Only thing I've got issue with is the Times translating PM Truman's outburst as "dickheads". Coglioni is ... well, right ballpark, wrong end of the pitch, and sounds so much better than the phallic playground insult. These contiental types sure know how to do ranting politicians.

Probably has something to do with the macho culture in Italy. Because why would you want a PM like big eared Tony (UK) or a Harry Potter look alike (NL) if you can get a "real man" to be your PM? A man who made his mark in the cut throat business market and has proven over and over again that he's willing to pass laws to benefits his business activities and has no respect for democratic principals what so ever.... Especially when he's willing to use language that every Italian understands (yet nobody really wants to hear) and makes bold statements everyone likes but doesn't give and fundation on how to pay for it.

He might compare himself to Jesus but if he doesn't watch out it will not be because he turned water into wine or walked on water but almost everyone wanted to nail him to a cross and hang him out to dry.

On the upside Italian politics aint boring as there is always a country around that you haven't insulted this week.....

"I'm too sexy for this job, too sexy for this job, so sexy it hurts..."

*Snigger*

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by Chambler
Probably has something to do with the macho culture in Italy.

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Similar reasons have been suggested for the Russian Federation electing President Putin. His greatest domestic crisis came not from wars or leaky submarines, but when it became known he preferred imported beer to vodka!

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by thelostsailor
"I'm too sexy for this job, too sexy for this job, so sexy it hurts..."

*Snigger*

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What do you think I was trying to go for with the thread title?

Any minute now, Berlusconi himself might well go and make a remake of the Right Said Fred video... are there any other politicians who might raise an eyebrow, a laugh or both remaking a classic music video? Which song would it be, and why?

Christ, now I've done it, this reminds me of an MSN conversation the other day where I started having nightmarish images of Bush and Blair as Adam West-era Batman and Robin - and then started picturing various politicians as Batman villains! Scary, indeed.