美国总统大选第二场辩论(中文字幕完整版)(转自CNN)-(-厦门韦博英语培训提供
2013年奥巴马第2次美国总统就职演讲文稿(中英文)
2013年奥巴马第2次美国总统就职演讲（中英文）MR. OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you so much. Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:谢谢，非常感谢大家。
拜登副总统、首席大法官先生、美国国会议员们、尊敬的各位嘉宾和美国同胞们：Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago:每次聚在一起举行总统就职仪式时，我们总能见证到宪法经久不衰的力量。
我们都是在肯定美国民主的承诺。
我们重申，将这个国家紧密联系在一起的不是我们的肤色，也不是我们信仰的教条，更不是我们名字的来源。
让我们与众不同、成为美国人的是源自我们对于一种理念的恪守。
这一理念早在2个多世纪前就在一份宣言中有过明确阐述：“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”“我们认为这一真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等。
2016美国总统大选电视辩论第二场 希拉里川普互爆黑料斗智斗勇
2016美国总统大选电视辩论第二场希拉里川普互爆黑料斗智斗勇第二场总统大选电视辩论——川普希拉里巅峰对决高清视频全网独家下载对于美国总统候选人来讲，电视辩论是一场智力和体力的终极对决。
因为便是辩论中的表现可能会直接影响到最终的大选结果。
在历经了9月26日的第一场总统大选电视辩论上的剑拔弩张之后，副总统之间的角力对决也已经于10月4日落下帷幕。
今天美国总统大选第二场辩论，将于北京时间今日(10月10日)早上9点，在美国华盛顿大学举行。
美国共和党候选人特朗普有90分钟时间挽回自己的竞选生涯。
辩论主持人是美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)的安德森·库伯及美国广播公司(ABC)的拉达兹。
各大主流视频网站在线直播地址GET：Youtube直播地址： Youtube 2nd Presidential Debate at Washington UniversityCNN直播地址： CNN 2nd Presidential Debate at Washington UniversityNBC直播地址：NBC 2nd Presidential Debate at Washington University第二场电视辩论有哪些看点?——矛盾升级MAX如果说第一场电视辩论是礼尚往来之后，2016美国总统大学电视辩论第二场就开始来真格的了!【互挖黑历史】两位候选人辩论前夕都被曝出有损各自形象的“黑材料”。
《华盛顿邮报》7日公布了特朗普2005年一段用语非常粗俗的谈话录音，内容含有侮辱女性的言论。
“维基解密”网站也随即公开了黑客获取的希拉里华尔街高价演讲部分内容以及希拉里竞选团队一些内部邮件，其中一些言论与希拉里的公开立场不同，可能令民众对希拉里的诚信产生怀疑。
【提问环节】和第一场电视辩论的提问环节有所不同的是，这一的主持人仅负责提出半数问题，另半数将由盖洛普民意测验中心(Gallup)选出的未决选民提出。
截止小编发稿时候，第一个问题来自场下观众，这位观众问：上次辩论太“激烈”，小孩子要在大人陪同下才能观看，你们怎么看?【辩论爆点】特朗普避税疑云希拉里此前痛批共和党对手特朗普避税多年，称他是冷酷无情的商人，对国家没有贡献，她主张立法规定，参选总统必须公布税表。
2008美国总统竞选辩论实录
2008美国总统竞选辩论实录2008 美国总统竞选辩论实录（中英文对照）LEHRER: Good evening from the Ford Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. I'm Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour on PBS, and I welcome you to the first of the 2008 presidential debates between the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, and the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.主持人：晚上好，这里是牛津密西西比大学的表演艺术中心。
我是来自公共广播公司《新闻时间》的吉姆.拉勒尔。
我欢迎你们来到2008年首场总统竞选辩论。
两位总­统候选人是来自亚利桑那州的共和党提名人——议员约翰.麦凯恩，和来自伊利诺斯州的民主党提名人——议员贝拉克.奥巴马。
(注：牛津，密西西比南部一城市，位于田纳西州孟斐斯东南偏南。
是密西西比大学的所在地（老密西），建于1844年，它是威廉姆·福克纳的家乡。
人口9,882­)The Commission on Presidential Debates is the sponsor of this event and the three other presidential and vice presidential debates coming in October.总统竞选辩论委员会是这次辩论以及即将在10月份的另外三次总统竞选辩论和副总统竞选辩论的主办者。
Tonight's will primarily be about foreign policy and national security, which, by definition, includes the global financial crisis. It will be divided roughly into nine-minute segments.今晚的话题将主要围绕外交政策和国家安全。
美国总统选举电视辩论两则
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第二场总统候选人辩论
美国大选——第二场总统候选人辩论直播实录【主持人】大家晚上好！我们现在是在霍夫斯特拉大学，我们今天是在这里进行第二次的总统辩论。
我们的辩论形式是市民大会。
今天我们是在纽约州一共有80几名没有作出决定的选民，我们今天会由他们来问出问题，由我们的两位候选人来作出回答。
这次的问题并没有在通过我们的总统辩论委员会，而且我们的两位候选人也没有看过这个问题。
希望我们两位总统候选人都能够简单地回答这些问题，他们每人有两分钟的时间回答问题，之后我还会问一些跟进的问题。
希望大家不要发出任何的噪音，不要喝彩或者是喝倒彩，我们有请奥巴马和前马萨诸塞州州长罗姆尼。
非常欢迎两位能够来到今天的辩论，今天有很多的选民都来到了我们的市民大会，罗姆尼我知道刚才我们掷硬币的时候您是赢了，那么有一个问题想要问你。
观众：两位候选人你们好，我是一个大学生，我听到了很多的新闻都是我毕业之后很有可能没有工作，对于我来说我没有办法自给自足，我应该怎么办呢？【罗姆尼】杰米非常感谢你的问题，我非常高兴有机会来回答这个问题，再次感谢我们的霍夫特拉大学，以及感谢您来主持我们的大会，再次感谢总统先生来回答我们的问题。
您的问题是很多的大学生都在问的问题，就是他们毕业之后怎么办。
我之前有一个学生问我，说我现在有三个临时的工作，我没有办法有全职的工作，没有办法付我的学生贷款和付房租怎么办呢？所以我们必须要让我们大学的学费降下来。
并且确保他们毕业之后能够有工作，如果说你要从你的学校当中毕业成绩是前25%的话，就应该拿到奖学金，在马省我们希望有这样的政策，我们希望有一些教育的体制，另外希望有一些贷款的项目给学生提供优惠，那么你在毕业之后应该怎么办呢？在过去的4年之中，我们看到对很多的美国年轻人来说生活非常地困难，我非常希望大家都有工作，我希望能够让经济恢复增长。
如果毕业了以后没有工作根本没有任何的意义，而且这是不能被人接受的。
现在我们是债台高筑，学生没有就业，我希望改变现状，给大家创造应该有的机会。
2013年美国总统奥巴马第二任期的就职演说中英文完整版
2013年美国总统奥巴马第二任期的就职演说中英文完整版MR. OBAMA: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: （奥巴马：副总统拜登、首席大法官、美国国会议员，各位尊敬的来宾以及各位国民）Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago:（每次我们集会庆祝总统就职都是在见证美国宪法的持久力量。
我们都是在肯定美国民主的承诺。
我们重申，将这个国家紧密联系在一起的不是我们皮肤的颜色，也不是我们信仰的教条，更不是我们族名的来源。
让我们与众不同，让我们成为美国人的是我们对于一种理念的恪守。
200多年前，这一理念在一篇宣言中被清晰阐述：）“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”（“我们认为下述真理是不言而喻的，人人生而平等。
奥巴马罗姆尼第二场电视辩论-中文稿
奥巴马罗姆尼第二场电视辩论-中文稿时间：2012年10月16日地点：纽约州，亨普斯特德市，霍夫斯特拉大学主持人：美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）“国情咨文”主持人坎迪·克劳利（CandyCrowley）克劳利：晚上好，这里是位于纽约州亨普斯特德市的霍夫斯特拉大学。
我是美国有线电视新闻网“国情咨文”主持人坎迪·克劳利。
我们在此举行第二场总统候选人辩论，这是一场由总统候选人辩论委员会（CommissiononPresidentialDebates）组织的市政厅模式辩论。
民调机构盖洛普公司在纽约地区选出了82名摇摆选民，他们的提问将主导今晚。
我的目标是给出辩论方向并确保所有问题得到回答。
目前只有我和我的团队知晓今晚的提问内容，无论是委员会还是总统候选人都未被提前告知。
我希望能够涉及尽可能多的问题。
作为一个乐观主义者，我相信两位候选人都会确保他们的回答简洁且中肯。
每个候选人对同一个问题均有两分钟的回答时间，之后还有两分钟作为继答。
在座的听众都同意保持礼貌与专心，不发出任何形式的欢呼、嘘声以及其他嘈杂之音。
我们仅现在破一次例，欢迎贝拉克·奥巴马总统和米特·罗姆尼州长。
（欢呼声，持续的掌声）先生们，感谢你们今晚的参与。
我们中有很多人已经等了一整天，想与你们交流，那我们就开门见山吧。
罗姆尼州长，你知道，因为你赢了硬币投掷，所以第一个问题先由你回答。
我把首个提问交给第一次参与投票的选民，Jeremy Epstein。
创造就业谁更能干Q（编注：选民提问，下同）：总统先生，罗姆尼州长，作为一个20岁的大学生，无论是教授、邻居，还是其他人，他们都告诉我，当我毕业，我可能就要失业。
你们如何能确保我，更重要的是让我的父母也信服，我能够在毕业后自食其力？罗姆尼：谢谢你，Jeremy。
（同与会者寒暄略）你的问题是全国的大学生都关心的问题。
我在宾夕法尼亚州的费城时遇到一位大学毕业生，她说，“我得到了学位，但没能找到工作。
美国总统大选第二场电视辩论
美国总统大选第二场电视辩论Tran script of sec ond McCa in, Obama debateNASHVILLE, Tenn essee (CNN) -- Preside ntial can didates Joh n McCa in and Barack Obama debated in Nashville, Tenn essee, on Tuesday ni ght. NBC's Tom Brokaw moderated the debate. Here is a tran script of that debate.domestic and foreig n policy. Neither the commissi on can didates have see n the questi ons. And although we won't be ableto get to all of them tonight, we should have a wide-rangingdiscussi on one mon th before the electi on. Each can didate will have two minu tes to resp ond to a com mon questi on, and there will be a on e-m inute follow-up. The audie nee here in the hall has agreed to beTOM: Good eve ning fromBelm ont Un iversity in Nashville, Tennessee. I'm Tom Brokawof NBC News. And welcome to this sec ond preside ntial debate, sponsored by the Commissi onon PresidentialDebates. Tonight's debate is the only one with a town hall format. The Gallup Orga ni zati on chose 80 un committed votersfrom the Nashville area to be here with us tonight. And earlier today,each of them gave me a copy of their questi on for the can didates.From all of these questi ons -- and from tens of thousa nds submittedon li neI have selected a long list of excellent questions on nor thepolite, and atte ntive, no cheeri ng or outbursts. Those of you at home,of course, are not so constrained. The only exception in the hall isright now, as it is my privilege to in troduce the can didates, Sen atorBarack Obama of Illinois and Senator John McCain of Arizona.Gen tleme n?Gentlemen, we want to get underway immediately, if we you last met at OleMiss 12 days ago, the world has cha nged a great deal, and not for the better. We still don't know where the bottom isat this time. As you might expect, many of the questions that we hav from here in the hall tonight and from online have to do withAmerican economy and, in fact, with global economic conditions. I beg in toni ght. And we're going to have our first questio n from over here in Secti on A from Ala n Schaefer. Ala n ?QUESTION: With the economy on the downturn and retired and older citize ns and workers losi ng their in comes, what's the fastest, most positive soluti on to bail these people out of the econo mic ruin?OBAMA: Well, Alan , tha nk you very much for the questi on. I want tofirst, obviously, thank Belmont University, Tom, thank you, and to allof you who are participating tonight and those of you who sent e-mail questio ns in. I thi nk everybody knows now we are in the worst finan cial crisis since the Great Depressi on. And a lot of you I think are worried about your jobs, your pensions, your retireme nt acco unts,your ability to send your child or your grandchild to college. And I believe this is a final verdict on the failed econo mic policies of thecan. Since theunderstand that you flipped a coin. And, Senator Obama, you willlast eight years, stro ngly promoted by Preside nt Bush and supported by Senator McCain,that essentially said that we should strip away regulations, consumer protections, let the market run wild, and prosperity would rain dow n on all of us. It has n't worked out that way.And so now we've got to take some decisive acti on.Now, step one was a rescue package that was passed last week. We've got to make sure that works properly. And that means strong oversight, making sure that investors, taxpayers are getting their money back and treated as in vestors. It mea ns that we are crack ing dow n on CEOs and making sure that they're not gett ing bonu ses orgolde n parachutes as a con seque nee of this package. An d, i n fact, wejust found out that AIG, a company that got a bailout, just a weekafter they got help went on a $400,000 jun ket. And I'll tell you what,the Treasury should dema nd that money back and those executives should be fired. But that's only step one.The middle-class n eed a rescue package. And that means tax cuts for the middle-class. Itmea ns help for homeow ners so that they can stayin their homes. It means that we are helping state and localgovernments set up road projects and bridge projects that keeppeople in their jobs. And the n Ion g-term we've got to fix our healthcare system, we've got to fix our energy system that is putting such aneno rmous burde n on families. You n eed somebody work ing for youand you've got to have somebody in Washington who is thinking about the middle class and not just those who can afford to hirelobbyists.TOM : Se nator McCa in?MCCAIN: Well, thank you, Tom. Tha nk you, Belmo nt Un iversity. AndSen ator Obama, it's good to be with you at a tow n hall meeti ng. AndAla n , tha nk you for your questio n. You go to the heart of America'sworries toni ght. America ns are an gry, they're upset, and they're a little fearful. It's our job to fix the problem.Now, I have a pla n to fixthis problem and it has got to do with energy independence. We'vegot to stop sending $700 billio n a year to coun tries that don't want usvery -- like us very much. We have to keep America ns' taxes low. AllAmerica ns' taxes low. Let's not raise taxes on an ybody today. We obviously have to stop this spending spree that's goi ng on in Washington. Do you know that we've laid a $10 trillion debt on these young Americans who are here with us toni ght, $500 billio n of it we owe to China? We've gotto have a package of reforms and it has got tolead to reform prosperity and peace in the world. And I think thatthis problem has become so severe, as you know, that we're going tohave to do something about home values. You know that homevalues of retirees con ti nues to decli ne and people are no Ion ger able to afford their mortgage payme nts. As preside nt of the Un ited States Alan, I would order the secretary of the treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America andrenegotiate at the n ew value of those homes -- at the dimini shed value