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Obama is handsome and even tanned, says Berlusconi
November 7, 2008 - 6:47AM
Italy's famously impolitic Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi described US President-elect Barack Obama today as "young, handsome and even tanned".
Berlusconi appeared to be joking about America's first black president at a news conference following talks with Russia's president.
The Italian leader, who has a history of controversial remarks, was asked by a reporter about the prospect for US-Russian relations, which have plummeted to Cold War-levels in recent months.
Berlusconi responded by saying that the relative youth of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 43, and Obama, 47, should make it easier for Moscow and Washington to work together.
Then he said, smiling: "I told the president that (Obama) has everything needed in order to reach deals with him: he's young, handsome and even tanned."
Medvedev did not visibly react to the comment.
Italian news agencies said Berlusconi later defended the remark to reporters as he returned to his hotel in Moscow, calling the statement "a great compliment".
"Why are they taking it as something negative? ... If they have the vice of not having a sense of humour, worse for them," the ANSA news agency quoted him as saying.
Berlusconi is infamous for eyebrow-raising comments.
He once compared a German legislator to a Nazi camp guard, asserted after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that Western civilisation was superior to Islam and more recently, that the new Spanish government had too many women.
Italy's only black legislator, Jean-Leonard Touadi, called the comment embarrassing.
"In the United States, a joke like that wouldn't just be politically incorrect, but a great offence to this amazing example of integration, which it seems the Italian premier should take as an example," Touadi said.
November 7, 2008 - 6:47AM
Italy's famously impolitic Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi described US President-elect Barack Obama today as "young, handsome and even tanned".
Berlusconi appeared to be joking about America's first black president at a news conference following talks with Russia's president.
The Italian leader, who has a history of controversial remarks, was asked by a reporter about the prospect for US-Russian relations, which have plummeted to Cold War-levels in recent months.
Berlusconi responded by saying that the relative youth of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 43, and Obama, 47, should make it easier for Moscow and Washington to work together.
Then he said, smiling: "I told the president that (Obama) has everything needed in order to reach deals with him: he's young, handsome and even tanned."
Medvedev did not visibly react to the comment.
Italian news agencies said Berlusconi later defended the remark to reporters as he returned to his hotel in Moscow, calling the statement "a great compliment".
"Why are they taking it as something negative? ... If they have the vice of not having a sense of humour, worse for them," the ANSA news agency quoted him as saying.
Berlusconi is infamous for eyebrow-raising comments.
He once compared a German legislator to a Nazi camp guard, asserted after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that Western civilisation was superior to Islam and more recently, that the new Spanish government had too many women.
Italy's only black legislator, Jean-Leonard Touadi, called the comment embarrassing.
"In the United States, a joke like that wouldn't just be politically incorrect, but a great offence to this amazing example of integration, which it seems the Italian premier should take as an example," Touadi said.
Bush has tact (forced to), however clownish it is. When he blurts out things, its more of stupid accidents he cant help himself with. Berlusconi is insanely tactless and embarrassingly self-important with his retardedness, visibly proud of them.
He is a bad comedian who's cover ID is being a world leader. The stuff he pulls is just shamefully comedic if it wasnt so stupidly ignorant and bigoted.
He is a bad comedian who's cover ID is being a world leader. The stuff he pulls is just shamefully comedic if it wasnt so stupidly ignorant and bigoted.
No matter how many times I watch this it never gets old:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
That blond bitch gets me every time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
That blond bitch gets me every time
the fact that they said he is a terrorist and a one man terror cell because of his name says it all!
Palin's greatest hits.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E
- Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
*no answer*
Just unbelievable how you can pick someone like this for your VP.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E
- Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
*no answer*
Just unbelievable how you can pick someone like this for your VP.
Obama comes out as French
Just hours after Americans elected their first ever black President, Barack Obama has dropped a political bombshell by announcing that he is in fact French. The revelation has sent shock-waves through Washington, with Republicans furious with themselves for having failed to spot the one major flaw in their opponent’s apparently impenetrable political armour.
'I can’t believe we missed it’ wailed a distraught John McCain. 'This would have won it for us for sure.’ Despite constant attention being focused by Republicans on his father’s allegedly Islamic roots, on the fact that his surname sounded like 'Osama’ and his middle name was 'Hussein’, no-one had picked up on the fact that 'Barac’ is a popular French name, and a clue to the fact that Obama was actually born in Marseilles, and smells strongly of garlic.
'We actually had this photo of him wearing a stripy jumper and a beret, with a string of onions around his neck,’ admitted a McCain campaigner. 'But we put all our efforts in trying to identify the guy next to him in case he was a terrorist.’
The effects of the revelation are expected to be widespread, with the new president already announcing that cheeseburgers are only to contain high quality French cheeses such as Brie or Camembert and the Surgeon General recommending that pregnant women drink a couple of glasses of red wine every day.
The Washington monument has been replaced by a replica of the Eiffel Tower and Hollywood is to stop making action thrillers and rom-coms, switching to slower placed, more thoughtful French language films about the internal anguish of a bereaved poet with writer’s block. Baseball, NFL football and ice hockey will also make way for cycling, rugby and boules. Political reporters demanding to know when these changes might be put into effect were not able to find anyone to answer their questions, as all of Washington was closed for lunch between 12 and 2.30.
American voters have reacted badly to the news. 'I thought a black president would be the end of the world’ said one Alabama resident, 'but French! That’s even worse!’ 'Eurgh – just taste this French style bacon – they have forgotten to flavour it with cinnamon and vanilla!’ Thousands of US residents have been spotted making their way towards the border, where the Mexicans have had to increase their patrols. The Republicans have already started campaigning for the 2012 election with the slogan 'Obama – Non!’
- newsbiscuit.com
