日本時間の本日行なわれたオバマ大統領の一般教書演説（State of the Union）は以下のサイトでフル動画とフルテキストを見ることができる。
 
テキストを見ながら演説を動画で視聴すると英語の訓練にも最適だと思う。
アメリカという国を理解する生の素材としても、とても有益だ。
 
やはり国が難しい情勢下にあるときにこう言う風に鼓舞できる政治的なリーダーシップって、日本にも欲しいなあと思う。
 
 
演説の最後の部分からの引用
That dream – that American Dream – is what drove the Allen Brothers to
reinvent their roofing company for a new era. It’s what drove those students at
Forsyth Tech to learn a new skill and work towards the future. And that dream is
the story of a small business owner named Brandon Fisher.
 
Brandon started a company in Berlin, Pennsylvania that specializes in a new kind
of drilling technology. One day last summer, he saw the news that halfway across
the world, 33 men were trapped in a Chilean mine, and no one knew how to save
them.
But Brandon thought his company could help. And so he designed a rescue that
would come to be known as Plan B. His employees worked around the clock to
manufacture the necessary drilling equipment. And Brandon left for Chile.
 
Along with others, he began drilling a 2,000 foot hole into the ground, working
three or four days at a time with no sleep. Thirty-seven days later, Plan B
succeeded, and the miners were rescued. But because he didn’t want all of the
attention, Brandon wasn’t there when the miners emerged. He had already gone
home, back to work on his next project.
 
Later, one of his employees said of the rescue, “We proved that
Center Rock is a little company, but we do big things.”
We do big things.
 
まるでアメリカ版「プロジェクトＸ」ですねえ。
 
地上にある星を誰も覚えていない♪
人は空ばかり見てる
つばめよ高い空から教えてよ　地上の星を
つばめよ地上の星は今　何処にあるのだろう～♪
 
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