Obama not attending economic summit
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Published: November 12, 2008
President-elect Obama is keeping his distance from world leaders right now, and will not attend this week’s economic summit at the White House.
Those leaders have deluged him with congratulatory phone calls, and can’t help but be curious about what he’s planning.
But the president-elect’s aides say he’s serious about the one-president-at-a-time stand he took at his first news conference.
Hence, he’s politely declining requests for a meeting and will not attend this weekend’s 20-nation economic summit at the White House, even though he was offered a seat.
However, transition chief John Podesta says Obama’s advisers will keep tabs on the summit, and may offer some input.
Many of those leaders made no secret of their hopes Obama would be elected, and lots of them have been on the phone to Chicago.
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