【正文】 我們已經(jīng)取得了讓我們希望我們能夠而且必須實(shí)現(xiàn)的明天。That39。s beaconstill burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation es not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals:democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding ：我們將打敗你。and that so long as we’re willing to listen to each other, we can assume the best in people instead of the ’s why we were able to reform a death penalty system that was ’s why we were able to give health insurance to children in ’s why we made the tax system more fair and just for working families, and that’s why we passed ethics reforms that the cynics said could never, ever be was here, in Springfield, where north, south, east, and west e together that I was reminded of the essential decency of the American people—where I came to believe that through this decency, we can build a more hopeful that is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol , where Lincoln once called on a divided house to stand together, where mon hopes and mon dreams still live, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United recognize there is a certain presumptuousness —a certain audacity —to this know I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be we should take heart , because we’ve changed this country the face of tyranny , a band of patriots brought an empire to its the face of secession , we unified a nation and set the captives the face of Depression , we put people back to work and lifted millions out of weled immigrants to our shores, we opened railroads to the west, we landed a man on the moon, and we heard a King ’s call to let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be we are called once more—and it is time for our generation to answer that that is our unyielding faith —that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change ’s what Abraham Lincoln had his had his had his through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, North and South, slave and is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life , continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest , that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people— as of us know what those challenges are today—a war with no end, a dependence on oil that threatens our future, schools where too many children aren’t learning, and families struggling paycheck to paycheck despite working as hard as they know the ’ve heard ’ve talked about them for ’s stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible ’s stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics—the ease with which we’re distracted by the petty and trivial , our chronic avoidance of tough decisions , our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big the last six years we’ve been told that our mounting debts don’t matter, we’ve been told that the anxiety Americans feel about rising health care costs and stagnant wages are an illusion , we’ve been told that climate change is a hoax ，and that tough talk and an illconceived war can replace diplomacy, and strategy, and when all else fails, when Katrina happens, or the death toll in Iraq mounts, we’ve been told that our crises are somebody else’s ’re distracted from our real failures and told to blame the other party, or gay people, or as people have looked away in disillusionment and frustration , we know what’s filled the cynics, and the lobbyists , and the special interests who’ve turned our government into a game only they can afford to write the checks and you get stuck with the bills, they get the access while you get to write a letter, they think they own this government, but we’re here today to take it time for that politics is ’s time to turn the ’ve made some progress was proud to help lead the fight in Congress that led to the most sweeping ethics reform since Washington has a long way to it won’t be ’s why we’ll have to set ’ll have to make hard although government will play a crucial role in bringing about the changes we need, more money and programs alone will not get us where we need to of us, in our own lives, will have to accept responsibility—for instilling an ethic of achievement in ourchildren, for adapting to a more petitive economy, for strengthening our munities, and sharing some measure of let us us begin this hard work us transform this us be the generation that reshapes our economy to pete in the digital ’s set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to ’s recruit a new army of teachers and give them better pay and more support in exchange for more ’s make college more affordable, and let’s invest in scientific research, and let’s lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across as our economy changes, let’s be the generation that ensures our nation’s workers are sharing in our ’s protect the hardearned benefits their panies have ’s make it possible for hardworking Americans to save for let’s allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country’s middle class ’s be the generation that ends poverty in single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job, and earn a living wage that can pay the bills, and afford child care so their kids have a safe place to go when they ’s do ’s be the generation that finally tackles our health care can control costs by focusing on prevention, by providing better treatment t