Berlusconi: Bush Is Just 'Normal Guy with Feelings'

maybe he meant "feelers"?

you may as well take all the milk ian, because you certainly take the cake - if this is your idea of a glowing endorsement...

 

This is the key sentence out of all that fluff. Even from somebody who apparently "revels" in his role as third Euro stooge from the right, he won't say that the reasons for being in Iraq are just. He'll say that Bush says so, but won't say that he feels that way himself (as he did referencing Afghanistan). Afghanistan is fact. Iraq is based on Bush's word.

 

You gotta love that these statements of support and praise are coming for a man who would, if not for his diplomatic immunity, be on trial right now for financial fraud and a few other things to boot. Before anyone demands proof, here you go: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1779724.stm

I'd be better off having ex-convicts as my references on a résumé than Silvio Berlusconi. Oh, and the bastard bought something like 5 scudetti, if Roma, Lazio, Juve and Inter fans are to be believed.

 

He's of somewhat dubious character but he's sure no Clinton.

Sincerely,

Vince Foster & the Branch Davidian children.

 

Who doesn't love Silvio? He's my favourite bad guy.

 

Thanks for the non sequitur, but no one is talking about Clinton here, so I see no need to compare him to anyone. But while you're at it, why don't you swing by the DC United forum and talk about how Adu is certainly no Johan Cruyff, and probably not even Garrincha, either.

 

Sometimes I have to wonder about the actual age of some posters, all over these boards, but most particularly in here.

 

The clown posing for an official EU meeting with other EU PMs.

Bravo Silvio, go where you deserve to go (jail).

I guess you love him because you haven't the misfortune to have him as a PM.

If bush is a liar, berluska is the king of liars.

 

check out the player forum some time... 14 threads about laces

 

I can imagine. I'll go check it out. I wonder if anyone here contributes to at least one of those 14?

 

Somehow this seems wrong.

 

That's the problem. Normal guys are not supposed to be president. They will screw up big time as we have seen so far since 2000.

 

"Normal" compared to Silvio, maybe? The Economist had a two page graphic outlining all his fraudulent activities, must have been about 2 years ago. Makes Bush look like a boy scout.

 

Bush behaves alot like many reformed alcoholics and coke-heads

 

Hehehehe. This is just like the time Bush looked into Putin's eyes and declared he had a good soul and he loved his children. Nevermind that he's a former KGB agent.

 

This normal guy stuff is such a load of crap. Populist politics have taken over in this country and the office of president has never been so degraded as in the last 50 years. Once upon a time, American presidents were educated, literate men who one could look up to and think "it's nice to see a guy smarter than me in a position of such importance." Nowadays, the more a politician is akin to a white trash average joe, the better liked he is.

Kissing babies, attending Nascar races, throwing out first pitches, shaking hands with low-brow morons who vote based on what their pastor tells them anyway, movie careers prior to presidency, beer-promoting younger brothers, monolingualism, speeches being written by others and many, many other things have made the office a running joke. Thomas Jefferson was an author, philospoher, political theorist and even an architect. Wilson had a Ph.D. and was a professor at Princeton, of all places. FDR was published in economics journals and even Hoover was an excellent engineer. What the hell happened to this? Presidents in the last few decades have ranged from slightly-above average joes to bumbling idiots. Either way, most of them were complete pawns of the larger party, no doubt due in part to this lack of intellect.

Bush is a normal guy, and that's the problem. He's too much like the average person and we're not supposed to be ruled by average people. Hell, that's why we elect people to do these jobs for us, on the assumption that they'd do it better than you or me. I fail to see how W's grasp of economy or world affaird exceeds that of the most average of Americans.

 

That's what people said when Andrew Jackson got elected.

 

This might seem like a cheap shot at first, but it really is true.
From the "Why Bush is stupid" piece on Slate: http://slate.msn.com//id/2100064/

Basically, to straighten out his life, he became a hard core born-again. He chooses not to think, because thinking allows doubts to creep in, and he requires complete and unwavering faith in religion.
Now, this might help him battle his addictions, and it might even make him a great politician (which is different from statesman, mind you) but there's absolutely nothing "normal" about shutting off your capacity for independent thought.

He's a simple, unspectacular man, but he is neither a common man nor a normal man.

 

He's NOTHING like the average person. The Walker and Bush families are among the richest families in the country.

 

1. No, unfortunately it is not a doctored photo. He did it, you are an italian citizen who doesn't seem to follow italian news.

I know it could look like a faked photo but...

http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/gesto/gesto/gesto.html

Source: La Repubblica (I am sure that given you're an italian citizen you certainly know that La Repubblica is the major italian newspaper alongside with Corriere della Sera)

2- Do you really voted for "forza italia" those shameless who call themselves "azzurri"? This carpetseller-like trick to mix soccer and politics is telling of the person.

We will see the results of the coming EU elections.