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Politics

Two Fetishes Meet: Leather and Obama

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.2.2009 11:50 AM

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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

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  1. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    Obama was on What's Happening?

  2. Colonel_Angus   16 years ago

    He holds his books like a chick.

  3. Silentz   16 years ago

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

  4. Episiarch   16 years ago

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

    Fight Club.

  5. Libertymike   16 years ago

    Pro Lib-

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

  6. Libertymike   16 years ago

    He could even do the splits.

  7. Syd   16 years ago

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

    Harvard Law Review

  8. cunnivore   16 years ago

    Shouldn't this have been posted by Gillespie?

  9. Episiarch   16 years ago

    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.

  10. Orange Line Special   16 years ago

    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.

  11.   16 years ago

    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.

  12. BakedPenguin   16 years ago

    "Let's talk about leather..."

  13. bigbigslacker   16 years ago

    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.

  14. bigbigslacker   16 years ago

    ^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.

  15. nobody u no and a big fan of j   16 years ago

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

  16. Mad Max   16 years ago

    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.

  17. Nortius Maximus   16 years ago

    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.

  18. joe   16 years ago

    Somebody check the kerning.

  19. The Wine Commonsewer   16 years ago

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

  20. nobody u no and a big fan of j   16 years ago

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

  21. wizard of oz books   15 years ago

    With many new announcement about the wizard of oz movies in the news, you might want to consider starting to obtain Wizard of Oz book series either as collectible or investment at RareOzBooks.com.

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