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No.267 オリジナル英文

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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 16:14 | オリジナル英文


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