1.0 link 157968 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-metzl/three-quick-steps-to-jump_b_157968.html As is well known, popular perceptions of the United States in most places around the world have taken a nose-dive over the past eight years. The highest level US official in charge of spreading America's message, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy James Glassman, recently said, correctly, that the world is angry at America because of America's policies and actions, not because we've done a poor job of explaining ourselves.

But although the election of Barack Obama and...

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