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

ter of the man telling jokes you weren’t supposed to hear – talkin' about how big that old buck deer was, laughin' about mama puttin' clorox in the well when the frog fell in.

they talked about war and washington and what this country needed. they talked the straight talk. and it came from people who were living their lives as best they could. and that’s what we’re going to do tonight. we’re going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage.

i got a letter last week from a young mother in lorena, texas, and i wanna read part of it to you. she writes,

“our worries go from pay day to pay day, just like millions of others. and we have two fairly decent incomes, but i worry how i’m going to pay the rising car insurance and food. i pray my kids don’t have a growth spurt from august to december, so i don’t have to buy new jeans. we buy clothes at the budget stores and we have them fray and fade and stretch in the first wash. we ponder and try to figure out how we're gonna p

ay for college and braces and tennis shoes. we don’t take vacations and we don’t go out to eat. please don’t think me ungrateful. we have jobs and a nice place to live, and we’re healthy. we're the people you see every day in the grocery stores, and we obey the laws and pay our taxes. we fly our flags on holidays and we plod along trying to make it better for ourselves and our children and our parents. we aren’t vocal any more. i think maybe we’re too tired. i believe that people like us are forgotten in america.”

well, of course you believe you’re forgotten, because you have been.

this republican administration treats us as if we were pieces of a puzzle that can’t fit together. they've tried to put us into compartments and separate us from each other. their political theory is “divide and conquer.” they’ve suggested time and time again that what is of interest to one group of americans is not of interest to any one else. w

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