Italian Prime Minister hails 'tanned' Obama
 

Is this for fucking real?


ROME - Italy's gaffe-prone Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday praised U.S. president-elect Barack Obama as "young, handsome and tanned", prompting harsh criticism from left-wing politicians.
He made the comment in Moscow in answer to a question during a joint news conference following economic talks with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.
"I think that there is going to be good cooperation" between Obama and Medvedev, said Berlusconi. "He has everything needed to reach deals with him: he's young, handsome and even tanned."
The remark sounds like "a dangerously ambiguous insult," said Dario Franceschini of Italy's centre-left opposition Democratic Party, calling on Berlusconi to apologise "immediately".
"Berlusconi cannot control himself in the best of circumstances," Franceschini said, adding: "He forgets that his words hurt our country's image in the world."
Berlusconi, a staunch ally of outgoing US President George W. Bush, responded to the criticism by saying he had intended his remark as a "great compliment."
The flamboyant self-made billionaire, who is himself permatanned, and has had cosmetic surgery and hair implants, is known the world over for politically incorrect comments and gaffes.
While campaigning for elections in 2006, he famously said that Chinese people "boiled babies for fertiliser" during the Mao Zedong era.
In April this year, Berlusconi likened EU regulations to what "mosquitoes do on elephants' backsides, with little result but annoying all the same".
"With his heavy and unfortunate jokes, Berlusconi discredits Italy on the international stage," said Massimo Donadi, parliamentary leader of the smaller opposition Italy of Values party. "Never has a prime minister fallen so low."
On Thursday the Italian leader also warned that Obama, who will become the United States' first black president on January 20, would have to deal with inflated expectations from a world that has portrayed him "almost as a messiah."

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oh yes.
He can do worse than that, he was just trying to pull another of his cabaret numbers, the asshole.

lol

ha ha ha the motherfucking sod! berlusconi is beyond shame. why he keeps getting reelected is a fucking mystery of human stupidity.

Hahahahahaha! Awesome.

it's not a mystery that italians have avidly chosen to go back to the dark ages and have been trying to do so for the last 8 years or so. I'm afraid this time around things are gonna get bad. I'm truly ashamed to be represented by this clown and I wish we could get rid of him fast.

gonna be a long time since 2013.
he's 72.

my fucking country, man.

They should play one-on-one basketball. Slam dunk on dat bitch.

he is tanned, what's the fucking deal?

I agree. Obama isn't black as black.. and a lot of italians would probably be pretty close in colour if they were really tanned. Maybe he is just a bit dumb OR maybe he sees race as insignificant? that would be nice.

the concept of race is nothing but bullshit.

and berlusconi is lamped, not tanned. fuck, he's prolly got the suntan tattooed on his fucking skin.

when i was a little kid i spent something like 10 hours a day on the sea (Sardinian folks know what i am talking about). i ended up each and every summer with friends from northern italy calling me "morocco".

the thing is, berlusconi needs to get the fuck out.

Black skins tans. It's skin. It tans.

I know the context is that he's known for "politically incorrect" gaffes, but black people do get tans. Surely you all tell your black mates they look like ink when they get back from holiday?

I thought Berlusconi owns italy.

So it's not just a bad understanding of the English language?

Barack is black. He's definately a black man. We'll leave it at that

you seen him naked?