2012 Presidents' Forum2012
奥巴马在2012民主党全国代表大会上的提名演讲中英全文
奥巴马在2012民主党全国代表大会上的提名演讲（中英全文）英文原文：Thank you. -- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.'Harder' Path to a 'Better Place'Describing himself as ―mindful of my own failings,‖ President Obama conceded the country’s continuing difficulties while defending his record and pleading for more time to carry out his agenda. He laid out a long-term blueprint for revival in an era obsessed with short-term expectations.Thank you.hank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.Michelle, I love you so much.A few nights ago, everybody was reminded just what a lucky man I am.Malia and Sasha, we are so proud of you. And yes, you do have to go to school in the morning.And Joe Biden, thank you for being the very best vice president I could have ever hoped for -- and being a strong and loyal friend.Madam Chairwoman, delegates, I accept your nomination for president of the United States.Now, the first time I addressed this convention, in 2004, I was a younger man -- a Senate candidate from Illinois who spoke about hope, not blind optimism, not wishful thinking but hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, that dogged faith in the future which has pushed this nation forward even when the odds are great, even when the road is long.Eight years later that hope has been tested by the cost of war, by one of the worst economic crises in history and by political gridlock that's left us wondering whether it's still even possible to tackle the challenges of our time. I know campaigns can seem small, even silly sometimes.Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. The truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. And if you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me, so am I.One RequestThere is one request, above all, that the president is asking of Americans: patience. This passage is reminiscent of his words in his victory speech four years ago and his inauguration address: the challenges facing the nation are immense and change will be slow. - Jeff Zeleny, reporterBut when all is said and done, when you pick up that ballot to vote, you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. Over the next few years big decisions will be made in Washington on jobs, the economy, taxes and deficits, energy, education, war and peace -- decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and on our children's lives for decades to come.And on every issue, the choice you face won't just be between two candidates or two parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for America, a choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future. Ours is a fight to restore the values that built the largest middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known -- the values my grandfather defended as a soldier in Patton's army, the values that drove my grandmother to work on a bomber assembly line while he was gone. They knew they were part of something larger -- a nation that triumphed over fascism and depression, a nation where the most innovative businesses turn out the world's best products, and everyone shared in that pride and success from the corner office to the factory floor.My grandparents were given the chance to go to college and buy their home -- their own home and fulfill the basic bargain at the heart of America's story, the promise that hard work will pay off, that responsibility will be rewarded, that everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules, from Main Street to Wall Street to Washington, D.C.And I ran for president because I saw that basic bargain slipping away. I began my career helping people in the shadow of a shuttered steel mill at a time when too many good jobs were starting to move overseas. And by 2008 we had seen nearly a decade in which families struggled with costs that kept rising but paychecks that didn't, folks racking up more and more debt just to make the mortgage or pay tuition, put gas in the car or food on the table. And when the house of cardscollapsed in the Great Recession, millions of innocent Americans lost their jobs, their homes, their life savings, a tragedy from which we're still fighting to recover.Now, our friends down in Tampa at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America. But they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan. And that's because all they have to offer is the same prescriptions they've had for the last 30 years. Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high -- try another.A State DividedThis is Obama's hardest rhetorical trick: to acknowledge that his 2004 assertion -- there is no red and blue America -- does not hold. - Jodi Kantor, reporterFeel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning.Now, I've cut taxes for those who need it -- middle-class families, small businesses. But I don't believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our deficit. I don't believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow the economy -- or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China. After all we've been through, I don't believe that rolling back regulations on Wall Street will help the small-businesswoman expand, or the laid-off construction worker keep his home.We have been there, we've tried that, and we're not going back. We are moving forward, America.Now, I won't pretend the path I'm offering is quick or easy. I never have. You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades. It'll require common effort, shared responsibility, and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.And by the way, those of us who carry on his party's legacy should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program or dictate from Washington.But know this, America: Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place, and I'm asking you to choose that future.I'm asking you to rally around a set of goals for your country, goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security and the deficit, real, achievable plans that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity and rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation. That's what we can do in the next four years, and that is why I am running for a second term as president of the United States.We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics and doing what America's always done best. We are making things again. I've met workers in Detroit and Toledo who feared -- they'd never build another American car. And today they can't build them fast enough because we reinvented a dying auto industry that's back on the top of the world. I worked with business leaders who are bringing jobs back to America not because our workers make less pay, but because we make better products -- because we work harder and smarter than anyone else.I've signed trade agreements that are helping our companies sell more goods to millions of new customers, goods that are stamped with three proud words: "Made in America."And after a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last 2 1/2 years. And now you have a choice. We can give more tax breaks to corporations that shift jobs overseas ---- or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here in the United States of America. We can help big factories and small businesses double their exports. And if we choose this path, we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in thenext four years. You can make that happen. You can choose that future.You can choose the path where we control more of our own energy. After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas. We have doubled our use of renewable energy, and thousands of Americans have jobs today building wind turbines and long-lasting batteries. In the last year alone, we cut oil imports by 1 million barrels a day, more than any administration in recent history. And today the United States of America is less dependent on foreign oil than at any time in the last two decades.So now you have a choice between a strategy that reverses this progress or one that builds on it.We've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration in the last three years, and we'll open more. But unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan or endanger our coastlines or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. We're offering a better path.We're offering a better path where we -- a future where we keep investing in wind and solar and clean coal, where farmers and scientists harness new biofuels to power our cars and trucks, where construction workers build homes and factories that waste less energy, where -- where we develop a hundred-year supply of natural gas that's right beneath our feet. If you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600,000 new jobs in natural gas alone.And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet, because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our children's future.And in this election, you can do something about it. You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have.Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. It was -- it was the gateway for most of you. And now more than ever it is the gateway to a middle-class life.Given the ChanceImplicit message: don't envy us or our Harvard degrees; you can be like us, you deserve that chance. - Jodi Kantor, reporterFor the first time in a generation, nearly every state has answered our call to raise their standards for teaching and learning. Some of the worst schools in the country have made real gains in math and reading. Millions of students are paying less for college today because we finally took on a system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders.And now you have a choice. We can gut education, or we can decide that in the United States of America, no child should have her dreams deferred because of a crowded classroom or a crumbling school. No family should have to set aside a college acceptance letter because they don't have the money. No company should have to look for workers overseas because they couldn't find any with the right skills here at home. That's not our future. That is not our future.A government has a role in this. But teachers must inspire. Principals must lead. Parents must instill a thirst for learning. And students, you've got to do the work. And together, I promise you we can outeducate and outcompete any nation on earth.So help me. Help me recruit a hundred thousand math and science teachers within 10 years and improve early childhood education. Help give 2 million workers the chance to learn skills at their community college that will lead directly to a job. Help us work with colleges and universities to cut in half the growth of tuition costs over the next 10 years.We can meet that goal together. You can choose that future for America. That's our future.You know, in a world of new threats and new challenges, you can choose leadership that has been tested and proven. Four years ago I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and we have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al- Qaida is on the path to defeat and Osama bin Laden is dead.Withdrawal"In 2014, our longest war will be over." That is what President Obama said tonight about Afghanistan.Well, maybe. That is the deadline for pulling out all American and other foreign troops. But the White House has said that it envisions an "enduring force" in Afghanistan for years to come, one that some officials told me this year could amount to 10,000 to 15,000 troops. They would not be in combat, but they would be there to keep the Taliban from overtaking Kabul, and Pakistan from losing control of its 100 or so nuclear weapons. Combat may be over; it's less likely the war will be.The