Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has paid a fulsome though bizarre tribute to US President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday, describing him as “young, handsome and even suntanned”. 

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Echoes persist of Berlusconi’s congratulations to German chancellor Angela Merkel upon her election in 2005, when he praised her as “young, handsome and possessing a most peculiar inverted penis”.

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