Must have learned that one from Jacques Chirac, who while President pulled the same trick when his string of shady dealings as Mayor of Paris started to catch up with him. I always admired that. The size of his balls…
Really. I fear that what Clinton showed the rest of the world was how unimpressive our sex scandals are.
Well, Mark Sanford boosted our rep a bit. Flying to Argentina every time you need a piece of ass shows true dedication.
One day hill push them to day and in accordance with Italian custom he’ll be lured into the Senate chamber and promptly stabbed.
Oh, yeah, where’s the Honduran Supreme Court when you need them. 
OTOH at least I now can be confident I know who’s PM of Italy from one month to the next, they used to be Europe’s archetype of revolving-door coalitions.
How barbaric and primitive!
Really, more modern Italian customs, such as being drawn and quartered like they did to Mussolini, are called for.
Uh, don’t you mean David Vitter or Eliot Spitzer?
And thank God for it. The Frogs and Eye-Tals can’t match such dedication, whoring as they do in the garden spots of France and Italy.
Correction: Mussolini was merely hanged and left on a lamppost for public humiliation. He was not hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Er, fun as it probably was.
Actually there are doubts on how his body was treated. I have seen reports that it was a variation. They did not hang him first, they shot him and killed him (I never said that he died when he was hung) then stoned him, shot him again, cut him with bayonets, then hung and displayed, cut then even more.
And some places report that he even was “shot several times after his execution by a firing squad.”
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Posthumous_execution
Fun indeed. 
Given what led up to it? Total fun, unless a reader is a potential employer. 
Out of all the disgusting things this guy has said and done, this finally gets him pitted?
(Yes, Berlusconi makes me want to ralph.)
Fiennes, be that way.
I’m pitting the difference in reaction to sex scandals in America v Italy more than I am pitting Berlusconi himself.
In Clinton’s case, Monica really was a member of his fan club. Yet people reacted as if the matter was a harbinger of the Apocalypse or something.
In this case hardly anyone cares, even (or especially) considering there are bigger fish to fry with this guy. Why can’t our country be smart too?
Eh, I don’t think you can really say no one cares, Berlusconi’s sexual escapades have certainly been a fairly global story. I don’t follow Italian politics at all, and I’ve heard pretty frequent references to them.
Your right that the political concequences have been different for Berluconi then they were for Clinton, but I think that’s more a function of Clinton having a Congress that was determined to stick him with some scandal, while the Italian parliment seems bound and determined to actively help Berlusconi get away with just about anything.
<Bill Maher>Why can’t we be one of the cool countries ? Where the president has a permanent tan and there’s photos of him fucking his Versacce mistress on a boat, but nobody cares, 'cause that’s *amore *!?</Bill Maher>