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Op-Ed Columnist

Believing in Barack

By GAIL COLLINS

Published: November 12, 2010

I have faith in Barack Obama. Of course, I also have faith in the New York Mets.

I believe Obama is going to get his groove back and be the leader we elected, even though he is testing us sorely. This week he went to South Korea to negotiate a trade agreement, and the agreement fell through. The administration says this is because he was being a tough bargainer, but you don’t send the president overseas to fail to get an agreement. Wasn’t anybody taking notes when he went to Denmark to fail to get the Olympics for Chicago?

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Good for a lot of laughs on a Saturday afternoon. 

Yeah, I will hope that he does all those, but do I believe he will?

What we have found out so far is that he is woefully lacking in negotiation skills.