美國新冠疫情日記 09/30

The Presidential Debate Was Chaotic

 The Presidential debate was chaotic as President Trump and challenger Joe Biden devolved into tirades of unrelenting volleys of personal attacks and interruptions.

 Trump was intent on interrupting Biden on nearly every question and Biden called the president a “clown,” telling him to, “shut up.”

 On the issue of the coronavirus, Biden said the President has no plan, saying, “He hasn’t laid out anything.” Trump, however, insisted that Biden, “...could not have done the job we did.” The president stated that his administration’s plan was to quickly distribute a vaccine. But Biden questioned why American people should even trust someone who lies so frequently.

 When the host asked the President about the white supremacists, Trump refused to explicitly condemn them saying that the violence wasn’t an issue caused by the right and telling one far-right group to “stand back and stand by.”

On the health plan issue, President Trump tried to paint former Vice President Biden’s health plan as one which will extinguish the private health care plans of 180 million people and will send the U.S. on the path of socialized medicine.

On the tax issue, the President refused to admit that he only paid $750 dollars in income tax last year and stressed that he paid many millions of dollars in income tax for many years.

We very much regret that in this debate President Trump tried to bulldoze his challenger Joe Biden with constant interruptions and insults.

During the course of the 90-minute debate, the most important issue addressed was whether President Trump would question the legitimacy of the November election. The President refused to say whether he would concede the election should he lose. He said, “if it is a fair election, I am 100% onboard, but if I see that tens of thousands of ballots have been manipulated, I can’t go along with that.”

 The chaos of the Presidential debate made it impossible for viewers to follow what the two men were talking about.

 It is very sad that we as the model democratic system, while the whole world was watching this political show, that we citizens had to feel a sense of shame for this ugly display. Where are our values?

           總統辯論會是场鬧劇

美國首場總統辯論會昨晚在陣陣指駡混亂中結束，這是美國有史以來最令人感到失望的一次政治大戱，辯論會一開始川普總統打斷拜登之談話，拜登稱他是小丑並要總統住嘴。

拜登指責川普在新冠疫情之防治工作上根本沒有什么計劃，眼看二十多萬國人喪生，但是川普揚言疫苗很快就可上市。

對於白人至上主義者參與在各地動亂，總統川普拒絕譴責他們， 並呼籲他們要繼續挺住。

川普總統指責拜登的醫療保險是走向社會主義之制度，將把一億八千萬現有私人保險者取消， 對於《紐約時報》報導川普過去兩年每年只付七百五十元稅金一事， 他也是極力否認。

非常遺憾，當我們這個偉大民主的國家，正在進行一場總統大選之時，兩位候選人在台上之相互指責，真正的受害者是全國選民。

令人最担心的還是，川普對十一月三日之大選結果表示疑慮，如果不承認選舉結果， 其後果不堪設想。

當全世界人們在關注美國大選結果時，這次辯論丟盡了美國人的臉面 ，還能做世界老大嗎？！