of those homesTOM: Senator, we have one minute for a discussion here. Obviously the powers of thetreasury secretary have bee n greatly expa nded. The most powerful officer in the cab inet now. Hank Pauls on says he won't stay on. Who do you have in mind to appo int to that very importa ntand let people be able to make those be able to m payments and stay in their homes. Is it expensive? Yes. know, my friends,until we stabilize home values in Amer never going to start turning around andcreating jobs and fixing our economy. And we've got to give some trust and confide nee America. I know how the do that, my friends. And it's my proposal,it's not Sen ator Obama's proposal, it's not Preside nt Bush's proposa But Iknow how to get America worki ng aga in, restore our economy and take care ofwork ing America ns. Thank you. ake thoseBut we all ica, we're back topost? Se nator McCai n?MCCAIN: Not you, Tom.TOM : No, with good reaso n.MCCAIN: You know, that's a tough question and there'squalified America ns. But I think the first criteria, Tom, would haveexte nt, Tom, is that we don't have trust and con fide nee in stituti ons because of the corrupti on on Wall Street and the greed and excess and the crony ism inWash ington, D.C.TOM: All right. Senator McCain -- Senator Obama, who do you have in mind for treasury secretary?a lot of to be somebody who immediately America ns ide nti f y with,immediately say, we can trust that in dividual. A supporter of Sen atorObama's is Warren Buffett. He has already weighed in andhelped stabilize some of the difficulties in the markets and with companiesand corporati on s, i nstituti ons today. I like Meg Whitma n, she knowswhat it's like to be out there in the marketplace. She knows how tocreate jobs. Meg Whitman was CEO of a company that started with 12people and is now 1.3 million people in America make their living offeBay. Maybe somebody here has done a little bus in ess with them.But the point is it's going to have to be somebody who in spires trustand con fide nee.Because the problem in America today to a large in ourOBAMA: Well, Warren would be a pretty good choice -- WarrenBuffett, and rm pleased to have his support. But there are other folks out there. The key is making sure that the next treasury secretaryun dersta nds that it's not eno ugh just to help those at the top.Prosperity is not just going to trickle down. We've got to help the middle class. OBAMA: And we've -- you know, Sen ator McCa in and Ihave some fun dame ntal disagreeme nts on the econo my, start ing with Senator McCain's statement earlier that he thought the fun dame ntals of the economy were sound. Part of the problem here is that for many of you, wages and in comes have flat-l in ed. For many of you, it is gett ing harder and harder to save, harder and harder to retire. And that's why, for example, on tax policy, what I want to do isprovide a middle class tax cut to 95 percent of workingeno ugh time with their kids, because they are struggli ng ends meet. SenatorMcCain is right that we've got to stabilize housingprices. But un derly ing that is loss of jobs and loss of in come. That's someth ing that the n ext treasury secretary is going to have to work on.TOM: Sen ator Obama, tha nk you very much. May I remi nd both ofAmerica ns, those who are workingtwo jobs, people who are not spendingto makeyou, if I can, that we're operat ing un der rules that you sig ned off onand whe n we have a discussi on, it really is to be confined with inabout a min ute or so. We're going to go now, Sen ator McCai n, to the next question from you from the hall here, and it comes from OliverClark (ph), who is over here in secti on F. Oliver?QUESTION: Well, Sen ators, through this econo mic crisis, most of the because as you just described it, bailout, when I believe that it'srescue, because -- because of the greed and excess in Wash ington and Wall Street, Mai n Street was pay ing a very heavy price, and we knowthat. I left my campaign and suspended it to go back to Washington to make sure that there were additional protections for the taxpayer in the form of good oversight, in the form of taxpayers being the first to be paid back whe n our economy recovers -- and it will recover -- and a nu mber of other measures.But you know, one of the real catalysts, really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I 'll bet you, you may n ever eve nhave heard of them before this crisis. But you know, they're the ones that, with theencouragement of Senator Obama and his cronies and his friends in Washington, that went out and made all these risky loans, gave them to people that could n ever afford to pay back. people that I know have had abailout package, I was won deri nghelp those people out. difficult time. And through this what it is that's going to actuallyMCCAIN: Well, thank you, Oliver, and that's an excellent question,And you know, there were some of us that stood up two years ago and said we've got to enact legislation to fix this. We've got to stop this greed and excess. Mea nwhile, the Democrats in the Sen ate and some -- and some members of Con gress defe nded what Fannie and Freddie were doing. They resisted any change. Meanwhile, they were getting allkinds of money in campaign contributions. Senator Obama was the sec ond highest recipie nt of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac money in history -- in history. So this rescue package means that we will stabilize markets, we will shore up these institutions. But it's not eno ugh. That's why we're going to have to go out into the hous ing market and we're going to have to buy up these bad loa ns and we're going to have to stabilize home values, and that way, America ns, likeAlan, can realize the American dream and stay in their home. But Fannie and Freddie were the catalysts, the match that started this forest fire. There were some of us -- there were some of us that stood up aga inst it. There were others who took a hike.TOM: Sen ator Obama?OBAMA: Well, Oliver, first, let me tell you what's in the rescuepackage for you. Right now, the credit markets are frozen up and what that mea ns, as a practical matter, is that small bus in esses andsome large bus in esses just can't get loa ns. If they can't get loan, that means that they can't make payroll. If they can't make payroll,then they may end up hav ing to shut their doors and lay people off.And if you imagine just one company trying to deal with that,imagine a million companies all across the country. So it could endup hav ing an adverse effect on everybody, and that's why we had totake acti on. But we should n't have bee n there in the first place.Now, I've got to correct a little bit of Senator McCain's history,surpris ingly.Let's, first of all, understand that the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financialSen ator McCa in, as rece ntly as March, bragged about the fact that his a deregulator. On the other hand, two years ago, I said that we'vegot a sub-prime lending crisis that has to be dealt with.Secretary Pauls on, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairma nnownot system.I wrote to Bernanke,and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobodydid anything about it. A year ago, I went to Wall Street and said we'vegot to reregulate, and nothing happened. And Senator McCain duri ng that period said that we should keep on deregulati ng becausethat's how the free enterprise system works. Now, with respect toFannie Mae, what Sen ator McCa in did n't men tio n is the fact that thisbill that he talked about was n't his own bill. He jumped on it a yearafter it had been introduced and it never got passed. An d I never promoted Fannie Mae. In fact, Sen ator McCai n's campaig n chairma n's firm was a lobbyist on behalf of Fannie Mae, not me. So --but, look, you're not interested in hearing politicians fin gers. What you're in terested in is tryi ng to figure out, how is this poin ti nggoing to impact you? This is not the end of the process; this is thebeg inning of the process. And that's why it's going to be so importa ntfor us to work with homeowners to make sure that they can stay intheir homes. The secretary already has the power to do t hat in the rescue package, but it has n't bee n exercised yet. And the next preside nt has to make sure that the n ext Treasury secretary isthinking about how to strengthen you as a home buyer,homeowner, and not simply think about bailing out banks on WallStreet.TOM: Sen ator Obama, time for a discussi on. I'm going to beg in withyou as ayou. Are you saying to Mr. Clark (ph) and to the other members of the American television audienee that the American economy is going to get much worse before it gets better and they ought to beeffectively, if we stabilize the housing market -- which I believe can, if we go out and buy up these bad loa ns, so that people can have a n ew mortgage at the n ew value of their home -- I think if we get ridprepared for that?OBAMA: No, I am con fide nt about the America n economy. But we are going to have to have some leadership from Washington on ly sets out much better regulati ons for the finan cial system. The problem is we still have a archaic, 20th-ce ntury regulatory system for that not21st-ce ntury finan cial markets. We're going to have to coord in ate with other coun tries to make sure that whatever acti ons we take wor But most importa ntly, we're going to have to help ordinary families be able to stay in their homes, make sure that they can pay their bills, deal with critical issues like health care and en ergy, and we're going to have to change the culture in Washington so that lobbyists and special interests aren't driving the process and your voi ces aren'tbeing drow ned out. TOM: Sen ator McCa in, in all can dor, do you think the economy isgoing to get worse before it gets better? MCCAIN: I th ink it depe nds on what we do. I thi nkif we actweof the crony ism and special in terest in flue nee in Wash ington so we can act more effectively. My frien d, I'd like you to see the letter that a group of sen ators and I wrote warni ng exactly of this crisis. Sen atorObama's name was not on that letter. The point is -- the point is that we can fix our economy. America ns' workers are the best in the world. They're the fun dame ntal aspect of America's economy. Th most inno vative. They're the best -- they're most -- have best -- we're the best exporters. We're the best importers. They're most effective. They are thebest workers in the world. And we've got to give them a cha nee. They've got -- we've got to give them a cha nee to do their best again. And they are the innocent bystanders here in what biggest financial crisis and challenge of our time. We can do