It seems to me that if anyone was giving the cold shoulder, it was bush.  The leaders already in place seemed to be waiting for the leaders entering to initiate the hand shake.  Bush made no seemed to make no attempt to even make eye contact, let alone reach out and shake is hand.  I believe that this was an intentional gesture Bush made in front of the camera and it may represent his typical way of dealing with the world. 

To me that gestures his disinterest in any views except for those of his handlers.  It was a gesture saying:“Either your follow, or you don’t count”.

According to the White House he already shook all the leaders hands off-camera.

I wouldn’t shake this idiot’s hand either, so no surprise there.

This story was a hoax. Made up by CNN.

lol suckers

...he was looking for his mark on the floor for the photo-op (as were other leaders in the longer clip). Which is not to say he wasn’t still under-whelmingly welcomed (still less to suggest I would care if Bush was treated like the G20 Untouchable), but this is just CNN doing a crap job of its job.

One sentence (plus an “ouch”) over the top of a loop of a 15-second video clip constitutes drilling beneath the headlines?  Please.  Yes, it looks strange.  But other people were shaking some hands while skipping others.  He wasn’t reaching out and being rebuffed.  “Drilling beneath the headlines” would be finding out the story behind this - not posting a clip from CNN *Headline* News.  Were they all having coffee 5 minutes prior and he had shaken all the hands then?  Yes, I’d like to know the facts behind this.  Assumptions, however, do not the facts behind the story make.