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Silvio Berlusconi believes his candidate is the best because he is a "church-going Catholic"

And a starry-eyed sycophant.

Italy has not had a prominent position in any EU institution in recent times, except for the commission presidency led by Romano Prodi.

After 15 years of berlusconismo there isn't a qualified person left. Tajani? A dipshit boy who carried the glue bucket in Parioli to paper walls with Monarchist dazebaos. Couldn't even hold a pencil. The most exalting moment in his life was when Berlusconi knighted him in some sort of ritual of theirs.

Marcello Dell'Utri? Bloated mafia boss who likes to think he's got some culture because he's got some false Mussolini diaries and the original edition of Pinocchio. Taught soccer in an all-boys' Opus Dei school. But then, why not? The mafia produces 8 to 10% of the GNP. It's underrepresented in Europe. Dell'Utri as head of Eurojust. Right on.

Berlusconi? Hell, yes, take him away, Europe. He'll lighten up the drudgy corridors of Strasbourg. As Chirac remarked (article in l'Espresso), He calls you aside to look at starlet mags to tell you how many of them he's laid. The guy has seen more ass than a toilet seat.

(He actually referred to a bidet but Tom Waits comes over better in English.)

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 04:59:34 PM EST
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He calls you aside to look at starlet mags to tell you how many of them he's laid. The guy has seen more ass than a toilet seat.

Chirac said that?!? LOL LOL

by Nomad on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 02:42:23 AM EST
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Jacques Chirac 'unsettled' by Silvio Berlusconi's 'interest in women' - Telegraph (19 Jun 2009)
In remarks to a fellow guest, cited by l'Express magazine, Mr Chirac allegedly said he had been unsettled by the "rather strange guy".

While showing him the bathroom, Mr Berlusconi pointed to the bidet, and is reported to have exclaimed: "You have no idea how many pairs of buttocks that bidet has welcomed."

But even he was unsettled by the numerous magazines featuring naked women that were said to have been strewn around the villa. "I leafed through one; it was rather unseemly," Mr Chirac reportedly said.

"And then I asked him why he left all these magazines lying around." Pointing to the pictures, Mr Berlusconi's alleged response, which he rammed home by miming the action, was: "I've had this one here; that one too..."

Let's see whether Chirac is forced to issue a non-denial denial...

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 03:40:54 AM EST
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Chirac was a famous womaniser.

Though not in the Burlesquoni manner.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 03:46:34 AM EST
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He must have been a 'seemly' womanizer...

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 03:54:44 AM EST
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Chirac was in to quickies, like Kennedy. He had them on call. Stop the car, run up stairs, releave himself and get back before the lights changed. His chauffer blew the whistle in an English report but no one in France really cared much about it.

Chirac liked to get away to mix with conservative peasant stock types with whom he would eat traditional plates based on lesser known animal parts.  

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 04:31:45 PM EST
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Here's the original article:
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/chirac-et-le-cavaleur-berlusconi_768124.html

given that Chirac was not really 'shy' on this issue, it must have taken quite a stud to impress him...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 03:49:17 AM EST
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The tone seems to be not that Berlusconi is a stud but that he's crass.

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 03:55:33 AM EST
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I don't care either way as both seem entirely appropriate. The more I know, the more I wish I didn't know anything.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 04:10:41 AM EST
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Helen:
The more I know, the more I wish I didn't know anything.
Is that Socrates or Ecclesiastes?

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 04:11:50 AM EST
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Given what Monty Python said about Socratic thought;-

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.

I'll go with that.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 04:38:53 AM EST
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Helen:
The more I know, the more I wish I didn't know anything.

you have just described the bone-deep weariness of many italians, contemplating the present clusterfuck.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 05:22:18 AM EST
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