When Congressman Ryan looked into the TV camera and attacked President Obama's “biggest coldest power play” in raiding Medicare, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.You see, that 716 billion dollars is exactly the same amount of Medicare savings Congressman Ryan had in his own budget.11 / 16

At least on this one, Governor Romney's been consistent.He wants to repeal the savings and give the money back to the insurance companies, re-open the donut hole and force seniors to pay more for drugs, and reduce the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by eight years.So now if he's elected and does what he promised Medicare will go broke by 2016.If that happens, you won't have to wait until their voucher program to begins in 2023 to see the end Medicare as we know it.But it gets worse.They also want to block grant Medicaid and cut it by a third over the coming decade.Of course, that will hurt poor kids, but that's not all.Almost two-thirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for seniors and on people with disabilities, including kids from middle class families, with special needs like, Downs syndrome or Autism.I don't know how those families are going to deal with it.We can't let it happen.Now let's look at the Republican charge that President Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare reform bill I signed that moved millions of people from welfare to work.Here's what happened.When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the

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Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%.You hear that? More work.So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.But they keep running ads on it.As their campaign pollster said “we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.” Now that is true.I couldn't have said it better myself – I just hope you remember that every time you see the ad.Let's talk about the debt.We have to deal with it or it will deal with us.President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending.It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.I think the President's plan is better than the Romney plan, because the Romney plan fails the first test of fiscal responsibility: The numbers don't add up.It's supposed to be a debt reduction plan but it begins with five trillion dollars in tax cuts over a ten-year period.That makes the debt hole bigger before they even start to dig out.They say

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they'll make it up by eliminating loopholes in the tax code.When you ask “which loopholes and how much?,” they say “See me after the election on that.” People ask me all the time how we delivered four surplus budgets.What new ideas did we bring? I always give a one-word answer: arithmetic.If they stay with a 5 trillion dollar tax cut in a debt reduction plan – the – arithmetic tells us that one of three things will happen: 1)they'll have to eliminate so many deductions like the ones for home mortgages and charitable giving that middle class families will see their tax bill go up two thousand dollars year while people making over 3 million dollars a year get will still get a 250,000 dollar tax cut;or 2)they'll have to cut so much spending that they'll obliterate the budget for our national parks, for ensuring clean air, clean water, safe food, safe air travel;or they'll cut way back on Pell Grants, college loans, early childhood education and other programs that help middle class families and poor children, not to mention cutting investments in roads, bridges, science, technology and medical research;or 3)they'll do what they've been doing for thirty plus years now – cut taxes more than they cut spending, explode the debt, and weaken the economy.Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took

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office and doubled it after I left.We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.President Obama's plan cuts the debt, honors our values, and brightens the future for our children, our families and our nation.My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in.If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket.If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities – a “we're all in it together” society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.If you want every American to vote and you think its wrong to change voting procedures just to reduce the turnout of younger, poorer, minority and disabled voters, you should support Barack Obama.If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for

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Barack Obama.I love our country – and I know we're coming back.For more than 200 years, through every crisis, we've always come out stronger than we went in.And we will again as long as we do it together.We champion the cause for which our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor – to form a more perfect union.If that's what you believe, if that's what you want, we have to re-elect President Barack Obama.God Bless You – God Bless America.16 / 16

第三篇：克林頓提名奧巴馬演講稿

克林頓提名奧巴馬演講稿(英語)

Former President Bill Clinton's remarks to the Democratic National Convention, as prepared for delivery.Clinton veered from these prepared remarks multiple times throughout his speech.We're here to nominate a President, and I've got one in mind.I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty.A man who ran for President to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before the election, saw it suffer the biggest collapse since the Great Depression.A man who stopped the slide into depression and put us on the long road to recovery, knowing all the while that no matter how many jobs were created and saved, there were still millions more waiting, trying to feed their children and keep their hopes alive.I want to nominate a man cool on the outside but burning for America on the inside.A man who believes we can build a new American Dream economy driven by innovation and creativity, education and cooperation.A man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.I want Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States and I proudly nominate him as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party.In Tampa, we heard a lot of talk about how the President and the Democrats don't believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everyone to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy.The Republican narrative is that all of us who amount to anything are completely self-made.One of our greatest Democratic Chairmen, Bob Strauss, used to say that every politician wants you to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself, but it ain't so.We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity.We think “we're all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you're on your own.”