it.TOM: Thank you, Senator McCain. We're going to continue Section F, as it turns out. Senator Obama, this is a question from you from Theresa Fin ch. Theresa ?QUESTION: How can we trust either of you with our mo both parties got -- got us into this global econo mic crisis?OBAMA: Well, look, I understand your frustration and your cynicism, because while you've bee n carry ing out your resp on sibilities -- most're theis theover inwhe nof the people here, you've got a family budget. If less money is coming in, you end up making cuts. Maybe you don't go out to dinner as much. Maybe you put off buying a new car. That's not whathappe ns in Wash ington. And you're right. There is a lot of blame to go around. But I think it's important just to remember a little bit of history. Whe n George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. AndBush came into office, our debt -- nationaldebt was aroundtrillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it. And while it's true that n obody's completely innocent here, we have had over the last eight years the biggest in creases in deficit spe nding and n atio nal debt in our history. And Sen ator McCai n voted for four out of five of those George Bush budgets. So here's what I would do. I'm going to spe nd some money on the key issues that we've got to work on. You know, you may have seen your health care premiums go up. We've got to reform health care to help you and your budget. We aregoing to have to deal with en ergy because we can't keep on borrow ing from the Chinese and sending money to Saudi Arabia. We are mortgag ing our childre n's future. We've got to have a differe nt en ergypla n. We've got to in vest in college affordability. So we're going to have to make some in vestme nts, but we've also got to make spe ndingnow we have half-a-trillion-dollardeficit annu ally. When George$5socuts. And what I've proposed, you'll hear Senator McCain say, well, he's proposing a whole bunch of new spending, but actually cutting more than I'm spending so that it will be a net spending cut. The key is whether or not we've got priorities that are working for youWashington lately, and that's mostly lobbyists and special interests. We've got to put an end to that.TOM: Sen ator McCa in?MCCAIN: Well, Theresa (ph), thank you. And I ca n see why you feelthat cynicism and mistrust, because the system in Washington broke n. And I have bee n a con siste nt reformer. I have advocated an take n on the special in terests, whether they be the big money people by reach ing across the aisle and worki ng with Sen ator Fein gold campaign finance reform, whether it being a variety of other issues, worki ng with Sen ator Lieberma n on tryi ng to address climate cha nge.I have a clear record of bipartisanship. The situation today cries out for bipartisanship. Sen ator Obama has n ever take n on his leaders of his party on a si ngle issue. And we n eed to reform. And so let's look atour records as well as our rhetoric. That's really part of your mistrusthere. And now I suggest that maybe you go to some of these orga ni zati ons that are the watchdogs of what we do, like the Citize ns Against Gover nment Waste or the Nati onalTaxpayers Union or these other organizations that watch us all the time. I don't expect you to watch every vote. And you know what you'll find? This is the most liberal big-spe nding record in the Un ited States Sen ate. I have fought aga inst excessive spe nding and outrages. I have fought to reduce the earmarks and elimi nate them. Do you know that Sen ator Obama hasvoted for -- is proposing $860 billion of new spending now? New spe nding. Do you know that he voted for every in crease in spe nding that I saw come across the floor of the Un ited States Sen ate while we were work ing to elim in ate these pork barrel earmarks? He votedI'm as opposed to those who have been dictatingthe policy inisonfor n early a billi on dollars in pork barrel earmark projects, i nclud ing, bythe way, $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Illinois. My friends, do we need to spend that kind ofmon ey? I think you have to look at my record and you have to look at his. Then you have to look at our proposals for our econo my, not $860billion in new spending, but for the kinds of reforms that keeppeople in their jobs, get middle-in come America ns work ing aga in, and gett ing our economy moving aga in. You're going to be exam ining our proposals toni ght and in the future, and en ergy in depe ndence is a way to do that, is one of them. And drilling offshore and nuclear power are two vital eleme nts of that. And r ve bee n support ing thoseand I know how to fix this econo my, and elim in ate our depe ndence on foreig n oil, and stop sending $700 billi on a year overseas.TOM: We've run out of time. We have this one-minute ( period going on here. There are new economic realities that every one in this hall and across this country un dersta nds there are going to have to be some choices made. Health energy policies, and entitlement reform, what are going priorities in what order? Which of those will be your highest priority your first year in office and which will follow in sequenee McCai n?MCCAIN: The three priorities were health...TOM: The three -- health care, en ergy, and en titleme nt reform: Soci Security and Medicare .In what order would you put them in terms o priorities?MCCAIN: I thi nk you can work on all three at o nee, Tom. I thi nk it'svery important that reform our entitlement programs. My friends, we are not going to be able to provide the same ben efit for present-day workers that we are going -- that present-day retireesout there that policies, o be yourSen atorhave today. We're going to have to sit down across the table,Republica n and Democrat, as we did in 1983 betwee n Ron ald Reaga nand Tip O'Neill. I know how to do that. I have a clear record ofreaching across the aisle, whether it be Joe Lieberman or Russ Fein gold or Ted Kenn edy or others. That's my clear record. We canwork on nu clear power pla nts. Build a whole bunch of them, createmillio ns of new jobs. We have to have all of the above, alter nativefuels, wind, tide, solar, n atural gas, clea n coal tech no logy. All of thesthings we can do as America ns and we can take on this missi on andwe can overcome it.My friends, some of this $700 billion ends up in the hands of terroristorga ni zati ons. As far as health care is concern ed, obviously, every oneis struggling to make sure that they can afford their premiums andthat they can have affordable and available health care. That's the n ext issue. But we can do them all at on ce. There's no -- and we haveto do them all at once. All three you mentioned are c ompelli ng national security requirements.TOM: rm trying to play by the rules that you all established. Onemin ute for discussi on. Sen ator Obama, if you would give us your listof priorities, there are some real questi ons about whether everyth ingcan be done at once.OBAMA: We're going to have to prioritize, just like a family has toprioritize. Now, I've listed the things that I think have to be at the top of the list. En ergy we have to deal with today, because you're pay ing$3.80 here in Nashville for gasoline, and it could go up. And it's astrain on your family budget, but it's also bad for our national security, because coun tries like Russia and Ven ezuela and, you know,in some cases, coun tries like Iran, are ben efit ing from higher oil prices. So we've got to deal with that right away. That's why I've called for an in vestme nt of $15 billi on a year over 10 years. Our goal shouldbe, in 10 year's time, we are free of dependence on Middle Eastern oil.And we can do it. Now, whe n JFK said we're going to the Moon in 10 years, n obody was surehow to do it, but we un derstood that, if the America n people make a decisi on to do somethin g, it gets done. So that would be priority nu mber one.Health care is priority number two, because that broken health caresystem is bad not only for families, but it's making our bus in essesless competitive. And, nu mber three, we've got to deal with educati on so that our young people are competitive in a global economy. Butjust one point I want to make, Tom. Senator McCain mentioned looking at our records. We doneed to look at our records. Senator McCain likes to talk about earmarks a lot. And that'simportant. Iwant to go line by line through every item in the federal budget and elim in ate programsthat don't work and make sure that those that do work, work better and cheaper. But understa nd this: We also have to look at where some of our tax reve nues are going. So whe nSen atorMcCa in proposes a $300 billio n tax cut, a continu ati on not only of theBush tax cuts, but an additi onal $200 billi on that he's going to give to big corporati on s, i nclud ing big oil compa ni es, $4 billio n worth, that's money out of the system. And so we've got to prioritize both our spe nding side and our tax policies to make sure that they're work ing for you. That's what I'm going to do as preside nt of the Un ited States.TOM: All right, gen tleme n, I want to just remi nd you one more timeabout time. We're going to have a larger deficit than the federalgovernment does if we don't get this under control here before too long. Senator McCain, for you, we have our first question from theInternet tonight. A child of the Depression, 78-year-old Fiora (ph)from Chicago.Question: Since World War II, we have never been asked to sacrifice anything to help our coun try, except the blood of our heroic men and wome n. As preside nt, what sacrifices -- sacrifices will you ask every America n to make to help restore the America n dream and to get out。
美国总统奥巴马 第二任期就职演说全文2013-1-29
美国总统奥巴马第二任期就职演说全文Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:拜登副总统、首席大法官先生、国会议员们、尊敬的各位嘉宾、亲爱的公民们：Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago:每一次我们集会庆祝总统就职都是在见证美国宪法的持久力量。
我们都是在肯定美国民主的承诺。
我们重申，将这个国家紧密联系在一起的不是我们皮肤的颜色，也不是我们信仰的教条，更不是我们族名的来源。
让我们与众不同，让我们成为美国人的是我们对于一种理念的恪守。
200多年前，这一理念在一篇宣言中被清晰阐述："We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."“我们认为下述真理是不言而喻的，人人生而平等。
2021美国总统大选辩论会中文版(血泪翻译版)
2021美国总统大选辩论会中文版（血泪翻译版）（掌声）吉姆莱勒：三十秒，伙计。
让我们有一个很棒的夜晚，为你，为我国。
晚上好从麦格尼斯竞技场在丹佛丹佛大学，科罗拉多。
我是吉姆莱勒的“公共广播新闻，“我欢迎你到2021第一场总统辩论之间的巴拉克总统奥巴马，民主党提名的候选人，和前马萨诸塞州州长米特・罗姆尼，共和党提名。
这次辩论和未来三――两国总统，副总统――是一个由总统辩论委员会主办。
今晚的90分钟将国内问题，将由委员会设计的格式。
大约15分钟会有六段两分钟回答第一个问题，然后公开讨论为余下的每一部分。
成千上万的人们提供建议部分科目或问题，通过互联网和其他手段，但我作出最后的选择。
并记录，他们没有提交批准委员会或候选人。
这段我提前宣布将三的经济和一个卫生保健，政府的作用和管理，重点在不同，细节和选择。
两位候选人也将有两分钟的最后陈述。
大厅中的观众都已经承诺保持沉默――没有欢呼，掌声，嘘声，嘘声，在嘈杂的分心的事情，所以我们可能都集中在候选人都说。
有一个声音异常现在，虽然，我们欢迎奥巴马总统和罗姆尼州长。
（掌声）先生们，欢迎你们。
让我们开始经济，段，并让我们开始工作。
什么是主要的差异两国之间的你，你将如何去创造新的工作？这次辩论和未来三――两国总统，副总统――是一个由总统辩论委员会主办。
