奧巴馬接受民主黨提名 自比羅斯福大綱

President Barack Obama will tonight lay out his case for being re-elected to a second term by comparing himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won an unprecedented three presidential elections and led America to recovery after the Great Depression.

He will say: 'And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades. It will require common effort, shared responsibility, and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.'

Obama will formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination, capping a week in which speeches from his wife Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton, the husband of his erstwhile rival, received widespread praise.

He will tell Americans: 'Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place.'

Roosevelt dominated American politics for the 12 years of his presidency and beyond. He is commonly recognised as the greatest Democratic president and, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, one of the three greatest American presidents.

Not only did he bring America out of the depression, he oversaw the introduction of the New Deal social programmes, laid the foundations for the United Nations and led the country in the Second World War after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, dying just when victory was in sight.

Excerpts from tonight's speech released in advance showed that Obama would attempt to frame the election not as a referendum on his four-year term, during which unemployment has risen to 8.3 percent, leaving more than 23 million Americans out of work, but as a choice between him and Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee.

'On every issue, the choice you face won’t be just between two candidates or two parties,' he was due to say. 'It will be a choice between two different paths for America. A choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future.'

'I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy. I never have. You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.美國總統奧巴馬將在今晚公佈他的競選連任主張，自比前總統富蘭克林-羅斯福。羅斯福總統曾經史無前例地連任了三屆總統，並在經濟大蕭條後引領美國經濟走向復甦。

他會說：“事實上，我們要多花幾年時間應對已經存在了幾十年的挑戰。這需要大家共同努力，一起承擔責任，還需要大家有幾分羅斯福總統在唯一一次比這回更糟糕的經濟危機中所追求的膽識和嘗試精神。”

奧巴馬將正式接受民主黨總統候選人提名。本週，他的妻子米歇爾-奧巴馬和前總統比爾-克林頓的演講獲得了盛讚。克林頓還是他上屆總統候選人黨內競爭對手希拉里的丈夫。

他將告訴美國人：“我們的問題能得以解決，我們的挑戰能得到應對。我們將要走的道路可能更艱難，但前景更美好。”

羅斯福總統曾經擔任美國總統超過12年。人們公認他是美國最偉大的民主黨總統，還與喬治-華盛頓和亞伯拉罕-林肯一起被認爲是美國最偉大的三位總統。

他不僅帶領美國走出了經濟衰退，還實行了社會改革計劃“羅斯福新政”，爲國家打下了堅實的基礎。他在日本偷襲珍珠港後帶領美國參加二戰，但在二戰即將勝利之際去世。

提前公佈的今晚演講稿的摘要顯示，奧巴馬將把這次競選打造成選民在他與共和黨提名候選人羅姆尼之間的抉擇，而不是對自己四年任期的公投。美國失業率已上升至8.3%，失業人口超過2300萬。

他將這樣說，“對於每個問題，你要選擇的不是某個候選人或者某個政黨，而是對美國將要走哪條道路。是對兩種根本不同的未來願景做出選擇。”

“我不會假裝自己提供的道路選擇是捷徑，我永遠不會。你們當初選我不是爲了聽你們愛聽的話，你們選我是爲了讓我告訴你們事實。”