That Fat Lip Might Give Obama Some Street Cred (Lib's hardcore metrosexual fantasy)

NPR ^ | Saturday, November 27, 2010 | Scott Simon

[kristinn]

Just three weeks after getting a shellacking in the midterm elections, President Obama got a fat lip.

The president played basketball yesterday with some friends in the gym of the Fort McNair Army Base, and reportedly took an elbow in the mouth from an opposing player who went up for a shot.

It took 12 stitches to close The First Fat Lip, if you please. I'm not sure that Joe Frazier needed 12 stitches after the Thrilla in Manila, though the White House stressed that a smaller filament was used, which increases the number of stitches, but leaves a smaller scar.

I wonder if having a larger scar wouldn't actually fortify President Obama's profile, as he contends with Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Vladimir Putin. Imagine a president with a gnarly, vivid scar telling the rulers of China, "Nice country ya' got here. I'd hate to see something happen to it if you didn't stop foolin' around with the value of your currency. Know what I mean?"

As recent presidential injuries go, President Obama's is almost valiant. His immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, famously choked on a pretzel. President Bill Clinton tore a tendon stumbling on the steps of Greg Norman's house after a round of golf.

But an elbow in the chops is a battle ribbon in basketball. Mediocre players don't have to worry about their dental work. An elbow is given to aggressive players who swing their own sharp limbs to grab a ball or push off a defender, although the White House stressed that the president was elbowed inadvertently.

[UCANSEE2]

Bill Clinton tore a tendon stumbling on the steps of Greg Norman’s house after a round of drinking.

Or both. For some it's the same. That's not Tea in the golf cart.

[skimbell]

"...President Obama got a fat lip..."

Yeah, yeah I know. 0's a real man!

No matter how I try to envision this injury, I keep thinking that it would have to look quite a bit like a hemorrhoid.

[UCANSEE2]

And when did Bush choke on a pretzel.

It was when he was teaching grade school children to snort cocaine, and he was notified that an Airliner had crashed into one of the Twin Towers. He picked up a pretzel instead of the hotline phone, and tried to swallow it whole, causing him to choke, which led to him not responding to the situation on 9/11 instantly.

At least that's what I read in the New York Times. Or what I remember.

[ozzymandus]

When a guy wearing a pink shirt gets aroused over another guy with a bloody lip, you know what the deal is.

[eaglesiniowa]

Well, perhaps we won’t have to hear from the B-ITCH for a while. Will be nice and quiet for a while.

[Lee N. Field]

Cue up "0bama is teh antichrist!" nutterie in five, four, three.....

Doesn't the Anti-Christ need to suffer a mortal wound to the head?

A bad owie.

[Trailerpark Badass]

President Bill Clinton tore a tendon stumbling on the steps of Greg Norman's house after a round of golf.

Must have been night putting.

[nina0113]

Yes, I’m sure that our foreign enemies are going to be terrified of the American boy-president who hurt his lip playing games like your average teenager.

Now if he'd gotten it in a fistfight with Boehner...

[andy58-in-nh]

A fat lip, to match his head.

[Palladin]

Oh, say...I bet he’s very good to his mom.

[Beckwith]

Obama won’t be visiting Man’s Country for a while.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

” Among the hoopsters reportedly playing with President Obama were his nephew Avery Robinson,
a high school basketball star in Providence, R.I.;
Reggie Love, the president’s personal assistant, ..”

I wonder if his 17 yr old nephew was really the culprit or
as NBC News reported
the person “ who injured President Obama “ or
perhaps Reggie ManLove ?

This tidbit from the Obama’s vacation #300 to Maine last summer sums up Barry and Reggie.
“ The President posed for a few pictures with the group,
while bodyman Reggie Love stood a few steps behind,
holding POTUS’ ice cream cone. “

http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2010/07/obama-maine-vacation-food-report-day-1.html

I hope ice cream cone isn’t a euphemism for something else..

[evad]

oooo...the mods got me for a comment like that :-)

[SunkenCiv]

He’s not been banned from NPR for this obviously racist reference?

Thanks k.

[SunkenCiv]

Scott Simon:

Google

[TheConservativeParty]

The brown nosing adoring tone of this NPR piece would be great as evidence as to why the US taxpayers should not fund NPR.

OK, all of NPR’s stuff is evidence. This is just an extra slobbery article.

[hal ogen]

Just to check...are you a guy or girl?

[ottbmare]

I’m a middle-aged but very fit woman, why?

[KC_Conspirator]

I like your sense of humor.