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But if he's sincere in his desire to improve our "image" in the world, then why isn't Barack just a wee bit more concerned with the discomfort in Canada and Mexico over his anti-NAFTA, protectionist rhetoric? There's something uncomfortably Jimmy Carteresque in his eagerness to speak one-on-one with dictators like Kim Jung Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (without "preconditions" of any kind), even as he seems impervious to or indifferent about the possibility of straining our relationships with friends in our own hemisphere.
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