Stupid & old white guy

Michelle Obama keeps Silvio Berlusconi at arm's length at G20. Silvio Berlusconi is the 5ft 6ins ladies' man with the flair for the tactless remark, Michelle Obama is the 5ft 11ins tough cookie First Lady with a determination as steely as her arms.

Source: the Telegraph

By Tom Leonard in New York

Silvio Berlusconi reacts as Michelle Obama holds out her hand for a formal handshake Photo: AFP/GETTY
The meeting between the pair at the opening reception for the G20 summit in Pittsburgh bore all the hallmarks of a classic US-European impasse, with the American president in the middle, looking daggers at his Italian counterpart.
While Mrs Obama exchanged hugs and kisses with Browns, the Sarkozys, the Medvedevs and Germany's Angela Merkel, she didn't appear to want to come too close to Mr Berlusconi.

The Italian prime minister came alone to the reception at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden, primarily because his wife is divorcing him.
He has been embroiled in a series of scandals involving call girls and a lingerie model, and even his staff have suggested he is a sex addict. Mr Berlusconi's mastership of the public gaffe has also been extended to President Obama, whom he memorably described as "young, handsome and tanned".
Mrs Obama may have decided that if any woman was going to be snapped with Mr Berlusconi on Thursday night, it wasn't going to be her.
A handshake, delivered with the caution of someone feeding a dead mouse to a crocodile, was all the Italian president got from her despite his best efforts to turn on the Latin charm.
As Barack Obama gestured to his wife in introduction, Mr Berlusconi threw up his arms in apparent delight.
It is not clear whether he was merely appraising her appearance or encouraging her to come to him for a hug but a severe-looking Mr Obama clearly wanted to move him along, dispatching Mr Berlusconi with a series of back pats which probably in no way made up for the one that he didn't get from the First Lady.
Fresh from reports that he was snubbed by the American leader at the United Nations in New York, Mr Brown looked delighted as he and his wife, Sarah, were pictured, smiles all round, in a line-up with the Obamas. Mr Berlusconi missed a second chance to eke a warmer greeting from Mrs Obama as the First Lady whisked off the leaders' spouses for a separate dinner at a farm where they ate food raised through sustainable agriculture.