Obama: "I cannot imagine any circumstances in which I would get a tattoo.

[depakid]

If you were under duress.
If a gun was put to my head?

Yes.
Then I suppose I'd have to have Michelle's name tattooed somewhere very discreet.

From an interview in Willamette Week.

http://wweek.com/editorial/3427/10974/

Also his opinions on medical Marijuana:

Would you stop the DEA's raids on Oregon medical marijuana growers?

I would because I think our federal agents have better things to do, like catching criminals and preventing terrorism. The way I want to approach the issue of medical marijuana is to base it on science, and if there is sound science that supports the use of medical marijuana and if it is controlled and prescribed in a way that other medicine is prescribed, then it's something that I think we should consider.

[cali]

1. I like the answers to these questions

particularly the medical marijuana one.

[Vinca]

2. I can appreciate that. I'd never get a tattoo, either.

The thought of being 90 years old in a home and having the rose on your flabby ass a subject of amusement is too horrifying a thought.

[depakid]

5. That raises the important question: "has any US president ever had a tattoo?"

On a brief search, one (somewhat dodgy) source asserts:

Both Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were reported to have a tattoo of their family crest somewhere on their bodies, although the specific location is not known.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006012803722

[tanyev]

28. Does a brand count?

Cartoon on Bush recalls Yale frat hazing
BY KIMBERLY CHOWS AND JACK MIRKINSONS
Contributing Reporters

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau '70 said he thinks a little-known fact about President George W. Bush '68's past -- that his first mention in The New York Times occurred in 1967 when, as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger -- deserves more national attention.

On Sunday, Trudeau's cartoon "Doonesbury" featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer explaining the President's position against current anti-torture legislation by revisiting a series of 1967 Yale Daily News articles that exposed DKE's rush activities, which at the time included brandings and alleged beatings. Soon after these stories were published, the University's Inter-Fraternity Council fined the fraternity for performing "physically and mentally degrading acts," and the Times published an article in which Bush defended the brandings, comparing them to cigarette burns.

The News article, published Nov. 3, 1967, featured a photograph of a half-inch high "D" burned into a pledge's naked backside. Trudeau drew his first cartoon for the News for the story -- a picture of smiling pledges, naked and bent over at the waist, with a figure holding a DKE branding iron standing over them.

In a News story the next day, Bush is quoted calling the branding "insignificant." He said he did not understand how the News "can assume Yale has to be so haughty not to allow this type of pledging to go on."

http://www.godeke.org/News/PhiAlumnus_GeorgeWBush9.2.htm

[seasat]

31. Bush has one, It's John McCain.

He's tattooed to Bush's ass. Of course, it was a impossible feat until Bush marked the spot for him.

[Retrograde]

39. Don't know about presidents, but

King George V of England reportedly had one: he was a young man in the Navy when he got it.

Sounds like something Teddy Roosevelt would do! What about JFK? He was a Navy guy as well. As was Carter, but I can't picture him with a tat.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. Nixon had a tattoo of a leprechaun on the head of his penis.

No, I just made that up.

[izquierdista]

14. If you donate your body to a medical school

The students can have big yucks trying to guess what it originally looked like before the ink spread.

[Retrograde]

37. I'm with you

My grandfather had tattoos (he was in the Navy in his teens) so I always associate them with Very Old People. They can look very good on young skin, but even ones done in the last 20 years or so seem to have migrated a bit as the person aged.

I have had temporary tattoos, though: I got tired of looking at them after a while so I was glad they could be scrubbed off.

[Poll_Blind]

3. I like these answers. The medical marijuana answer has relevance on our prison system.

The first one about tattoos is political non-sequitur. I have a tattoo. I could care less what his opinions of tattoos are.

I really like the medical marijuana answer, though. That has relevance to me. Not from the pot-smoker's point of view but from the prison population point of view. We have faaaaaar too many people behind bars for drug-related offenses, especially marijuana.

It's just a joke how the war on drugs has turned the 20+ million American marijuana smokers (however they are motivated to smoke it) into criminals.

PB

[Shakespeare]

4. OBAMA HATES BODY ART! I REFUSE TO VOTE FOR AN ANTI-BODY ART CANDIDATE!

Most excellent statement on medical marijuana.

[PermanentRevolution]

9. I'm tired of you single-issue body-art activists!

At LAST! We finally have a candidate willing to stand up to the power of the BodMod Bloc and refusing to pander to Big Tattoo! Take your weird pierced-up ink-stained votes and shove 'em!

:hide:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Perfect reply on medical marijuana

Because the whole "war on drugs" has been a distraction and was designed basically to allow the CIA to get money for black ops that Congress wouldn't approve.

[BlooInBloo]

7. TATOOGATE!!! OOOHHH NNOOOEESSSS!!!!

I kan haz tattooz?

I'm in ur tat2 parlur. I'm stealing ur ink!

