He said such support signals major progress for the United States and suggests that Obama deserved the "aspirational" award. "Many have spoken about the need for a rebranding of America ... Rebrand, restart, reboot. In my view [Obama's promotion of the Development Goals], alongside the administration's approach to fighting nuclear proliferation and climate change, improving relations in the Middle East and, by the way, creating jobs and providing health care at home, are rebranding in action." In his typical grammatically maddening style, dotted with ellipses and the occasional sentence fragment, Bono waxed eloquent about the "idea of America" and the role it plays in global inspiration. Full Article at Politics Daily