美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-10-27

 With just two weeks to go until the presidential race is now laser focused on a handful of battleground states and undecided voters. It’s too early to tell whether last night’s debate moved the needle for either campaign but we do know both men kept the fact, checkers busy all night and through today, even tonight. For Governor Romney’s part he surprised a lot of the estimated 59 million people who watched the debate by spending a lot of the night agreeing with President Obama. 

 

“With regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe that there should have been a status of forces agreement and I concurred¹ in that and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with. I believe as the president indicated and said at the time, that I supported his action there. I want to underscore the same point the president made. I couldn’t agree more about going forward but I certainly don’t want to go back to the policies of the last four years. “

 

Well, there was one of those agreements, particular about withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan that got our attention. Watch. 

 

“Well, we’re going to be finished by 2014, and when I’m president, we’ll make sure we bring our troops out by the end of 2014.”

 

Keeping Them Honest, though, when Governor Romney was entering the presidential race in June of 2011, he was saying just the opposite, in fact, slamming President Obama’s timetable for leaving Afghanistan. Listen. 

 

“Announcing a withdrawal² date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches but they do have calendars.” 

 

President Obama called Romney out last night on this point, accusing him of shifting his foreign policy positions. Romney didn’t disagree with the president and that in it of itself might be most interesting part of all. As for President Obama, most post-debate polls including CNN showed he had a good night. The question is, will it give his campaign new momentum³ and we can’t say one way or the other for sure. Which made what the Obama campaign did this morning all the more curious. At about 10:00 am, they unveiled this 20-page glossy⁴ pamphlet that it says describes his plan to move the economy forward. It’s got a fancy title, “The New Economic Patriotism⁵, A Plan for Jobs and Middle Class Security” the campaign says 3.5 million copies are being printed. But Keeping Them Honest, there are actually no new proposals in the pamphlet. It’s basically a repackaging of the proposals President Obama has previously⁶ announced on subjects from energy to education. And the campaign was clearly responding to criticism that the president hasn’t laid out a clearer second-term agenda. By putting out this pamphlet with no new idea or information he’s opened himself up to attacks by Republicans who say, well, it’s just more of the same. 

 

Joining me to break it all out is national political correspondent Jim Acosta, who’s traveling with the Romney campaign in Henderson, Nevada, chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin is with the president and Vice⁷ President Bide⁸ in Dayton, Ohio, and chief national correspondent John King who’s in the key battleground state of Virginia tonight. So, Jessica, by most accounts, I mean, most of the polls, the president came away from last night’s debate the winner but it’s not clear what kind of boost it’s actually going to give him out on the campaign trail. How is the campaign feeling about the performance last night and about things today? 

 

Well, if you want the campaign talking points, what they’re saying is that last night was about strength and the president showed it. But the bottom line was the president did not disqualify Mitt⁹ Romney in last night’s debate. He didn’t knock him out of the commander-in-chief ranks and so there was no game-changing moment. I hate that phrase but that’s really what that

 

was about. So the race continues today sort of where it was before the debate, and they’re grinding it out. The president beginning on a major battleground state tour, where he’s really pummeling his message, which is a twofold message. One, to turn out his base and get as many votes as he can possibly, because he needs that enthusiasm to be as high as possible, and two, to really drum up early voting turnout because the early vote is the vote the campaign thinks that they have more control over. So the campaign doing what it can to really grind this out, very different kind of campaign than four years ago. 

 

As we talked about it, Jessica, though, the president released this brochure laying pout¹⁰ proposals for a second term. Little new in it. Is the campaign trying to kind of sell it as something new?

 

Right. My Vanna White moment. No, here’s the brochure. They are not actually trying to sell it as something new, Anderson. What this is really about is offering something to undecided voters who are kind of tuning¹¹ into the campaign for the first time, focusing right now, and who might be paying attention to newscasts like ours and hearing pundits¹² say the president isn’t offering any details or any specifics. Well, you know, your write it down and it becomes specific, they can point to the fact that here he’s saying that he’s offering to create a million new jobs by 2016. A new, 100,000 new math and science teachers, cut, foreign oil imports in half by 2020. Now these are things he talked about at the Democratic convention but he’s committing to them in paper here. 

 

Jim, in talking with their team today, what if anything are they saying about kind of the agreeable tone the governor seemed to strike last night, agreeing with the president on a lot of stuff?

1 concurred   

同意（concur的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• Historians have concurred with each other in this view. 历史学家在这个观点上已取得一致意见。
• So many things concurred to give rise to the problem. 许多事情同时发生而导致了这一问题。

2 withdrawal   

n.取回，提款；撤退，撤军；收回，撤销

参考例句：

• The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
• They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。

3 momentum   

n.动力，冲力，势头；动量

参考例句：

• We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。

4 glossy   

adj.平滑的；有光泽的

参考例句：

• I like these glossy spots.我喜欢这些闪闪发光的花点。
• She had glossy black hair.她长着乌黑发亮的头发。

5 patriotism   

n.爱国精神，爱国心，爱国主义

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• They obtained money under the false pretenses of patriotism.他们以虚伪的爱国主义为借口获得金钱。

6 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

7 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

8 bide   

v.忍耐；等候；住

参考例句：

• We'll have to bide our time until the rain stops.我们必须等到雨停。
• Bide here for a while. 请在这儿等一会儿。

9 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

10 pout   

v.撅嘴；绷脸；n.撅嘴；生气，不高兴

参考例句：

• She looked at her lover with a pretentious pout.她看着恋人，故作不悦地撅着嘴。
• He whined and pouted when he did not get what he wanted.他要是没得到想要的东西就会发牢骚、撅嘴。

11 tuning   

n.调谐，调整，调音v.调音( tune的现在分词 )；调整；（给收音机、电视等）调谐；使协调

参考例句：

• They are tuning up a plane on the flight line. 他们正在机场的飞机跑道上调试一架飞机。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The orchestra are tuning up. 管弦乐队在定弦。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

12 pundits   

n.某一学科的权威，专家( pundit的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The pundits disagree on the best way of dealing with the problem. 如何妥善处理这一问题，专家众说纷纭。 来自辞典例句
• That did not stop Chinese pundits from making a fuss over it. 这并没有阻止中国的博学之士对此大惊小怪。 来自互联网