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

[spion]

Bush had just got done shaking the hands of everyone of those people....

it is as if assumptions are the only important thing here. idiots.

[mairs]

So you didn't look at their body language? They averted their gaze, looking either down or past him to the next person in line. Not smiling when he passed and then smiling at the next person, folding the hands or dropping them to their sides. No one even looked or cast a smile in his direction, which is important. Not even one acknowledgment. Bush looked at one of them, but that man on the back tier moved his eyes upward and scanned over Bush's head until he had passed, then he acknowledged the man behind Bush and smiled. It is very obvious what was going on. So who is the idiot?

[tc399]

Spend all the time you want rationalizing this, but it was a photo op, not a setting of introduction. Obviously everyone had shaken hands with everyone else at least once during the summit.

CNN may try to walk it back a little, but what you see here is an overt act of rejection. It is a visual depiction, one of the best I have ever seen, of how the world and 90% of America feel about the last eight years. It is a perfect example of Bush's legacy as history will record it. And Bush's body language clearly shows that he understands it is a show of unity against him, personally.

No one could be more deserving of the disrespect.

[AintDatDaTroof]

Looks like Bush is walking at more of a distance away from the lineup of the leaders than everyone else. Very telling...

[kepary]

only the new world leaders who were walking in with the President were shaking hands with the current leaders that President Bush met earlier in the day with

[YesWeDid]

I don't believe CNN's supposed refuting of the story. Take a good look at the video. Bush is looking up into the faces of seeral world leaders who are looking right through him and shaking the hands of people immediately before and after Bush in line. Bush's posture denotes dejection and rejection; he understood the pointed refusal of those he had ruled and bullied in the past, to touch or acknowledge him now. Talk about embarassing...

[KyleCope]

So now you're not believing CNN's own refutation? God, what an idiot you are.

[mairs]

We're supposed to believe CNN over our own eyes? That would be acting like a sheep, no? Very funny!

[ErinGoBra]

The differing, but all plausable interpretations of this visual event underscore the old saying: "Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see."

[hoopesaz]

Turns out that this story isn't true. CNN later refuted their own reporting by pointing out that Bush had already met and greeted the world leaders, and that the leaders pictured here were arriving and greeting for the first time.

As much of a screw up as Bush is, I find the average person's desire to believe anything that conforms to what they "wish" to be true pretty pathetic. Have opinions, but base them on the truth.

I was so annoyed during the election to receive anti-obama email from conservative friends who hadn't taken even a moment to question the validity of its content. I thought conservatives really had lost focus on what matters and yet you'all do the exact same thing.

[helpusa]

Oh, please. How can you question the validity of this video. People often shake hands several times. This was too obvious a unified insult to Bush from the body language of the leaders on top to Bush's.
They all should wait a little longer before shunning Bush, he still has a couple of months with the
"nukelar" button.

[mairs]

So you've made your judgment. I look at body language. There was much more going on than not shaking hands. It was obvious. Our judgments are valid.

[AnthonyVolpe]

Maybe W. forgot his sanitizer.

[BookDesigner]

I wouldn't shake W's hand either, and I'm not even close to being a "world leader." (There were some other hands at that "summit" I wouldn't shake, either!)

[RobChattaTN]

this is my fav 'string' of comments EVER!

so hilarious....america IS creative...we will survive even this catastrophe!

[sawdustinhershoes]

They looked right through him as though he weren't there. There was a lot of heads down and foot shuffling and clasped hands. No, this has no CNN spin, it speaks for itself. Bush tried to engage a couple of people and they gave him short schrift. Angela Merkel, the lady from Germany, was the most telling. It is at this point that Bush drops his head and shuffles along while she uncomfortably, but pointedly avoids him. A picture tells a thousand words and video tells volumes.

Can anyone tell me why anyone would want to continue Bush or GOP policies?

[MyAudacity]

I hope this title is misleading. Because Bush is still our President....., and whether we like him or not. No other country should be disrespecting him.

[AnthonyVolpe]

It works two ways.

[mairs]

Yes it does. Bush has very little actual respect for the leaders of other countries. To him they are there to facilitate his arrogant desires. Turn about is fair play.

[MikePatronSaintofTruth]

Excuse me, but if you had half a brain you would be disrespecting him right now. . . obviously, half a brain is too much to ask from you. Tell me one substantive reason why this failure of a human being should be "RESPECTED"!

[JerseyGirlLivinginLA]

It is not the person being disrespected that matters in this situation. It's the "Office of the President." Or I'm sorry Mike, were you raised in a barn?

[Marmotta]

Sorry, but CNN didn't do the best job reporting this one. Bush didn't shake any hands because the meeting was held at the White House and Bush had just spent quite a long time greeting everyone and shaking hands. It would have been silly for him to reshake all the hands again. I think it's obvious that the G20 are all professional and courteous (even with people they don't like) and wouldn't just unanimously snub Bush before the photo. It's not really the same as high school. (as cgoodie pointed out below)

[stuckintx]

But if everyone had just spent quite a long time together, I'm sure they all shook hands there.
Then, as protocol, they shook hands again because it was a photo opp. They just didn't shake HIS hand. It's a statement to what regard he is held.

[Kendala]

Bush is an elitist snob who knows that everyone hates him -- the whole world. All of the idiots who voted for him should be throughly ashamed. Look what has represented our country for the last 8 years. What a LOSER. Thank god he will be gone soon -- forever I hope.

[RobChattaTN]

my hunch is: he doesn't care one wit!! (what anyone thinks of him or his deeds)

he never did care what others thought, even when he ran for prez.
he didn't care about Katrina or the economy.
(his buddy, Paulson, took care of his Wall Street banker friends -- with OUR $$$ -- and the hek with us!)
he sure care doesn't now about us or the world!
he can't WAIT to get out of D.C. and back to brush-wacking!

[dphilip]

You guys are enjoying this one so much you don't give a damn that it's a bogus story...
I never did think there was anything to that whole "Bush Derangement Syndrome" thing..hahah.

[farmerdave]

That was a misleading clip - you could say bogus, but it still looks pretty bad when seen as presented. I was surprised there was no clarification by CNN.

[forceblade]

What was misleading? Even if the meet-and-greet took place earlier (which I doubt) the disdain for Bush was painfully obvious to anyone with eyes..

[MikePatronSaintofTruth]

Uninformed people like you are so pathetic.