President Obama is resting comfortably after being whacked up the side of the head. And this time we’re not talking about the mid-term elections.
The President took an errant elbow the upper lip during a basketball game on Friday and had to get 12 stitches.
The Associated Press has the details all sewn up:
Press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement that Obama was inadvertently struck by an elbow. The elbow’s owner wasn’t identified.
Obama received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor’s office on the ground floor White House after he returned home.
The president had traveled to nearby Fort McNair to indulge in one of his favorite athletic pursuits, basketball. It was a five-on-five contest involving family and friends and including Reggie Love, Obama’s personal assistant who played at Duke University.
Friends and family? What family? Was Michelle playing power forward? Aunti Zeituni leading a fast break? Sasha coming in off the bench?
C’mon, why do they try to make this sound like some warm, loving family get-together? Fact is, Obama was out there with his buddies playing hoops while the his daughters sat at home wondering where daddy was and Michelle wondered if Reggie Love is a name or a description of the services he provides.
Source: Associated Press
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Everyone is so awww the poor baby... when Bush almost chocked on a pretzel people laughed and called him stupid and then freaked out at the idea of Cheney being President.
I hope he takes his ball and goes home...to Kenya!
I wish they'd release the name of the guy that elbowed him in the fool head. I'd like to buy him a beer.
Anyone find something off in the story? 12 stitches because an ELBOW to the head??? I'm calling BS. When I was 4, I had to get 12 stitches in my head because I took a CEMENT BLOCK to the face. And then another 8 when I cracked my head open at a pool. 12 stitches because of an ELBOW!?!?!? No way.
And you have to remember Obama is the daintiest president of all time. His skin is very soft and fragile
P.U.S.S.Y.
Curtis, it's easy to open up a nasty gash with an elbow, when the soft tissue is backed up by something like teeth. I have stitches and broken bones all over my body, so I know.
the local paper here said it was his Education Secretary or something like that. I guess gym class won't be getting any extra funding this year...
I forget the name, it was all over the radio. But it was a member of the Hispanic Caucus.
Why couldn't it have hit his mouth?
They should have gone ahead and sewn his pie-hole shut. That way we wouldn't have to listen to any more of his condescending speeches.
Do you think there was a Karmic connection ?
Obummer 0 America 1
It is only fair since Obummer has been kicking all of us in the (TSA happy place) for two years.