The Daily English Show #877 アメリカ大統領選挙、オバマ氏が当選！

#877 アメリカ大統領選挙、オバマ氏が当選！

2008 / 11 / 05 ( Wed )

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

So, he won. President Obama. Awesome.
I didn’t do much work today … I was just staring at my computer screen excited and moved by the speeches and the footage … it was great seeing how happy and excited everyone is in the US. Well, not everyone but …

I’ve been enjoying reading what people are saying on Twitter about the election. Twitter has a section called “hot topics” and one of them is President Obama and if you’re in that section, new posts that mention President Obama pop up all the time.

At first people were saying they were shocked and happy and excited and moved and crying .. and then they went to bed and then they woke up …

And here are a few “tweets”, as they’re called, from the morning after the election.

Wow. This seems like a dream. Congrats President Obama.

Woke up to Obama as our new president...inspired both by his speech in victory and McCain's in defeat.

I fell asleep early and awoke to Obama elected president. I wish every morning was that great! :-D

Waking up, with a smile on my face. Obama is our President!

Getting ready to shower... Still super excited. Obama is our next President.

President Obama! For the first time in a long while, I'm proud to be an American.

I just woke up. Had to turn on the news to make sure it wasn't all a dream. Yes, Barack Obama is the 44th President of the USA. YES WE CAN!

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Today I recommend this site which is very cool so you have to go and check it out. And thank you very much to the nice person who emailed me to tell me about it.

　

It’s a kind of social networking site for people who are learning languages - so you can write a blog entry and other people can come and correct your writing. Brilliant idea.

Today I went and read some posts about Obama to try and find a mistake to talk about today. And I found one by a guy in Korea talking about the election.

He says: while I was on my way home, I suddenly wondered who was elected as a president of America.

That should be the – because there’s only one president of the United States of America … and that is Barack Obama … yes.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today Barack Obama has won the United States presidential election.

The United States of America is one of the biggest countries in the world with a population of over 300 million.
Every four years there is a presidential election in the US.
The first president was George Washington. He became the president in 1789.
Yesterday Barack Obama won the election.
He will be the 44th President of the United States of America.

And that was Stick News for Wednesday the 5th of November.
Kia Ora.

今回のスティックニュースのイラスト

Word of the Day

Today’s word is: president-elect.

n. a person who has been elected to be president but who has not yet begun the job

Barack Obama is now the president-elect and apparently he will officially become the president on the 20th of January 20.

conversations with sarah

　There’ll probably be a puppy boom

Sarah
All the kids are going to want puppies now.
　子供たちみんな子犬を欲しがるようになるだろうね。

Bob
Because Obama said his kids were getting a puppy?
　オバマが子供に子犬を与えると言ったから？

Sarah
Yeah, they’ll be like Daaaaad Obama’s kids are getting a puppy, why can’t I have one?
　そうそう、オバマ父さんの子供が子犬を手に入れるのに、なんで僕はもらえないの？って感じ。

Bob
There’ll probably be a puppy boom.
　子犬ブームが来るかもね。

Sarah
Yeah.

サラのメモ：
Obama won! I'm so happy. You'll hate this show if you don't like politics (or Obama). I promise I won't talk about him forever ... but maybe for the next few days : )

The Twitterverse talking about Obama:
http://election.twitter.com/

Check it out and add me as a friend if you like and I might correct your writing sometimes.
http://lang-8.com/member/17566

knfの独り言：
当選後のスピーチも感動的でした。