president's real goal, though, was to get to a line he has used often before: that he plans to "do some nation-building right here at home," spending on roads and schools and runways. It's a sure applause line, but again, it skips by a reality: American promised some nation-building in places like Afghanistan, and places like it, and gradually, it is walking away. - David E. Sanger, reporterAnd tonight we pay tribute to the Americans who still serve in harm's way. We are forever in debt to a generation whose sacrifice has made this country safer and more respected. We will never forget you, and so long as I'm commander in chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us, because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job or a roof over their head or the care that they need when they come home.Around the world, we've strengthened old alliances and forged new coalitions to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. We've reasserted our power across the Pacific and stood up to China on behalf of our workers. From Burma to Libya to South Sudan, we have advanced the rights and dignity of allhuman beings -- men and women; Christians and Muslims and Jews.Closer Look at AlliancesAttitudes toward the United States are generally more positive now in other countries than they were in 2008, the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency — but they have slipped moderately since Mr. Obama took office in 2009, according to a 21-nation survey conducted this spring by the Pew Resear ch Center’s Global Attitudes Project.The countries that warmed most to the United States in that time were in Europe, the survey found. In France, Spain and Germany, the percentage of people with a positive view of the United States is at least 20 percentage points higher than it was in 2008. But in several strategically important Muslim nations, including Jordan and Pakistan, America’s already low image slipped further during the Obama presidency, it found. - Michael Cooper, reporterBut for all the progress that we've made, challenges remain. Terrorist plots must be disrupted. Europe's crisis must be contained. Our commitment to Israel's security must not waver, and neither must our pursuit of peace. The Iranian government must face a world that stays united against its nuclear ambitions. The historic change sweeping across the Arab world must be defined not by the iron fist of a dictator or the hate of extremists, but by the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people who are reaching for the same rights that we celebrate here today.Alliances, ContinuedThe report found that Mr. Obama consistently received higher ratings than Mr. Bush did in all the nations surveyed except Pakistan, but that ―global approval of President Barack Obama’s policies has declined significantly since he first took office.‖“There remains a widespread perception that the U.S. acts unilaterally and does not consider the interests of other countries,’’ the report found. ―In predominantly Muslim nations, American antiterrorism efforts are still widely unpopular. And in nearly all countries, there is considerable opposition to a major component of the Obama administration’s antiterrorism policy: drone strikes. In 17 of 20 countries, more than half disapprove of U.S. drone attacks targeting extremist leaders and groups in nations such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.‖- Michael Cooper, reporterSo now we have a choice. My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy.But from all that we've seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so dearly.After all, you don't call Russia our number one enemy -- not al- Qaida, Russia -- unless you're still stuck in a Cold War mind warp.You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.My opponent -- my opponent said that it was tragic to end the war in Iraq. And he won't tell us how he'll end the war in Afghanistan. Well, I have, and I will. And while my opponent would spend more money on military hardware that our Joint Chiefs don't even want, I will use the money we're no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and put more people back to work -- rebuilding roads and bridges and schools and runways, because after two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, it's time to do some nation building right here at home.Foreign Policy CredentialsFour years ago, Senator John McCain questioned Mr. Obama’s foreign policy credentials. Now it is Mr. Obama who is raising the same questions about his rivals. It is a strong line in the speech, particularly among Democrats inside the arena, but in an election that is expected to rise and fall on the e conomy, it is unlikely any voters will move to Mr. Obama’s side because of this. - Jeff Zeleny, reporterYou can choose a future where we reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle class. Independent experts say that my plan would cut our deficit by $4 trillion. And last summer I worked with Republicans in Congress to cut a billion dollars in spending, because those of us who believe government can be a force for good should work harder than anyone to reform it so that it's leaner and more efficient and more responsive to the American people.I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 -- the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a whole lot of millionaires to boot.Now, I'm still eager to reach an agreement based on the principles of my bipartisan debt commission. No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. I want to get this done, and we can get it done.Anonymous OpponentAnd here's the answer to one of the night's questions: Once, in a 4,400-word speech. That's how many times President Obama mentions Mitt Romney by name, at least in the prepared remarks of his speech. The quote: "But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy -- well, you do the math," he said. "I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm president, I never will." - Adam Nagourney, reporterBut when Governor Romney and his friends in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficits by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy, well -- what'd Bill Clinton call it? You do the arithmetic. You do the math.I refuse to go along with that, and as long as I'm president, I never will. I refuse to ask middle-class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut. I refuse to ask students to pay more for college or kick children out of Head Start programs to eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans who are poor and elderly or disabled all so those with the most can pay less. I'm not going along with that.And I will never -- I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and the dignity that they have earned. Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we'll do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more.And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it, not by turning it over to Wall Street.This is the choice we now face. This is what the election comes down to. Over and over, we've been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are the only way, that since government can't do everything, it should do almost nothing. If you can't afford health insurance, hope that you don't get sick. If a company releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, that's the price of progress. If you can't afford to start a business or go to college, take my opponent's advice and borrow money from your parents.You know what, that's not who we are. That's not what this country is about. As Americans, we believe we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, rights that no man or government can take away. We insist on personal responsibility, and we celebrate individual initiative. We're not entitled to success. We have to earn it. We honor the strivers, the dreamers, the risk- takers, the entrepreneurs who have always been the driving force behind our free enterprise system, the greatest engine of growth and prosperity that the world's ever known.But we also believe in something called citizenship -- citizenship, a word at the very heart of our founding, a word at the very essence of our democracy, the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.'Citizenship'"Citizenship." President Obama is reaching for an old-fashioned, civics-class term, but one that represents what he really believes. - Jodi Kantor, reporterWe believe that when a CEO pays his autoworkers enough to buy the cars that they build, the whole company does better.We believe that when a family can no longer be tricked into signing a mortgage they can't afford, that family's protected, but so is the value of other people's homes -- and so is the entire economy.We believe the little girl who's offered an escape from poverty by a great teacher or a grant for college could become the next Steve Jobs or the scientist who cures cancer or the president of the United States -- and it is in our power to give her that chance.We know that churches and charities can often make more of a difference than a poverty program alone. We don't want handouts for people who refuse to help themselves, and we certainly don't want bailouts for banks that break the rules.We don't think the government can solve all of our problems, but we don't think the government is the source of all of our problems -- any more than our welfare recipients or corporations or unions or immigrants or gays or any other group we're told to blame for our troubles -- because -- because America, we understand that this democracy is ours.We, the people -- recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which asks only, what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us, together -- through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. That's what we believe.So you see, the election four years ago wasn't about me. It was about you. My fellow citizens -- you were the change.You're the reason there's a little girl with a heart disorder in Phoenix who'll get the surgery she needs because an insurance company can't limit her coverage. You did that.You're the reason a young man in Colorado who never thought he'd be able to afford his dream of earning a medical degree is about to get that chance. You made that possible.You're the reason a young immigrant who grew up here and went to school here and pledged allegiance to our flag will no longer be deported from the only country she's ever called home -- why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love, why thousands of families have finally been able to say to the loved ones who served us so bravely, welcome home. Welcome home. You did that. You did that. You did that.Staying With the PresidentA week after Mitt Romney tried to create a permission structure for ’08 Obama voters to give up on him, the president has a simple rebuttal: Permission denied. - Jeff Zeleny, reporterIf you turn away now -- if you turn away now, if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn't possible, well, change will not happen. If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void, the lobbyists and special interests, the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are trying to make it harder for you to vote, Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry or control health care choices that women should be making for themselves. Only you can make sure that doesn't happen. Only you have the power to move us forward.Lessons LearnedMr. Obama is trying to remind people that he has learned lessons in the Oval Office and that trading presidents in midstream would be a risk. It may be the closest that Mr. Obama has come to acknowledging his own shortcomings. - Jeff Zeleny, reporterYou know, I recognize that times have changed since I first spoke to this convention. Times havechanged, and so have I. I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the president.And -- and that's --And that -- and that means I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I've held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return.Looming Jobs ReportPresidential candidates can usually count on luxuriating in a few days of warm feelings from their convention as they ride the high generated by impassioned supporters.But the party could come to an abrupt halt even before he breaks camp here Friday morning when the government releases its employment report for August, a blunt reminder of the forces working against Mr. Obama. - Jim Rutenberg, reporterI've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs. If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.And while I'm proud of what we've achieved together -- I'm far more mindful of my own failings, knowing exactly what Lincoln meant when he said, "I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go."。