今晚的90分钟将国内问题，将由委员会设计的格式。
大约15分钟会有六段两分钟回答第一个问题，然后公开讨论为余下的每一部分。
你有2分钟。
每一个你有2分钟开始。
掷硬币决定，总统先生，你先去。
奥巴马总统：好的，谢谢你，吉姆，这个机会。
我要感谢罗姆尼州长和丹佛大学的盛情款待。
有很多分，我希望今晚能，但其中最重要的是，20年前我成为世上最幸运的人因为米歇尔奥巴马同意嫁给我。
于是我只想祝福你，亲爱的，周年快乐，让你知道，从现在开始的一年我们将不庆祝它在40000000人面前。
（笑声）你知道，四年前我们经历了大萧条以来最严重金融危机。
奥巴马第二次就职演说全文(中英对照)
在过去的200多年里，我们做到了。
（For more than two hundred years, we have.）
从奴役的血腥枷锁和刀剑的血光厮杀中我们懂得了，建立在自由与平等原则之上的联邦不能永远维持半奴隶和半自由的状态。我们赢得了新生，誓言共同前进。
（Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. We made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together.）
我们也理解，时代在变化，我们同样需要变革。对建国精神的忠诚，需要我们肩负起新的责任，迎接新的挑战。保护我们的个人自由，最终需要所有人的共同努力。因为美国人不能再独力迎接当今世界的挑战，正如美国士兵们不能再像先辈一样，用步枪和民兵同敌人(法西斯主义与共产主义)作战。一个人无法培训所有的数学与科学老师，我们需要他们为了未来去教育孩子们。一个人无法建设道路、铺设网络、建立实验室来为国内带来新的工作岗位和商业机会。现在，与以往任何时候相比，我们都更需要团结合作。作为一个国家，一个民族团结起来。
我们同样不屈服于这一谎言：一切的社会弊端都能够只靠政府来解决。我们对积极向上与奋发进取的赞扬，我们对努力工作与个ough it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government alone. Our celebration of initiative and enterprise; our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character.）
2012年美国总统大选第二场辩论(节选)
2012年美国总统大选第二场辩论（节选）时间：2012年10月16日地点：纽约州，亨普斯特德市，霍夫斯特拉大学主持人：坎迪·克劳利创造就业谁更能干问题：总统先生，罗姆尼州长，作为一个20岁的大学生，无论是教授、邻居，还是其他人，他们都告诉我，当我毕业，我可能就要失业。
你们如何能确保我，更重要的是让我的父母也信服，我能够在毕业后自食其力？罗姆尼：谢谢你，Jeremy。
你的问题是全国的大学生都关心的问题。
我在宾夕法尼亚州的费城时遇到一位大学毕业生，她说，“我得到了学位，但没能找到工作。
我做了三份临时工，但这不足以支付我的伙食费和房租。
我也没法开始偿还我的助学贷款。
”所以我们必须做两件事：让学生更容易上得起大学，让学生毕业后能找得到工作。
当我是马萨诸塞州州长时，你只有通过了考试，才能获得高中学位。
如果你的毕业成绩位于前25%，那么你能够得到John和AbigailAdams奖学金，并在马萨诸塞州你所选择的大学免去四年学费，它是一个公立大学。
我将确保我们能够增加佩尔助学金（编注：一项联邦助学金），我们将同时拥有我们的贷款项目以满足学生们的学费支付。
但最关键的问题是，确保你毕业后能够找到一份工作。
但过去四年发生的事情，对美国的年轻人而言，是非常非常艰难的。
我要让你们能够找到一份工作。
我知道如何能让经济运转起来。
今年有一半的大学毕业生没有找到工作，或者找不到一份能与其大学毕业生身份相配的工作，这是不可接受的。
同时，你们的债务却越来越重。
结果，更多的债务，更少的工作……克劳利：总统先生。
奥巴马：Jeremy，首先，你的未来是光明的。
你为自己投资了更高教育的事实是至关重要的，不止对你，对整个国家来说也如此。
当前我们能做的最重要的事情是，确保我们在这个国家创造工作机会，不仅仅是工作，而且是薪酬优厚的工作，这些工作足以养家糊口。
我想要做的是，在过去30个月私人部门创造的500万个工作的基础上，创造出更多的就业。
美国总统大选第二场电视辩论会实录
美国总统大选第二场电视辩论会实录引言美国总统大选是全球关注的焦点，每场电视辩论会都成为选民了解并评估候选人的重要途径。
第二场电视辩论会作为决定选情的关键时刻，创造了紧张激烈的氛围。
本文将以Markdown文本格式输出美国总统大选第二场电视辩论会的实录，准确记录候选人之间的交锋和观点争论。
辩论主题本场辩论会的主题包括经济、外交政策和治理方式等关键问题。
两位候选人将在主持人的引导下，针对这些议题展开辩论。
辩论实录介绍阶段主持人：欢迎各位观众来到美国总统大选第二场电视辩论会。
我们将就经济、外交政策和治理方式等问题展开讨论。
请欢迎我们的候选人，A先生和B女士。
经济问题讨论主持人：我们首先将讨论经济问题。
A先生，您认为当前美国经济面临的最大挑战是什么？请您发表看法。
A先生：感谢主持人。
我认为当前最大的挑战是失业率过高和经济不稳定。
我们需要采取一系列措施来刺激经济增长和创造就业机会。
B女士：我不同意A先生的说法。
我认为贫富差距的扩大和无法解决中产阶级的问题才是我们面临的最大挑战。
我们需要通过改革税收政策来实现更公平的经济发展。
外交政策问题讨论主持人：让我们转向外交政策问题。
B女士，您认为美国在国际事务中的角色应该是什么样的？B女士：我认为美国应该继续发挥领导作用，致力于推动全球合作解决重大问题，如气候变化和恐怖主义。
A先生：我不同意B女士的观点。
我认为我们应该更加关注国内问题，将资源用于改善国内基础设施和提升国内就业率。
治理方式问题讨论主持人：最后我们将讨论治理方式问题。
A先生，您认为政府应该如何解决党派分歧和政治僵局？A先生：我认为我们需要更多的合作和妥协。
只有通过党派之间的合作，才能解决国家面临的重要问题。
B女士：我同意合作的重要性，但我认为我们需要采取更加果断的行动来推动改革和解决分歧。
我们不能再继续拖延了。
总结阶段主持人：谢谢A先生和B女士的观点。
在我们离开之前，请您向选民表达最后的呼吁。
A先生：我希望选民能够认真考虑候选人的观点和计划，为美国的未来做出明智的选择。
总统辩论(中英对照)
Presidential DebatesDebates among candidates are rare in most countries. But they have become a staple1 of American politics, particularly during the last 25 years. Americans like debates because the candidates can be compared in an unscripted, live performance. The candidates don't know what questions will be asked, nor what their opponent might say. History indicates that a bad performance, particularly a telling gaffe2, can badly damage a candidate in the polls. The debates are a “ key test” of the st rength and abilities of the candidates, says CNN analyst Jeff Greenfield. A candidate cannot package himself in debates the way he can in party advertisements but must be quick on his feet3 to respond to unanticipated4 questions and criticisms, he adds.The unforgettable debate quip5 that can deflate6 a candidacy is the worst nightmare of any presidential hopeful.“ There you go again” , Ronald Reagan's memorable retort7 to President Jimmy Carter, was a line8 that stuck with both viewers and commentators in the l980 presidential campaign. Carter went on to lose the election, polls showed mostly because of the economy. But Carter's debate performance didn't help. Another example was Vice President Walter Mondale's deadly question to Senator Gary Hart, his main competitor in the 1984 Democratic primaries, “ Where's the beef?” Mondale borrowed the line from a hamburger commercial that had used the phrase to suggest that competing products shortchanged9 the consumer. Mondale, in effect, suggested that Hart's ideas were short on substance.The potential of debates to damage a vulnerable presidential hopeful is one reason why some candidates, particularly frontrunners10, are reluctant to risk their chances in such an uncontrolled environment--and the fewer debate rules there are,the less control the candidates have.But broadcast presidential debates,both in the primaries and in the general election,are now routine and expected by the American people.It was not always so. Face-to-face presidential debates began their broadcast history in 1948 when Republicans Thomas Dewey and Harold Stassen faced each other in a radio debate during the Oregon Republican presidential primary. The first broadcast television debates between the two major party nominees were in 1960 when Senator John F. Kennedy faced Vice President Richard Nixon.The debates were considered crucial to Kennedy’ s narrow11 victory. Interestingly, Americans who heard the debate on radio thought Nixon had won. But the far larger television audience applauded Kennedy's performance, testimony to the importance--in the television age--of image as well as substance. The point is Americans are concerned not just with a leader's policies and ideology12, but also with his character and temperament13. In the contentious14 atmosphere of a debate, such personal attributes15 are easier for voters to judge than in pre-packaged campaign commercials or formal speeches. Because television debates were deemed so crucial to the outcome of the 1960 election--dooming Richard Nixon to a narrow loss in the opinion of manyanalysts--the presidential nominees in the subsequent three presidential elections shield16 away from debates, feeling the risks were too great. Not until 1976 when Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter confronted President Gerald Ford was there another presidential debate. Since then, there have been debates in each of the presiden tial election years. The American people now expect them and it is doubtful a candidate could refuse to participate, analysts say.Since 1987, the presidential debates have been organized by the bipartisan17 organization, the Commission on Presidential Debates. Its purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the two major parties. In Election 2000, the commission set a threshold18 for the participation of third party candidates in the debates. They must show they have the support--as evidenced in a number of opinion polls--of at least 15 percent of the population.Whatever the quality of the debates in Election 2000, they are unlikely to equal the most famous political debates in American history which occurred long before the invention of radio and television. In 1858, Stephen Douglas debated Abraham Lincoln for a U.S. Senate seat. The debates were held at seven sites throughout Illinois, onefor each of the seven congressional districts. Douglas, a pro-slavery Democrat,was the incumbent19.Lincoln was anti-slavery. “ Honest Abe,” as he was endearingly called, lost the Senate race, but two years later was elected the first Republican president of the United States. The Lincoln Douglas debates are still heralded20 for the quality of the discourse at a crucial time in the nation's history.总统辩论候选人之间的辩论在大多数国家都很稀奇，但它们在美国政治生活中已司空见惯，特别是在过去的25年里。
2016美国大选第二场总统候选人电视辩论文字实录
2016美国大选第二场总统候选人电视辩论文字实录第二场总统辩论：10月10日上午9：00-10：30，密苏里州的华盛顿大学主持人：ABC记者MarthaRaddatz以及CNN主播AndersonCooper。
2016年美国总统选举将于2016年11月08日星期二举行，此次是美国第58届总统选举，同时众议院全部435个席位及参议院100个议席也会进行改选以产生美国第114届国会。
选举人团将首先被选出，再由选举人团于2016年12月17日选举产生总统和副总统。
美国东部时间2016年10月9日晚间，共和党总统候选人唐纳德-特朗普和民主党总统候选人希拉里-克林顿展开第二场电视辩论。
双方就多个热点问题和政策议题进行了激烈的辩论，场面火热。
这次辩论首度纳入民众网络票选的热门议题，用“市政座谈会”（Town-Hall）形式，也就是民众提问、候选人作答。
希拉里、特朗普互相揭短，花样互黑，火药味十足。
以下为此次辩论的文字实录。
【主持人玛莎-拉达茨】晚上好，我是ABC新闻的玛莎-拉达茨【支持人安德森-库珀】我是来自CNN的安德森-库珀。
非常感谢来到这里，我们马上要开始第一个来自“市民会议”成员的问题。
你们每一个人有两分钟的时间回答这个问题。
希拉里国务卿，您先请。
【提问者】谢谢，晚上好。
请问一下您觉得您的行为是否适并为大学生作出表率?【希拉里-克林顿(以下简称希拉里)】你是一个老师吗?【提问者】是的。
【希拉里】你问的非常好，我从很多学生和老师的关切中发现我的行为表现非常关键，我们作为候选人一定要给孩子们作个表率，美国是一个了不起的国家，因为我们候选人也很优秀，我们应该要尊敬对方，同时帮助各位成功，我觉得大家都应该有理由庆祝我们的经济成功，我觉得每一个人无论青年人还是成年人，都应该为美国所奋斗，其实我是一个非常有正能量的人，我非常关注你们的一些情况，所以我的口号就是让我们一起越变越强，我们能够克服我们的一些种族的分离，达到四大目标：第一，就是经济体，能够为每个人提供资源，第二，那就是从学前到大学，整个教育体系要可支付，这些目标一旦实现了，只要美国人合力没有什么做不到，我们能够尽力的合作，我也希望大家能够把票投给我，我也希望可以获得大选最终的优势目标，因为我是美国人，我为美国人工作，我也为美国工作，不去管大家的政治理念、生活背景、宗教理念，我希望我们真正的团结起来，这是让我们能够最佳拥抱一个光明未来的唯一之道。
导语
导语：美国总统大选第二场辩论于当地时间10月16日举行。
民调显示，民众更为肯定美国总统大选第二场辩论中奥巴马的辩论表现，这也使得在第一场辩论中落花流水的奥巴马扳回一城。
在这场电视辩论中，奥巴马罗姆尼承诺改变女性就业歧视。
OBAMA: Great. Looking forward to it.And it's Katherine Fenton, who has a question for you.QUESTION: In what new ways to you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females makingonly 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?OBAMA: Well, Katherine, that's a great question. And, you know, I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.She didn't complain. That's not what you did in that generation. And this is one of the reasons why one of the first -- the first bill I signed was something called the Lily Ledbetter bill. And it's named after this amazing woman who had been doing the same job as a man for years, found out that she was getting paid less, and the Supreme Court said that she couldn't bring suit because she should have found about it earlier, whereas she had no way of finding out about it. So we fixed that. And that's an example of the kind of advocacy that we need, because women are increasingly the breadwinners in the family. This is not just a women's issue, this is a family issue, this is a middle-class issue, and that's why we've got to fight for it.It also means that we've got to make sure that young people like yourself are able to afford a college education. Earlier, Governor Romney talked about he wants to make Pell Grants and other education accessible for young people.Well, the truth of the matter is, is that that's exactly what we've done. We've expanded Pell Grants for millions of people, including millions of young women, all across the country.We did it by taking $60 billion that was going to banks and lenders as middlemen for the student loan program, and we said, let's just cut out the middleman. Let's give the money directly to students.And as a consequence, we've seen millions of young people be able to afford college, and that's going to make sure that young women are going to be able to compete in that marketplace.But we've got to enforce the laws, which is what we are doing, and we've also got to make