November 26, 2010 — Fox News is reporting that 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 (video).
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. The stitches were probably administered by a plastic surgeon for the purpose of ensuring that no scar remained. If there was no excessive bleeding, the only thing that would justify stitches is vanity.
hussein is a pathological liar. Why should we believe this basketball nonsense? Because he says so? That invariably means the truth is elsewhere.