Who's right? Well since 1961, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24.In those 52 years, our economy produced 66 million private sector jobs.What's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million!

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.After all, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to my home state to integrate Little Rock Central High and built the interstate highway system.And as governor, I worked with President Reagan on welfare reform and with President George H.W.Bush on national education goals.

第四篇：克林頓提名奧巴馬英語演講稿完整版

【克林頓提名奧巴馬英語演講稿完整版】

Former President Bill Clinton's remarks to the Democratic National Convention, as prepared for delivery.Clinton veered from these prepared remarks multiple times throughout his speech.We're here to nominate a President, and I've got one in mind.I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty.A man who ran for President to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before the election, saw it suffer the biggest collapse since the Great Depression.A man who stopped the slide into depression and put us on the long road to recovery, knowing all the while that no matter how many jobs were created and saved, there were still millions more waiting, trying to feed their children and keep their hopes alive.I want to nominate a man cool on the outside but burning for America on the inside.A man who believes we can build a new American Dream economy driven by innovation and creativity, education and cooperation.A man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.I want Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States and I proudly nominate him as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party.In Tampa, we heard a lot of talk about how the President and the Democrats don't believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everyone to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy.The Republican narrative is that all of us who amount to anything are completely self-made.One of our greatest Democratic Chairmen, Bob Strauss, used to say that every politician wants you to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself, but it ain't so.We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity.We think “we're all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you're on your own.” Who's right? Well since 1961, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24.In those 52 years, our economy produced 66 million private sector jobs.What's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million!It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.After all, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to my home state to integrate Little Rock Central High and built the interstate highway system.And as governor, I worked with President Reagan on welfare reform and with President George H.W.Bush on national education goals.I am grateful to President George W.Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.Through my foundation, in America and around the world, I work with Democrats, Republicans and Independents who are focused on solving problems and seizing opportunities, not fighting each other.When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better.After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.All of us are destined to live our lives between those two extremes.Unfortunately, the faction that now dominates the Republican Party doesn't see it that way.They think government is the enemy, and compromise is weakness.One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation.He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation.He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008, and trusted him to oversee the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation of the recovery act.And Joe Biden did a great job with both.He appointed Cabinet members who supported Hillary in the primaries.Heck, he even appointed Hillary!I'm so proud of her and grateful to our entire national security team for all they've done to make us safer and stronger and to build a world with more partners and fewer enemies.I'm also grateful to the young men and women who serve our country in the military and to Michelle Obama and Jill Biden for supporting military families when their loved ones are overseas and for helping our veterans, when they come home bearing the wounds of war, or needing help with education, housing, and jobs.President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.He also tried to work with Congressional Republicans on Health Care, debt reduction, and jobs, but that didn't work out so well.Probably because, as the Senate Republican leader, in a remarkable moment of candor, said two years before the election, their number one priority was not to put America back to work, but to put President Obama out of work.Senator, I hate to break it to you, but we're going to keep President Obama on the job!In Tampa, the Republican argument against the President's re-election was pretty simple: we left him a total mess, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.In order to look like an acceptable alternative to President Obama, they couldn't say much about the ideas they have offered over the last two years.You see they want to go back to the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place: to cut taxes for high income Americans even more than President Bush did;to get rid of those pesky financial regulations designed to prevent another crash and