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No.267 SIM音読用英文

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America Looks Ahead to Obama Administration
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Barack Obama outlined

some of the challenges

facing the nation

in his victory speech in Chicago Tuesday night.


They include

the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,

environmental issues and an economic crisis.


He predicted setbacks and false starts,

but said he is confident

the problems can be tackled.


"There's new energy to harness,

new jobs to be created, new schools to build

and threats to meet, alliances to repair.


The road ahead will be long.


Our climb will be steep.


We may not get there

in one year or even in one term.


But America,

I have never been more hopeful

than I am tonight

that we will get there."


Senator Obama is starting

to assemble his White House staff.


News reports say

he has offered the job of chief of staff

to Rahm Emanuel,

a Democratic member of Congress

who was once a senior adviser

to former president Clinton.


The next president should have a sympathetic Congress

when he takes the oath of office in January.


It will be the first time

since the early years of the Clinton presidency

when Democrats have held the White House

and a majority of seats

in the House of Representatives and the Senate.


They will still need cooperation from Republicans,

especially in the Senate,

where Democrats failed to get the 60 seats

that would have protected them

from procedural blocks

known as filibusters.

 
In Washington Wednesday,

the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi,

urged the next president

to govern from the center.


"At a time of this economic crisis,

our priority should be very clear

about what we need to do.


Each side of the spectrum can hope

to influence the decision.


But the fact is…,

is that a new president coming in, in my view,

must take the country down the middle

to solve the problems,

to gain the confidence,

to take us more strongly

in a new direction."


The man Senator Obama will replace

in the White House,

President George W. Bush,

said this election is uplifting a generation of Americans

who watched the struggle for civil rights unfold,

and are seeing the dream fulfilled

four decades later.


Mike O'Sullivan, VOA News, Los Angeles
by danueno | 2008-11-10 16:13 | SIM音読用英文


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