Obama’s rhetoric during his 2008 campaign and the first months of his presidency was both inspirational in style and transformational in objective. His first year in office included a speech in Prague in which he established the goal of a nuclear-free world; a speech in Cairo promising a new approach to the Muslim world; and his Nobel Peace Prize speech, which promised to “bend history in the direction of justice.”
奥巴马在2008年大选过程中以及总统生涯的前几个月里的口号在形式上颇为鼓舞人心，在目标上则相当具有变革性。在担任总统的第一年里，他在布拉格的演讲上提出了无核世界的目标；在开罗的演讲上承诺将开启新的穆斯林世界；而在诺贝尔和平奖获奖演讲中，他承诺“让历史驶上公正的方向”。