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[Caught in the Net] All Politics is Personal

So sometimes you just see something you gotta write about, which cannot wait until a critical mass of sorta-kinda-similar links emerge, so this is going to be something of a mishmash column, beginning with the amazing:

Join or Die series by artist Justine Lai. It’s an ongoing series of paintings depicting the artist having sex with all the US Presidents, in order (she’s made it up to #18, Ulysses S. Grant, who was a drunk and also extremely corrupt in an absent-minded sort of way, and so possibly fun in bed). According to her artist’s statement, Lai is “interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives.” I’d say she succeeds at that, and I look forward to seeing the series as it develops, though the prospect of Tricky Dick getting his dick wet is not one I care to contemplate overlong, and George W. Bush in someone’s bush is likewise unappealing, but . . . okay. That’s enough with dirty presidential puns.

All right, that link is awesome, but now I feel the need to go digging around for other political/presidential/porn links (without mentioningpolitical MILF porno movie Who’s Nailin Paylin? in more than passing, like so). I turned up an interesting top 10 list: The 10 Sexiest First Ladies, from a couple years ago. Nobody’s gonna argue with the inclusion of Jackie O, and I guess Nancy Reagan was a starlet at one time (and the picture of her on the lap of Mr. T is hilarious), but I think the inclusion of Martha Washington is questionable; at least they didn’t try to slip Mary Todd Lincoln in there.

That list was also made before the appearance of Michelle Obama on the national political scene, and she surely deserves a place on any such compilation — she’s probably the buffest first lady we’ve had since the days when first ladies had to help build log cabins and such; just look at the crazy furor over her toned arms, which she occasionally shows off in sleeveless outfits.

Barack Obama, of course, is generally hailed as the sexiest president since JFK, and here’s a nice blog post with some “unofficial research” on Obama’s place in the Presidential Sexiness Spectrum. It is kinda nice to have a president and first lady who seem to be into each other romantically, and whom one can vaguely imagine having an intimate relationship together without bile rising in one’s throat.

And, finally, from last year, but still a classic: Naked Obama riding a Victory Unicorn.

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