严厉痛斥!奥巴马19分钟DNC演讲:17万美国人因疫情而死,特朗普无法承担总统职责!(附视频&演讲稿)
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当地时间8月19日晚,美国民主党全国代表大会进入第三天。当天,美国前总统巴拉克·奥巴马发表了主旨讲话,谴责现任总统特朗普无法承担总统职责,同时也未“认真对待这份工作”。
据CNN报道,奥巴马当天在民主党大会上表示,虽然他从未期待特朗普“拥抱我的愿景、延续我的政策”,他也从不认为特朗普会认真对待总统之位,“他(特朗普)只是把它当作另一场真人秀,希望借此获得他孜孜以求的关注度”。
“我曾经希望,为了我们的国家,唐纳德·特朗普会严肃对待这份工作;希望他也许会感受到白宫的重量、发现民主的尊严——但他从来没有这么做”,奥巴马称。“唐纳德·特朗普没能适应这份工作,因为他不能。这一失败导致的结果非常严重——17万美国人死去了,数百万人处于失业中,我们最糟糕的冲动被释放了,我们在世界上引以为豪的声誉被严重破坏了,我们的民主体系正受到史无前例的威胁”。
在谈到民主党候选人乔·拜登时,奥巴马回顾了他2008年选择拜登作为副总统搭档时的经历,称“我当时不知道我最终会多了一个兄长”。他称赞拜登坚韧、正派、富有同情心,称“没有人比你(拜登)更好,但你比所有人都好”。
据CNN报道,在演讲过程中,奥巴马一度湿了眼眶。他表示,很多美国人在和压迫斗争,但仍然团结起来为整个国家的未来奋斗。他提到,“不管背景如何,我们都是美国的后代”。
奥巴马呼吁所有选民都出门投票,“我请求你们相信你们的能力,拥抱你们作为美国公民的责任,确保我们民主的基本宗旨得以延续,因为这是目前最重要的——我们的民主”。
Good evening, everybody. As you've seen by now, this isn't a normal
convention. It's not a normal time. So tonight, I want to talk as plainly as I
can about the stakes in this election. Because what we do these next 76 days
will echo through generations to come.
I'm in Philadelphia, where our Constitution was drafted and signed. It wasn't
a perfect document. It allowed for the inhumanity of slavery and failed to
guarantee women -- and even men who didn't own property -- the right to
participate in the political process. But embedded in this document was a North
Star that would guide future generations; a system of representative government
-- a democracy -- through which we could better realize our highest ideals.
Through civil war and bitter struggles, we improved this Constitution to include
the voices of those who'd once been left out. And gradually, we made this
country more just, more equal, and more free.
The one Constitutional office elected by all of the people is the presidency.
So at minimum, we should expect a president to feel a sense of responsibility
for the safety and welfare of all 330 million of us -- regardless of what we
look like, how we worship, who we love, how much money we have -- or who we
voted for.
But we should also expect a president to be the custodian of this democracy.
We should expect that regardless of ego, ambition, or political beliefs, the
president will preserve, protect, and defend the freedoms and ideals that so
many Americans marched for and went to jail for; fought for and died for.
I have sat in the Oval Office with both of the men who are running for
president. I never expected that my successor would embrace my vision or
continue my policies. I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump
might show some interest in taking the job seriously; that he might come to feel
the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had
been placed in his care.
But he never did. For close to four years now, he's shown no interest in
putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using
the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no
interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that
he can use to get the attention he craves.
Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. And the consequences
of that failure are severe. 170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone while
those at the top take in more than ever. Our worst impulses unleashed, our proud
reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions
threatened like never before.
Now, I know that in times as polarized as these, most of you have already
made up your mind. But maybe you're still not sure which candidate you'll vote
for -- or whether you'll vote at all. Maybe you're tired of the direction we're
headed, but you can't see a better path yet, or you just don't know enough about
the person who wants to lead us there.
So let me tell you about my friend Joe Biden.
Twelve years ago, when I began my search for a vice president, I didn't know
I'd end up finding a brother. Joe and I came from different places and different
generations. But what I quickly came to admire about him is his resilience, born
of too much struggle; his empathy, born of too much grief. Joe's a man who
learned -- early on -- to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity,
living by the words his parents taught him: "No one's better than you, Joe, but
you're better than nobody."
That empathy, that decency, the belief that everybody counts -- that's who
Joe is.
When he talks with someone who's lost her job, Joe remembers the night his
father sat him down to say that he'd lost his.
When Joe listens to a parent who's trying to hold it all together right now,
he does it as the single dad who took the train back to Wilmington each and
every night so he could tuck his kids into bed.
When he meets with military families who've lost their hero, he does it as a
kindred spirit; the parent of an American soldier; somebody whose faith has
endured the hardest loss there is.
For eight years, Joe was the last one in the room whenever I faced a big
decision. He made me a better president -- and he's got the character and the
experience to make us a better country.
And in my friend Kamala Harris, he's chosen an ideal partner who's more than
prepared for the job; someone who knows what it's like to overcome barriers and
who's made a career fighting to help others live out their own American
dream.
Along with the experience needed to get things done, Joe and Kamala have
concrete policies that will turn their vision of a better, fairer, stronger
country into reality.
They'll get this pandemic under control, like Joe did when he helped me
manage H1N1 and prevent an Ebola outbreak from reaching our shores.
They'll expand health care to more Americans, like Joe and I did ten years
ago when he helped craft the Affordable Care Act and nail down the votes to make
it the law.
They'll rescue the economy, like Joe helped me do after the Great Recession.