美国第一夫人DNC2012演讲词
美国第一夫人DNC2012演讲词When it comes to give our children the education they deserve, Barack knows like me and like so many of you he never could’ve attended college without financial aid. And believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage. We were so young, so in love, and so in debt(当时我们那么年轻，那么相爱，还负责累累).That’s why Barack has fought so hard to increase student aid and keep interest rates down because he wants every young person to fulfill their promise(大展宏图) and be able to attend college without a mountain of debt. So in the end, for Barack, these issues aren’t political——they are personal. Because Barack knows what it means when a family struggles.He knows what it means to want something more for your kids and grandkids. Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it(因为他曾亲身经历), and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity no matter who we are, or where we’re from,or what we look like, or who we love(无论身份，无论家乡，无论种族，无论信仰和情感).And he believes that when you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walk through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. So when people ask me whether being in the White House has changed my husband, I can honestly say that when it comes to this character, and his convictions, and his heart(不论他的品格，信仰还是内心), Barack Obama is still the same man I fell in love with all those years ago.He is the same man who started his career by turning down high paying jobs and instead working in struggling neighborhoods where a steel plant had shut down, fighting to rebuild those communities and get folks back to work…because for Barack success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. He is the same man who, when our girls were first born, would anxiously check their cribs every few minutes to ensurethey were still breathing, proudly showing them off to everyone we knew.That’s the man who sits down with me and our girls for dinner nearly every night, patiently answering their questions about issues in the news and strategizing about middle school friendships. That’s the man I see in those quiet moments late at night, hunched over his desk, poring over the letters people have sent him. The letter from the father struggling to pay his bills, from the woman dying of cancer whose insurance company won’t cover her care(保险公司弃之不管), from the young person with so much promise but so few opportunities(怀才不遇的年轻人).I see the concern in his eyes…and I hear the determination in his voice as he tells me, “You won’t believe what these folks are going through, Michelle…it’s not right. We’ve got keep working to fix this. We’ve got so much more to do.” I see how those stories- our collection of struggles and hopes and dreams, I see how that’s what drives Barack Obama every single day. And I didn’t think it was possible, but today, I lo vemy husband even more than I did four years ago, even more than I did 23 years ago, when we first met.I love that he’s never forgotten how he started(因为他不忘本). I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard especially when it’s hard. I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as “us” and “them”(不分你我). He doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, o r none of the above, he knows that we all love our country…and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas, he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets. And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it, when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost.Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward, with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. And he reminds me that we are playing a long game here(我们任重而道远), and that change is hard, and change is slow, and it never happens all at once. But eventually we get there, we always do.We get there because of folks like my Dad…folks like Barack’s grandmoth er...men and women who said to themselves, “I may not have a chance to fulfill my dreams, but maybe my children will…maybe my grandchildren will.” So many of us stand here tonight because of their sacrifice, and longing, and steadfast love, because time and again, they swallowed their fears and doubts and did what was hard. So today, when the challenges we face start to seem overwhelming or even impossible, let us never forget that doing the impossible is the history of this nation, it is who we are asAmer icans…it’s how this country was built.And if our parents and grandparents could toil and struggle for us, if they could raise beams of steel to the sky, send a man to the moon, and connect the world with the touch of a button, then surely we can keep on sacrificing and building for our own kids and grandkids. And if so many brave men and women could wear our country’s uniform. And sacrifice their lives for our most fundamental rights, then surely we can do our part as citizens of this great democracy to exercise those rights,surely we can get to the polls on Election Day and make our voices heard.If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire, if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores, if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote, if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time, if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream, and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love, then surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.Because in the end, more than anything else, that is the story of this country- the story of unwavering hope grounded in unyielding struggle. That is what has made my story, and Barack’s story, and so many other American stories possible. And I say all of this tonight not just as First Lady…and not just as a wife. You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still “mom-in-chief”(一个操心的妈妈), my daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.But today, I have none of those worries from four years ago, about whether Barack and I were doing what’s best for our girls. Because today, I know from experience that if I truly want to leave a better world for my daughters, and for all sons and daughter, if we want to give all our children a foundation for their dreams and opportunities worthy of their promise, if we want to give them that sense of limitless possibility, hat belief that here in America, there’s always something better out there if you are willing to work for it, then we must work like never before and we must one again come together and stand together for the man we can trust to keep moving this great country forward, my husband, our President, President Barack Obama. Thank you. God bless you.。
2012美国大选第三场辩论-英文
2012美国大选第三场辩论国总统大选第三场、也是最后一场辩论22日在美国佛罗里达州博卡拉顿的林恩大学举行。
本场辩论以美国外交政策为主题。
由于总统奥巴马与共和党总统候选人罗姆尼在前两场辩论中战成平手，且目前选情胶着，第三场辩论的重要性大增，受关注程度更高。
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原文：BOB SCHIEFFER of CBS: Good evening from the campus of Lynn University here in Boca Raton, Florida. This is the fourth and last debate of the 2012 campaign, brought to you by the Commission on Presidential Debates. This one’s on foreign policy. I’m Bob Schieffer of CBS News. The questions are mine, and I have not shared them with the candidates or their aides.The audience has taken a vow of silence — no applause, no reaction of any kind except right now when we welcome President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. (Sustained cheers, applause.) Gentlemen, your campaigns have agreed to certain rules and they are simple. They have asked me to divide the evening into segments. I’ll pose a question at the beginning of each segment. You will each have two minutes to respond, and then we will have a general discussion until we move to the next segment.Tonight’s debate, as both of your know, comes on the 50th anniversary of the night that President Kennedy told the world that the Soviet Union had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba — perhaps the closest we’ve ever come to nuclear war. And it is a sobering remind er that every president faces at some point an unexpected threat to our national security from abroad. So let’s begin.The first segment is the challenge of a changing Middle East and the new face of terrorism. I’m going to put this into two segments, so y ou’ll have two topic questions within this one segment on that subject. The first question, and it concerns Libya, the controversy over what happened there continues. Four Americans are dead, including an American ambassador. Questions remain. What happened? What caused it? Was it spontaneous?Was it an intelligence failure? Was it a policy failure? Was there an attempt to mislead people about what really happened?Governor Romney, you said this was an example of an American policy in the Middle East that is unraveling before our very eyes. I’d like to hear each of you give your thoughts on that. Governor Romney, you won the toss. You go first.MITT ROMNEY: Thank you, Bob, and thank you for agreeing to moderate this debate this evening. Thank you to Lynn Uni versity for welcoming us here, and Mr. President, it’s good to be with you again. We were together at a humorous event a little earlier, and it’s nice to maybe be funny this time not on purpose. We’ll see what happens. (Laughter.)This is obviously an area of great concern to the entire world and to America in particular, which is to see a — a complete change in the — the — the structure and the — the environment in the Middle East. With the Arab Spring came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation and opportunity for greater participation on the part of women and — and publiclife and in economic life in the Middle East. But instead we’ve seen in nation after nation a number of disturbing events. Of course, we see in Syria 30,000 civilians having been killed by the military there. We see in — in — in Libya an attack apparently by — well, I think we know now by terrorists of some kind against — against our people there, four people dead. Our hearts and minds go to them. Mali has been taken over, the northern part of Mali, by al-Qaida-type individuals. We have in — in Egypt a Muslim Brotherhood president.And so what we’re seeing is a — a — a pretty dramatic reversal in the kind of hopes we had for that region. Of course, the greatest threat of all is Iran, four years closer to a nuclear weapon. And —and we’re going to have to recognize that we have to do as the president has done. I congratulate him on — on taking out Osama bin Laden and going after the leadership in al-Qaida. But we can’t kill our way out of this mess. We’re —we’re going to have to put in place a very comprehensive and robust strategy to help the — the world of Islam and — and other parts of the world reject this radical violent extremism which is —it’s really not on