魅力がスゴイよ、オバマ前大統領。頭のおかしいおじさん！
やっぱり大統領には魅力があるといいんだなーと思った。
そういう問題じゃないことはもちろんわかるけど、カリスマ性も、セクシーさも、欠片もない政治家を見続けていて、久しぶりにオバマがスピーチしているところを見たら、なんて魅力がムンムンなんだろうとびっくりした。
なんてかっこいい、、ヒーローみたいだ。
さらに胸のすくようなことを言ってくれて、救世主かと思った。
品行方正なだけでも、頭が切れるだけでもなく、自信にあふれる、強さを見せた演説は本当に演説のお手本だ。
頭が白くなって、以前の優等生的な印象より、狡猾さをも感じさせる強さを増して、タフにカッコよくなった気がする。
アメリカのバラク・オバマ前大統領は21日、民主党のジョー・バイデン大統領選候補の選挙集会に参加し、現職のドナルド・トランプ大統領を批判した。
オバマ氏はトランプ氏の新型コロナウイルス対策や経済政策を批判した後、トランプ氏のツイートについて言及。もしバイデン氏が勝利すれば、「自分を支持しない人を誰彼構わず中傷したり、刑務所に送ると脅すような大統領はいなくなる。あれは普通の大統領の行動でははない」と述べた。
さらに、トランプ氏のやり方は「どこかの頭のおかしいおじさん」でもない限り、家族でも許せるようなものではないとからかった。「頭のおかしいおじさん」という表現は、15日にNBCニュースが放送した対話集会で司会者がトランプ氏をそう呼んだことにちなんだものとみられる。
「どうしてあんな振る舞いをみんな許して、言い訳するんだ？ あああれは、だって、あの人はそういう人だから……って。そうじゃない、それじゃだめだ！ （トランプ氏の）行動によって、実際に影響が出ている」
「人を残酷にするし、分断している。人種差別につながっている。私たちの社会を織り成すものを、擦り切れさせている」
「そういうふるまいは問題だ。人間性は大事なんだ」
https://www.bbc.com/japanese/54643723.amp
内容が面白いので、演説をフルで見たい、または書き起こしてる記事はないかなーと思って探してたら、英語学習者にとって、これほど素敵な機能ってある！？という、フルスピーチ動画＆全文書き起こし＆発音中の単語がハイライトされる＆スピード調節機能や５秒巻き戻し機能まである！！という、すっばらしいURLを見つけた。
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無料だよ！なんて英語学習者にとって天国みたいな時代になったんだ！
ワードファイルで書き起こし全文をダウンロードまで無料でできちゃうんだよ。
昔だったら、CDブックが発売されて、CDをPCに取り込んで、ipodに取り込んで、さらに付属本を見ながら、勉強したもんだよ。
当然、1年前、2年前の演説をね。
それが、2日前の演説をこんなふうに聴けるなんて本当に感激だ。
そこらへんのユーチューバーと違って、キレキレで知的で上品な元大統領だよ。
オフィシャルで利用できる知的な言葉も勉強できる上に、スピーチの勉強、話し方の勉強もできちゃう。
これを活用しない店はないよね。
しかも2日前のスピーチだから、内容自体も聴いてて面白いし、痛快で私のうっぷんまで晴らしてくれていて、本当に聞き飽きない。
覚えたい単語、面白いいい回し、などなどのメモは以下。
Barack Obama: (19:45)
We're not going to have a president that goes out of his way to insult anybody who doesn't support him or threaten them with jail. That's not normal presidential behavior.
Barack Obama: (20:02)
That's not normal presidential behavior. We wouldn't tolerate it from a high school principal. We wouldn't tolerate it from a coach. We wouldn't tolerate it from a co-worker. We wouldn't tolerate it in our family, except for maybe crazy uncle somewhere. I mean, why would we expect and accept this from the President of the United States? And why are folks making excuses for that? "Oh, well, that's just him." No. There are consequences to these actions. They embolden other people to be cruel and divisive and racist, and it frays the fabric of our society, and it affects how our children see things. And it affects the ways that our families get along. It affects how the world looks at America. That behavior matters. Character matters. And by the way, while he's doing all that, it distracts all of us from the truly destructive actions that his appointees are doing all across the government, actions that affect your lives. The Environmental Protection Agency that's supposed to protect our air and our water is right now run by an energy lobbyist that gives polluters free reign to dump unlimited poison into our air and water. The Labor Department that's supposed to protect workers and their rights, right now it's run by a corporate lobbyist who's declared war on workers, guts protections to keep essential folks safe during a pandemic, makes it easier for big corporations to shortchange them on their wages. The Interior Department, that's supposed to protect our public lands and wild spaces, our wildlife and our wilderness. And right now that's run by an oil lobbyist who's determined to sell them to the highest bidder.
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いやあ、どっかの頭のおかしいおじさんって、 crazy uncle somewhere。本当にそのまんま言っちゃってるんだね。
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Barack Obama: (25:16)
Our democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders lie every day and just make things up. And we've just become numb to it. We've just become immune to it. Every single day, fact checkers can't keep up. And, look, this notion of truthfulness and democracy and citizenship, and being responsible, these aren't Republican or democratic principles, they're American principles. They're what most of us grew up learning from our parents and our grandparents. They're not White or Black or Latino or Asian values, they're American values, human values, and we need to reclaim them. We have to get those values back at the center of our public life. And we can. But to do it, we've got to turn out like never before. We cannot leave any doubt in this election, because you know the President's already said, "If this is even close, I'm going to just make stuff up." He's already started to do it.
make things up -> でっちあげる。作り話をする。＝ make stuff up も同じ意味か？
感覚が麻痺して、免疫ができてしまっただけ。
人間として当たり前の信義を取り戻すんだ。
Barack Obama: (26:51)
So we can't have any doubt. We can't be complacent. I don't care about the polls. There were a whole bunch of polls last time, didn't work out, because a whole bunch of folks stayed at home and got lazy and complacent. Not this time, not in this election, not this time. Listen, listen. I understand why a lot of Americans can get frustrated by government and can feel like it doesn't make a difference. Even supporters of mine, during my eight years, there were times where stuff we wanted to get done didn't get done and people said, "Well, gosh, if Obama didn't get it done, then maybe it's just not going to happen." Look, government is not going to solve every problem, it's true. Every elected officials going to make some mistakes. This is a big complicated country and the system's designed so that change happens slowly. It doesn't happen overnight.
complacent 自己満足する
Barack Obama: (28:05)
And believe me, I've got firsthand experience with the way Republicans in Congress abused the rules to make it easy for special interest to stop progress. But we can make things better, and we shouldn't be making things worse. A president by himself can't solve every challenge in a global economy. But if we've got Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the White House at a House and Senate that are focused on working people, it can make a difference and get millions of people the help they need. A president by himself can't eliminate all racial bias in our criminal justice system. But if we've got district attorneys and state's attorneys and sheriffs and police chiefs focused on equality and justice, it can make things better. In Pennsylvania, you've just got to flip nine seats in your State House, just five seats in your State Senate, to give Democrats control and new life for policies that'll make a real difference to working families right now. It can make things better.
firsthand 直接の、じかの
flip ひっくりかえす？