prohibit future bailouts;to increase defense spending two trillion dollars more than the Pentagon has requested without saying what they'll spend the money on;to make enormous cuts in the rest of the budget, especially programs that help the middle class and poor kids.As another President once said – there they go again.I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better.He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators.Are we where we want to be? No.Is the President satisfied? No.Are we better off than we were when he took office, with an economy in free fall, losing 750,000 jobs a month.The answer is YES.I understand the challenge we face.I know many Americans are still angry and frustrated with the economy.Though employment is growing, banks are beginning to lend and even housing prices are picking up a bit, too many people don't feel it.I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995.Our policies were working and the economy was growing but most people didn't feel it yet.By 1996, the economy was roaring, halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in American history.President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did.No President – not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years.But conditions are improving and if you'll renew the President's contract you will feel it.I believe that with all my heart.President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.So back to the story.In 2010, as the President's recovery program kicked in, the job losses stopped and things began to turn around.The Recovery Act saved and created millions of jobs and cut taxes for 95% of the American people.In the last 29 months the economy has produced about 4.5 million private sector jobs.But last year, the Republicans blocked the President's jobs plan costing the economy more than a million new jobs.So here's another jobs score: President Obama plus 4.5 million, Congressional Republicans zero.Over that same period, more than more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been created under President Obama – the first time manufacturing jobs have increased since the 1990s.The auto industry restructuring worked.It saved more than a million jobs, not just at GM, Chrysler and their dealerships, but in auto parts manufacturing all over the country.That's why even auto-makers that weren't part of the deal supported it.They needed to save the suppliers too.Like I said, we're all in this together.Now there are 250,000 more people working in the auto industry than the day the companies were restructured.Governor Romney opposed the plan to save GM and Chrysler.So here's another jobs score: Obama two hundred and fifty thousand, Romney, zero.The agreement the administration made with management, labor and environmental groups to double car mileage over the next few years is another good deal: it will cut your gas bill in half, make us more energy independent, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and add another 500,000 good jobs.President Obama's “all of the above” energy plan is helping too – the boom in oil and gas production combined with greater energy efficiency has driven oil imports to a near 20 year low and natural gas production to an all time high.Renewable energy production has also doubled.We do need more new jobs, lots of them, but there are already more than three million jobs open and unfilled in America today, mostly because the applicants don't have the required skills.We have to prepare more Americans for the new jobs that are being created in a world fueled by new technology.That's why investments in our people are more important than ever.The President has supported community colleges and employers in working together to train people for open jobs in their communities.And, after a decade in which exploding college costs have increased the drop-out rate so much that we've fallen to 16th in the world in the percentage of our young adults with college degrees, his student loan reform lowers the cost of federal student loans and even more important, gives students the right to repay the loans as a fixed percentage of their incomes for up to 20 years.That means no one will have to drop-out of college for fear they can't repay their debt, and no one will have to turn down a job, as a teacher, a police officer or a small town doctor because it doesn't pay enough to make the debt payments.This will change the future for young Americans.I know we're better off because President Obama made these decisions.That brings me to health care.The Republicans call it Obamacare and say it's a government takeover of health care that they'll repeal.Are they right? Let's look at what's happened so far.Individuals and businesses have secured more than a billion dollars in refunds from their insurance premiums because the new law requires 80% to 85% of your premiums to be spent on health care, not profits or promotion.Other insurance companies have lowered their rates to meet the requirement.More than 3 million young people between 19 and 25 are insured for the first time because their parents can now carry them on family policies.Millions of seniors are receiving preventive care including breast cancer screenings and tests for heart problems.Soon the insurance companies, not the government, will have millions of new customers many of them middle class people with pre-existing conditions.And for the last two years, health care spending has grown under 4%, for the first time in 50 years.So are we all better off