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Berlusconi does it again
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi thinks it's hilarious to call black people "tanned," and he's just going to keep on doing it:
"I bring you greetings from a person who is called...a person who is sun-tanned...Barack Obama," the smiling 72-year-old politician told a crowd of cheering supporters in Milan on Sunday.
"You wouldn't believe it, but they go sunbathing at the beach together - his wife is also sun-tanned."
Berlusconi first got in trouble for calling Obama "sun-tanned" last November.
If any of you are gamblers, an Irish bookie is now taking bets on who Berlusconi will insult next. Here are the odds:
3/1 Angela Merkel
7/2 Muammar al-Gaddafi
4/1 Gordon Brown
5/1 Nicolas Sarkozy
6/1 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
7/1 The Pope
8/1 Kim Jong-il
14/1 Dmitry Medvedev
18/1 Hu Jintao
18/1 The Queen
25/1 Kevin Rudd
33/1 Stephen Harper
20/1 Brian Cowen













Merkel. If it is any of them
Merkel. If it is any of them it will be Merkel.
It will be Obambi again -
It will be Obambi again - Berlusco will keep at it until people get over it - i.e the fact that we have a permanently tanned president ;)
Frankly, you guys still see this as "insulting" - I can think of better things to do. Most of the country was exctatig to have our first "black" in the drivers seat - but if you're white, you can't point it out?
Talk about walking a fine line... or just being irrelevant.
Merkel is really good
I don't think, that its Angela Merkel. By the way, she is voted again in Germany.
Greets
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