the run. It’s certainly not hiding. This is a group that is now involved in 10 or 12 countries, and it presents an enormous threat to our friends, to the world, to America long term, and we must have a comprehensive strategy to help reject this kind of extremism.MR. SCHIEFFER: Mr. President.PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, my first job as commander in chief, Bob, is to keep the American people safe, and that’s what we’ve done over the last four years. We ended the war in Iraq, refocused our attention on those who actually killed us on 9/11. And as a consequence, al-Qaida’s core leadership has been decimated.In addition, we’re now able to transition out of Afghanistan in a responsible way, making sure that Afghans take responsibility for their own security, and that allows us also to rebuild alliances and make friends around the world to combat future threats. Now, with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, we did ever ything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way; number two, that we would investigate exactly what happened; and number three, most importantly, that we would go after those who killed Americans, and we would bring them to justice, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.But I think it’s important to step back and think about what happened in Libya. Now, keep in mind that I and Americans took leadership in organizing an international coalition that made sure that we were able to — without putting troops on the ground, at the cost of less than what we spent in two weeks in Iraq — liberate a country that had been under the yoke of dictatorship for 40 years, got rid of a despot who had killed Americans.And as a consequence, despite this tragedy, you had tens of thousands of Libyans after the events in Benghazi marching and saying, America's our friend. We stand with them. Now that represents the opportunity we have to take advantage of. And you know, Governor Romney, I'm glad that you agree that we have been successful in going after al-Qaida, but I have to tell you that, you know, your strategy previously has been one that has been all over the map and is not designed to keep Americans safe or to build on the opportunities that exist in the Middle East.MR. ROMNEY: Well, my strategy's pretty straightforward, which is to go after the bad guys, to make sure we do our very best to interrupt them, to -- to kill them, to take them out of the picture. But my strategy is broader than -- than that. That's -- that's important, of course, but the key that we're going to have to pursue is a -- is a pathway to -- to get the Muslim world to be able to rejectextremism on its own. We don't want another Iraq. We don't want another Afghanistan. That's not the right course for us. The right course for us is to make sure that we go after the -- the people who are leaders of these various anti-American groups and these -- these jihadists, but also help the Muslim world.And how we do that? A group of Arab scholars came together, organized by the U.N., to look at how we can help the -- the world reject these -- these terrorists. And the answer they came up was this.One, more economic development. We should key our foreign aid, our direct foreign investment and that of our friends -- we should coordinate it to make sure that we -- we push back and give them more economic development.Number two, better education.Number three, gender equality.Number four, the rule of law. We have to help these nations create civil societies.But what's been happening over the last couple years as we watched this tumult in the Middle East, this rising tide of chaos occur, you see al-Qaida rushing in, you see other jihadist groups rushing in.And -- and they're throughout many nations of the Middle East.It's wonderful that Libya seems to be making some progress, despite this terrible tragedy, but next door, of course, we have Egypt. Libya's 6 million population, Egypt 80 million population. We want -- we want to make sure that we're seeing progress throughout the Middle East. With Mali now having North Mali taken over by al-Qaida, with Syria having Assad continuing to -- or to kill -- to murder his own people, this is a region in tumult. And of course Iran on the path to a nuclear weapon. We've got real gaps in the region.MR. SCHIEFFER: We'll get to that, but let's give the president a chance.PRESIDENT OBAMA: Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that al-Qaida's a threat because a few months ago when you were asked, what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia -- not al-Qaida, you said Russia. And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years.But, Governor, when it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s. You say that you're not interested in duplicating what happened in Iraq, but just a few weeks ago you said you think we should have more troops in Iraq right now.And the -- the challenge we have -- I know you haven't been in a position to actually execute foreign policy, but every time you've offered an opinion, you've been wrong. You said we should have gone into Iraq despite the fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction. You said that we should still have troops in Iraq to this day. You indicated that we shouldn't be passing nuclear treaties with Russia, despite the fact that 71 senators, Democrats and Republicans, voted for it. You've said that first we should not have a timeline in Afghanistan then you said we should. Now you say maybe or it depends, which means not only were you wrong but you were also confusing and sending mixed messages both to our troops and our allies.So what -- what we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map. And unfortunately, that's the kind of opinions that you've offered throughout this campaign, and it is not a recipe for American strength or keeping America safe over the long term.MR. SCHIEFFER: I'm going to add a couple of minutes here to give you a chance to respond. MR. ROMNEY: Well, of course I don't concur with what the president said about my own record and the things that I've said. They don't happen to be accurate. But -- but I can say this: that we're talking about the Middle East and how to help the Middle East reject the kind of terrorism we're seeing and the rising tide of tumult and -- and confusion. And -- and attacking me is not an agenda. Attacking me is not talking about how we're going to deal with the challenges that exist in the Middle East and take advantage of the opportunity there and stem the tide of this violence. But I'll respond to a couple of the things you mentioned. First of all, Russia, I indicated, is a geopolitical foe, not --PRESIDENT OBAMA: Number one --MR. ROMNEY: Excuse me. It's a geopolitical foe. And I said in the same -- in the same paragraph, I said, and Iran is the greatest national security threat we face. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin, and I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.Number two, with regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should have been a status of forces agreement. Did you -- PRESIDENT OBAMA: That's not true.MR. ROMNEY: Oh, you didn't -- you didn't want a status of forces agreement?PRESIDENT OBAMA: No, but what I -- what I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.MR. ROMNEY: I'm sorry, you actually -- there was a --PRESIDENT OBAMA: Here -- here is -- here is --MR. ROMNEY: There was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement. And I concurred in that and said we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.PRESIDENT OBAMA: Governor --MR. ROMNEY: That was your posture. That was my posture as well.I thought it should have been 5,000 troops.PRESIDENT OBAMA: Governor --MR. ROMNEY: I thought it should have been more troops. But you -- (inaudible). PRESIDENT OBAMA: This is just a few weeks ago.MR. ROMNEY: The answer was, we got no troop (through ?) whatsoever.PRESIDENT OBAMA: This is just a few weeks ago that you indicated that we should still have troops in Iraq.MR. ROMNEY: No, I didn't. I'm sorry, that's --PRESIDENT OBAMA: You made a major speech.MR. ROMNEY: I indicated -- I indicated that you failed to put in place a status of forces agreement at the end of the conflict that --MR. SCHIEFFER: Governor --PRESIDENT OBAMA: Governor, here's -- here's one thing -- here's one thing -- here's one thing I've learned as commander in chief.MR. SCHIEFFER: Let him have -- (inaudible).PRESIDENT OBAMA: You've got to be clear, both to our allies and our enemies, about where you stand and what you mean. Now, you just gave a speech a few weeks ago in which you said weshould still have troops in Iraq. That is not a recipe for making sure that we are taking advantage of the opportunities and meeting the challenges of the Middle EastNow, it is absolutely true that we cannot just beat these challenges militarily, and so what I've done throughout my presidency and will continue to do, is, number one, make sure that these countries are supporting our counterterrorism efforts; number two, make sure that they are standing by our interests in Israel's security, because it is a true friend and our greatest ally in the region. Number three, we do have to make sure that we're protecting religious minorities and women because these countries can't develop unless all the population -- not just half of it -- is developing. Number four, we do have to develop their economic -- their economic capabilities. But number five, the other thing that we have to do is recognize that we can't continue to do nation building in these regions. Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need. MR. SCHIEFFER: Let me interject the second topic question in this segment about the Middle East and so on, and that is, you both mentioned -- alluded to this, and that is Syria. The war in Syria has now spilled over into Lebanon. We have, what, more than a hundred people that were killed there in a bomb. There were demonstrations there, eight people dead.Mr. President, it's been more than a year since you saw -- you told Assad he had to go. Since then 30,000 Syrians have died. We've had 300,000 refugees. The war goes on. He's still there. Should we reassess our policy and see if we can find a better way to influence events there, or is that even possible? And it's you -- you go first, sir.PRESIDENT OBAMA: What we've done is organize the international community, saying Assad has to go. We've mobilized sanctions against that government. We have made sure that they are isolated. We have provided humanitarian assistance, and we are helping the opposition organize, and we're particularly interested in making sure that we're mobilizing the moderate forces inside of Syria. But ultimately, Syrians are going to have to determine their own future. And so everything we're doing, we're doing in consultation with our partners in the region, including Israel, which obviously has a huge interest in seeing what happens in Syria, coordinating with Turkey and other countries in the region that have a great interest in this.Now, this -- what we're seeing taking place in Syria is heartbreaking, and that's why we are going to do everything we can to make sure that we are helping the opposition. But we also have to recognize that, you know, for us to get more entangled militarily in Syria is a serious step. And we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping, that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against us or our allies in the region. And I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.MR. SCHIEFFER: Governor.MR. ROMNEY: Well, let's step back and talk about what's happening in Syria and how important it is. First of all, 30,000 people being killed by their government is a humanitarian disaster. Secondly, Syria's an opportunity for us because Syria plays an important role in the Middle East, particularly right now. Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally Israel. And so seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for us. Number two, seeing a -- a replacement government being responsible people is critical for us. And finally, we don't want to have militaryinvolvement there. We don't want to get drawn into a military conflict.And so the right course for us is working through our partners and with our own resources to identify responsible parties within Syria, organize them, bring them together in a -- in a form of -- of -- if not government, a form of -- of council that can take the lead in Syria, and then make sure they have the arms necessary to defend themselves. We do need to make sure that they don't have arms that get into the -- the wrong hands. Those arms could be used to hurt us down the road. We need to make sure as well that we coordinate this effort with our allies and particularly with -- with -- with Israel. But the Saudis and the Qatari and -- and -- and the Turks are all very concerned about this. They're willing to work with us. We need to have a very effective leadership effort in Syria, making sure that the -- the -- the insurgents there are armed and that the insurgents that become armed are people who will be the responsible parties.Recognize I believe that Assad must go. I believe he will go. But I believe we want to make sure that we have the relationships of friendship with the people that take his place such that in the years to come we see Syria as a -- as a friend and Syria as a responsible party in the Middle East. This -- this is a critical opportunity for America.And what I'm afraid of is that we've watched over the past year or so first the president saying, well, we'll let the U.N. deal with it, and Assad -- excuse me, Kofi Annan came in and -- and said, we're going to try -- have a cease-fire.That didn't work. Then it looked to the Russians and said, see if you can do something. we should. We should be playing the leadership role there, not on the ground with military --MR. SCHIEFFER: All right.MR. ROMNEY: -- by the leadership role.PRESIDENT OBAMA: We are -- we playing the leadership role. We organized the "Friends of Syria." We are mobilizing humanitarian support and support for the opposition. And we are making sure that that those we help are those who will be friends of ours in the long term and friends of our allies in the region over the long term.But you know, going back to Libya, because this is an example of -- of how we make choices, you know, when we went into Libya and we were able to immediately stop the massacre there because of the unique circumstances and the coalition that we had helped to organize, we also had to make sure that Moammar Gadhafi didn't stay there. And to the governor's credit, you supported us going into Libya and the coalition that we organized. But when it came time to making sure that Gadhafi did not stay in power, that he was captured, Governor, your suggestion was that this was mission creep, that this was mission muddle.Imagine if we had pulled out at that point. That -- Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden. And so we were going to make sure that we finished the job. That's part of the reason why the Libyans stand with us. But we did so in a careful, thoughtful way, making certain that we knew who we were dealing with, that those forces of moderation on the ground were ones that we could work with. And we have to take the same kind of steady, thoughtful leadership when it comes to Syria. That's exactly what we're doing.MR. SCHIEFFER: Governor, can I just ask you, would you go beyond what the administration would do? Like, for example, would you put in no-fly zones over Syria?MR. ROMNEY: I don't -- I don't want to have our military involved in -- in Syria. I don't think there's a necessity to put our military in Syria at -- at this stage.I don't anticipate that in the future.As I indicated, our objectives are to replace Assad and to have in place a new government which is friendly to us -- a responsible government, if possible. And I want to make sure the get armed and they have the arms necessary to defend themselves but also to remove -- to remove Assad. But I do not want to see a military involvement on the part of -- of our -- of our troops.And this isn't -- this isn't going to be necessary. We have -- with our partners in the region, we have sufficient resources to support those groups. But look, this has been going on for a year. This is a time -- this should have been a time for American leadership. We should have taken a leading role -- not militarily, but a leading role organizationally, governmentally, to bring together the parties there to find responsible parties.As you hear from intelligence sources even today, the insurgents are highly disparate. They haven't come together. They haven't formed a unity group, a council of some kind. That needs to happen. America can help that happen. And we need to make sure they have the arms they need to carry out the very important role, which is getting rid of Assad.MR. SCHIEFFER: Could we get a quick response, Mr. President, because I want to ask -- PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I'll -- I'll -- I'll be -- I'll be very quick. What you just heard Governor Romney said is he doesn't have different ideas, and that's because we're doing exactly what we should be doing to try to promote a moderate, Syrian leadership and a -- an effective transition so that we get Assad out. That's the kind of leadership we've shown. That's the kind of leadership we'll continue to show.MR. SCHIEFFER: May I ask you, you know, during the Egyptian turmoil, there came a point when you said it was time for President Mubarak to go.PRESIDENT OBAMA: Right.。
2012 美国总统大选 第二场辩论 完整版(中文字幕)
2012 美国总统大选第二场辩论完整版（中文字幕）
2012 美国总统大选第二场辩论完整版（中文字幕）
美国总统大选第二场电视辩论北京时间10月17日在纽约州霍夫斯特拉大学展开。
现任总统、民主党总统候选人奥巴马和共和党总统候选人罗姆尼再一次面对面过招，现场火药味十足。
与首场辩论不同，第二场辩论采取镇民会议的模式，由美国知名民调机构盖洛普公司遴选出尚未决定投票意向的选民参加，并在现场向总统候选人提出问题，问题涵盖内外政策。
美国前总统克林顿在2012美国民主党大会上的讲话
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. (Sustained cheers, applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.Now, Mr. Mayor, fellow Democrats, we are here to nominate a president. (Cheers, applause.) And I’ve got one in mind. (Cheers, applause.)I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty. I want to nominate a man who ran for president to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before his 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 that he saved or created, there’d still be millions more waiting, worried about feeding their own kids, trying to keep their hopes alive.I want to nominate a man who’s cool on the outside — (cheers, applause) — but who burns for America on the inside. (Cheers, applause.)I want — I want a man who believes with no doubt that we can build a new American Dream economy, driven by innovation and creativity, but education and —yes —by cooperation. (Cheers.)And by the way, after last night, I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama. (Cheers, applause.)You know — (cheers, applause). I — (cheers, applause).I want — I want Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States. (Cheers, applause.) And I proudly nominate him to be the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party.Now, folks, in Tampa a few days ago, we heard a lot of talk — (laughter) — all about how the president and the Democrats don’t really believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everybody to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy.This Republican narrative — this alternative universe — (laughter, applause) — says that every one of us in this room who amou nts to anything, we’re all completely self-made. One of the greatest chairmen the Democratic Party ever had, Bob Strauss — (cheers, applause) — used to say that ever politician wants every voter to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself. (Laug hter, applause.) But, as Strauss then admitted, it ain’t so. (Laughter.)We Democrats —we think the country works better with a strong middle class, with real opportunities for poor folks to work their way into it — (cheers, applause) — with a relentless focus on the future, with business and government actually working together to promote growth and broadly share prosperity. You see, we believe that “we’re all in this together” is a far better philosophy than “you’re on your own.” (Cheers, applause.) It is.So who’s right? (Cheers.) Well, since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats, 24. In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private sector jobs.So what’s the job score? Republ icans, 24 million; Democrats, 42 (million). (Cheers, applause.)Now, there’s — (cheers, applause) —there’s a reason for this. It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. (Cheers, applause.) Why? Because poverty, discrimination and ignorance restrict growth. (Cheers, applause.) When you stifle human potential, when you don’t invest in new ideas, it doesn’t just cut off the people who are affected; it hurts us all. (Cheers, applause.) We know that investments in education and infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all the rest of us. (Cheers, applause.)Now, there’s something I’ve noticed lately. You probably have too. And it’s this. Maybe just because I grew up in a different time, but though I often disagree with Republicans, I actually never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president and a lot of other Democrats. I — (cheers, applause) — that would be impossible for me because President Eisenhower sent federal troops to my home state to integrate Little Rock Central High School. (Cheers, applause.) President Eisenhower built the interstate highway system.When I was a governor, I worked with President Reagan and his White House on the first round of welfare reform and with President George H.W. Bush on national education goals.(Cheers, applause.) I’m actually very grateful to — if you saw from the film what I do today, I have to be grateful, and you should be, too — that President George W. Bush supported PEPFAR. It saved the lives of millions of people in poor countries. (Cheers, applause.)And I have been honored to work with both Presidents Bush on natural disasters in the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the horrible earthquake in Haiti. Through my foundation, both in America and around the world, I’m working all the time with Democrats, Republicans and independents. Sometimes I couldn’t tell you for the life who I’m working with because we focus on solving problems and seizing opportunities and not fighting all the time. (Cheers, applause.)And so here’s what I want to say to you, and here’s what I want the people at home to think about. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. (Cheers, applause.) What works in the real world is cooperation, business and government, foundations and universities.Ask the mayors who are here. (Cheers, applause.) Los Angeles is getting green and Chicago is getting an infrastructure bank because Republicans and Democrats are working together to get it.