because President Obama fought for it and passed it? You bet we are.There were two other attacks on the President in Tampa that deserve an answer.Both Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan attacked the President for allegedly robbing Medicare of 716 billion dollars.Here's what really happened.There were no cuts to benefits.None.What the President did was save money by cutting unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that weren't making people any healthier.He used the saving to close the donut hole in the Medicare drug program, and to add eight years to the life of the Medicare Trust Fund.It's now solvent until 2024.So President Obama and the Democrats didn't weaken Medicare, they strengthened it.When Congressman Ryan looked into the TV camera and attacked President Obama's “biggest coldest power play” in raiding Medicare, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.You see, that 716 billion dollars is exactly the same amount of Medicare savings Congressman Ryan had in his own budget.At least on this one, Governor Romney's been consistent.He wants to repeal the savings and give the money back to the insurance companies, re-open the donut hole and force seniors to pay more for drugs, and reduce the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by eight years.So now if he's elected and does what he promised Medicare will go broke by 2016.If that happens, you won't have to wait until their voucher program to begins in 2023 to see the end Medicare as we know it.But it gets worse.They also want to block grant Medicaid and cut it by a third over the coming decade.Of course, that will hurt poor kids, but that's not all.Almost two-thirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for seniors and on people with disabilities, including kids from middle class families, with special needs like, Downs syndrome or Autism.I don't know how those families are going to deal with it.We can't let it happen.Now let's look at the Republican charge that President Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare reform bill I signed that moved millions of people from welfare to work.Here's what happened.When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%.You hear that? More work.So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.But they keep running ads on it.As their campaign pollster said “we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.” Now that is true.I couldn't have said it better myself – I just hope you remember that every time you see the ad.Let's talk about the debt.We have to deal with it or it will deal with us.President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending.It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.I think the President's plan is better than the Romney plan, because the Romney plan fails the first test of fiscal responsibility: The numbers don't add up.It's supposed to be a debt reduction plan but it begins with five trillion dollars in tax cuts over a ten-year period.That makes the debt hole bigger before they even start to dig out.They say they'll make it up by eliminating loopholes in the tax code.When you ask “which loopholes and how much?,” they say “See me after the election on that.” People ask me all the time how we delivered four surplus budgets.What new ideas did we bring? I always give a one-word answer: arithmetic.If they stay with a 5 trillion dollar tax cut in a debt reduction plan – the – arithmetic tells us that one of three things will happen: 1)they'll have to eliminate so many deductions like the ones for home mortgages and charitable giving that middle class families will see their tax bill go up two thousand dollars year while people making over 3 million dollars a year get will still get a 250,000 dollar tax cut;or 2)they'll have to cut so much spending that they'll obliterate the budget for our national parks, for ensuring clean air, clean water, safe food, safe air travel;or they'll cut way back on Pell Grants, college loans, early childhood education and other programs that help middle class families and poor children, not to mention cutting investments in roads, bridges, science, technology and medical research;or 3)they'll do what they've been doing for thirty plus years now – cut taxes more than they cut spending, explode the debt, and weaken the economy.Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left.We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.President Obama's plan cuts the debt, honors our values, and brightens the future for our children, our families and our nation.My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in.If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket.If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities – a “we're all in it together” society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.If you want every American to vote and you think its wrong to change voting procedures just to reduce the turnout of younger, poorer, minority and disabled voters, you should support Barack Obama.If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.I love our country – and I know we're coming back.For more than 200 years, through every crisis, we've always come out stronger than we went in.And we will again as long as we do it together.We champion the cause for which our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor – to form a more perfect union.If that's what you believe, if that's what you want, we have to re-elect President Barack Obama.God Bless You – God Bless America.

