Obama a hit among Italian nativity scenes

upi via email no link | 12/4/8

[NativeNewYorker]

NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A vendor spokesman in Naples, Italy, says police shut down a shopping area offering nativity figurines, including one of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.

The unidentified spokesman said police shut down the Via San Gregorio Armeno shopping area of the city in an attempt to stop certain open-air vendors who are suspected of operating without authorization, the Italian news agency, ANSA, reported Wednesday.

Among the nativity statue offerings set to be offered by the Christmas vendors were ones featuring the U.S president-elect. Also included in the holiday theme are Inter Milan soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his coach, Jose Mourinho.

Model Carla Bruni, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, also has a nativity statue in her honor, as does Sarkozy and Naples soccer star Ezequiel Lavezzi.

ANSA said the vendor dispute was settled after negotiations between vendors and local officials, leaving legal vendors to once again offer their celebrity holiday wares.

[freedumb2003]

[stevio]

Does he have a baby face or an adult face when he’s in the crib?

[Jaded]

This is just vulgar.

[ScottinVA]

As the third Wise Man (of questionable ethnicity)?

[Rastus]

All of these celebrities as stand-ins for the holy family and nobody cares, but if you draw a flattering picture of Mohammed, it’s go time.

[End_Clintonism_Now]

Here's one they missed:

[ZULU]

Well, every Nativity Scene needs a donkey.

[Cheesel]

That’s nuts. I’ve also seen nativity scenes with cats and dogs in place of the humans. To me, that is sacrilegious.

[Arrowhead1952]

As the third Wise Man

As the third Wise Man Smart @$$!

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

Elmer Fudd

[mgist]

Bull manure.This would be making headlines on CNN, MSNBC, etc. if true.

[gundog]

I just can’t wait for Easter.

[darkangel82]

Vulgar is the word for it.

[End_Clintonism_Now]

Have a vewwy Mewwy Chwistmas you wascally wabbit!

[BenLurkin]

ttiuwp

[YOUGOTIT]

90% of all shops in Naples and the Surrounding areas are owned or run or made to pay monthly bribes by the Camorra (Mafia of Naples).

[rollo tomasi]

The people really do want to throw God/Jesus away and embrace a fallible human “savior” who pimps out Change/Hope for a living.

Next planet please.

[WOBBLY BOB]

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/04/Obama_a_hit_among_Italian_nativity_scenes/UPI-87671228416282/

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I saw a similar picture like that years ago. It was JC(Jimmy Carter.)!