德州辩论(1)【沪江标准VOA080224】
Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate in
The debate, on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, was marked more by broad agreement on policy issues from immigration to health care; from the war in Iraq to this week's resignation by Cuban president Fidel Castro. But there were a few contentious moments. One came when Senator Obama was asked about charges that he had stolen phrases from a speech by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, using them in his own speeches without attribution.
"The notion that I had plagiarized from someone who is one of my national co-chairs, who gave me the line and suggested that I use it, I think is silly."
Senator Clinton followed up by saying that if a candidate bases his campaign on words, they should be his own.
"There is no doubt that you are a passionate, eloquent speaker and I applaud you for that, but when you look at what we face in this country. We do need to unite the country, but we have to unite it for a purpose around very specific goals."
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得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校举行的辩论，更多地涉及了从移民到保健，从伊拉克战争到这周古巴总统菲德尔·卡斯特罗递交的辞呈等有关政治问题的广泛一致。但其中也不乏争论。有一次便发生在奥巴马被问及在自己的演讲中未加注明便盗用马萨诸塞州州长迪沃·帕特里克措词的指控时。
“认为我剽窃我的共同主持话语的想法，我觉得是很愚蠢的，因为他给我了一些词句，并建议我这样使用。”
议员克林顿紧接着表示如果一位竞选者把他的竞选建立在言辞之上，那么这必须是他自己所说的。
“毫无疑问你是一个慷慨激昂，能言善辩的演讲者，我很赞赏你这一点。但当你面对着这个国家所面临的问题时，我们确实需要团结整个国家，但我们不得不为了一个包含许多具体意向的目标而团结起来。”
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