Thin Skinned? Obama Gets Fat Lip Denied By White Heritage?

During a game of basketball yesterday Obama was given a fat lip by an errant elbow following a rebound. It required 12 stiches to seal his kisser. OUCH!

From the AP here:

President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday morning with family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said.
First word of the injury came in a statement from press secretary Robert Gibbs nearly three hours after the incident.

The White House did not initially name the person who caused the injury, but identified him later Friday as Rey Decerega, director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Obama received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor’s office on the ground floor of the White House after returning home. Doctors used a smaller filament than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and leaves a smaller scar.

An hispanic dude showed the President his elbow? Wow. I actually feel bad for Barack. It sucks to get injured on your day off.

Bush used to get beat up by falling off his mountain bike or take a tumble off a segway. But I thought Obama was supposed to be good at basketball?