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It's naive. I don't think Obama understands that negotiations and talks with people in other cultures mean the same things as negotiations and talks do to US citizens. There's a lot of cultural things involved, including posturing, that are just as important as the words spoken in any meeting.
Talking with Hamas (and yes, I do believe the Hamas endorsement means something since there was an Obama advisor who did talk to Hamas) or Ahmadinejad is not the same thing as talking to Merkel or Brown.
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