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1、二十九、Ann RichardsDemocratic National Convention Keynote AddressThank you. Thank you. Thank you, very much.Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Buenas noches, mis amigos.Im delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know w
2、hat a real Texas accent sounds like.Twelve years ago Barbara Jordan, another Texas woman, Barbara made the keynote address to this convention, and two women in a hundred and sixty years is about par for the course.But if you give us a chance, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything t
3、hat Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.I want to announce to this Nation that in a little more than 100 days, the Reagan -Meese - Deaver - Nofziger - Poindexter - North - Weinberger - Watt - Gorsuch -Lavelle - Stockman - Haig - Bork - Noriega - George Bush era will be over
4、!You know, tonight I feel a little like I did when I played basketball in the 8th grade. I thought I looked real cute in my uniform. And then I heard a boy yell from the bleachers, Make that basket, bird legs. And my greatest fear is that same guy is somewhere out there in the audience tonight, and
5、hes going to cut me down to size, because where I grew up there really wasnt much tolerance for self-importance, people who put on airs.I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. Well, it was back then that I
6、came to understand the small truths and the hardships that bind neighbors together. Those were real people with real problems and they had real dreams about getting out of the Depression. I can remember summer nights when wed put down what we called the Baptist pallet, and we listened to the grown-u
7、ps talk. I can still hear the sound of the dominoes clicking on the marble slab my daddy had found for a tabletop. I can still hear the laughter of the men telling jokes you werent supposed to hear - talkin about how big that old buck deer was, laughin about mama puttin Clorox in the well when the f
8、rog fell in.They talked about war and Washington and what this country needed. They talked straight talk. And it came from people who were living their lives as best they could. And thats what were gonna do tonight. Were gonna tell how the cow ate the cabbage.I got a letter last week from a young mo
9、ther in Lorena, Texas, and I wanna read part of it to you. She writes,“Our worries go from pay day to pay day, just like millions of others. And we have two fairly decent incomes, but I worry how Im going to pay the rising car insurance and food. I pray my kids dont have a growth spurt from August t
10、o December, so I dont have to buy new jeans. We buy clothes at the budget stores and we have them fray and fade and stretch in the first wash. We ponder and try to figure out how were gonna pay for college and braces and tennis shoes. We dont take vacations and we dont go out to eat. Please dont thi
11、nk me ungrateful. We have jobs and a nice place to live, and were healthy. Were the people you see every day in the grocery stores, and we obey the laws. We pay our taxes. We fly our flags on holidays and we plod along trying to make it better for ourselves and our children and our parents. We arent
12、 vocal any more. I think maybe were too tired. I believe that people like us are forgotten in America.”Well of course you believe youre forgotten, because you have been.This Republican Administration treats us as if we were pieces of a puzzle that cant fit together. Theyve tried to put us into compa
13、rtments and separate us from each other. Their political theory is “divide and conquer.” Theyve suggested time and time again that what is of interest to one group of Americans is not of interest to any one else. Weve been isolated. Weve been lumped into that sad phraseology called “special interest
14、s.” Theyve told farmers that they were selfish, that they would drive up food prices if they asked the government to intervene on behalf of the family farm, and we watched farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, thats wrong!They told working mothers its all t
15、heir fault - their families are falling apart because they had to go to work to keep their kids in jeans and tennis shoes and college. And theyre wrong! They told American labor they were trying to ruin free enterprise by asking for 60 days notice of plant closings, and thats wrong. And they told th
16、e auto industry and the steel industry and the timber industry and the oil industry, companies being threatened by foreign products flooding this country, that youre protectionist if you think the government should enforce our trade laws. And that is wrong. When they belittle us for demanding clean air and clean water for trying to save the oceans and the ozone layer, thats wrong.No wonder we feel isolated and confu
