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

[Pulemerci]

I don't blame him. Most countries don't have the hygenic standards that we do. Don't we get a flu virus this time of year (and EVERY YEAR) from China?

[biglover]

You are kidding me Pulmerci - please tell me you are kidding me. You don't believe what you just said. Ever hear of washing your hands - soap and water.

[Pulemerci]

Soap and water! I knew I shouldn't have gotten that flu shot that the medical experts say you should get.

[3worldusa]

GET USED TO IT FRAT BOY,NOBODY LIKES YOU. THEY DIDNT EVEN LOOK AT HIM ,NO RESPECT FOR THE GRTEATEST CRIMINAL OF THE LAST 25 YEARS. WHY THIS MAN WAS NOT IMPRISONED IS BEYOND MY BELIEFS. I WONDER IF SMU IS STILL GOING TO BUILD HIS LIBRARY? IF THEY BUILD IT I HOPE ONLY BAD THINGS FOR THAT SCHOOL.

[BookDesigner]

Shouting is bad for your blood pressure. Try the caps-lock key at the left of yor keyboard!

[MikePatronSaintofTruth]

BOOK DESIGNER, I AM 83 YEARS OLD AND HAVE A HARD TIME READING THE SMALLER SCRIPT. I APPRECIATE PEOPLE WHO USE CAPITAL LETTERS IN THEIR POSTS. OF COURSE, YOU PROBABLY NEVER CONSIDER PEOPLE OTHER THAN YOURSELF, SO YOU WOULDN'T CARE IF CAPITAL LETTERS HELPS OTHERS SEE WHAT IS ON THE WEB, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT I DON'T HAVE MUCH ELSE I CAN ENJOY, BECAUSE I AM NOT ABLE TO WALK SO WELL ANY MORE SO I ONLY RARELY AM ABLE TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.

[gurukalehuru]

I'm very glad to see Bush get the snubbing he so richly deserves, but If Berlusconi was there, it's a bit of hypocrisy on his part. Also, for that matter, on the part of CNN.

Let us not forget how truly messed up the Bush years were, but let's remember that it took a whole lot of willing participants to make it that way.

[medici]

I don't blame them. Dubya's such a loser.

[americanalien]

Now people, this is how a child President looks after being thoroughly spanked by his country.

[RC1]

I don't blame him for not shaking hands, I've seen folks use the restroom anfter doing their business and walk right out without stopping to wash their hands.

Me, personally I don't want on my hand what another put on theirs after using the restroom.

[BookDesigner]

How (and why) would you know that they just used the restroom (and whether or not they washed their hands)?

[cgoodie]

Get real! This is a non-starter...President Bush had already greeted, as host, all these leaders. The others here were meeting each other for the first time during this photo op. This "snubbing" would not happen in the real world. This is very irresponsible journalism and will have the maybe "unintended" result of alienating a lot of Americans from the rest of the world. Because most of us, regardless of how we feel about President Bush, feel it would be anti-American to snub even him.

[reeses30135]

I knew that most Americans didn't like him, but I had no idea that the rest of the world held him in such disdain. I do feel sorry for him. What a shameful way to end your Presidency. How does he face his daughters and wife? I'd feel so ashamed if my father or husband was known around the world as an idiot bully.

[americanalien]

I have no sympathy for him, I'm sorry.

[Horus45]

He doesn't care because he and his cronies have made themselves Billions of dollars off of his presidency, including his own father Bush 41 with his Carlyle Group.

[MorpheusXNYC]

This is actually a misunderstanding. It wasn't that they weren't shaking his hand, it's that he wasn't shaking theirs.

Little known fact, but Bush is a germaphobe like Donald Trump.

When Obama was interviewed about meeting Bush for the first time years ago after being elected to the Senate, he noted that after she hands, Bush immediately used hand sanitizer lotion and offered Obama some as well.

Bush is an eccentric millionaire. What else would you expect?

[Teadye]

I'm thinking the same thing, but the other leaders don't seem too upset about passing over him. They are not even acknowledging his presence. His own body language speaks volumes as well. There's more going on here than just an aversion to touching hands.

[chronic]

Exactly!!

[Cilantro33309]

Yeah, none of them even looked at him, or even attempted to shake his hand. You would think someone would try and be rebuffed if he were a simple germaphobe. Nice try at an explanation, but add all that to his body language and he looks like the new kid in his second grade class.

[JoeHurley]

You are correct. Bush doesn't offer his hand to anyone in a group setting like this.

I immediately thought of the Obama hand sanitizer incident too.

But there was no misunderstanding... Draw your own conclusions about the intent of CNN to present the incident as they did.

[Bub]

Common for ex substance abusers to become germaphobes, so I'm not surprised.

