re: #268 Charles

Because they weren’t meeting at that point. The fact is that every one of the leaders of the front runner countries went to Copenhagen to lobby for their countries. If Bush were President, I have absolutely no doubt he would have done the same.

Yup. It’s a relatively recent development, but having heads of state appear to pitch to the IOC has become a de facto standard. We’ve done it before, and so has everyone else.