Lula glad he's not in Obama's position

WASHINGTON: Foreign leaders hoping to have good chemistry with US President Barack Obama may want to take a lesson from Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The Brazilian president, a charismatic former union leader, hit it off with the former Chicago community organizer at a White House meeting on Saturday with banter about verbosity and, of all things, getting lost in the Amazon.

In his opening remarks to reporters in the Oval Office, Lula said he expressed sympathy to Obama for the many crises the United States faced.