is this an urban legend? i checked snopes and it's not there. this is hilarious!
on edit: probably from 'the onion'!
http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/wwn/20050805/112325400025.html BUSH'S SHOCKING SECRET TATTOO
Friday August 5, 2005
By CAL RANIER
PRESIDENT George Bush is hiding a shameful secret that he believes would have lost him the election if his family-values followers found out about it.
The Prez is hiding a tattoo on his upper right buttock that praises pot smoking, reveals a source who was pals with young George in the wild hippie days of the 1960s and early 1970s.
"It's a small tattoo of a marijuana leaf with the words, 'I love Mary Jane,' " reveals the source. 'Mary Jane' was a popular slang term for pot in the '60s."
One disgruntled former White House aide told Weekly World News the President "most likely got it in 1972 when he was AWOL from the National Guard."
"He was a party animal back in his Guard days and he probably got it when he was hopped up on liquor and cocaine," says the source.
"I've got a little 'Backfield in Motion' tattoo running across the top of my behind, and that thing hurt like the dickens. The President's tattoo is fairly large so it probably hurt like hell, too."
White House spokesman Scott McClellan bristled at questions about the tattoo at a daily news briefing, telling reporters that "what the President may or may not have done under the influence of alcohol in a sleazy tattoo parlor 33 years ago has no bearing on his ability to conduct himself as the leader of the free world today."
Bush was just as tight-lipped. Peppered with shouted questions and comments like, "Who's Mary Jane, Mr. President?" and "I hear she's smokin" from the Washington press corps as he trotted to a helicopter on the White House lawn, he spun on his heels and snapped: "If I had a tattoo of a woman's name, it would be my wife. And it isn't Laura." -- a statement that some reporters took as a confirmation, but others simply called "confusing."
A second Washington source with close ties to the President says he has long heard rumors about the tattoo, but he didn't believe them -- until he saw the picture.
"Now I know why he never takes his shirt off in public," says the insider. "Even when he's around friends at his ranch in Crawford, Texas -- and I don't care how hot it is -- he keeps his shirt on."
Friends of First Lady Laura Bush say she "turned red as a beet" when she heard a photograph of her husband's tattoo secret was set to appear in Weekly World News.
"She said, 'I told him to get that hussy taken off his rear years ago, but would he listen? No!' " says one pal.
"Now we're going to be a laughingstock. We'll never live this down."