Through a series of symbolic gestures and speeches (in Prague, Cairo, Accra, the United Nations, and elsewhere), Obama helped to restore American soft power. As a recent Pew poll reported, “in many countries opinions of the United States are now as positive as they were at the beginning of the decade before George W. Bush took office.”
通过一系列的有象征意义的姿态和演讲（在布拉格，开罗，安卡拉，联合国等场合），奥巴马重建了美国的软实力。根据近期的民意调查显示，“不同于本世纪初的小布什政府时期，如今，很多国家开始对美国有了积极正面的印象。”