Bill Clinton Helps John Kerry in Philadelphia
克林顿支持克里在费城出席竞选集会的演讲
2004年10月25日
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当地时间10月25日上午，美国前总统比尔·克林顿将与民主党总统候选人约翰·克里一起在费城参加竞选活动。这将是克林顿自从七周前接受心脏搭桥手术以来首度出面为克里拉票。 在五彩纸屑散布会场的同时，克林顿一面微笑，一面热情地和在场的部分选民握手致意。当看到台下大批选民为自己的露面欣喜若狂时，克林顿很是感动。他说：“如果这（选民的热烈回应）对我的心脏没好处的话，那我就真不知道什么对我身体有好处了。民主党人希望，克林顿的出山能够在大选最后时刻助克里一臂之力。目前，克里与共和党候选人布什的民调支持率非常接近，难分高下。
Former President BILL CLINTON:
Thank you.
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If this isn't good for my heart, I don't know what is.
Thank you.
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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Thank you, Governor.
Congressman Brady, Fattah, Congressman Hoeffel.
Joe Hoeffel, our next United States senator.
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All our candidates for Congress here, Allison Schwartz, Lois Murphy, Joe Driscoll, thank you and all the other officials who are here.
You know, I'm very grateful to be here today.
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And I thank all the people of Philadelphia and throughout the country for their e-mails and letters and prayers and support.
From time to time I have been called the comeback kid. In eight days, John Kerry's going to make America the comeback country.
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I know well that no one's presence can change a single vote, but I hope my reasons can affect a few votes.
I love this city and this state. You've been very good to me, to my family.
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And you've got a clear choice between two strong men with great convictions and different philosophies, different policies with very different consequences for this city, this state, our nation and the world.
On the economy, we have just lived through four years of the first job losses in 70 years, record bankruptcies, middle-class incomes declining and poverty going up.
In Pennsylvania alone, you've lost 70,000 jobs as compared with the 219,000 you gained by this time when that last fellow was president -- me.
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In Pennsylvania alone, 249,000 people have been added to the rolls of poverty, falling out of the middle class, as compared with 395,000 people who moved from poverty into the middle class the last time we had a Democratic administration; 333,000 Pennsylvanians have lost their health insurance; unemployment's gone up 26 percent. It dropped 35 percent in the first four years the last time we had a Democratic administration.
CLINTON: Their plan is more of the same. They gave two huge tax cuts to upper-income people like me and to special interests. They run these big deficits, and they go every month and borrow the money to cover our debts from the Chinese and the Japanese government and they're saddling it on our children. They're making our children pay for it today and tomorrow.
Over 2 million children not funded in the Leave No Child Behind Act, over a half a million children kicked out of their after-school programs, 140,000 unemployed workers kicked out of their job training programs, 100,000 working families losing their child care. Leaving the burden of the deficit for my tax cut on the children of this country, that's their plan.
John Kerry's got a better plan.
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He wants to repeal the tax cuts for those of us who have been fortunate enough to make a lot of money. He wants to finally give us a chance to make a contribution to America's economic recovery and to the fight against terrorism. It's time.
Most of us, without regard to party, want our chance to contribute to our country's welfare and our future. And we don't want our children and our grandchildren paying for the costs of our tax cuts.
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He wants to invest in education and health care and homeland security. He wants to give us a new jobs policy by creating a clean energy future independent of foreign oil funded by Americans working in high-wage, high-technology jobs.
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He's got a health care plan that will save the average health insurance policyholder $1,000 over the next couple of years, add over 90 percent of our people to health coverage and cover all of our kids and cut the cost of prescription drugs.
Their plan is more power and money to the drug companies, the health insurance companies, the HMOs.
We tried it their way. It's high cost and low coverage.
CLINTON: Let's have lower cost and higher coverage with John Kerry's plan for America.
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When your governor was the mayor of this city, and before when he was prosecutor, we w
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