More Berlusconi blunders

Comment Central at The Times catalogues even more blunders by Silvio Berlusconi, including this offensive inanity concerning victims of the recent Italian earthquake:-

“Of course, their current lodgings are a bit temporary. but they should see it like a weekend of camping”.

or this one in the wake of  Barack Obama’s election praising:-

Obama as a ‘handsome, young and also suntanned’ man (not perhaps the best phrasing for the first black occupant of the White House).

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