【正文】 ild and modernize our it is time to raise our standards, up our game, and do everything it takes to prepare our children succeed in the global is the time to once again make our education system the envy of the world.第三篇：Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressSaturday, August 1st, 2009 Today, I’d like to talk with you about a subject that I know is on everyone’s mind, and that’s the state of our , we received a report on our Gross Domestic ’s a measure of our overall economic report showed that in the first few months of this year, the recession we faced when I took office was even deeper than anyone thought at the told us how close we were to the it also revealed that in the last few months, the economy has done measurably better than many economists suggest that part of this progress is directly attributable to the Recovery and the other difficult but important steps that we have taken over the last six months have helped put the brakes on this took unprecedented action to stem the spread of foreclosures by helping responsible homeowners stay in their homes and pay their helped revive the credit markets and open up loans for families and small we enacted a Recovery Act that put tax cuts directly into the pockets of middleclass families and small businesses。第一篇：美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬每周電臺演講09 Remarks of President Barack Obama As prepared for delivery Saturday, September 18, 2010 Washington, DCBack in January, in my State of the Union Address, I warned of the danger posed by a Supreme Court ruling called Citizens decision 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