{"id":12042,"date":"2009-04-02T03:48:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T03:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_plays_down_rift_over_economy_on_eve_of_summit\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T03:48:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T03:48:51","slug":"obama_plays_down_rift_over_economy_on_eve_of_summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12042","title":{"rendered":"Obama Plays Down Rift Over Economy on Eve of Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But despite calls for unity from Mr. Obama and the British prime minister, Gordon Brown \u201d\u201d the host of the Group of 20 meeting that formally begins Thursday \u201d\u201d the French and German leaders held a joint, and combative, news conference to underscore their differences with the Anglo-American approach to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>While President Nichoals Sarkozy of France did not repeat an earlier threat to walk out of the conference \u201d\u201d \u201cI just got here,\u201d\u009d he joked \u201d\u201d he made it clear he would reject an agreement that puts off stringent new regulations on banks, tax havens, and hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decisions need to be taken now, today and tomorrow,\u201d\u009d Mr. Sarkozy said. \u201cThis has nothing to do with ego. This has nothing to do with temper tantrums. When it comes to historic moments, you can\u2019t circumvent them.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/02\/world\/europe\/02prexy.html?hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But despite calls for unity from Mr. Obama and the British prime minister, Gordon Brown \u201d\u201d the host of the Group of 20 meeting that formally begins Thursday \u201d\u201d the French and German leaders held a joint, and combative, news<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12042\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,149,200,468,588,478,616,151,667,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-europe","category-france","category-g20","category-germany","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}