瑞克·佩里的演讲：德州能否再出一位美国总统？[2013-11-15]

2013-11-15 06:55:41　来源: 新华网举报

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目前德州的经济和就业状况在美国一枝独秀，作为州长的瑞克佩里功不可没。于是他成了共和党参选下届总统的热门人物，民众支持率号称也是共和党最高的。本篇演讲是他宣布参选下届总统的讲话，正式吹响了竞争党内总统提名的号角。

本篇演讲语言很口语化，没有复杂的句子结构，没有华丽的修辞排比，有的只是德州牛仔的诚恳平实，如介绍自己的身世和家庭。而直抒胸臆，则集中体现在数落奥巴马执政的弊端。而且他介绍身世的内容使农民、军人以及普通家庭出身的人们都能在一定程度上接受他。再者，他不忘把对奥巴马的批判与讲演现场——南卡罗来纳州的选民利益联系在一起，从而引起了相当的共鸣！

有了这种感情铺垫，他便向全国选民许愿：他如果当总统，会如何改革政府职能，如何回归美国的价值观，而且又说了奥巴马当时曾经说过的：美国的好日子就在明天！让美国人接着做梦：似乎佩里一上台，美国就晴天了。

为什么我这么说呢？因为，佩里痛快淋漓地指责了现任总统的诸多不是，却始终没说一件事：他将具体怎么干，其实他可能也没想好。共和党如果真的有一套拯救经济之高招，2008年大选也就不会败北了。但现在是先把奥巴马拉下马再说，而抱怨现在的问题是最能博得人心的！

总的来讲，这篇演讲读起来朗朗上口，其中用得最多的是简单句，讲起来很连贯，也很有气势，确实值得好好借鉴！而且从内容的充实程度来看，比巴克曼的那篇（具体内容请见2012年第1期本刊专栏）显得更有份量。

以下节选自瑞克佩里的演讲：

Howdy. Thank you, Erick (Erickson, editor of RedState). It is great to be at RedState. And I ll tell you what, it s even better to be governor of the largest red state in America.

It s sure good to be back in the Palmetto State, in South Carolina. I enjoy coming to places where people elect folks like Nikki Haley, true conservatives. And also where they love the greatest fighting force on the face of the earth… the United States Military.

And I want to take a moment and ask you to just take a silence, think about those young Navy SEALs and the other special operators who gave it all in the service of their country. Just take a moment to say Thank you, Lord, that we have those kind of selfless, sacrificial men and women.

Their sacrifice was immeasurable, their dedication profound, and we will never, ever forget them. I stand before you today as the governor of Texas. But I also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers, Ray Perry, who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there, and Amelia who made sure my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, including hand-sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn t have a zip code. It s too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn t farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

Around the age of 8, I was blessed — didn t realize it, but I was blessed to meet my future wife, Anita Thigpen, at a piano recital. We had our first date eight years later. And she finally agreed to marry me 16 years after that. Nobody says I am not persistent.

There is no greater way to live life than with someone you love, and my first love is with us today, my lovely wife Anita. We re also blessed to have two incredible children, Griffin and Sydney, and they are also with us today, and our wonderful daughter-in-law Meredith. I d just like to introduce those two. Thank you.

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. But it wasn t until I graduated from Texas A&M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130 s all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, I realized that the United States of America really is the last great hope of mankind. What I saw was systems of government that elevated rulers at the expense of the people. Socialist systems cloaked maybe in good intentions but were delivering misery and stagnation. And I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.

You see, as Americans we re not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights. As Americans, we don t see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. And as Americans, we realize there is no taxpayer money that wasn t first earned by the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

That s why we reject this President s unbridled fixation on taking more money out of the wallets and pocketbooks of American families and employers and giving it to a central government. “Spreading the wealth” punishes success while setting America on course to greater dependency on government. Washington s insatiable desire to spend our children s inheritance on failed “stimulus” plans and other misguided economic theories have given us record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

But of course, now we re told we are in recovery. Yeah.

But this sure doesn t feel like a recovery to more than nine percent of Americans out there who are unemployed, or the sixteen percent of African Americans and 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions more who can only find part-time work, or those who have stopped even looking for a job.

One in six work-eligible Americans cannot find a full-time job. That is not a recovery. That is an economic disaster.

If you think about it, for those Americans who do have full-time jobs, they aren t experiencing economic recovery with the rising fuel costs and the food prices that are going up. Recovery is a meaningless word if the bank has foreclosed on your home, if you are under water on your mortgage, or if you are up to the max on your credit card debt. Those Americans know that this President and his big-spending, big-government policies have prolonged our national misery, not alleviated it.

And what do we say to our children? Y all figure it out? Don t worry, Washington s created 17 debt and entitlement commissions in 30 years, but the fact of the matter is they just didn t have the courage to make the decisions to allow you to have the future that you actually deserve? That Washington wouldn t even make modest entitlement program reforms in this last debate? And the President even refused to lay out a plan, for fear of the next election? How can the wealthiest nation in the history of civilization fail so miserably to pay its bills? How does that happen?

Well, Mr. President, let us tell you something: you can t win the future by selling America off to foreign creditors.

We cannot afford four more years of this rudderless leadership. Last week, that leadership failed, and the tax and spend and borrow agenda of this President led to the first ever downgrade of the credit rating of the United States of America.

In reality though, this is just the most recent downgrade. The fact is for nearly three years President Obama has been downgrading American jobs. He s been downgrading our standing in the world. He s been downgrading our financial stability. He s been downgrading our confidence, and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children. That s a fact.

His policies are not only a threat to this economy, so are his appointees — a threat. You see he stacked the National Labor Relations Board with anti-business cronies who want to dictate to a private company, Boeing, where they can build a plant. No president, no president should kill jobs in South Carolina, or any other state for that matter, simply because they choose to go to a right-to-work state.

You see, when the Obama Administration is not stifling economic growth with over-regulation, they are achieving the same through their reckless spending. Debt is not only a threat to our economy, but also to our security.

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