【正文】 overturned decades of law and gave the special interests the power to spend without limit – and without public disclosure – to run ads in order to influence , as an election approaches, it’s not just a can see for ourselves how destructive to our democracy this can see it in the flood of deceptive attack ads sponsored by special interests using front groups with misleading don’t know who’s behind these ads or who’s paying for foreigncontrolled corporations seeking to influence our democracy are able to spend freely in order to swing an election toward a candidate they ’ve tried to fix this with a new law – one that would simply require that you say who you are and who’s paying for your way, voters are able to make an informed judgment about a group’s running these ads would have to stand by their foreigncontrolled corporations would be restricted from spending money to influence elections, just as they were before the Supreme Court opened up this is mon fact, this is the kind of proposal that Democrats and Republicans have agreed on for , the Republican leaders in Congress have so far said “no.” They’ve blocked this bill from even ing up for a vote in the ’s politics at its it’s not hard to understand the past two years, we have fought back against the entrenched special interests – weakening their hold on the levers of power in have taken a stand against the worst abuses of the financial industry and health insurance ’ve rolled back tax breaks for panies that ship jobs we’ve restored enforcement of mon sense rules to protect clean air and clean have refused to go along with business as , the special interests want to take Congress back, and return to the days when lobbyists wrote the a partisan minority in Congress is hoping their defense of these special interests and the status quo will be rewarded with a flood of negative ads against their ’s a power grab, pure and ’re hoping they can ride this wave of unchecked influence all the way to is clear is that Congress has a responsibility to the truth is, any law will e too late to prevent the damage that has already been done this election is why, any time you see an attack ad by one of these shadowy groups, you should ask yourself, who is paying for this ad? Is it the health insurance lobby? The oil industry? The credit card panies?But more than that, you can make sure that the tens of millions of dollars spent on misleading ads do not drown out your no matter how many ads they run – no matter how many elections they try to buy – the power to determine the fate of this country doesn’t lie in their lies in ’s up to all of us to defend that most basic American principle of a government of, by, and for the ’s at stake is not just an ’s our democracy you.第五篇：Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address The White House Saturday September 10, 2011This weekend, we’re ing together, as one nation, to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11th ’re remembering the lives we lost—nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and ’re reaffirming our mitment to always keep faith with their ’re honoring the heroism of first responders who risked their lives—and gave their lives—to save we’re giving thanks to all who serve on our behalf, especially our troops and military families—our extraordinary 9/11 the same time, even as we reflect on a difficult decade, we must look forward, to the future we will build includes staying strong and confident in the face of any thanks to the tireless efforts of our military personnel and our intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security professionals—there should be no , America is stronger and al Qaeda is on the path to ’ve taken the fight to al Qaeda like never the past two and a half years, more senior al Qaeda leaders have been eliminated than at any time since 9/ thanks to the remarkable courage and prec