(Cheers, applause.) They didn’t check their brains at the door. They didn’t stop disagreeing, but their purpose was to get something done.Now, why is this true? Why does cooperation work better than constant conflict?Because nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. (Cheers, applause.)And every one of us — every one of us and every on e of them, we’re compelled to spend our fleeting lives between those two extremes, knowing we’re never going to be right all the time and hoping we’re right more than twice a day. (Laughter.)Unfortunately, the faction that now dominates the Republican Pa rty doesn’t see it that way. They think government is always the enemy, they’re always right, and compromise is weakness. (Boos.) Just in the last couple of elections, they defeated two distinguished Republican senators because they dared to cooperate with Democrats on issues important to the future of the country, even national security. (Applause.)They beat a Republican congressman with almost a hundred percent voting record on every conservative score, because he said he realized he did not have to hate the president to disagree with him. Boy, that was a nonstarter, and they threw him out. (Laughter, applause.)One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation. (Cheers, applause.) Look at his record. Look at his record. (Cheers, applause.) Look at his record. He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the Army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008. (Laughter, applause.) And he trusted that vice president to oversee the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation of the recovery act. (Cheers, applause.)And Joe Biden — Joe Biden did a great job with both. (Sustained cheers, applause.)He — (sustained cheers, applause) — President Obama — President Obama appointed several members of his Cabinet even though they supported Hillary in the primary. (Applause.) Heck, he even appointed Hillary. (Cheers, applause.)Wait a minute. I am — (sustained cheers, applause) — I am very proud of her. I am proud of the job she and the national security team have done for America. (Cheers, applause.) I am grateful that they have worked together to make us safer and stronger, to build a world with more partners and fewer enemies. I’m grateful for t he relationship of respect and partnership she and the president have enjoyed and the signal that sends to the rest of the world, that democracy does not have a blood —have to be a blood sport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. (Cheers, applause.)Now — (sustained cheers, applause) — besides the national security team, I am very grateful to the men and women who’ve served our country in uniform through these perilous times. (Cheers,applause.) And I am especially grateful to Michelle Obama and to Joe Biden for supporting those military families while their loved ones were overseas — (cheers, applause) — and for supporting our veterans when they came home, when they came home bearing the wounds of war or needing help to find education or jobs or housing.President Obama’s whole record on national security is a tribute to his strength, to his judgment and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship. We need more if it in Washington, D.C. (Cheers, applause.)Now, we all know that he also tried to work with congressional Republicans on health care, debt reduction and new jobs. And that didn’t work out so well. (Laughter.) But it could have been because, as the Senate Republican leader said in a remarkable moment of candor two full years before the election, their number one priority was not to put America back to work; it was to put the president out of work. (Mixed cheers and boos, applause.) (Chuckles.) Well, wait a minute. Senator, I hate to break it to you, but we’re going to keep President Obama on the job. (Cheers, applause.)Now, are you ready for that? (Cheers, applause.) Are you willing to work for it. Oh, wait a minute.AUDIENCE MEMBERS: (Chanting.) Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!PRESIDENT CLINTON: In Tampa —AUDIENCE MEMBERS: (Chanting.) Four more years! Four more years!PRESIDENT CLINTON: In Tampa — in Tampa —did y’all watch their convention?I did. (Laught er.) In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president’s re-election was actually pretty simple — pretty snappy. It went something like this: We left him a total mess. He hasn’t cleaned it up fast enough. So fire him and put us back in. (Laughter, ap plause.)Now —(cheers, applause) —but they did it well. They looked good; the sounded good. They convinced me that — (laughter) — they all love their families and their children and were grateful they’d been born in America and all that — (laughter, applause) —really, I’m not being — they did. (Laughter, applause.)And this is important, they convinced me they were honorable people who believed what they said and they’re going to keep every commitment they’ve made. We just got to make sure the American people know what those commitments are — (cheers, applause) — because in order to look like an acceptable, reasonable, moderate alternative to President Obama, they just didn’t say very much about the ideas they’ve offered over the last two years.They couldn’t because they want to the same old policies that got us in trouble in the first place.They want to cut taxes for high- income Americans, even more than President Bush did. They want to get rid of those pesky financial regulations designed to prevent another crash and prohibit future bailouts. They want to actually increase defense spending over a decade $2 trillion more than the Pentagon has requested without saying what they’ll spend it on. And they want to make enormous cuts in the rest of the budget, especially programs that help the middle class and poor children.As another president once said, there they go again.(Laughter, cheers, applause.)Now, I like — I like —I like the argument for President Obama’s re-election a lot better. Here it is. He inherited a deeply damaged economy. He put a floor under the crash. He 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 innovators. (Cheers, applause.)Now, are we where we want to be today? No.AUDIENCE MEMBERS: No!PRESIDENT CLINTON: Is the president satisfied? Of course not.AUDIENCE MEMBERS: No!PRESIDENT CLINTON: But are we better off than we were when he took office? (Cheers, applause.)And listen to this. Listen to this. Everybody — (inaudible) — when President Barack Obama took office, the economy was in free fall. It had just shrunk 9 full percent of GDP. We were losing 750,000 jobs a month.Are we doing better than that today?AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Yes! (Applause.)PRESIDENT CLINTON: The answer is yes.Now, look. Here’s the challenge he faces and the challenge all of you who support him face. I get it. I know it. I’ve been there. A lot of Americans are still angry and frustrated about this economy. If you look at the numbers, you know employment is growing, banks are beginning to lend again. And in a lot of places, housing prices are even beginning to pick up.But too many people do not feel it yet.I had the same thing happen in 1994 and early ‘95. We could see that the policies were working, that the economy was growing. But most people didn’t feel it yet. Thankfully, by 1996 the economy was roaring, everybody felt it, and we were halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in the history of the United States. But —(cheers, applause) —wait, wait. The difference this time is purely in the circumstances. President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me, now. No president —no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. (Cheers, applause.)Now —but — (cheers, applause) —he has —he has laid the foundation for a new, modern, successful economy of shared prosperity. And if you will renew the president’s contract, you will feel it. You will feel it. (Cheers, applause.)Folks, whether the American people believe what I just said or not may be the whole election. I just want you to know that I believe it. With all my heart, I believe it. (Cheers, applause.)Now, why do I believe it?I’m fixing to tell you why. I believe it because President Obama’s approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.So let’s get 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 or created millions of jobs and cut taxes — let me say this again — cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. (Cheers, applause.) And, in the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4 1/2 million private sector jobs. (Cheers, applause.)We could have done better, but last y ear the Republicans blocked the president’s job plan, costing the economy more than a million new jobs.So here’s another job score. President Obama: plus 4 1/2 million. Congressional Republicans: zero. (Cheers, applause.)During this period — (cheers, applause) — during this period, more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been created under President Obama. That’s the first time manufacturing jobs have increased since the 1990s. (Cheers, applause.) And I’ll tell you something else. The auto industry restructuring worked. (Cheers, applause.) It saved — it saved more than a million jobs, and not just at GM, Chrysler and their dealerships but in auto parts manufacturing all over the country.That’s why even the automakers who weren’t part of the deal s upported it. They needed to save those parts suppliers too. Like I said, we’re all in this together. (Applause.)So what’s happened? There are now 250,000 more people working in the auto industry than on the day the companies were restructured. (Cheers, applause.)So — now, we all know that Governor Romney opposed the plan to save GM and Chrysler. (Boos.) So here’s another job score. (Laughter.) Are you listening in Michigan and Ohio and across the country? (Cheers.) Here —(cheers, applause) —here’s an other job score: Obama, 250,000; Romney, zero.AUDIENCE MEMBERS: (With speaker.) Zero. (Cheers, applause.)PRESIDENT CLINTON: Now, the agreement the administration made with the management, labor and environmental groups to double car mileage, that was a good deal too. It will cut your gas prices in half, your gas bill. No matter what the price is, if you double the mileage of your car, your bill will be half what it would have been. It will make us more energy independent. It will cut greenhouse gas em issions. And according to several analyses, over the next 20 years, it’ll bring us another half a million good new jobs into the American economy. (Cheers, applause.)The president’s energy strategy, which he calls “all of the above,” 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. And renewable energy production has doubled.(Cheers, applause.)Of course, we need a lot more new jobs. But there are already more than 3 million jobs open and unfilled in America, mostly because the people who apply for them don’t yet have the required skills to do them. So even as we get Americans more jobs, we have to prepare more Americans for the new jobs that are actually going to be created. The old economy is not coming back. We’ve got to build a new one and educate people to do those jobs. (Cheers, applause.)The president — the president and his education secretary have supported community colleges and employers in working together to train people for jobs that are actually open in their communities — and even more important after a decade in which exploding college costs have increased the dropout rate so much that the percentage of our young people with four-year college degrees has gone down so much that we have dropped to 16th in the world in the percentage of young people with college degrees.So the president’s student loan is more important than ever. Here’s what it does —(cheers, applause) —here’s what it does. You need to tell every voter where you live about this. It lowers the cost of federal student loans. And even more important, it give students the right to repay those loans as a clear, fixed, low percentage of their income for up to 20 years. (Cheers, applause.)Now what does this mean? What does this mean? Think of it. It means no one will ever have to drop out of college again fo r fear they can’t repay their debt.And it means — (cheers, applause) — it means that if someone wants to take a job with a modest income, a teacher, a police officer, if they want to be a small-town doctor in a little rural area, they won’t have to turn those jobs down because they don’t pay enough to repay they debt. Their debt obligation will be determined by their salary. This will change the future for young America. (Cheers, applause.)I don’t know about you — (cheers, applause) — but on all these issues, I know we’re better off because President Obama made the decisions he did.Now, that brings me to health care. (Cheers, applause.) And the Republicans call it, derisively, “Obamacare.” They say it’s a government takeover, a disaster, and that if we’ll just elect them, they’ll repeal it. Well, are they right?AUDIENCE MEMBERS: No!PRESIDENT CLINTON: Let’s take a look at what’s actually happened so far.First, individuals and businesses have already gotten more than a billion dollars in refunds from insurance companies because the new law requires 80 (percent) to 85 percent of your premium to go to your health care, not profits or promotion. (Cheers, applause.) And the gains are even greater than that because a bunch of insurance companies have applied to lower their rates to comply with the requirement.Second, more than 3 million young people between 19 and 25 are insured for the first time because their parents’ policies can cover them.