I asked him to manage the Recovery Act, which jumpstarted the longest stretch of
job growth in history. And he sees this moment now not as a chance to get back
to where we were, but to make long-overdue changes so that our economy actually
makes life a little easier for everybody -- whether it's the waitress trying to
raise a kid on her own, or the shift worker always on the edge of getting laid
off, or the student figuring out how to pay for next semester's classes.
Joe and Kamala will restore our standing in the world -- and as we've learned
from this pandemic, that matters. Joe knows the world, and the world knows him.
He knows that our true strength comes from setting an example the world wants to
follow. A nation that stands with democracy, not dictators. A nation that can
inspire and mobilize others to overcome threats like climate change, terrorism,
poverty, and disease.
But more than anything, what I know about Joe and Kamala is that they
actually care about every American. And they care deeply about this
democracy.
They believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred, and we should
be making it easier for people to cast their ballot, not harder.
They believe that no one -- including the president -- is above the law, and
that no public official -- including the president -- should use their office to
enrich themselves or their supporters.
They understand that in this democracy, the Commander-in-Chief doesn't use
the men and women of our military, who are willing to risk everything to protect
our nation, as political props to deploy against peaceful protesters on our own
soil. They understand that political opponents aren't "un-American" just because
they disagree with you; that a free press isn't the "enemy" but the way we hold
officials accountable; that our ability to work together to solve big problems
like a pandemic depends on a fidelity to facts and science and logic and not
just making stuff up.
None of this should be controversial. These shouldn't be Republican
principles or Democratic principles. They're American principles. But at this
moment, this president and those who enable him, have shown they don't believe
in these things.
Tonight, I am asking you to believe in Joe and Kamala's ability to lead this
country out of these dark times and build it back better. But here's the thing:
no single American can fix this country alone. Not even a president. Democracy
was never meant to be transactional -- you give me your vote; I make everything
better. It requires an active and informed citizenry. So I am also asking you to
believe in your own ability -- to embrace your own responsibility as citizens --
to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure.
Because that's what at stake right now. Our democracy.
Look, I understand why many Americans are down on government. The way the
rules have been set up and abused in Congress make it easy for special interests
to stop progress. Believe me, I know. I understand why a white factory worker
who's seen his wages cut or his job shipped overseas might feel like the
government no longer looks out for him, and why a Black mother might feel like
it never looked out for her at all. I understand why a new immigrant might look
around this country and wonder whether there's still a place for him here; why a
young person might look at politics right now, the circus of it all, the
meanness and the lies and crazy conspiracy theories and think, what's the
point?
Well, here's the point: this president and those in power -- those who
benefit from keeping things the way they are -- they are counting on your
cynicism. They know they can't win you over with their policies. So they're
hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote, and to convince you that
your vote doesn't matter. That's how they win. That's how they get to keep
making decisions that affect your life, and the lives of the people you love.
That's how the economy will keep getting skewed to the wealthy and
well-connected, how our health systems will let more people fall through the
cracks. That's how a democracy withers, until it's no democracy at all.
We can't let that happen. Do not let them take away your power. Don't let
them take away your democracy. Make a plan right now for how you're going to get
involved and vote. Do it as early as you can and tell your family and friends
how they can vote too. Do what Americans have done for over two centuries when
faced with even tougher times than this -- all those quiet heroes who found the
courage to keep marching, keep pushing in the face of hardship and
injustice.
Last month, we lost a giant of American democracy in John Lewis. Some years
ago, I sat down with John and the few remaining leaders of the early Civil
Rights Movement. One of them told me he never imagined he'd walk into the White
House and see a president who looked like his grandson. Then he told me that
he'd looked it up, and it turned out that on the very day that I was born, he
was marching into a jail cell, trying to end Jim Crow segregation in the
South.
What we do echoes through the generations.
Whatever our backgrounds, we're all the children of Americans who fought the
good fight. Great grandparents working in firetraps and sweatshops without
rights or representation. Farmers losing their dreams to dust. Irish and
Italians and Asians and Latinos told to go back where they came from. Jews and
Catholics, Muslims and Sikhs, made to feel suspect for the way they worshipped.
Black Americans chained and whipped and hanged. Spit on for trying to sit at
lunch counters. Beaten for trying to vote.
If anyone had a right to believe that this democracy did not work, and could
not work, it was those Americans. Our ancestors. They were on the receiving end
of a democracy that had fallen short all their lives. They knew how far the
daily reality of America strayed from the myth. And yet, instead of giving up,
they joined together and said somehow, some way, we are going to make this work.
We are going to bring those words, in our founding documents, to life.
I've seen that same spirit rising these past few years. Folks of every age
and background who packed city centers and airports and rural roads so that
families wouldn't be separated. So that another classroom wouldn't get shot up.
So that our kids won't grow up on an uninhabitable planet. Americans of all
races joining together to declare, in the face of injustice and brutality at the
hands of the state, that Black Lives Matter, no more, but no less, so that no
child in this country feels the continuing sting of racism.
To the young people who led us this summer, telling us we need to be better
-- in so many ways, you are this country's dreams fulfilled. Earlier generations
had to be persuaded that everyone has equal worth. For you, it's a given -- a
conviction. And what I want you to know is that for all its messiness and
frustrations, your system of self-government can be harnessed to help you
realize those convictions.
You can give our democracy new meaning. You can take it to a better place.
You're the missing ingredient -- the ones who will decide whether or not America
becomes the country that fully lives up to its creed.
That work will continue long after this election. But any chance of success
depends entirely on the outcome of this election. This administration has shown
it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes to win. So we have to
get busy building it up -- by pouring all our effort into these 76 days, and by
voting like never before -- for Joe and Kamala, and candidates up and down the
ticket, so that we leave no doubt about what this country we love stands for --
today and for all our days to come.
Stay safe. God bless.
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