2012奥巴马罗姆尼慈善晚会讲话346.docxVIP

Remarks by President Obama at the 2012 Alfred E. Smith DinnerWaldorf TowersNew York, New YorkOctober 18, 2012奥巴马总统在2012年艾尔弗雷德·史密斯晚宴上的讲话纽约州纽约市2012年10月18日Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Everyone, please take your seats -- otherwise Clint Eastwood will yell at them.谢谢，谢谢，非常感谢，谢谢。各位请坐在椅子上，要不然伊斯特伍德又会吼向椅子了。Thank you to Al and Ann. To Your Eminence; Governor, Mrs. Romney; Governor Cuomo; Mayor Bloomberg; Senator Schumer; all the distinguished guests who are here.谢谢你们，阿尔和安。主教阁下，罗姆尼州长及夫人，科莫州长，布隆伯格市长，舒默参议员，所有在座的各位嘉宾：In less than three weeks, voters in states like Ohio and Virginia and Florida will decide this incredibly important election -- which begs the question, what are we doing here?还有不到三周，俄亥俄、弗吉尼亚、佛罗里达等几个周的选民就要决定这场至关重要的大选了，这就引出了一个问题，我们在这里做什么？Of course, New Yorkers also have a big choice to make -- you have to decide which one of us you want holding up traffic for the next four years.当然了，纽约人也要做出重大抉择——你们要决定我俩谁在未来四年出行时管制封锁你们的交通。Tonight I am here with a man whose father was a popular governor, and who knows what its like to run a major Northeastern state, and who could very well be president someday -- and Im hoping it is Andrew Cuomo.今晚到场的一位先生，父亲是广受爱戴的州长，懂得如何治理东北部的大州，有朝一日可能成为总统，我希望的就是你，安德鲁·科莫。This is the third time that Governor Romney and I have met recently. As some of you may have noticed, I had a lot more energy at our second debate. I felt really well rested after the nice, long nap I had in the first debate.这是我跟你罗姆尼州长最近第三次会面了，有些人可能已经注意到了，第二场辩论时我精神多了，我休息的很好，因为首场辩论那晚，我在场上睡得特别香。Although it turns out millions of Americans focused in on the second debate who didn’t focus in on the first debate -- and I happen to be one of them.尽管现在看来大部分美国人更多关注了第二场辩论，并没有太关注首场辩论，我也是其中的一位。I particularly want to apologize to Chris Matthews. Four years ago, I gave him a thrill up his leg -- this time around I gave him a stroke.我特别想向马修说声抱歉，四年前我给他打了鸡血，这一次我差点让他中风。And of course, theres a lot of things I learned from that experience. For example, I learned that there are worse