Posted on 02/18/2006 2:50:02 PM PST by Anne_Conn
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is quoted in this week's The Economist as saying: "I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I'm a patient victim. I endure everything. I sacrifice myself for everyone."
Many Italian politicians behave theatrically – and often irresponsibly. Mr Berlusconi is one of them, and so is Roberto Calderoli, the Italian minister of Institutional Reforms. Today, the Italian "Jesus Christ" – forced Mr Calderoli – one of his ‘apostles' – to resign because on Italian state television last Wednesday the latter had provocatively shown that he was wearing a T-shirt with one of the Danish Muhammad cartoons beneath his shirt.
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Calderoli sounds like the kind of guy we should have playing for our team. Maybe we can make a trade.
And maybe Berlusconi could find some nerve somewhere. What an embarrassment.
This controversy has entered The Twilight Zone.
The minister donned a t-shirt with the bomb-turbaned Mohammed. 10 Libyan animals are dead from the resulting protest. Shouldn't he be given a promotion?
How about trading Mineta (Sp?) for him and making Calderoli Secretary of Transportation? I bet Calderoli wouldn't object to profiling.
Didn't Berlusconi get in trouble at some point for making disparaging comments about Islam?
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