Sleeping Bush And The Seven Dwarfs

From today's NYT editorial:

There could hardly have been a better moment for the annual meeting of the Group of 8 to prove its worth. Instead, it showed how pointless and embarrassing these gatherings have become.

It did not take an awkwardly open microphone to display the huge gap between the summit meeting’s communiqués and political reality. The entire weekend was an ill-disguised exercise in evasion on the major issues.