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'I Like Your Tan': PM's Obama Gaffe
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by AlanEvans | November 7, 2008 at 03:41 am
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The Italian Prime Minister has been blasted for his blundering welcome of the US president-elect after he praised Barack Obama's "suntan".
Silvio Berlusconi made the comment at a joint press conference with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev.
"I will try to help relations between Russia and the United States where a new generation has come to power, and I don't see problems for Medvedev to establish good relations with Obama who is handsome, young and suntanned," he said.
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at 08:06 on July 23rd, 2009
I'm sure President Barack Obama is a cool enough guy as not to look at the potential negative side of the "suntan" remark.
Sometimes people say things at the spur of the moment, and there are those that are ready, willing and able to jump on a word or comment and spin it into an international crime or the insult of the century. So some white guy in Italy used the word "suntan", so what is the big deal, or should it be a "big deal"??