sure that in every walk of life we do not tolerate discrimination.That's been one of the hallmarks of my administration. I'm going to continue to push on this issue for the next four years.CROWLEY: Governor Romney, pay equity for women?ROMNEY: Thank you. And important topic, and one which I learned a great deal about, particularly as I was serving as governor of my state, because I had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men.And I -- and I went to my staff, and I said, "How come all the people for these jobs are -- are all men." They said, "Well, these are the people that have the qualifications." And I said, "Well, gosh, can't we -- can't we find some -- some women that are also qualified?"ROMNEY: And -- and so we -- we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet.I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.I was proud of the fact that after I staffed my Cabinet and my senior staff, that the University of New York in Albany did a survey of all 50 states, and concluded that mine had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.Now one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort. But number two, because I recognized that if you're going to have women in the workforce that sometimes you need to be more flexible. My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school.She said, I can't be here until 7 or 8 o'clock at night. I need to be able to get home at 5 o'clock so I can be there for making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school. So we said fine. Let's have a flexible schedule so you can have hours that work for you.We're going to have to have employers in the new economy, in the economy I'm going to bring to play, that are going to be so anxious to get good workers they're going to be anxious to hire women. In the -- in the last women have lost 580,000 jobs. That's the net of what's happened in the last four years. We're still down 580,000 jobs. I mentioned 31/2 million women, more now in poverty than four years ago.What we can do to help young women and women of all ages is to have a strong economy, so strong that employers that are looking to find good employees and bringing them into their workforce and adapting to a flexible work schedule that gives women opportunities that they would otherwise not be able to afford.This is what I have done. It's what I look forward to doing and I know what it takes to make an economy work, and I know what a working economy looks like. And an economy with 7.8 percent unemployment is not a real strong economy. An economy that has 23 million people looking for work is not a strong economy.An economy with 50 percent of kids graduating from college that can't finds a job, or a college level job, that's not what we have to have.CROWLEY: Governor?ROMNEY: I'm going to help women in America get good work by getting a stronger economy and by supporting women in the workforce.CROWLEY: Mr. President why don't you get in on this quickly, please?OBAMA: Katherine, I just want to point out that when Governor supported it? He said, "I'll get back to you." And that's not the kind of advocacy that women need in any economy. Now, there are some other issues that have a bearing on how women succeed in the workplace. For example, their healthcare. You know a major difference in this campaign is that Governor Romney feels comfortable having politicians in Washington decide the health care choices that women are making.I think that's a mistake. In my health care bill, I said insurance companies need to provide contraceptive coverage to everybody who is insured. Because this is not just a -- a health issue, it's an economic issue for women. It makes a difference. This is money out of that family's pocket. Governor Romney not only opposed it, he suggested that in fact employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage.That's not the kind of advocacy that women need. When Governor Romney says that we should eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, there are millions of women all across the country, who rely on Planned Parenthood for, not just contraceptive care, they rely on it for mammograms, for cervical cancer screenings. That's a pocketbook issue for women and families all across the country. And it makes a difference in terms of how well and effectively women are able to work. When we talk about child care, and the credits that we're providing. That makes a difference in whether they can go out there and -- and earn a living for their family.These are not just women's issues. These are family issues. These are economic issues.And one of the things that makes us grow as an economy is when everybody participates and women are getting the same fair deal as men are.CROWLEY: Mr. President...OBAMA: And I've got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. That's part of what I'm fighting for as president of the United States.我方的观点是职场不应该存在性别歧视所谓的职场性别歧视是指除不适合男性或女性的岗位上，企业在选择员工或分配工作室基于性别的任何区别，排斥或特惠。
2008美国总统大选候选人辩论
2008美国总统大选候选人辩论Debates among candidates are rare in most countries. But they have become a staple1 of American politics, particularly during the last 25 years. Americans like debates because the candidates can be compared in an unscripted, live performance. The candidates don't know what questions will be asked, nor what their opponent might say. History indicates that a bad performance, particularly a telling gaffe2, can badly damage a candidate in the polls. The debates are a “ key test” of the strength and abilities of the candidates, says CNN analyst Jeff Greenfield. A candidate cannot package himself in debates the way he can in party advertisements but must be quick on his feet3 to respond to unanticipated4 questions and criticisms, he adds.The potential of debates to damage a vulnerable presidential hopeful is one reason why some candidates, particularly frontrunners10, are reluctant to risk their chances in such an uncontrolled environment--and the fewer debate rules there are, the less control the candidates have. But broadcast presidential debates, both in the primaries and in the general election, are now routine and expected by the American people.Since 1987, the presidential debates have been organized by the bipartisan17 organization, the Commission on Presidential Debates. Its purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the two major parties. In Election 2000, the commission set a threshold18 for the participation of third party candidates in the debates. They must show they have the support--as evidenced in a number of opinion polls--of at least 15 percent of the population.Whatever the quality of the debates in Election 2000, they are unlikely to equal the most famous political debates in American history which occurred long before the invention of radio and television. In 1858, Stephen Douglas debated Abraham Lincoln for a U.S. Senate seat. The debates were held at seven sites throughout Illinois, one for each of the seven congressional districts. Douglas, a pro-slavery Democrat, was the incumbent19.Lincoln was anti-slavery. “ Honest Abe,” as he was endearingly called, lost the Senate race, but two years later was elected the first Republican president of the United States. The Lincoln Douglas debates are still heralded20 for the quality of the discourse at a crucial time in the nation's history.全文翻译候选人之间的辩论在大多数国家都很稀奇，但它们在美国政治生活中已司空见惯，特别是在过去的25年里。
美国总统大选奥巴马罗姆尼辩论稿
(APPLAUSE) JIM LEHRER: Thirty seconds, folks. Let's have a terrific evening, for all of you and for our country. Good evening from the Magness Arena at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. I'm Jim Lehrer of the "PBS News Hour," and I welcome you to the first of the 2012 presidential debates between President Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee.This debate and the next three -- two presidential, one vice presidential -- are sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Tonight's 90 minutes will be about domestic issues and will follow a format designed by the commission. There will be six roughly 15-minute segments with two-minute answers for the first question, then open discussion for the remainder of each segment. Thousands of people offered suggestions on segment subjects or questions via the Internet and other means, but I made the final selections. And for the record, they were not submitted for approval to the commission or the candidates. The segments as I announced in advance will be three on the economy and one each on health care, the role of government and governing, with an emphasis throughout on differences, specifics and choices. Both candidates will also have two-minute closing statements. The audience here in the hall has promised to remain silent -- no cheers, applause, boos, hisses, among other noisy distracting things, so we may all concentrate on what the candidates have to say. There is a noise exception right now, though, as we welcome President Obama and Governor Romney. (APPLAUSE) Gentlemen, welcome to you both. Let's start the economy, segment one, and let's begin with jobs. What are the major differences between the two of you about how you would go about creating new jobs?You have two minutes. Each of you have two minutes to start. A coin toss has determined, Mr. President, you go first.PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, thank you very much, Jim, for this opportunity. I want to thank Governor Romney and the University of Denver for your hospitality. There are a lot of points I want to make tonight, but the most important one is that 20 years ago I became the luckiest man on Earth because Michelle Obama agreed to marry me. And so I just want to wish, Sweetie, you happy anniversary and let you know that a year from now we will not be celebrating it in front of 40 million people. (LAUGHTER) You know, four yearsago we went through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions of jobs were lost, the auto industry was on the brink of collapse. The financial system had frozen up. And because of the resilience and the determination of the American people, we've begun to fight our way back. Over the last 30 months, we've seen 5 million jobs in the private sector created. The auto industry has come roaring back. And housing has begun to rise. But we all know that we've still got a lot of work to do. And so the question here tonight is not where we've been, but where we're going. Governor Romney has a perspective that says if we cut taxes, skewed towards the wealthy, and roll back regulations, that we'll be better off. I've got a different view. I think we've got to invest in education and training. I think it's important for us to develop new sources of energy