Meeting the Big Shots

Marcelo Ebrard was in Washington yesterday, where he met with Barack Obama and asked him to legalize the undocumented Mexican immigrants living in the US. With Peña Nieto meeting the Pope recently, is this going to start a sort-of arms race of famous meetings for the 2012 hopefuls? Are Manlio Fabio Beltrones and AMLO placing frantic calls to Lula's secretary?