It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

Here's the G-8 leadership strolling through the sand at their annual summit meeting. Aside from the absurdity of a bunch of old guys wearing sport coats to the beach (but ever so casually and stylishly) and the absurdity of China's absence at the G-8 (Canada and Ireland are included but not China?) the other thing that hit me from this photo is that the leaders are actually arrayed more or less in accordance with their ideologies. Move Putin over more to the right and the correspondence would be complete. Note also Bush separated from the pack with close allies Koizumi and Berlusconi close but not too close.

Looks like a J-Crew catalog 
UPDATE: More fun with G-8 photos here.