○  英语演讲稿：1988 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address范文  ○

e’ve been isolated. we’ve been lumped into that sad phraseology called “special interests.” they’ve told farmers that they were selfish, that they would drive up food prices if they asked the government to intervene on behalf of the family farm, and we watched farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. well, that’s wrong!

they told working mothers it’s all their fault -- their families are falling apart because they had to go to work to keep their kids in jeans and tennis shoes and college. and they’re wrong!!

they told american labor they were trying to ruin free enterprise by asking for 60 days’ notice of plant closings, and that’s wrong. and they told the auto industry and the steel industry and the timber industry and the oil industry, companies being threatened by foreign products flooding this country, that you’re protectionist if you think the government should enforce our trade laws. and that is wrong.

when they belittle us for demanding clean air and clean water for trying to save the oceans and the ozone layer, that’s wrong.

no wonder we feel isolated and confused. we want answers and their answer is that "something is wrong with you." well nothing's wrong with you. nothing’s wrong with you that you can’t fix in november!

we’ve been told -- we’ve been told that the interests of the south and the southwest are not the same interests as the north and the northeast. they pit one group against the other. they've divided this country, and in our isolation we think government isn’t gonna help us, and we're alone in our feelings. we feel forgotten. well, the fact is that we are not an isolated piece of their puzzle. we are one nation. we are the united states of america.

now, we democrats believe that america is still the county of fair play; that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn’t matter whether we are black

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