However germophobia doesn't explain the lack of eye contact or verbal interaction.

It's quite plane this guy is a dead man walking. His damn the torpedoes supply side economic policies has brought global civilization to the edge of ruin.

Not to many people could accomplish that in only 8 years. But the reverse midas Bush turns to ruin or to dust everthing he touches.

[brynn6]

Interesting, but how do you explain all the hand-holding with the Saudis? Every time I've seen video of him with them they are holding hands.

[provgrays]

Look at Bush's body language; head down and shuffling feet.

It only took two wars, a shattered economy and the contempt of the entire world to break the hideous pride of this privileged ape.

[bighillaryfan]

I know whether you are like us, huge Hillary fans, or huge Obama fans, you have to believe in Free Speech.

The George Bush Lies...

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

[cyndeewi]

I almost feel sorry for the man.

[b1rd67]

... and then I think about all the sufferning and death he is responsible for and I think "he's getting off way too easy!"

[Cilantro33309]

Feel sorry for war criminals much? I'll bet if your son, daughter, or spouse had been killed because of him, whether you were American, Iraqi, or Afgan, you would not feel the slightest bit sorry for him. Those people number in the millions.

[Bushwillresign]

I thought this was all about the stock market being so low. Bu$h didn't grow the economy like he stated. It's sad that all Americans are losing retirement money because a few voted for the wrong person, twice. We need more legacy pics with the market "downs" in the corner, NOT.

[Svendem]

Everybody liked or pretended-to-like Bush abroad? What nonsense. I don't think anybody ever liked Bush much.

[americanalien]

true word!

[Lilly06]

lol...

[americanalien]

Rick Sanchez Rocks!

He along with Keith Olbermann and Jack Cafferty are now in my top three favorite list.

What goes around, comes around for sure. When Bush was appointed President back in 2000, he came into office acting like an emperor. He ruled like a BULLY and almost destroyed the world. But look how low he has fallen? Bad people always lose in the long run. He deserves every bit of shame that he is going through right now, I have not one ounce of sympathy for him. He is simply reaping the seeds that he has sown as the scriptures say:

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
(Galatians 6:7)

For those of you who don't believe in God, this is your answer. He is a just God and he will not allow the wicked to escape unpunished.

[Bosoxfan]

Well,well,well. That didn't take long, did it? The arrival of the left wing judgmental God squad. God had as much to do with B being a disaster as president ,as he did with Slick Willie being very successful. Get off it!!! We've had eight years of that lunacy and we don't need more of same.

[DTOM]

Destroyed the world? Isn't that a bit dramatic? What about saving millions of lives in Africa? Before you deny this is true, please do the research.

[Americano]

No, I aslo, do not think "destroy the world" is an extremist view of Bush!

[cyndeewi]

What good he did in Africa is nothing compared to the millions of lives destroyed all over the world. Now you do some research!!

[3worldusa]

SARCASM RIGHT?

[Soulsurfer]

Don't be ridiculous.

[chronic]

That could be said right back to ya.

[reeses30135]

Americanalien , you are right in the 'alien' descriptor. Christians are aliens here in this world. When you speak in scriptures, non believers do not and cannot understand. I agree that Bush is getting what he has put out into the world.
I believe that this economic turmoil preceeding the election was not happenstance, but rather ordered by God. Nothing happens randomly in this world. I do believe and know that God is in control- whether we understand it all or not.

Isn't sad to have nothing to believe in, to be so intelligent that you know nothing unless it is tangible?

[LadyCroom]

Isn't it sad to mouth worshipful nonsense about some all-powerful mythological character that chooses to let innocent children starve to death, racism run rampant, millions drown in tidal waves and lose their homes in wildfires or in foreclosures orchestrated by greedy monsters, mothers watch their sons and daughters murdered and maimed in senseless wars .... If to be "intelligent" is to use one's human brain to react to the tangible aspects of existence, on one's feet and in the streets, fighting human injustice and mitigating the effects of natural catastrophe, then call me intelligent. The rest of you stay on your knees and keep praying.

[provgrays]

People can be moral and compassionate without having someone else's beliefs jammed down their throats.

[Bub]

Six million innocent jews didn't live to see justice done to their villians.

[3worldusa]

HOW ABOUT THE 34 AMERICAN SAILORS SLAIN BY ISRAEL WHOSE FAMILIES NEVER GOT COMPENSATED OR JUSTICE. GOOGLE U.S.S. LIBERTY

[3worldusa]

34 INNOCENT AMERICAN SAILORS NEVER GOT THEIR JUSTICE OR COMPENSATION FROM THE SLAUGHTER AT THE HANDS OF THE ISRAELIS