“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Thus wrote the Sicilian writer Giuseppe di Lampedusa, in The Leopard. This seems to me the guiding principle of the Obama presidency. To many Americans, he seems a flaming radical. To me, he is a pragmatic conservative, albeit one responding to extraordinary times. In his own way, Mr Obama is following the path trodden by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
「如果我們希望保持原狀,那麼就必須做出改變,」西西里作家朱塞佩•迪蘭佩杜薩(Giuseppe di Lampedusa)在其著作《豹》(The Leopard)中寫道。在我看來,這似乎是歐巴馬總統的指導原則。在許多美國人眼中,他似乎是熱情的激進分子。在我看來,儘管置身非常時期,他卻是一位務實的保守主義者。歐巴馬正在以自己的方式追隨富蘭克林•德拉諾•羅斯福(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)走過的道路。
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