今天，幾十萬人在華盛頓的林肯紀念堂前參加"We Are One" 音樂會，為慶祝奧巴馬
總統就職的三天慶祝活動拉開序幕。
數位著名歌手與演員到場助興。
"The Boss-老板", 是民主黨的熱心支持者，多次為民主黨總統候選人舉辦音樂會造
聲勢。
U2表演者的投入總是能帶動觀眾的激情。
奧巴馬與拜登及家人和幾十萬人一同欣賞音樂會。
在奧巴馬早晨參加的教堂儀式中，兒童們朗誦，“Martin Luther King walked so
that Barrack Obama could run。Barack Obama ran so that all children could
fly.”
在音樂會結束前，奧巴馬發表講話指出美國麵臨的嚴重挑戰，
“Only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as
serious as the ones we face right now。”“Our nation is at war, our economy
is in crisis。”
盡管任務的艱巨，奧巴馬表示對美國的興旺,繁榮未來充滿信心。
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I want to thank all the speakers and performers for reminding us, through song and through words, just what it is that we love about
In the course of our history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now. Our nation is at war. Our economy is in crisis. Millions of Americans are losing their jobs and their homes; they're worried about how they'll afford college for their kids or pay the stack of bills on their kitchen table. And most of all, they are anxious and uncertain about the future -- about whether this generation of Americans will be able to pass on what's best about this country to our children and their children.
I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our fundamental resolve as a nation.
But despite all of this -- despite the enormity of the task that lies ahead -- I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the
What gives me hope is what I see when I look out across this mall. For in these monuments are chiseled those unlikely stories that affirm our unyielding faith -- a faith that anything is possible in
On the ground below is a tribute to a generation that withstood war and depression -- men and women like my grandparents who toiled on bomber assembly lines and marched across
And yet, as I stand here today, what gives me the greatest hope of all is not the stone and marble that surrounds us today, but what fills the spaces in between. It is you -- Americans of every race and region and station who came here because you believe in what this country can be and because you want to help us get there.
It is the same thing that gave me hope from the day we began this campaign for the presidency nearly two years ago; a belief that if we could just recognize ourselves in one another and bring everyone together -- Democrats, Republicans, independents; Latino, Asian and Native American; black and white, gay and straight, disabled and not -- then not only would we restore hope and opportunity in places that yearned for both, but maybe, just maybe, we might perfect our union in the process.
This is what I believed, but you made this belief real. You proved once more that people who love this country can change it. And as I prepare to assume the presidency, yours are the voices I will take with me every day when I walk into that Oval Office -- the voices of men and women who have different stories but hold common hopes; who ask only for what was promised us as Americans -- that we might make of our lives what we will and see our children climb higher than we did.
It is this thread that binds us together in common effort; that runs through every memorial on this mall; that connects us to all those who struggled and sacrificed and stood here before.
It is how this nation has overcome the greatest differences and the longest odds -- because there is no obstacle that can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change.
That is the belief with which we began this campaign, and that is how we will overcome what ails us now. There is no doubt that our road will be long, that our climb will be steep. But never forget that the true character of our nation is revealed not during times of comfort and ease, but by the right we do when the moment is hard. I ask you to help reveal that character once more, and together, we can carry forward as one nation, and one people, the legacy of our forefathers that we celebrate today.
(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/18/raw-data-obamas-speech-lincoln-memorial-concert/)
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