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How does a woman deal with protocol and sexism at the same time????
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Monday September 28, 2009 14:21 by ud
How Berlusconi behaves in public. Certain criticisms of Michelle Obama have been doing the rounds of MSM because she did not allow Mr Berlusconi is celebrated for his sexism, one of his escorts thought that he would aid her political |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4She should have given him a good kick in the nuts.
He obviously tickles ltalians who wish him represent their interests : http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0928/berlusconis.html
He arrived back in Italy to speak to his thronged admirers air to joke yet again about the Obama suntan.
"The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has repeated his reference to Barack Obama's "tan" – and this time made a wisecrack about Michelle Obama's skin colour, too. Berlusconi told a Milan rally of conservative supporters yesterday that he was bringing greetings from the United States from "What's his name? Some tanned guy. Ah, Barack Obama!"
"You won't believe it, but two of them went to the beach, because the wife is also tanned."
Last week photographs showed Michelle Obama greeting many leaders at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh summit with a kiss but stiffly holding out her arm for a handshake when she came to greet Berlusconi. Pictures show Berlusconi gazing at Mrs Obama's gown, instead of her face, and holding his arms out as if in delight at what he sees, while the US president looks on, apparently not amused. Berlusconi has been on the defensive over a sex scandal that erupted last spring after his wife complained that the 72-year-old prime minister was infatuated with young women and announced she was divorcing him. Prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Bari are investigating as a suspect in a cocaine investigation a local businessman who has said he sent some 30 young women to dinners and parties at Berlusconi's Rome palazzo and Sardinian villa. The businessman told investigators he paid the women's expenses and in some cases extra money in case they had sex with the prime minister.............. [Berlusconi added later on in his speech] "But he's all there, in a big way, and that should make us all happy and satisfied because we need the greatest democracy, the greatest country, to be in trustworthy hands,".
= not mauled over and pinched on the big ass, we presume Silvio?
Though when you think about ending all this usual back-slapping, hugging, first wives' photos and luncheons with the odd first husband looking bored or intimidated, then not only do you deny Silvio a bit of groping but you'd end up stopping the Pope from having that pleasure of his ring being kissed. Who knows where it would end?
Well sometime after the *whole* episode, which saw gaffe upon gaffe- upon insult
*on the world political stage*
Ye can do what you want in your mansion with money and very good friends to protect you
etcetera but to expose Italian politics to ridicule (not so good); but sure they voted him, they
support him, he can get anything he wants= it's a bit late to be embarassed at indulging
the ol' lech: http://www.unita.it/news/italia/88949/berlusconi_insist...nzata
I note the dignified silence of Mrs Obama in this debacle. *nice*
I suppose wealth, power and indulgence is justified to some gilded lilies but most people are just trying
to get by.