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VaLabor Donating Member (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 02:23 PM
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Which of the 3 B's will fall first - Bush, Blair, or Berlusconi?
Daggers drawn in Berlusconi's testy coalition

By Luke Baker


ROME, July 9 — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government was locked in a bitter feud on Wednesday, with some calling it the coalition's worst crisis and the opposition saying there was no longer a government to speak of.

MORE:
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-09-080625.asp?reg=EUROPE

So...who here knows more about Italian politics? Could Berlusconi be the first "coalition" partner to fall?

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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 02:51 PM
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1. Italy's governments have traditionally been more volatile.
But I don't care, so long as they all fall soon.
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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 05:21 PM
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2. Blair...
Bush will most likely when in 2004 (yes, I'm a pessimist) and there is little chance that he'll get impeached.

Berlusconi... I don't know, as I know very little about Italian politics, but it is reasonably possible taht he will fall after Blair bu before bush.
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Dirk39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-03 07:58 PM
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3. Hillary Clinton was in Germans' most popular...
TV-Talkshow last sunday - popularity doesn't equal quality - but one thing she said, made sense to me. Before Clinton was elected, the polls for Bushs father were much higher than they are for BushII now, nearly noone gave Bill Clinton a chance then...
And one german journalist was just throwing in, what Bill Clinton then said: "It's the economy, stupid!"
Being german, I don't have much hope for Europe to change, and I don't have much hope for the USA to change pretty soon.
I just have a little hope that Latin-America will change. And maybe this will cause a huge reaction at least among some Europeans and some US-Americans. Some people will be as loud as 1968, I'm not overly optimistic - optimism is just an american desease anyway :-) - but it could happen...
Dirk
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