Obama suffers basketball injury; Gets 12 stitches

[steve2470]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101126/ap_on_re_us/us_obama

The White House says President Barack Obama has received 12 stitches in his lip after being hit during a pick up basketball game.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the president was inadvertently struck by someone's elbow Friday.

The president received the stitches in the doctor's office on the ground floor of the White House. Obama had traveled to Fort McNair with a group of family and friends for an early morning game of basketball.

Obama is a sports fan, roots for his hometown Chicago teams and has often gone golfing in addition to playing basketball.

[saracat]

1. Bummer. Thats gonna make eating leftover turkey sandwiches unpleasant!

I'll bet whomever did it feels really badly. Can you imagine being responsible for 12 stitches to Potus? I hope he is better for Christmas! And the WH Christmas parties!

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Wondering how the haters will spin this

That will be interesting. LOL

[qnr]

8. Just look for big lip comments n/t

[Kennah]

9. They'll claim it was staged ...

... to make the President look tough. It shows the President can take a punch, and the message is "Heh there Mister Boner and chinless Mitch, go ahead and take a swing at me if you bitches dare."

[veganlush]

3. was he playing basketball with Cheney? n/t

[Kennah]

10. Nope

If he had, the injury woulda been shotgun pellets.

[Ian David]

4. BREAKING: Dick Cheney makes Obama apologize for bleeding on his elbow. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Ow! Will his next speech start with...

"Eye hellow awericans..."

[Obamanaut]

14. Miz O just asked what I'm laughing at. Thanks for this. nt

[Obamanaut]

6. More responses here. ->

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There will probably only be 30 or so threads about this in the next hour.

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[AsahinaKimi]

11. Would that be the first time

Some one has popped the President of the United States in the mouth? Why couldn't it happen to BUSH?

[Agent William]

12. Elbow to the face, sounds like he was playing basketball with

Karl Malone.... I still remember what he did to Steve Nash, tsk, tsk

[Dappleganger]

15. Yep, those elbows are nasty...

I've done it to someone myself and broke her nose, she never let me forget it haha.

[Agent William]

16. I know,

It's so easy to do accidentally. Although I'm the one that's usually on the end of the elbow.....

[doc03]

13. What about the one that inflicted the injury, did the Secret

Service kill him?