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Daily Photo: Obama Jokes Around at G-20
April 02, 2009 3:45 PM
ABC News' Kirit Radia Reports: There was at least one lighter moment as President Obama joined other world leaders for the G20 meeting in London this week to address the worldwide financial crisis.
In the photo below, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gives a big thumbs-up as he drapes his arms around President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.
What caught our eye was not only Berlusconi's big grin, but seeing the American and Russian presidents joking around together. Earlier in the week, the former Cold War adversaries agreed to a continue reducing their nuclear arsenals.
G20 leaders (first row from left to right) include: Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, (second row from left to right) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thai Prime Minister and chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Abhisit Vejjajiva, U.S. President Barack Obama, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and New Partnership for Africa's Development Meles Zenawi. World leaders meet Thursday for the G-20 summit aimed at fixing the crisis-wracked global economy.
(FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images)
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That's a great pic!
Posted by: amoreena | Apr 2, 2009 4:03:04 PM
Unbelievable! Everybody on the photo is wearing a smiling face. Pres. Obama has made magic to people!
Posted by: RS | Apr 2, 2009 4:17:41 PM
from Cicero -
“A nation can survive its fools
and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city.
But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely,
his sly whispers rustling through all alleys,
heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears no traitor;
he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim,
and he wears their face and their garments
and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation;
he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city;
he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague.”
Posted by: gag | Apr 2, 2009 4:30:34 PM
Gag -- You are right. Rush Limbaugh should be brought up on treason!
Posted by: Debbie | Apr 2, 2009 4:37:11 PM
The picture doesn't mean a lot, but such small signs of civility do carry weight. (A fact our last president understood, with the occasional shoulder-rubbing disastrous result.)
Posted by: jhw539 | Apr 2, 2009 4:38:12 PM
Love it!!! This is what great leaders and great leadership can do! Kudos Mr. President!
Posted by: Dee | Apr 2, 2009 4:42:04 PM
gag, it's gonna be okay! The plague named GW has gone, so you can come back out INTO the sunshine!
Posted by: Clint | Apr 2, 2009 4:45:54 PM
President Obama is a man of the time. What a fluent intelligent academic brilliant man. He got it all; This what is killing the GOP. Non of its leaders can speak fluently and clearly like him.
Posted by: john McHenry | Apr 2, 2009 4:51:42 PM
I love, love, love my President! He is too adorable. Yet, strong and confident at the same time. God bless Our new president and the first family.
Posted by: LaShawn | Apr 2, 2009 4:55:09 PM
wait, this is not king Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz??
Posted by: mumhammed | Apr 2, 2009 5:18:05 PM
They are laughing at YOU people. They know their actions are robbing the workers and further enriching the bankers of the world.
I'm sure they are congratulating Obama on his courageous actions to bring his nation into sevitude via his "National Service Acts" and HR1444 pending.
Posted by: Madras | Apr 2, 2009 5:19:44 PM
Yes We Can! Change We Can Believe In!
And they look like they are having fun
Posted by: fempharoh | Apr 2, 2009 5:34:12 PM
Interesting... You'll show this picture, but not the one where OBAMA BOWED TO THE SAUDI KING??? If it were Bush you'd be ALL OVER it like a wet dishrag! But seeing as the Obamessiah is the one who BOWED to the Saudi King I guess you'll just let it slide, eh? Your bias is pathetic.
Posted by: Anon | Apr 2, 2009 8:10:47 PM
Obama hasn't changed anything. Guantanamo prisoners will just be shipped to other offshore jurisdictions. The financial system rescue is the same as Bush/Paulson. Geithner was part of the NY Fed which oversaw the entire problem from the start but did nothing. The Patriot act is still in place and the constitution is still equivalent to the value of toilet paper.
Posted by: Alex | Apr 2, 2009 9:51:36 PM
Are you people joking. Our "wonderful president" as most of you seem to think is a joke. He is going to put us in so much more debt that he will make it impossible for us to get out of. They are all laughing at him, not with him. Why do you think he is there. He is there asking to borrow money from all these countries. They realize that with all the new spending our Pres is going to be doing over the next 4 years, it will put us in a situation where we have to get on our knees and pucker up to them. You lib's need to start getting your facts, stop blaming Bush for our problems and get a life.
I seem to remember in the not to distant past many of our Dem Politicians finally revealing that they were on the take and received who knows how many kick backs from the Banks to turn the other cheek.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen | Apr 2, 2009 10:47:39 PM
@RS,nyc poem.U myt get an award at the ARHFC (anual racist hermits fundamentalists' convention)@ Anon,Alex,Yoster: u act like Obama never ever ever said he would repair relations with america's 'enemies'.one thing you gotta understand is that there are human beings in those countries and havn good relations is the best weapon against terror.obama isnt the messiah;he never said he was!that was a term brought about by republicans in a jealous rage about the way the country and the world sees obama.As for debt,sorry but u dont get to dig a deep hole and at the same tym criticise someone for spending money to fill it up.Bush waged and expensive war and lead a wasteful regime,financially,politically and diplomatically.Now obama's gotta fix it.What i see here is progress.Kudos to Obama and to Americans for ELECTING(Yeah electing him.He beat ur Leslie Nielsen wannabe by almost 3 states to 1)him.
Posted by: Alex | Apr 3, 2009 2:35:13 AM
gag: you are exactly right. Traitors like Rush Limbaugh, who want to see the president, and thus the country, fail should be tried for treason.
Posted by: Howard Beale | Apr 3, 2009 9:00:55 AM
anon: don't be an idiot. He bowed because he towers over people. It is a simple gesture of courtesy, nothing more.
Posted by: Howard Beale | Apr 3, 2009 9:02:50 AM
By the way, latest news from the NATO meeting is that only the UK offered troops to help in Afghanistan. All the other countries turned their backs on the chosen one. Spineless. The American taxpayer and our military will keep them safe.
Posted by: Obamahehateme | Apr 4, 2009 8:18:16 AM
i need someones help i am disabled but yet i dont get disability yet thats crazy they can send all kinds of money to the other countrys but they have people american people that need help right here
Posted by: margaret | Apr 5, 2009 2:38:26 AM
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