here in America, that we change our tax code to make sure that we're helping small businesses and companies that are investing here in the United States, that we take some of the money that we're saving as we wind down two wars to rebuild America and that we reduce our deficit in a balanced way that allows us to make these critical investments. Now, it ultimately is going to be up to the voters, to you, which path we should take. Are we going to double-down on the top-down economic policies that helped to get us into this mess? Or do we embrace a new economic patriotism that says America does best when the middle class does best? And I'm looking forward to having that debate.LEHRER: Governor Romney, two minutes.GOV. MITT ROMNEY: Thank you, Jim. It's an honor to be here with you, and I appreciate the chance to be with the president. I'm pleased to be at the University of Denver, appreciate their welcome, and also the presidential commission on these debates. And congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your anniversary. I'm sure this was the most romantic place you could imagine here -- here with me. So I... (LAUGHTER) Congratulations. This is obviously a very tender topic. I've had the occasion over the last couple of years of meeting people across the country. I was in Dayton, Ohio, and a woman grabbed my arm, and she said, "I've been out of work since May. Can you help me?" Ann yesterday was at a rally in Denver, and a woman came up to her with a baby in her arms, and said, "Ann, my husband has had four jobs in three years,part-time jobs. He's lost his most recent job. And we've now just lost our home. Can you help us?" And the answer is, yes, we can help, but it's going to take adifferent path, not the one we've been on, not the one the president describes as a top-down, cut taxes for the rich. That's not what I'm going to do. My plan has five basic parts. One, get us energy independent, North American energy independent. That creates about 4 million jobs. Number two, open up more trade, particularly in Latin America, crack down on China, if and when they cheat. Number three, make sure our people have the skills they need to succeed and the best schools in the world. We're a far way from that now. Number four, get us to a balanced budget. Number five, champion small business. It's small business that creates the jobs in America. And over the last four years, small- business people have decided that America may not be the place to open a new business, because new business startups are down to a 30-year low. I know what it takes to get small business growing again, to hire people.ROMNEY: Now, I'm concerned that the path that we're on has just been unsuccessful. The president has a view very similar to the view he had when he ran four years, that a bigger government, spending more, taxing more, regulating more -- if you will, trickle-down government -- would work. That's not the right answer for America. I'll restore the vitality that gets America working again. Thank you. LEHRER: Mr. President, please respond directly to what the governor just said about trickle-down -- his trick-down approach, as he said yours is. OBAMA: Well, let me talk specifically about what I think we need to do. First, we've got to improve our education system and we've made enormous progress drawing on ideas both from Democrats and Republicans that are already starting to show gains in some of the toughest to deal with schools. We've got a program called Race to the Top that has prompted reforms in 46 states around the country, raising standards, improving how we train teachers. So now I want to hire another 100,000 new math and science teachers, and create 2 million more slots in our community colleges so that people can get trained for the jobs that are out there right now. And I want to make sure that we keep tuition low for our young people. When it comes to our tax code, Governor Romney and I both agree that our corporate tax rate is too high, so I want to lower it, particularly for manufacturing, taking it down to 25 percent. But I also want to close those loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas. I want to provide tax breaks for companies that are investing here in the United States. On energy, Governor Romney and I, we both agree that we've got to boost American energy production, and oil and natural gas production are higher than they've been inyears. But I also believe that we've got to look at the energy sources of the future, like wind and solar and biofuels, and make those investments. So all of this is possible. Now, in order for us to do it, we do have to close our deficit, and one of the things I'm sure we'll be discussing tonight is, how do we deal with our tax code? And how do we make sure that we are reducing spending in a responsible way, but also, how do we have enough revenue to make those investments? And this is where there's a difference, because Governor Romney's central economic plan calls for a $5 trillion tax cut -- on top of the extension of the Bush tax cuts -- that's another trillion dollars -- and $2 trillion in additional military spending that the military the deficit, and make the investments that we need to make, without dumping those costs ontomiddle-class Americans, I think is one of the central questions of this campaign. LEHRER: Both of you have spoken about a lot of different things, and we're going to try to get through them in as specific a way as we possibly can. But, first, Governor Romney, do you have a question that you'd like to ask the president directly about something he just said? ROMNEY: Well, sure. I'd like to clear up the record and go through it piece by piece. First of all, I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. I don't have a tax cut of a scale that you're talking about. My view is that we ought to provide tax relief to people in the middle class. But I'm not going to reduce the share of taxes paid by high-income people. High-income people are doing just fine in this economy. They'll do fine whether you're president or I am. The people who are having the hard time right now are middle- income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle- income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a -- this is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing. At the same time, gasoline prices have doubled under the president. Electric rates are up. Food prices are up. Health care costs have gone up by $2,500 a family. Middle-income families are being crushed.ROMNEY: And so the question is how to get them going again. And I've described it. It's energy and trade, the right kind of training programs, balancing our budget and helping small business. Those are the -- the cornerstones of my plan. But the president mentioned a couple of other ideas I'll just note. First, education. I agree: Education is key, particularly the future of our economy. But our training programs right now, we've got 47 of them, housed in the federal government, reporting to eight different agencies.Overhead is overwhelming. We've got to get those dollars back to the states and go to the workers so they can create their own pathways to get in the training they need for jobs that will really help them. The second area, taxation, we agree, we ought to bring the tax rates down. And I do, both for corporations and for individuals. But in order for us not to lose revenue, have the government run out of money, I also lower deductions and credits and exemptions, so that we keep taking in the same money when you also account for growth. The third area, energy. Energy is critical, and the president pointed out correctly that production of oil and gas in the U.S. is up. But not due to his policies. In spite of his policies. Mr. President, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land. On government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half. If I'm president, I'll double them, and also get the -- the oil from offshore and Alaska. And I'll bring that pipeline in from Canada. And, by the way, I like coal. I'm going to make sure we can continue to burn clean coal. People in the coal industry feel like it's getting crushed by your policies. I want to get America and North America energy independent so we can create those jobs. And finally, with regards to that tax cut, look, I'm not looking to cut massive taxes and to reduce the -- the revenues going to the government. My -- my number-one principal is, there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit. I want to underline that: no tax cut that adds to the deficit. But I do want to reduce the burden being paid by middle-income Americans. And I -- and to do that, that also means I cannot reduce the burden paid by high-income Americans. So any -- any language to the contrary is simply not accurate. LEHRER: Mr. President? OBAMA: Well, I think -- let's talk about taxes, because I think it's instructive. Now, four years ago, when I stood on this stage, I said that I would cut taxes for middle-class families. And that's exactly what I did. We cut taxes for middle-class families by about $3,600. And the reason is, because I believe that we do best when the middle class is doing well. And by giving them those tax cuts, they had a little more money in their pocket, and so maybe they can buy a new car. They are certainly in a better position to weather the extraordinary recession that we went through. They can buy a computer for their kid who's going off to college, which means they're spending more money, businesses have more customers, businesses make more profits, and then hire more workers. Now, Governor Romney's proposal that he has been promoting for 18 months calls for a $5 trillion tax cut, on top of $2 trillion of additional spending for our military. And heis saying that he is going to pay for it by closing loopholes and deductions. The problem deductions and loopholes, and he hasn't been able to identify them. But I'm going to make an important point here, Jim. LEHRER: All right. OBAMA: When you add up all the loopholes and deductions that upper-income individuals can -- are currently taking advantage of, you take those all away, you don't come close to paying for $5 trillion in tax cuts and $2 trillion in additional military spending.OBAMA: And that's why independent studies looking at this said the only way to meet Governor Romney's pledge of not reducing the deficit or -- or -- or not adding to the deficit is by burdening middle-class families. The average middle-class family with children would pay about $2,000 more. Now, that's not my analysis. That's the analysis of economists who have looked at this. And -- and that kind of