Policies must fit within the prevailing narrative framework, while the great task of politics is to shape the narrative of tomorrow. No wonder, then, that while Obama used his eight minutes in Panama to delineate concrete policy initiatives that would bring happiness to the greatest number, Castro spent 48 minutes reinventing the past.
但这是不够的。政策必须契合时下的叙事框架，而政治的伟大任务是决定明天的叙事。因此，毫不奇怪，奥巴马用他的巴拿马八分钟来描绘能给最广大人民带来幸福的务实政策，而卡斯特罗用了48分钟重新阐述了过去。