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Opinion: Barack Obama confronts the all-important tattoo question

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From the no-question-gets-unasked department:

While he was blowing off West Virginia (and paying the price for that on Tuesday), Barack Obama spent several recent days campaigning in Oregon (where the May 20 primary now looms as his latest must-win). As part of his foray into the state, he made time for a brief chat with Portland’s alternative newspaper, the Willamette Week.

The session wrapped up with this query:

Question: ‘If you had a tattoo, what would it be and where would you put it?’ Obama: ‘Uh, I cannot imagine any circumstances in which I would get a tattoo.’

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The candidate then allowed that if placed under gunpoint, ‘then I suppose I’d have to have [my wife] Michelle’s name tattooed somewhere very discreet.’

The rest of the interview, which covered more conventional ground, can be read here.

-- Don Frederick

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