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Bambi to duck G20 summit
No sense soiling his hands til he has to ...
Barack Obama will keep his distance from this weekend's G20 summit and will not meet with any of the world leaders attending the event, it emerged yesterday.

John Podesta, part of the troika overseeing Obama's transition to the White House, told reporters the president-elect would meet none of the leaders coming to the summit in Washington. "It is not appropriate for two people to show up at this meeting," he said. "The president-elect will respect the fact that we have one president at a time."
Oh he will, will he ...
The Obama camp cast his decision to stay away from the summit as a sign of respect for George Bush's authority as president. It could also be politically convenient for Bush to maintain sole ownership of the crisis and the increasingly controversial $700bn (£445bn) rescue package for the banking insurance and mortgage industries.

Obama's spokesman, Dan Pfeiffer, said he would send no observers to the event. "It's the president's meeting," Pfeiffer said. Obama's advisers would meet visiting leaders, but the president-elect planned to remain in Chicago while the summit takes place.
Posted by: Steve White 2008-11-12
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=254972