top -- top-down economics, where folks at the top are doing well, so the average person making $3 million is getting a $250,000 tax break, while middle-class families are burdened further, that's not what I believe is a recipe for economic growth. LEHRER: All right. What is the difference? Let's just stay on taxes. (CROSSTALK)LEHRER: Just -- let's just stay on taxes for (inaudible). (CROSSTALK)LEHRER: What is the difference...ROMNEY: Well, but -- but virtually -- virtually everything he just said about my tax plan is inaccurate.LEHRER: All right.ROMNEY: So if the tax plan he described were a tax plan I was trillion tax cut. What I've said is I won't put in place a tax cut that adds to the deficit. That's part one. So there's no economist that can say Mitt Romney's tax plan adds $5 trillion if I say I will not add to the deficit with my tax plan. Number two, I will not reduce the share paid by high-income individuals. I know that you and your running mate keep saying that and I know it's a popular thing to say with a lot of people, but it's just not the case. Look, I've got five boys. I'm used to people saying something that's not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I'll believe it. But that -- that is not the case. All right? I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans. And number three, I will not under any circumstances raise taxes on middle-income families. I will lowertaxes on middle-income families. Now, you cite a study. There are six other studies that looked at the study you describe and say it's completely wrong. I saw a study that came out today that said you're going to raise taxes by $3,000 to $4,000 on middle-income families. There are all these studies out there. But let's get at the bottom line. That is, I want to bring down rates. I want to bring the rates down, at the same time lower deductions and exemptions and credits and so forth, so we keep getting the revenue we need. And you'd think, well, then why lower the rates? ROMNEY: And the reason is because small business pays that individual rate; 54 percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed not at the corporate tax rate, but at the individual tax rate. And if we lower that rate, they will be able to hire more people. For me, this is about jobs. This is about getting jobs for the American people. (CROSSTALK)LEHRER: That's where we started. Yeah. Do you challenge what the governor just said about his own plan?OBAMA: Well, for 18 months he's been running on this tax plan. And now, five weeks before the election, he's saying that his big, bold idea is, "Never mind." And the fact is that if you are lowering the rates the way you described, Governor, then it is not possible to come up with enough deductions and loopholes that only affect high-income individuals to avoid either raising the deficit or burdening the middle class. It's -- it's math. It's arithmetic. Now, Governor Romney and I do share a deep interest in encouraging small-business growth. So at the same time that my tax plan has already lowered taxes for 98 percent of families, I also lowered taxes for small businesses 18 times. And what I want to do is continue the tax rates -- the tax cuts that we put into place for small businesses and families. But I have said that for incomes over $250,000 a year, that we should go back to the rates that we had when Bill Clinton was president, when we created 23 million new jobs, went from deficit to surplus, and created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. And the reason this is important is because by doing that, we cannot only reduce the deficit, we cannot only encourage job growth through small businesses, but we're also able to make the investments that are necessary in education or in energy.And we do have a difference, though, when it comes to definitions of small business. Under -- under my plan, 97 percent of small businesses would not see their income taxes go up. Governor Romney says, well, those top 3 percent, they're the job creators, they'd be burdened. But under Governor Romney'sdefinition, there are a whole bunch of millionaires and billionaires who are small businesses. Donald Trump is a small business. Now, I know Donald Trump doesn't like to think of himself as small anything, but -- but that's how you define small businesses if you're getting business income. And that kind of approach, I believe, will not grow our economy, because the only way to pay for it without either burdening the middle class or blowing up our deficit is to make drastic cuts in things like education, making sure that we are continuing to invest in basic science and research, all the things that are helping America grow. And I think that would be a mistake. LEHRER: All right.ROMNEY: Jim, let me just come back on that -- on that point, which is these...LEHRER: Just for the -- just for record... (CROSSTALK)ROMNEY: ... the small businesses we're talking about...LEHRER: Excuse me. Excuse me. Just so everybody understands, we're way over our first 15 minutes.ROMNEY: It's fun, isn't it? LEHRER: It's OK, it's great. No problem. Well, you all don't have -- you don't have a problem, I don't have a problem, because we're still on the economy. We're going to come back to taxes. I want move on to the deficit and a lot of other things, too. OK, but go ahead, sir.ROMNEY: You bet. Well, President, you're -- Mr. President, you're absolutely right, which is that, with regards to 97 percent of the businesses are not -- not taxed at the 35 percent tax rate, they're taxed at a lower rate. But those businesses that are in the last 3 percent of businesses happen to employ half -- half of all the people who work in small business. Those are the businesses that employ one-quarter of all the workers in America. And your plan is to take their tax rate from 35 percent to 40 percent. Now, and -- and I've talked to a guy who has a very small business. He's in the electronics business in -- in St. Louis. He has four employees. He said he and his son calculated how much they pay in taxes, federal income tax, federal payroll tax, state income tax, state sales tax, state property tax, gasoline tax. It added up to well over 50 percent of what they earned. And your plan is to take the tax rate on successful small businesses from 35 percent to 40 percent. The National Federation of Independent Businesses has said that will cost 700,000 jobs. I don't want to cost jobs. My priority is jobs. And so what I do is I bring down the tax rates, lower deductionsand exemptions, the same idea behind Bowles-Simpson, by the way, get the rates down, lower deductions and exemptions, to create more jobs, because there's nothing better for getting us to a balanced budget than having more people working, earning more money, paying more taxes. That's by far the most effective and efficient way to get this budget balanced.OBAMA: Jim, I -- you may want to move onto another topic, but I -- I would just say this to the American people. If you believe that we can cut taxes by $5 trillion and add $2 trillion in additional spending that the military is not asking for, $7 trillion -- just to ROMNEY: We didn't put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive. We didn't also do something that I think a number of people across this country recognize, which is put -- put people in a position where they're going to lose the insurance they had and they wanted. Right now, the CBO says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year. And likewise, a study by McKinsey and Company of American businesses said 30 percent of them are anticipating dropping people from coverage. So for those reasons, for the tax, for Medicare, for this board, and for people losing their insurance, this is why the American people don't want Medicare -- don't want Obamacare. It's why Republicans said, do not do this, and the Republicans had -- had the plan. They put a plan out. They put out a plan, a bipartisan plan. It was swept aside. I think something this big, this important has to be done on a bipartisan basis. And we have to have a president who can reach across the aisle and fashion important legislation with the input from both parties. OBAMA: Governor Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis. This was a bipartisan idea. In fact, it was a Republican idea. And Governor Romney at the beginning of this debate wrote and said what we did in Massachusetts could be a model for the nation. And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is, we used the same advisers, and they say it's the same plan. It -- when Governor Romney talks about this board, for example, unelected board that we've created, what this is, is a group of health care experts, doctors, et cetera, to figure out, how can we reduce the cost of care in the system overall? Because there -- there are two ways of dealing with our health care crisis. One is to simply leave a whole bunch of people uninsured and let them fend for themselves, to let businesses figure out how long they can continue to pay premiums until finally they just give up, and their workers are no longer gettinginsured, and that's been the trend line. Or, alternatively, we can figure out, how do we make the cost of care more effective? And there are ways of doing it. So at Cleveland Clinic, one of the best health care systems in the world, they actually provide great care cheaper than average. And the reason they do is because they do some smart things. They -- they say, if a patient's coming in, let's get all the doctors together at once, do one test instead of having the patient run around with 10 tests. Let's make sure that we're providing preventive care so we're catching the onset of something like diabetes. Let's -- let's pay providers on the basis of performance as opposed to on the basis of how many procedures they've -- they've engaged in. Now, so what this board does is basically identifies best practices and says, let's use the purchasing power of Medicare and Medicaid to help to institutionalize all these good things that we do. And the fact of the matter is that, when Obamacare is fully implemented, we're going to be in a position to show that costs are going down. And over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it's true -- but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years. So we're already beginning to see progress. In the meantime, folks out there with insurance, you're already getting a rebate. Let me make one last point. Governor Romney says, we should replace it, I'm just going to repeal it, but -- but we can replace it with something. But the problem is, he hasn't described what exactly we'd replace it with, other than saying we're going