A political scandal is gathering pace in Poland. Officials of the Polish administration are accused of releasing racist statements against US President-elect Barack Obama. Poland’s large opposition party Right and Justice said that the remarks had been voiced by the Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, the Dziennik newspaper wrote.
“Why does Barack Obama have Polish roots? Because his grandfather ate a Polish missionary.” This is the joke that Sikorski supposedly distributed in his ministry. The minister, the newspaper wrote, explained afterwards that he had heard the joke from someone else. However, Witold Waszczykowski a spokesman for the National Security Bureau, confirmed that he had heard the joke from Sikorski and added that he would be ready to testify at court.
The head of another opposition party of Poland, The Union of Leftist Democrats, Wojciech Olejniczak, said that he had heard Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chairman of Right and Justice, telling the same joke, Newsru.us says.
In addition, Artur Gurski, a spokesman for Right and Justice, stated last week at the Polish parliament that the election of Barack Obama would “mark the end of the white man civilization.” Spokespeople for the Social and Democratic Party of Poland filed a legal complaint in connection with Gurski’s racist remarks, which, as they said, dishonored the Polish administration. If convicted, the deputy can be sentenced to up to three years in prison.
It is worthy of note that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was also involved in a racist scandal connected with Obama. He described the former Illinois Senator as a handsome and tanned young man. Berlusconi was harshly criticized for those remarks, but he said that it was only a cute compliment that he made for Obama.
“Why are they taking it as something negative? If they have no sense of humour, worse for them,” he said. Later, he told Sky TV-24 Ore that his comments were meant to be “cute” and bashed those who disagreed, saying they are “imbeciles, of which there are too many.”
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“However, Witold Waszczykowski a spokesman for the National Security Bureau, confirmed that he had heard the joke from Sikorski and added that he would be ready to testify at court.”
Is it a crime in Poland to have a sense of humor? I’m confused.
lol apparently it is a crime. Besides. He’s the biggest disaster that could befell America.
As far as handsome goes, that’s the last thing I’d call obama. I always thought he was rather ugly. Although, I must say that SA’s pres. Zuma wins handsdown. His eyes pop out and look like they go in different directions, his nose is ugly, he’s always licking his lips while checking out women with those shifty eyes (he’s got 3-4 wives and 20-30 kids already). And when he looks down, you see that huge bump at the back of his head and it makes him look like a conehead. Cartoonists like to draw a showerhead on there, because during his rape case, he said he wasn’t worried about getting HIV because he showered afterwards. Ugh. Enough to make you vomit all over the place.