第五篇：克林頓提名奧巴馬演講稿(帶中文翻譯)范文

Former(前任的)President Bill Clinton's（克林頓）remarks（言論）to the Democratic（民主的）National（國）Convention（大會）（即民主黨大會）, as prepared for delivery（投遞，交貨）（即準備稿）.Clinton veered（轉向）from these prepared（預先準備）remarks（言論）multiple（眾多）times throughout（貫穿）his speech.We're here to nominate（提名）a President, and I've got one in mind.I want to nominate（提名）a man whose own life（自己的生活中）has known（就已經知道）its fair share of（公平的份額）adversity（逆境，引申困難）and uncertainty（不確定）.A man who ran for（競選，過去時）President to change the course（過程）of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before the election（選舉）, saw it suffer the biggest collapse（崩潰）since the Great（大）Depression（蕭條）.A man who stopped the slide（滑）into depression（蕭條）and put us on the long road to recovery（復原）, knowing all the while(始終知道，倒裝）that no matter how many jobs were created and saved, there were still millions more waiting, trying to feed（養活）their children and keep their hopes alive.I want to nominate（提名）a man cool（冷靜）on the outside but burning（燃燒）for America on the inside.A man who believes we can build a new American Dream economy driven by innovation（改革）and creativity（創造性）, education and cooperation（合作）.A man who had the good sense（明智的）to marry Michelle Obama.I want Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States and I proudly（自豪地）nominate him as the standard bearer（旗手，引申領袖）of the Democratic Party（民主黨）.In Tampa（坦帕）, we heard a lot of talk about how the President and the Democrats（民主黨人）don't believe in free enterprise（企業）and individual（個人的）initiative（主動權，引申積極性）, how we want everyone to be dependent（依賴）on the government, how bad we are for the economy.The Republican（共和黨）narrative（敘述）is that all of us who amount to anything are completely（完全地）self-made（白手起家）.One of our greatest（最大的）Democratic（民主黨）Chairmen（主席）, Bob Strauss, used to say that every politician（政治家）wants you to believe he was born in a log（伐木）cabin（小屋）he built himself, but it ain't so.（但事實并非如此）

We Democrats（民主黨人）think the country works better with a strong middle（中產）class（階級）, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless（無情的）focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote（促進）growth（增長）and broadly shared prosperity（繁榮，引申共同富裕）.We think “we're all in this together（我們一起來）” is a better philosophy（哲學）than “you're on your own（你走你的路）.”Who's right? Well since 1961, the Republicans（共和黨人）have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24.In those 52 years, our economy produced 66 million private sector（部門）jobs（工作）.What's the jobs score（成績）? Republicans（共和黨人）24 million, Democrats（民主黨人）42 million!It turns out（證明）that advancing（促進）equal opportunity（機會平等）and economic empowerment（賦予經濟權利）is both morally（道德上地）right and good economics, because discrimination（歧視）, poverty（貧困）and ignorance（愚昧）restrict（限制了）growth, while investments（投資）in education, infrastructure（基礎設施）and scientific（科學）and technological research increase（增長了）it, creating more good jobs and new wealth（財富）for all of us.Though（盡管）I often disagree with Republicans（共和黨人）, I never learned to hate them the way the far right（右派）that now controls their party seems to（似乎）hate President Obama and the Democrats（民主黨人）.After all, President Eisenhower（艾森豪威爾）sent（派出）federal（聯邦）troops（軍隊）to my home-state（家鄉）to integrate（整合）Little Rock Central High（小石城中心高中）and built the interstate（洲際）highway system（高速公路系統）.And as governor（州長）, I worked with President Reagan（里根）on welfare（福利）reform（改革）and with President George H.W.Bush（老布什）on national（國民）education goals.I am grateful to（感激）President George W.Bush（布什）for PEPFAR（布什搞的機構）, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami（海嘯）, Hurricane（颶風）Katrina（卡特里娜）and the Haitian（海地）earthquake（地震）.Through（通過）my foundation（基金會）, in America and around the world,I work with Democrats（民主黨人）, Republicans（共和黨人）and Independents（無黨派人士）who are focused on solving problems and seizing（抓住）opportunities, not fighting（爭斗）each other.When times are tough（強硬）, constant（經常性的）conflict（沖突）may be good politics（政治）.but in the real world, cooperation works better.After all（畢竟）, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.All of us are destined（注定）to live our lives between those two extremes（極端）.Unfortunately, the faction（派系）that now dominates（主導）the Republican Party（共和黨）doesn't see it that way.They think government is the enemy（敵人）,and compromise（妥協）is weakness（軟弱的表現）.One of the main reasons America should re-elect（改選）.President Obama is that he is still committed（堅定的）to cooperation.He appointed（任命）Republican Secretaries（秘書）of Defense（國防）, the Army and Transportation（運輸部長）.He appointed a Vice（副總統）President who ran against him in 2008, and trusted him to oversee（監督）the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation（實現）of the recovery（復

