George and Barack, BFF
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Obama certainly has hit the ground running, but as he pointed out himself, we only have one President at a time. That's why Obama did not attend the G20 summit last week, for example. Still, it seems that the media is trying to paint a picture of a co-presidency anyway. This story is long on the speculation but short on teh evidence: America has never seen anything quite like this: The president and president-elect acting like co-presidents, consulting and cooperating on the day's biggest crises. "It's pretty unusual," said George Edwards , a presidential expert at Texas A&M University, in College Station . What Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer calls "the split-screen presidency" is the result of several historic forces converging this fall: — The 24-7 nature of the global economy, which demands timely reaction. — Incoming and outgoing presidents who have personal and political reasons to show that they can manage a crisis. —