Two Fetishes Meet: Leather and Obama

Katherine Mangu-Ward | January 2, 2009

In the third week of January, come to D.C. for the 25th annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, stay for Obama's inauguration.

Via Mary Katharine Ham

Comments

|1.2.09 @ 11:58AM|#

Obama was on What's Happening?

Colonel_Angus|1.2.09 @ 12:05PM|#

He holds his books like a chick.

|1.2.09 @ 12:06PM|#

Anyone able to pick out what book he's holding?

|1.2.09 @ 12:10PM|#

Anyone able to pick out what book he's holding?

Fight Club.

|1.2.09 @ 12:25PM|#

Pro Lib-

Funny, in the re-run I recently viewed, he looked awfully chubby.

|1.2.09 @ 12:26PM|#

He could even do the splits.

|1.2.09 @ 12:47PM|#

Silentz | January 2, 2009, 12:06pm | #
Anyone able to pick out what book he's holding?

Harvard Law Review

cunnivore|1.2.09 @ 1:18PM|#

Shouldn't this have been posted by Gillespie?

|1.2.09 @ 1:24PM|#

He seems so lighthearted and carefree, like a young Audrey Hepburn. I was wrong; he's not holding Fight Club, he's holding Breakfast at Tiffany's. I did not have him pegged as a Capote fan.

Orange Line Special|1.2.09 @ 2:02PM|#

This is the type of coverage you get from Reason, rather than, for instance, trying to think up - and have voted up - questions for our Leader. Even norml is more coherent and effective than Reason.

</|1.2.09 @ 2:14PM|#

Despite the link to Mary Katharine Ham she doesn't have any pics of her in leather fetish gear:( It is some sort of gay male festival.

BakedPenguin|1.2.09 @ 2:25PM|#

"Let's talk about leather..."

|1.2.09 @ 2:30PM|#

Anyone able to pick out what book he's holding?

You need to zoom in on the photo. It's titled The State And Revolution. Sounds boring.

|1.2.09 @ 2:46PM|#

^dats a joke. It really is Harvard Law Review.

This uncropped version might display better:

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/ppotus_07_04/candidates19.jpg

He looks baked.

nobody u no and a big fan of j|1.2.09 @ 5:30PM|#

if joe si going to mal, i am going too.

Mad Max|1.2.09 @ 11:44PM|#

Ah, bigbigslacker, it's so sad to see that They (TM) have gotten to you. The photo you linked to was obviously doctored, just like the footage of the so-called "moon landings."

The book he's holding is actually The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (the novel which inspired the movie *Birth of a Nation*). It was perfectly innocent - Obama was simply exploring his white heritage. He wants to cover the whole thing up, anyway, so that his wife doesn't get the wrong idea.

But that's not the *real* scandal. My cousin's hairdresser's sister's banker's ex-roommate's bartender has documentary proof that Obama is a Level 34 initiate into the Illuminati, as well as the Grand High Master of Opus Dei *and* the boss of the Priory of Sion.

|1.3.09 @ 1:54AM|#

I'd bet a dollar that's a 'shop. The shadows are wrong and the head is too high and too big for the body.

|1.3.09 @ 12:38PM|#

Somebody check the kerning.

The Wine Commonsewer|1.3.09 @ 8:06PM|#

I like leather......Jackets, gloves, sofa's, office chairs, bucket seats, and steering wheel covers.

nobody u no and a big fan of j|1.5.09 @ 6:01AM|#

leather is murder. good thing obama escaped the clutches of right wing education and progressed to open mindedness.