蘇）act（法案）.And Joe Biden（喬.拜登）did a great job with both.He appointed Cabinet（內閣）members who supported Hillary（希拉里）in the primaries（初選）.Heck（hell委婉說法，見鬼）, he even appointed Hillary!I'm so proud of her and grateful（感激）to our entire（整個）national security team（國家安全團隊）for all they've done to make us safer and stronger and to build a world with more partners and fewer（更少的）enemies.I'm also grateful to the young men and women who serve（服務）our country in the military（軍隊）and to Michelle Obama and Jill Biden（拜登）for supporting military families when their loved ones are overseas（海外）and for helping our veterans（退伍軍人）, when they come home bearing（承受）the wounds（創傷）of war, or needing help with education, housing, and jobs.President Obama's record on national security（國家安全問題上的記錄）is a tribute（證明）to his strength（力量）, and judgment, and to his preference（偏好）for inclusion（包容）and partnership（伙伴關系）over partisanship（引申黨派合作）.He also tried to work with Congressional（國會）Republicans（共和黨人）on Health Care（衛生保健）, debt（債務）reduction（削減）, and jobs, but that didn't work out（實施）so well.Probably because, as the Senate（參議院）Republican（共和黨）leader, in a remarkable（非凡的）moment（時刻）of candor（坦率）, said two years before the election, their number one priority（優先，連前引申首要任務）was not to put America back to work（意指解決就業）, but to put President Obama out of work.Senator（參議員）, I hate to break it to you（不喜歡這樣告訴你）, but we're going to keep President Obama on the job!

In Tampa, the Republican（共和黨）argument-against（反對）the President's re-election（連任）was pretty（相當）simple； we left him a total mess（我們一離開他們就要亂）, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.In order to look like an acceptable（接受的）alternative（替代）to President Obama, they couldn't say much about the ideas they have offered over（提過）the last two years.You see they want to go back to the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place； to cut taxes（稅收）for high income Americans even more than President Bush did;；to get rid of（擺脫）those pesky（討厭的）financial regulations（法規，引申制度）designed to prevent（防止）another crash and prohibit（禁止）future bailouts（救助）； to increase（增加）defense（國防）spending（開支）two trillion（兆）dollars more than the Pentagon（五角大樓）has requested（要求）without（沒有）saying what they'll spend the money on;；to make enormous（龐大的）cuts（削減）in the rest of the budget（預算）, especially（特別是）programs（規劃）that help the middle class and poor kids.As another President once said ： there they go again（他們又來了）.I like the argument(辯論)for President Obama's re-election（連任）a lot better.He inherited（繼承，引申接手）a deeply damaged（被摧毀）economy, put a floor under the crush（碎地鋪板，引申救市）, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation（基礎）for a modern（現代的，引申全新的經濟）, more well-balanced（均衡的）economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant（充滿活力的）new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators（創新者）.Are we where we want to be? No.Is the President satisfied（滿意的）? No.Are we better off（更好）than we were when he took office（上任）, with an economy in free fall（自由落體）, losing 750,000 jobs a month.The answer is YES.I understand the challenge we face.I know many Americans are still angry and frustrated（沮喪）with the economy.Though（盡管）employment is growing, banks are beginning to lend and even housing prices are picking up a bit（一點起色）, too many people don't feel it.I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995.Our policies（政策）were working and the economy was growing but most people didn't feel it yet.By 1996, the economy was roaring（咆哮，意指騰飛）, halfway（中途）through（穿過，引申創造了）the longest peacetime（和平時期）expansion（擴張）in American history.