Berlusconi does it again

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 1:55pm

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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Merkel. If it is any of them

by Grant on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 4:56pm

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

It will be Obambi again -

by AllanGreen on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 6:38am

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

by JamesAllisson on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 8:53am

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

Greets

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