[Dhalgren]

8. I wonder if Michelle has a tat?

:loveya:

:blush:

[FSogol]

11. I doubt it. She's not really part of the tattoo generation. n/t

[Dhalgren]

45. Yeah, you are probably right.

I want to take this opportunity to say that I do not support her husband (and I have never, never supported Clinton), but I think that Michelle Obama is an articulate, beautiful, intelligent woman. I admire her a great deal and would never in any way denigrate her or her accomplishments.

:hi:

[Heather MC]

19. Yes a "tramp stamp"

:rofl:

[jakem]

23. wow. inappropriate much?

[Heather MC]

32. Gee Whiz Lighten up it's freaken joke!!

[Qutzupalotl]

36. Being funny would help.

[Heather MC]

38. I laughed that's all I care about.

[me b zola]

10. My secret wish during flag-pingate

Was that Obama get an ass-kicking tattoo of the American flag and whip it out when the stupid topic came out in a debate with McCain. :D

[Lucky 13]

20. HA.

He gets asked why he doesn't wear a flag pin and, with no verbal response, he rips his shirt open to reveal A BIG AMERICAN FLAG across his chest.

That's even better than my suggestion which was to just jam the pin directly onto his chest.

:rofl:

[Exilednight]

12. Then he's never been drunk while wandering the streets of Juarez with old college buddies. n/t

[smalll]

13. Listen up, Obama kids! Next time you're about to deface your body, ask yourself, WWOD?

What would Obama do? "Just Say No!"

[Lucky 13]

21. TOOO LATE

Inked and proud.

[bunnies]

15. No tats?

minus 10 points for Obama. x(

[Forkboy]

16. Tats are one of the trendiest things going right now. Good on him!

:evilgrin:

[RainDog]

18. funny

I'm so out of it. I told a friend of mine, back in 2000, that tats were sooooo 1990s.

I was wrong.

as far as Obama - of course there is NO WAY I would EVER vote for someone who does not have a tat. jeeeeeeeeezus. the nerve of that anti-tatism stance.

[Forkboy]

34. I actually love the artwork I see in many tats.

But damn, everyone and their brother thinks they need one now. Time for a new fad. :)

[RainDog]

40. yeah, some are nice

but they are definitely no longer about any indie subculture, etc. when Jr. is getting one with his mom at the parlour.

[Forkboy]

41. Hell, Jr's mom WORKS there.

:D

[Bucky]

17. Too bad. We've not had a tattoo in the White House since...

Pat Nixon got her ass-antlers in 1972. She never told her hubby, but rumor persist that Brezhnev knew.

[Bluenorthwest]

22. Very pleased with the full interview

And with the answer on the Medical Marijuana program.

[JI7]

24. not surprised, he doesn't seem like the type to get a tattoo

i like his position on medical marijuana very much.

[NeedleCast]

25. Throwning Obama Under the bus

As a person who is extensivly tattooed, this is the one issue where I demand my candidate to see eye to eye with me.

I'm switching my support to Hillary (and, by default, McCain).

[RaleighNCDUer]

35. Like Hillary got tattoos. I like to see that.

On second thought, no I wouldn't.

[TrogL]

26. We're in trouble

Obama is a thinker who gives lengthy, reasoned responses to controversial issues.

He'd be Prime Minister of Canada in a heartbeat.

Is he electable down there?

[cali]

29. In a word? Yes.

partly it's the fortuitous political zeitgueist, partly it's that McCainiac is an accident waiting to happen. Partly it's that Obama is a savvy and very tough fighter. Partly it's Howard Dean's work strengthening party infrastructure, and partly it's that Obama has an efficient and smart campaign and a shitload of money.

[4_Legs_Good]

27. Typical pot smoking hippie and pro-science liberal

GAWD, when will these liberals get over their love of science!

Geesh, isn't it enough that if the Government says it's bad for you, it is, NO MATTER WHAT!!!

Science can't prove that if you're terminally ill with only 3 months to live, and, while pot smoking MIGHT ease your pain and make the rest of your existance bareable, that if you WERE to live another 30 years, you might get CANCER from smoking pot!

Did they ever think of that? NOOOOOO, just because science says that if you're dead you won't suffer the LONG TERM effects of marijuana.

Science - FEH!!!

David

[ecstatic]

30. Why not tattoo his daughters names instead of Michelle's?

In case they get a divorce? :shrug: :sarcasm:

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42. "I would because I think our federal agents have better things to do"

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The tattoo thing, I could give a shit.

[RichardRay]

44. I understand re the tat

I'd get one in a second if I could only think of something I wanted indelibly stamped into my hide for the rest of my life, and I'm over 60 so I don't even have that long to go!

Maybe a half face tribal in black?

Maybe this one?



Yes, he did that, the eyelids must have been especially fun. He teaches communications at a college someplace...