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news.yahoo.com - 11/7/2008
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AP - Italy's famously impolitic Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi described U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday as "young, handsome and even tanned."
ace.mu.nu - 11/6/2008
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damianpenny.com - 11/8/2008
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Silvio Berlusconi puts his foot in it yet
again. Mark C....
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He's "young, handsome and even tanned."
latimes.com - 11/7/2008
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The Italian premier says the president-elect is 'young,
handsome and even tanned.' The Iranian leader wants the...
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Italian leader: Obama "handsome and even tanned"
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... "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.... Italy's only black lawmaker, Jean-Leonard Touadi, called Thursday's comment embarrassing. "In the United States, a joke like that wouldn't just be politically incorrect, but a great offense to this amazing example of integration, which it seems the Italian premier should take as an example," Touadi said. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russ... Joking? That was so funny I forgot ...
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