(Cheers, applause.)Millions of seniors are receiving preventive care, all the way from breast cancer screenings to tests for heart problems and scores of other things. And younger people are getting them, too.Fourth, soon the insurance companies — not the government, the insurance companies — will have millions of new customers, many of them middle-class people with pre-existing conditions who never could get insurance before. (Cheers, applause.)Now, finally, listen to this. For the last two years —after going up at three times the rate of inflation for a decade, for the last two years health care costs have been under 4 percent in both years for the first time in 50 years. (Cheers, applause.)So let me ask you something. Are we better off because President Obama fought for health care reform? (Cheers, applause.) You bet we are.Now, there were two other attacks on the president in Tampa I think deserve an answer. First, both Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan attacked the president for allegedly robbing Medicare of $716 billion. That’s the same attack they leveled against the C ongress in 2010, and they got a lot of votes on it. But it’s not true. (Applause.)Look, here’s what really happened. You be the judge. Here’s what really happened. There were no cuts to benefits at all. None. What the president did was to save money by taking the recommendations of a commission of professionals to cut unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that were not making people healthier and were not necessary to get the providers to provide the service.And instead of raiding Medicare, he used the savings to close the doughnut hole in the Medicare drug program — (cheers, applause) — and — you all got to listen carefully to this; this is really important — and to add eight years to the life of the Medicare trust fund so it is solvent till 2024. (Cheers, applause.)So —(chuckles) —so President Obama and the Democrats didn’t weaken Medicare; they strengthened Medicare. Now, when Congressman Ryan looked into that TV camera and attacked President Obama’s Medicare savings as, quote, the biggest, coldest power play, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry — (laughter) —because that $716 billion is exactly, to the dollar, the same amount of Medicare savings that he has in his own budget. (Cheers, applause.) You got to get one thing — it takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did. (Laughter, cheers, applause.)So — (inaudible) — (sustained cheers, applause) —now, you’re having a good time, but this is getting serious, and I want you to listen.(Laughter.) It’s important, because a lot of people believe this stuff.Now, at least on this issue, on this one issue, Governor Romney has been consistent. (Laughter.) He attacked President Obama too, but he actually wants to repeal those savings and give the money back to the insurance company. (Laughter, boos.)He wants to go back to the old system, which means we’ll reopen the doughnut hole and force seniors to pay more for drugs, and we’ll reduce the life of the Medicare trust fund by eight full years. (Boos.)So if he’s elected, and if he does what he promised to do, Medicare will now grow (sic/go) broke in 2016. (Boos.) Think about that. That means, after all, we won’t have to wait until their voucher program kicks in 2023 — (laughter) —to see the end of Medicare as we know it. (Applause.) They’re going to do it to us sooner than we thought. (Applause.)Now, folks, this is serious, because it gets worse. (Laughter.) And you won’t be laughing when Ifinish telling you this. They also want to block-grant Medicaid, and cut it by a third over the coming 10 years.AUDIENCE MEMBER: No!PRESIDENT CLINTON: Of course, that’s going to really hurt a lot of poor kids. But that’s not all. Lot of folks don’t know it, but nearly two-thirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for Medicare seniors — (applause) — who are eligible for Medicaid.(Cheers, applause.) It’s going to end Medicare as we know it. And a lot of that money is also spent to help people with disabilities, including —(cheers, applause) —a lot of middle-class families whose kids have Down’s syndrome or autism or other severe conditions. (Applause.) And honestly, let’s think about it, if that happens, I don’t know what those families are going to do.So I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to do everything I can to see that it doesn’t happen. We can’t let it happen. (Cheers, applause.) We can’t. (Cheers, applause.) Now —wait a minute. (Cheers, applause.) Let’s look —AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!PRESIDENT CLINTON: Let’s look at the other big charge the Republicans made. It’s a real doozy. (Laughter.) They actually have charged and run ads saying 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. (Jeers.) Wait, you need to know, here’s what happened. (Laughter.) Nobody ever tells you what really happened —here’s what happened.When some Republican governors asked if they could have waivers to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama administration listened because we all know it’s hard for even people with good work histories to get jobs today. So moving folks from welfare to work is a real challenge.And the administration agreed to give waivers to those governors and others only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent, and they could keep the waivers only if they did increase employment. Now, did I make myself clear? The requirement was for more work, not less. (Cheers, applause.)So this is personal to me. We moved millions of people off welfare. It was one of the reasons that in the eight years I was president, we had a hundred times as many people move out of poverty into the middle class than happened under the previous 12 years, a hundred times as many. (Cheers, applause.) It’s a big deal. But I am telling you the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform’s work requirement is just not true. (Applause.)But they keep on running the ads claiming it. You want to know why? Their campaign pollster said, we are not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers. (Jeers, applause.) Now,finally I can say, that is true. (Laughter, cheers, applause.) I — (chuckles) —I couldn’t have said it better myself. (Laughter.)And I hope you and every American within the sound of my voice remembers it every time they see one of those ads, and it turns into an ad to re-elect Barack Obama and keep the fundamental principles of personal empowerment and moving everybody who can get a job into work as soon as we can. (Cheers, applause.)Now, let’s talk about the debt. Today, interest rates are low, lower than the rate of inflation. People are practically paying us to borrow money, to hold their money for them.But it will become a big problem when the economy grows and interest rates start to rise. We’ve got to deal with this big long- term debt problem or it will deal with us. It will gobble up a bigger and bigger percentage of the federal budget we’d r ather spend on education and health care and science and technology. It —we’ve got to deal with it.Now, what has the president done? He has offered a reasonable plan of $4 trillion in debt reduction over a decade, with 2 1/2 trillion (dollars) coming from — for every $2 1/2 trillion in spending cuts, he raises a dollar in new revenues —2 1/2-to-1. And he has tight controls on future spending. That’s the kind of balanced approach proposed by the Simpson-Bowles Commission, a bipartisan commission.Now, I think this plan is way better than Governor Romney’s plan. First, the Romney plan failed the first test of fiscal responsibility. The numbers just don’t add up. (Laughter, applause.)I mean, consider this. What would you do if you had this problem? Som ebody says, oh, we’ve gota big debt problem. We’ve got to reduce the debt. So what’s the first thing you say we’re going to do? Well, to reduce the debt, we’re going to have another $5 trillion in tax cuts heavily weighted to upper-income people. So we’ll make the debt hole bigger before we start to get out of it.Now, when you say, what are you going to do about this $5 trillion you just added on? They say, oh, we’ll make it up by eliminating loopholes in the tax code.So then you ask, well, which loopholes, and how much?You know what they say? See me about that after the election. (Laughter.)I’m not making it up. That’s their position. See me about that after the election.Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic. (Sustained cheers, applause.)If —arithmetic! If —(applause) —if they stay with their $5 trillion tax cut plan —in a debt。
中英对照-美国2012大选：奥巴马败象已现？
中英对照-美国2012大选：奥巴马败象已现？简介：伴随着美国大选的临近，奥巴马的支持率却在与日剧减，三场辩论让人们仿佛看到了两周后即将揭晓的那个举世瞩目的谜底···All three presidential debates are now in the books and the race to the White House is taking its final shape. Looking back, the first debate was undoubtedly the watershed moment of this campaign and the most powerful inflection point in the race to date.President Obama regained some lost ground in the next two debates, including Monday night's event, but the damage had already been done.Mitt Romney now carries the momentum into the home stretch.如今，三场总统辩论已经落下了帷幕，这场角逐的最终结果，也在渐渐揭去其神秘的面纱。
回首过去，奥巴马和罗姆尼之间的第一场总统辩论无疑是这场角逐的分水岭，也是此次总统大选的最大拐点。
在接下来的两场总统辩论中，尽管奥巴马弥补了一些失误，挽回了些许的优势，但无奈木已成舟。
在这场总统竞选的最后冲刺关头，罗姆尼势如破竹。
Like in the second debate, Obama came out Monday night moreaggressive and he threw more punches andlanded more punches, centering his attacks on trying to characterize Romney'sforeign policy as amateur and reckless. But there was an air of desperation inhis delivery. It was as if he knew he needed to not just defeat Romney, but todestroy him. He fell far short of that bar.在周一举行的第三场辩论中，奥巴马继续发扬其在第二场辩论中的风格，表现的更加积极主动。
2012年美国大选获胜后奥巴马东厅全国公开演说
