CNN: Experts Say Obama Will Rebrand America

[Turborama]

Source: CNN

President-elect Barack Obama is poised to restore the United States' image in the international community, but experts say the president-elect must show the world that his actions will live up to his rhetoric.

Receiving a warm welcome is not the same as maintaining one, and Obama has a lot of work to do to improve the U.S. brand.

America's image has declined in nearly every region of the world in recent years, but Obama's victory "enables the United States to start again with a clean slate," according to John Quelch, the senior associate dean at Harvard Business School.

"Americans can actually go to dinner parties and cocktail receptions around the world today and not have to apologize for the United States the way they have had to do the last several years," he said. "The election has made life a little bit easier for Americans living and traveling abroad to hold their head up high again."

The United States' tarnished reputation has been fueled by a combination of factors, including opposition to U.S. policies like the war Iraq and alleged torture and abuse of prisoners, the perception of hypocrisy, unilateralism, and the perceived war on Islam, according to a congressional report released in June.

Obama represents a "clean break" from the past, and his election is the first big step toward change, said Dick Martin, author of "Rebuilding Brand America."

"Changing America's standing in the world was going to be the work of a generation, and it would have to start with some kind of grand gesture that demonstrated that things were changing. His election in itself is that kind of grand gesture," he said.

Throughout the election season, Obama was largely well received across the globe.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/19/obama.world.image/index.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Time to retire Commander AWOL's Toxic-Rot Totali-Republicon brand ?

Epic FAIL ?

Or insidious subterranean, skankhole, occult republicon stratergy to "rebrand" reality with a massive media mindf*ck propaganda onslaught to thereby saddle the DEMS in 2009 with Mortal BLAME for masssive systemic cOlLaPsEs which are just picking up spEEd, while liberating the overpaid Kool-Aid Brigade to vomit republicon demagogic rhetorical stinkbombs into the body politic while safely skulking on the sidelines?

We raise the question
You decide

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Like Loran Greene, in Bonanza?

Remember how it started with that big fire brand? Back when people bought cars from Detroit? (although I do have a Dodge Caravan.)

Yeah, Obama is an uplifting kind of event and opportunity. I see a lot of potential here.

[Doctor_J]

3. I wish they wouldn't run with stuff like this

at least with this headline. The David Duke Fan Club are convinced that "they" have "lost" the "real america". Headlines like this might push some of the more rabid ones closer to the edge. Most of us know that this is a good thing to get the BFEE brand removed from the US, but it only takes one crazy...

[gratuitous]

4. America's image has declined?

Someone might want to check to see if this is the first time CNN has admitted that the United States' image hasn't been on a solidly upward path under the stewardship of George W. Bush. Because watching CNN over the last few years, it certainly hasn't seemed like they've noticed any loss of stature for the country. Every time someone came on to talk about how bad Bush has been, seven or eight folks have been on to tell everyone that that was crazy talk.

[ACTION BASTARD]

5. This is great. It's like Obama is our...gasp...

MESSIAH! He will lead us out of the 8 year darkness and into the light of real American glory!

Praise him!

The (R)epugs must be having shit fits over the Big O. It's delicious.