World Leaders Don't Shake Bush's Hand At G20 Summit (VIDEO)

It appears in this video that President Bush's approval is in a sorrier state than polls indicate. In a video taken at the G20 summit, Bush walks across a line of world leaders without shaking or being asked to shake any of their hands. Whether the President is being rejected by the world leaders or he is rejecting them, CNN's Rick Sanchez aptly says that Bush looks like "the most unpopular kid in high school that nobody liked."

Comments

[robreb]

Much respect lost for CNN. Is their a worthy news source out there?

[squarepi]

What is in a handshake? Ask my son. He and his family live and work in Australia. People at work and other friends and acquaintances come up to him to shake his hand. They comment about how proud and excited they are that Americans did the right thing. They walked the walk.

[GEAH]

Already debunked.

It's an embarrassment to HP that it is still posted on this site.

[GH]

Rick Sanchez should be ashamed of himself. Bush was well received at the event. CNN corrected this piece of pathetic agenda driven smear by Sanchez..

Promoting division and hate - that's what the Sanchez effort is all about.

Perhaps Sanchez should keep up with world events. If so, he'd find it difficult to make up this stuff.

Last month at the White House, we got a clearer view of how President Bush is viewed:

Sir Bob Geldof (Humanitarian and founder of Live 8):

".. a great adventure.. what America was born to do.. the sense that this is America at it's best.."

Or President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, of Liberia (1st freely elected woman president in Africa's history):

"Under the leadership of President Bush [..] .. What a legacy, Mr. President..." "..America's commitment to democracy and development and to supporting low-income countries around the world has been a signature of foreign policy achievement for President Bush, Secretary Rice, the bipartisan support of the U.S. Congress, and the American people. .."

Let's ask the press to report on good. Then, and only then, will we get more good done in the world.

[Robert2664]

Could it be that the G20 finaly realised that Bush isn't and never was their friend. Or they thought tthat stupidity is contagious so they just didn't want to take chances.

[DickVanGogh]

This is not a tabloid or meaningless story as it may appear to some.

In a world where all of our economies are tied together (more obvious in this financial crisis than ever) you cannot understate the importance of being able to build coalitions and/or assert the will of your nation in order to protect your economic and security interests. The utilization of "soft power" is more and more apparent, particularly for the United States, as the limitations for our "hard power" have been defined by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fact that these politicians wouldn't even shake Bush's hand and showed their true feeling towards him is just one of many more confirmations that will come in the future that McSame would have been a disaster for the US.

[robbor]

the world's discovered the pariah for what he is

[bighillaryfan]

This was all a fabricated l-i-e for the sake of the media.

It is all so clearly explained right here...

http://theliepolitic.com/2008/11/george-bush-is-just-so-anti-social/

I cannot believe people fell for this s-t-u-p-i-d nonsense and I am a D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T. But I truly H-A-T-E CNN.

[Fernando]

What I find funny about the link you provide is that it spends 3/4 of the text going after CNN and only two lines GUESSING as to why they refused to shake his hand. This is foreign relations at the highest level, which means every little detail is analyzed and rehearsed, if they didn't shake his hand they were making a statement, period.

Being a foreign born American citizen I never thought I'd see the day when an American president would be so disrespected publicly, but that's how low Bush has sunk this country.

[redsongia]

Why is he even there?

I'm sure Merkel was happy to be high up on that step, so he couldn't sneak up behind her and grab her shoulders again, like he did at the G8 in Russia.

[Jknow]

Bush has thumbed his nose at the rest of the world ever since he took office. It's not surprising that the world leaders want nothing to do with him. The political novel "Trail of Death: Alfredo Gomez and the Assassination of President Kennedy" (amazon.com) speaks plainly about Bush's disdain for anyone outside of his elite inner circle.. An example is Bush's contempt for environmental concerns. When the leaders of almost every nation in the world pleaded with him to take the lead in the fight against Global Warming, Bush did nothing. As the novel "Trail of Death" says, Bush cares only for the big money interests that support him. For him the rest of us--make that the other 97% of us worldwide--don't even exist. So it's no surprise that the leaders who represent that other 97 percent don't want to be near him--or shake his hand.

[che1111]

Just shows how CNN will jump on any bandwagon. I despise Bush and think he is a national embarrasment, but I know he shook hands with all of these leaders before this photo shoot. He was not being snubbed. They were all seeing the other leaders for the first time, which is why they were shaking their hands. Come on Sanchez! And Dan Rather got fired for telling the truth?

[Misterdc]

These kinds of under researched articles undercut this site's veracity and bring it to the level of blathering cable news.

[ggb]

Huffington Post sometimes sounds like the National Enquirer in the way they report events and overplay non-events. This is one example and the fuzzy, unproved story about Cindy and her lover is another.
Come on Huffington. Keep it real and drop the false "rev em up" stories that bring the crazies to the blogs.

[bby328]

Hey . . . I agree although I did jump all over 'turkeygate'

[TripperDay]

Definitely. It's a great way to be taken as seriously as Fox News, if that's what they're going for.

[Kerra52]

On Friday night Countdown showed the greetings between Bush and the leaders BEFORE this scene. They had a SPECIAL photo op just for Bush and those leaders and THEN when on to this scene where others got to meet each other.

Not very nice Sanchez. So a little more research before report like this.

[truthproclaimed]

This article is ludicrous. I do not agree with everything Bush has done, and I won't Obama either but..... this article just openly shows that everything on this site is beyond truth because it's too slanted.

Again, don't agree with Bush on everything but the facts are .....
0 ...... attacks since 9/11
40% ...... how much worldwide terrorism is down in the last four years.
2002 and 2004 ...... the years Bush proposed more regulation on Fannie and Freddie but the Democrats and some Republicans blocked it.
52..... how many consecutive months the unemployment rate LOWERED during Bush's presidency. The longest consecutive run in American History. Fact.
6 million...... how many more jobs there are today than there were when Bush took office.

Signed someone tired of press lying to promote their agenda, leaving out facts and distorting other. Whose also tired of people drinking party Kool-aid.

[diogeron]

Do you recall who WAS president when we were attacked on 9-11? If you are going to give Bush all the credit for no attacks, then I assume you will give him his share of the blame for 9-11 because it follows logically. After all, he and Condi ignored Richard Clarke and the the National Intelligence Estimate titled "Bin Laden determined to attack on U.S. soil."

Bush and the GOP controlled the agenda for six of the last eight years. If they wanted to get control of Freddie and Fannie, they had the opportunity. 22 million jobs were created under Clinton in eight years ("Fact" as you would say) and by the time Bush leaves office, he may be in negative territory on the same metric.

Afghanistan is a mess and Iraq has cost this nation dearly. If you want to be among the 20% who still defend Bush, buena suerte, "my friend", as McCain is fond of saying.

[PacificGatePost]

G20 - BLAME BUT NO SOLUTIONS

Much noise and photo-ops with Bush, but very little substance.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/11/g20-lays-blame-but-no-solutions.html

The G20 can't and they won't deliver any answers. Unfortunately.