Remarks by the PresidentEast Room1:08 P.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you very much, everybody. Everybody, please have a seat. (Applause.)Well, good afternoon, everybody. Now that those of us on the campaign trail have had a chance to get a little sleep -- (laughter) -- it’s time to get back to work. And there is plenty of work to do.As I said on Tuesday night, the American people voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in that spirit, I’ve invited leaders of both parties to the White House next week, so we can start to build consensus around the challenges that we can only solve together. And I also intend to bring in business and labor and civic leaders from all across the country here to Washington to get their ideas and input as well.At a time when our economy is still recovering from the Great Recession, our top priority has to be jobs and growth. That’s the focu s of the plan I talked about during the campaign. (Applause.) It’s a plan to reward small businesses and manufacturers that create jobs here, not overseas. It’s a plan to give people the chance to get the education and training that businesses are looking for right now. It’s a plan to make sure this country is a global leader in research and technology and clean energy, which will attract new companies and high-wage jobs to America. It’s a plan to put folks back to work, including our veterans, rebuilding our roads and our bridges, and other infrastructure. And it’s a plan to reduce our deficit in a balanced and responsible way.Our work is made that much more urgent because at the end of this year, we face a series of deadlines that require us to make major decisions about how to pay our deficit down -- decisions that will have a huge impact on the economy and the middle class, both now and in the future. Last year, I worked with Democrats and Republicans to cut a trillion dollars’ worth of spendin g that we just couldn’t afford. I intend to work with both parties to do more -- and that includes making reforms that will bring down the cost of health care so we can strengthen programs like Medicaid and Medicare for the long haul.But as I’ve said before, we can’t just cut our way to prosperity. If we’re serious about reducing the deficit, we have to combine spending cuts with revenue -- and that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes. (Applause.) That’s how we did i t in the 1990s, when Bill Clinton was President. That’s how we can reduce the deficit while still making the investments we need to build a strong middle class and a strongeconomy. That’s the only way we can still afford to train our workers, or help our kids pay for college, or make sure that good jobs in clean energy orhigh-tech manufacturing don’t end up in countries like China.Now, already, I’ve put forward a detailed plan that allows us to make these investments while reducing our deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade. I want to be clear -- I’m not wedded to every detail of my plan. I’m open to compromise. I’m open to new ideas. I’m committed to solving our fiscal challenges. But I refuse to accept any approach that isn’t balanced. I am not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren’t asked to pay a dime more in taxes. I'm not going to do that. (Applause.)And I just want to point out this was a central question during the election. It was debated over and over again. And on Tuesday night, we found out thatthe majority of Americans agree with my approach -- and that includes Democrats, independents, and a lot of Republicans across the country, as well as independent economists and budget experts. That’s how you reduce the deficit -- with a balanced approach.So our job now is to get a majority in Congress to reflect the will of the American people. And I believe we can get that majority. I was encouraged to hear Speaker Boehner agree that tax revenue has to be part of this equation -- so I look forward to hearing his ideas when I see him next week.And let me make one final point that every American needs to hear. Right now, if Congress fails to come to an agreement on an overall deficit reduction package by the end of the year, everybody’s taxes will automatically go up on January 1st -- everybody’s -- including the 98 percent of Americans who make less than $250,000 a year. And that makes no sense. It would be bad for the economy and would hit families that are already struggling to make ends meet.Now, fortunately, we shouldn’t need long negotiations or drama to solve that part of the problem. While there may be disagreement in Congress over whether or not to raise taxes on folks making over $250,000 a year, nobody -- not Republicans, not Democrats -- want taxes to go up for folks making under$250,000 a year. So let’s not wait. Even as we’re negotiating a broa der deficit reduction package, let’s extend the middle-class tax cuts rightnow. Let's do that right now. (Applause.)That one step -- that one step -- would give millions of families -- 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses -- the certainty that they need going into the new year. It would immediately take a huge chunk of the economic uncertainty off the table, and that will lead to new jobs and faster growth. Business will know that consumers, they're not going to see a big tax increase. They'll know that most small businesses won't see a tax increase. And so a lot of the uncertainty that you're reading about, that will be removed.In fact, the Senate has already passed a bill doing exactly this, so all we need is action from the House. And I’ve got the pen ready to sign the bill right away. I'm ready to do it. (Applause.) I'm ready to do it. (Applause.)The American people understand that we’re going to have differences and disagreements in the months to come. They get that. But on Tuesday, they said loud and clear that they won’t tolerate dysfunction. They won’t tolerate politicians who view compromise as a dirty word. Not when so manyAmericans are still out of work. Not when so many families and small business owners are still struggling to pay the bills.What the American people are looking for is cooperation. They're looking for consensus. They're looking for common sense. Most of all, they want action. I intend to deliver for them in my second term, and I expect to find willing partners in both parties to make that happen. So let’s get to work.Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. (Applause.)END1:15 P.M. ESTBlog posts on this issue∙November 19, 2012 5:00 PM ESTFirst Lady Honors National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award RecipientsFirst Lady Michelle Obama honors 12 of the n ation’s most outstanding arts and humanities programs for young people.∙November 19, 2012 3:00 PM ESTShop Small on Saturday, November 24th 2012Small Business Saturday is a date set aside to support the smallbusinesses that play a vital role in creating jobs and economicopportunities across the country.∙November 19, 2012 1:16 PM ESTPresident Obama Promises Support for the People of BurmaPresident Obama arrives in Rangoon and becomes the first sittingpresident ever to visit Burma.∙view all related blog postsStay Connected ∙Facebook∙Twitter∙Flickr∙Google+∙YouTube∙Vimeo∙iTunes∙LinkedIn。
普林斯顿2012毕业典礼演讲
普林斯顿2012毕业典礼演讲：不要吞吃命运的饼干演讲人：迈克尔·刘易斯（Michael Lewis），著名作家，其作品如Liar’s Poker、The Blind Side、Moneyball曾获奖或被拍成电影。
下面附上演讲视频和中英文讲稿。
Thank you. President Tilghman. Trustees and Friends. Parents of the Class of 2012. Above all, Members of the Princeton Class of 2012. Give yourself a round of applause. The next time you look around a church and see everyone dressed in black it’ll be awkward to cheer. Enjoy the moment.感谢Tilghman主席，各位校董和朋友们，2012年级的家长们，还有最关键的，普林斯顿2012年级的同学们。
请给自己一个掌声吧。
下一次你在一所教堂里看到大家都穿成黑色的时候，像这样欢呼就很尴尬了。
享受这一刻吧。
Thirty years ago I sat where you sat. I must have listened to some older person share his life experience. But I don’t remember a word of it. I can’t even tell you who spoke. What I do remember, vividly, is graduation. I’m told you’re meant to be excited, perhaps even relieved, and maybe all of you are. I wasn’t. I was totally outraged. Here I’d gone and given them four of the best years of my life and this is how they thanked me for it. By kicking me out.30年前，我坐在你所坐的地方。
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中国工程机械工业协会工业车辆分会
Changes in the Proportion of IC and Electric Trucks 内燃与电动比例变化情况
Domestic国内 Electric trucks 电动车 IC trucks 内燃车 Proportation of Electric trucks 电动车比例 Proportation of IC trucks 内燃车比例 Total Sales 总销量 2007 21,677 89,985 19.41% 80.59% 111,662 2008 23,033 85,684 21.19% 78.81% 108,717 2009 21,198 92,921 18.58% 81.42% 114,119 2010 35,616 156,517 18.54% 81.46% 192,133 2011 48,119 185,996 20.55% 79.45% 234,115 2012YTD 2012年累计 33,491 116,676 20.30% 77.70% 150,167
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China’s Economic Growth Path 中国经济发展方向
力保障和改善民生,保障社会和谐稳定
2.中国工业车辆发展状况
Sales of Industrial Trucks in Global Market
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Sales of Industrial Trucks per Continent
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Under the dual-pressure of weak economy activity and possible price rise, the current macro control in China is progressing along a narrow balance beam. In this situation, the decision maker must balance the relation between stable growth and inflation control with proper policies, and strengthen the coordination and cooperation among currency, finance and industry policies. 在经济活跃度依然羸弱，而物价则可能再次抬头的双重压力下，目前中国的宏观调控正行 迚在一条狭窄的平衡木上，这要求决策者一方面在政策力度上需要更好地把握稳增长与控 通胀之间的关系，另一方面在政策组合上，加强货币、财政和产业政策的协调配合。
中国经济机遇பைடு நூலகம்挑战并存
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GDP Growth Rate
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Remark: 2011 GDP - revised figure, 2012 GDP - preliminary reading
中国工程机械工业协会工业车辆分会 China's consumer price index % Change
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Growth Rate of Fixed Asset Investment (Non-agricultural)
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China’s Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) 中国 采购经理人指数（PMI）
去产能、 消化金融风险、 转变增长方式需要时间
The consumption growth is hard, profit in most enterprises is poor, 消费增长乏力，企业盈利不佳的情况普遍存 在 Number of employees in industrial enterprises keep decreasing. 工业企业用工人数同比增速持续下滑。
世界工业车辆：2010年开始恢复后，2011年基本回到了金融危机前的水平，2012年上半年各洲均 略有增长，美洲增长好于其他各州。
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Sales Situation for Domestic Manufacturers
Sales Units
Growth Rate
2012 H1
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China’s economy is in the medium phase of deleveraging and has not reached the bottom, thus the development may take longer than expectation. 中国经济正处于去杠杆化中期，探底过 程尚未结束，时间可能会比想象的长。
宏观调控,实施积极的财政政策和稳健的货币政策，促迚经济平稳 较快发展
• Press ahead to optimize and upgrade the industrial structure and energy saving and emission reduction, increase the investment in technology renovation and innovation to realize sustainable development. 推迚产业结构优化升级和节能减排，
Due to the overall moderate policy of China, the further growth trend is not visible. 中国总体政策偏稳健，迚一步积极的特性幵 不显著。 It takes time to reduce the production capacity, conquer financial risk, and change economic growth mode.
Lu Daming 陆大明
Oct, 2012, Kyoto Japan 2012年10月 日本 京都
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AGENDA本次演讲内容：
I. 2012 Macro-economic Development in China 2012年中国宏观经济形势 II. Industrial Truck Market in China 中国工业车辆发展状况
Affected by economic slowdown in China, the domestic sales of powered industrial trucks in 1st half of 2012 dropped significantly compared to the previous two years, which represents a decrease of 9.11% compared to the same period last year. 受中国经济增长放缓的影响，境内机动工业车辆销售量相比前两年的增长下滑明显，2012 年上半年相比去年同期下降9.11%。
2012年中国宏观经济形势
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The European debt crisis, the hard landing for emerging market, the recent turbulence in Middle East and North Africa. 欧债危机、新兴市场“硬着陆”以及中东北非局势动荡
III. Characteristics of China’s Industrial Truck Market in Recent Years and the Development Prospects 中国工业车辆行业近年的市场特点和发展前景
I. 2012 Macro-economic Development in China
2012 Presidents’ Forum 2012年主席论坛
President, CITA 中国工程机械工业协会工业车辆分会 会长 President, Beijing Materials Handling Engineering & Research Institute 北京起重运输机械设计研究院 院长
In the developed countries, the general Macro-economy policy tends to be flexible. 发达国家：宏观经济政策普遍趋于宽松 In the emerging market, “spur growth” policy is clearer. 新兴市场：“保增长”的政策主调更加明确 发达国家 新兴市场 Global economy recovery is still lack of energy, the economy grew at low speed. 世界经济复苏动能依然缺乏，经济将呈现低速增长态势