Berlusconi does it again

Posted By Joshua Keating Monday, September 28, 2009 - 2:55 PM Share

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

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GRANT

5:56 PM ET

September 28, 2009

Merkel. If it is any of them

Merkel. If it is any of them it will be Merkel.

 

JAMESALLISSON

9:53 AM ET

September 29, 2009

Merkel is really good

I don't think, that its Angela Merkel. By the way, she is voted again in Germany.

Greets

Zauberer Betriebsfeier

 

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