徐大觀察記

美國總統大選前哨，民主黨黨內初選，一個大明星出道了。
他就算後來沒有出線，他也紅了。
全世界都在討論obama。一個很棒的演講者。


如果他不是一個政治人物，我會沒有防線的給他感動下去。
可惜他畢竟不是MLK。

如果當年MLK搞上政治，「I HAVE A DREAM」鐵定會變成對手反諷的好道具。

我比較希望OBAMA沒有選上，以敗選的姿態成為永遠不會令人失望的明星。
永遠的「道路、真理、光。」永遠的偶像。

這是他的競選廣告，音樂是我很喜歡的團體-BLACK EYED PEAS裡的WILL.I.AM操刀。
（就是片頭那個老黑）

音樂很棒，也是因為原本的演講也很棒。可是我還是聽的很感動而毛骨悚然。

政治人物太激情會令我感到害怕。



It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation:
Yes, we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom :
Yes, we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness:
Yes, we can.

It was the call of workers who organized,
women who reached for the ballot,
a president who chose the moon as our new frontier,
and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land:
Yes, we can, to justice and equality.

Yes, we can, to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes, we can heal this nation.
Yes, we can repair this world.

Yes, we can.


We know the battle ahead will be long.
But always remember that,
no matter what obstacles stand in our way,
nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics.
 And they will only grow louder and more dissonant .

We've been asked to pause for a reality check.
We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.


Now the hopes
of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon
are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA;
we will remember that there is something happening in America;
that we are not as divided as our politics suggests;

that we are one people; we are one nation;
and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words
that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea --

yes, we can.
yes, we can.
yes, we can.

為了練練英文，我試著翻出大意，如果有翻錯的地方拜託噹我一下。



那句話，是一個寫在獨立宣言裡的信念，從一開始就宣告了這是我們國家的性格。
那句話，是黑奴和黑奴解放者在通往自由之路上的耳語。
那句話，像一首歌般讓踏上新世界的移民、勇敢的西部拓荒者傳唱。

YES , WE CAN.

那句話，被聚集起來爭取權益的工人們、爭取投票權的女性們呼喊。
那句話，讓一個總統決定人類的足跡能踏上月球。
那句話，讓一個王領著他辛苦流浪多年的子民終於到了神應許的迦南地。

YES, WE CAN.

我們能有公平正義。

我們能再創造機會跟興盛。
我們能癒合這個國家，我們能修復這個世界。

YES,WE CAN


這場仗還要打很久，可是我們不要忘記，
這條路不管是遇什麼樣的障礙，
都無法抵擋數以百萬計的人們想要進步的心聲。



我們被嘲笑什麼都做不到，而這些聲音越來越大，越來越刺耳。

我們被質疑，要我們務實一點的退出；
我們被警告，不要給人們虛幻的希望；

可是這不像是會發生在美國的故事；在這個國家，「希望」不可能是虛幻的。


在破舊學校上課的小女孩跟街上的小混混，擁有一樣的希望。


我們會記得，美國現在正在發生的事情－原來我們的國家並不是政客們說的那樣分裂！

我們是同一種人，我們同一個國家，我們同在一起，從東岸到西岸，從大西洋到太平洋，
我們因著這句話為這個國家開創更偉大的章節：

YES, WE CAN.