April 14, 2008

REMEMBER WHEN UNILATERALISM MEANT WE WOULDN'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS IN EUROPE?:

Berlusconi heads to 3rd stint as Italy's prime minister (Reuters, The Associated Press, April 14, 2008)

The conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi was headed Monday evening for a return to power as prime minister of Italy, after the center-left leader conceded defeat in national elections.

Walter Veltroni, the center-left leader, said he had called Berlusconi to congratulate him because the result was clear, even though the final results were not in yet.

Pollsters' projections based on early results from the two-day election showed that the 71-year-old Berlusconi, a media magnate who was prime minister twice before, had a solid parliamentary lead in both the lower house and the Senate.


Then the Canadians, Germans, French, etc, go out and elect ever more pro-American governments.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 14, 2008 4:22 PM
Comments

Having Berlusconi back in power in Italy doesn't really mean anything!

It's like dropouts in high-school, they like to hang around togeather, but that doesn't make them any better.

Bush and berlusconi are now a perfect couple of dropouts in the International Community; in Europe (and between conscious US americans too) everyone makes fun on Berlusconi. Like on Bush.

Let's quote an italian Proverbe... "common desease, half relief" (i kept the rhyme)

Right, but still a desease.

Posted by: Fran Roll at April 14, 2008 7:45 PM

Bingo! Everyone makes fun of him, but he's the one laughing.

Posted by: oj at April 14, 2008 9:07 PM

Does Signore Roll consider Prodi to be a high school graduate?

Posted by: ratbert at April 14, 2008 11:17 PM

So the Italians vote and it doesn't mean anything. The Candians vote, and it doesn't mean anything. The Americans elect Bush, and it doesn't mean anything.

The only election that means anything is the election of Hugo Chavez! Jimmy Carter lives forever!

Posted by: Randall Voth at April 15, 2008 1:17 AM

I found some guilty pleasure in the election results for the small town of Laglio on the borders of Lake Como, where kaviar bolshevik Clooney owns a palace (good communists live in palaces of course). More than 60 % for the right, that's got to hurt for the man who joined his fellow communist Veltroni on the campaign bus last week.

Posted by: Peter at April 15, 2008 7:22 AM
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