Posted on 05/24/2008 12:54:38 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama owns a piece of T.J. Wells’ heart.
And of his leg.
You may have heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve, but your political convictions on your calf?
That’s what Wells, a culinary arts student-to-be at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, has been doing since May 12, after the Illinois senator made a lasting impression on him during a May 4 speech at Headwaters Park.
On May 12, Wells went out and got a full-color portrait of Obama tattooed on the back of his right leg – a place that was chosen, he says, because he can cover it or show it off, depending on how he feels at the moment.
“It’s the first politician that I watched that I felt I could believe. Every politician seems so rehearsed and practiced that it’s not real. I watched him, and I saw the passion in his voice,” Wells says. “It was fun seeing a lot of younger people there, and there was a lot of energy.”
Wells got together with tattoo portraiture artist Ryan Hadley of Studio 13 in Fort Wayne to create the tattoo. Hadley used a campaign photo from a cover of Time magazine as a guide.
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well thats cute
Wow..just when I thought I had seen some of the biggest idiots in my life this winner comes along.
It looks more like Benson (Robert Guillaume) then Obama.
LOL, mark of the beast???
Blind loyalty...for an ideology that is going to get us all killed. 
and her hair was serpents....
Those tattoos are really going to be something to show the grandkiddies!
I’ll bet this makes him catnip to the ladies...
From the Rush parody commercial for a tattoo removal service: “When I was 14, I had my band’s name tattooed on my forehead, but I didn’t know how to spell Maroon. I felt like such an outcast until the Liberty Tattoo Removal program. . . .”
“culinary arts student-to-be”
Translation: he works at McDonald’s.
Well, the artwork is pretty good, but it doesn’t look like hussein...
what a genius < \sarcasm>
isn’t that the truth, 24/7 is where it is at. I still go back and listen to some of the old parodies once in a while, funny as heck.
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