WORLD> America
![]() |
'Mutts like me' - Obama shows ease discussing race
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-11-09 10:09 Obama told reporters that he has turned for advice to all "living" former presidents. But he then joked, "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances." Obama called Mrs. Reagan late Friday to apologize. Ironically, Obama's remarks came just a day after Italy's Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in an apparent joke, described Obama as "young, handsome and even tanned." Critics called the comment racist, while Berlusconi defended it as a compliment. |