【正文】 t go to college, they could save a little bit each week so their child could。ll still pay taxes at a lower rate than in the 1990sand capital gains and dividend taxes onethird lower than they were under President 39。s one thing we39。第四篇：奧巴馬競選演講稿(中英)美國首任黑人總統(tǒng)奧巴馬競選演講稿（中英）Obama: The Change We NeedThis is a defining moment in our face the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression760,000 workers have lost their jobs this and families can39。And it is no wonder that people keep pointing out how the presidency has aged 。” 我們的理念和原則，以及我們的國家安全，都在敘利亞問題上面臨利害攸關(guān)的時刻，此外還有我們在全世界為確保最殘酷的武器絕不被使用而發(fā)揮的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)作用。I have, therefore, asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic ’m sending Secretary of State John Kerry to meet his Russian counterpart on Thursday, and I will continue my own discussions with President ’ve spoken to the leaders of two of our closest allies, France and the United Kingdom, and we will work together in consultation with Russia and China to put forward a resolution at the Council requiring Assad to give up his chemical weapons, and to ultimately destroy them under international ’ll also give the opportunity to report their findings about what happened on August we will continue to rally support from allies from Europe to the Americasfrom Asia to the Middle Eastwho agree on the need for ，在我們探求這個外交途徑的同時，我已要求國會領(lǐng)袖推遲就授權(quán)使用武力進(jìn)行投票。我們不排除任何威脅，但是阿薩德政權(quán)沒有能力對我們的軍隊構(gòu)成嚴(yán)重威脅。而且我知道，美國人民希望我們在華盛頓的所有人——特別是我——集中精力進(jìn)行國內(nèi)建設(shè)：讓人們重返工作崗位，讓我們的孩子受教育，壯大我們的中產(chǎn)階層。If fighting spills beyond Syria’s borders, these weapons could threaten allies like Turkey, Jordan, and a failure to stand against the use of chemical weapons would weaken prohibitions against other weapons of mass destruction, and embolden Assad’s ally, Iranwhich must decide whether to ignore international law by building a nuclear weapon, or to take a more peaceful ，這些武器會對土耳其、約旦和以色列等盟國造成威脅。在8月21日前的幾天，我們知道阿薩德的化學(xué)武器人員為了準(zhǔn)備發(fā)動襲擊，在鄰近地區(qū)配制沙林毒氣。當(dāng)時，阿薩德政府使用毒氣殺害了一千多民眾，其中包括數(shù)百名兒童。這場大屠殺的情景令人慘不忍睹：男子、婦女、兒童橫尸遍地，都是因為中毒身亡。他們向自己的軍隊發(fā)放了防毒面具。如果不制止使用化學(xué)武器的行為，對其他大規(guī)模毀滅性武器的禁令也會被削弱，使阿薩德的盟國伊朗更膽大妄為伊朗必須作出抉擇，是以制造核武器對抗國際法，還是走上更和平的道路。It’s no wonder, then, that you’re asking hard let me answer some of the most important questions that I’ve heard from members of Congress, and that I’ve read in letters that you’ve sent to ，毫不奇怪，你們提出了尖銳的問題。他們有可能圖謀的任何報復(fù)手段與我們每天面臨的威脅并無兩樣。我將派國務(wù)卿約翰America is not the world’s things happen across the globe, and it is beyond our means to right every when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should ’s what makes America ’s what makes us humility, but with resolve, let us never lose sight of that essential 。It39。I look so old, John Boehner39。t get values are falling, and pensions are are lower than they39。ve learned from this economic crisis, it39。ll create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumblinginfrastructure and laying broadband lines that reach every corner of the 39。that even if they couldn39。t happen I believe we can do this because I believe in is the country that allowed our parents and grandparents to believe that even if they couldn39。ll get a tax you make more than $250,000, you39。If there39。re wele, Senate ，民主黨議員們。Which is 。New climate 。羅斯福曾說：“我國不介入國外戰(zhàn)爭和國外糾葛的決心不能阻止我們在我們所珍視的理念和原則受到挑戰(zhàn)的時候深深地感到關(guān)切。但這項提案有可能在不使用武力的情況下消除化學(xué)武器的威脅，尤其是因為俄羅斯是阿薩德最牢靠的盟友之一。Other questions involve the dangers of don’t dismiss any threats, but the Assad regime does not have the ability to seriously threaten our other retaliation they might seek is in line with threats that we face every Assad nor his allies have any interest in escalation that would lead to his our ally, Israel, can defend itself with overwhelming force, as well as the unshakeable support of the United States of 。我們的軍隊正在從阿富汗返回家園?？植乐髁x組織也更容易獲得這類武器并使用這些武器襲擊平民。Moreover, we know the Assad regime was the days leading up to August 21st, we know that Assad’s chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin distributed gasmasks to their they fired rockets from a regimecontrolled area into 11 neighborhoods that the regime has been trying to wipe clear of opposition after those rockets landed, the gas spread, and hospitals filled with the dying and the know senior figures in Assad’s military machine reviewed the results of the attack, and the regime increased their shelling of the same neighborhoods in the days that ’ve also studied samples of blood and hair from people at the site that tested positive for ，我們知道阿薩德政權(quán)應(yīng)為此負(fù)責(zé)。The situation profoundly changed, though, on August 21st, when Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people, including hundreds of images from this massacre are sickening: Men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison foaming at the mouth, gasping for father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and that terrible night, the world saw in gruesome detail the terrible nature of chemical weapons, and why the overwhelming majority of humanity has declared them offlimitsa crime against humanity, and a violation of the laws of ，局勢出現(xiàn)了巨大的變化。另一些人口吐白沫，呼吸窒息。然后他們從該政權(quán)控制的地區(qū)向附近的11個小區(qū)發(fā)射火箭，該政權(quán)正企圖在這些地區(qū)清除反對派武裝。This is not a world we should is what’s at that is why, after careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted military purpose of this strike would be to deter Assad from using chemical weapons, to degrade his regime’s ability to use them, and to make clear to the world that we will not tolerate their 。那么就讓我來回答一些我從國會議員那里聽到和從你們給我的來信中讀到的最重要的問題。阿薩德和他的同伙都不會希望加劇導(dǎo)致自身滅亡?？死镉诒局芩耐砹_斯外長見面，我也將繼續(xù)同普京總統(tǒng)進(jìn)行商談。全球到處都有可怕的事情發(fā)生，我們沒有能力去糾正每一樁惡行。s the right thing to 。s already invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak at my ，以至于約翰ve been in a decade, at a time when the costs of health care and college have never been a moment lik