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“It was really cold, but it was worth it,” she said. Foti said she was most struck by Obama’s declarations that the country would meet — and overcome — the problems it now faces. ‘Good tone’ Doug Brooks, a Joplin psychologist and member of the Democratic National Committee, praised Barack Obama’s international message, pointing out that the target audience of his speech was not just Americans. The speech, he said, had a “firmness” that was nonetheless tempered by offers of “holding out a hand” to those willing to take it. “I thought he took a good tone internationally,” Brooks said. 
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