to leave it to the states. give you a sense, over 10 years, that's more than our entire defense ROMNEY: We didn't put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive. We didn't also do something that I think a number of people across this country recognize, which is put -- put people in a position where they're going to lose the insurance they had and they wanted. Right now, the CBO says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year. And likewise, a study by McKinsey and Company of American businesses said 30 percent of them are anticipating dropping people from coverage. So for those reasons, for the tax, for Medicare, for this board, and for people losing their insurance, this is why the American people don't want Medicare -- don't want Obamacare. It's why Republicans said, do not do this, and the Republicans had -- had the plan. They put a plan out. They put out a plan, a bipartisan plan. It was swept aside. I think something this big, this important has to be done on a bipartisan basis. And we have to have a president who can reach across the aisle and fashion important legislation with the inputfrom both parties. OBAMA: Governor Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis. This was a bipartisan idea. In fact, it was a Republican idea. And Governor Romney at the beginning of this debate wrote and said what we did in Massachusetts could be a model for the nation. And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is, we used the same advisers, and they say it's the same plan. It -- when Governor Romney talks about this board, for example, unelected board that we've created, what this is, is a group of health care experts, doctors, et cetera, to figure out, how can we reduce the cost of care in the system overall? Because there -- there are two ways of dealing with our health care crisis. One is to simply leave a whole bunch of people uninsured and let them fend for themselves, to let businesses figure out how long they can continue to pay premiums until finally they just give up, and their workers are no longer getting insured, and that's been the trend line. Or, alternatively, we can figure out, how do we make the cost of care more effective? And there are ways of doing it. So at Cleveland Clinic, one of the best health care systems in the world, they actually provide great care cheaper than average. And the reason they do is because they do some smart things. They -- they say, if a patient's coming in, let's get all the doctors together at once, do one test instead of having the patient run around with 10 tests. Let's make sure that we're providing preventive care so we're catching the onset of something like diabetes. Let's -- let's pay providers on the basis of performance as opposed to on the basis of how many proceduresthey've -- they've engaged in. Now, so what this board does is basically identifies best practices and says, let's use the purchasing power of Medicare and Medicaid to help to institutionalize all these good things that we do. And the fact of the matter is that, when Obamacare is fully implemented, we're going to be in a position to show that costs are going down. And over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it's true -- but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years. So we're already beginning to see progress. In the meantime, folks out there with insurance, you're already getting a rebate. Let me make one last point. Governor Romney says, we should replace it, I'm just going to repeal it, but -- but we can replace it with something. But the problem is, he hasn't described what exactly we'd replace it with, other than saying we're going to leave it to the states. budget -- and you think that by closing loopholes and deductions for the well-to-do, somehow you will not end。
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美国总统大选第二场辩论（中文字幕完整版）（转自CNN）-(-厦门韦博英语培训提供美国总统大选第二场辩论（中文字幕完整版）（转自CNN）-(-厦门韦博英语培训提供美国总统大选第二场辩论（中文字幕完整版）（转自CNN）-(-厦门韦博英语培训提供美国总统大选第二场辩论（中文字幕完整版）Transcript: Second presidential debatePosted by CNN Political Unit(CNN) - President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney met in Hempstead, New York Tuesday evening for the second of three presidential debates, moderated by CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley.CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. I'm Candy Crowley from CNN's "State of the Union." We are here for the second presidential debate, a town hall, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates.CROWLEY: The Gallup organization chose 82 uncommitted voters from the New York area. Their questions will drive the night. My goal is to give the conversation direction and to ensure questions get answered.The questions are known to me and my team only. Neither the commission, nor the candidates have seen them. I hope to get to as many questions as possible.CROWLEY: And because I am the optimistic sort, I'm sure the candidates will oblige by keeping their answers concise and on point.Each candidate has as much as two minutes to respond to a common question, and there will be a two-minute follow-up. The audience here in the hall has agreed to be polite and attentive - no cheering or booing or outbursts of any sort. We will set aside that agreement just this once to welcome President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.(APPLAUSE)Gentlemen, thank you both for joining us here tonight. We have a lot of folks who've been waiting all day to talk to you, so I want to get right to it. Governor Romney, as you know, you won the coin toss, so the first question will go to you. And I want to turn to a first-time voter, Jeremy Epstein, who has a question for you.QUESTION: Mr. President, Governor Romney, as a 20-year-old college student,all I hear from professors, neighbors and others is that when I graduate, I will have little chance to get employment. What can you say to reassure me, but more importantly my parents, that I will be able to sufficiently support myself after I graduate?ROMNEY: Thank you, Jeremy. I appreciate your - your question, and thank you for being here this evening and to all of those from Nassau County that have come, thank you for your time. Thank you to Hofstra University and to Candy Crowley for organizing and leading this - this event.Thank you, Mr. President, also for being part of this - this debate.College kids all over this country. I was in Pennsylvania with someone who had just graduated - this was in Philadelphia - and she said, "I've got my degree. I can't find a job. I've got three part-time jobs. They're just barely enough to pay for my food and pay for an apartment. I can't begin to pay back my student loans."So what we have to do is two things. We have to make sure that we make it easier for kids to afford college.ROMNEY: And also make sure that when they get out of college, there's a job. When I was governor of Massachusetts, to get a high school degree, you had to pass an exam. If you graduated in the top quarter of your class, we gave you a John and Abigail Adams scholarship, four years tuition free in the college of your choice in Massachusetts, it's a public institution.I want to make sure we keep our Pell grant program growing. We're also going to have our loan program, so that people are able to afford school. But the key thing is to make sure you can get a job when you get out of school. And what's happened over the last four years has been very, very hard for America's young people. I want you to be able to get a job.I know what it takes to get this economy going. With half of college kids graduating this year without a college - excuse me, without a job. And without a college level job, that's just unacceptable.And likewise you've got more and more debt on your back. So more debt and less jobs. I'm going to change that. I know what it takes to create good jobs again. I know what it takes to make sure that you have the kind of opportunity you deserve. And kids across this country are going to recognize, we're bringing back an economy. It's not going to be like the last four years. The middle-class has been crushed over the last four years, and jobs have been too scarce. I know what it takes to bring them back, and I'm going to do that, and make sure that when you graduate - when do you graduate?QUESTION: 2014.ROMNEY: 2014. When you come out in 2014, I presume I'm going to be president. I'm going to make sure you get a job. Thanks Jeremy. Yeah, you bet. CROWLEY: Mr. President?OBAMA: Jeremy, first of all, your future is bright. And the fact that you're making an investment in higher education is critical. Not just to you, but to the entire nation. Now, the most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.OBAMA: And what I want to do, is build on the five million jobs that we've created over the last 30 months in the private sector alone. And there are a bunch of things we can do to make sure yourfuture is bright.Number one, I want to build manufacturing jobs in this country again. Now when Governor Romney said we should let Detroit go bankrupt. I said we're going to bet on American workers and theAmerican auto industry and it's come surging back.I want to do that in industries, not just in Detroit, but all across the country andthat means we change our tax code so we're giving incentives to companies that are investing here in the United States and creating jobs here.It also means we're helping them and small businesses to export all around the world to new markets.Number two, we've got to make sure that we have the best education system in the world. And the fact that you're going to college is great, but I want everybody to get a great education andwe've worked hard to make sure that student loans are available for folks like you, but I also want to make sure that community colleges are offering slots for workers to get retrained for the jobs that are out there right now and the jobs of the future.Number three, we've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but ten years from now, 20 years from now. That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars.We've got to reduce our deficit, but we've got to do it in a balanced way. Asking the wealthy to pay a little bit more along with cuts so that we can invest in education like yours. And let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright but America's future is going to bright as well. CROWLEY: Let me ask you for more immediate answer and begin with Mr. Romney just quickly what - what can you do? We're looking at a situation where 40 percent of the unemployed have been unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more. 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