[ColdOne]

from politico22 http://www.politico.com/politico44/ The pool adds: "The medical unit that treated Obama used a smaller filament than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and results in a smaller scar. Obama was given a local anesthetic while receiving the stitches.",

[MestaMachine]

“Vanity... my favorite sin.”
Al Pacino in “Devil’s Advocate.”

[Conservative Tsunami]

The pool adds: "The medical unit that treated Obama used a smaller filament than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and results in a smaller scar. Obama was given a local anesthetic while receiving the stitches."

Tomorrow Robert Gibbs will announce the Kenyan has received a Silver Star.

[muawiyah]

A real man would have let them stitch without a local.

[Hoodat]

"The medical unit that treated Obama used a smaller filament than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and results in a smaller scar. Obama was given a local anesthetic while receiving the stitches."

This means that the stitches were administered by a plastic surgeon intent on preventing the formation of a scar. These stitches had nothing to do with putting a stop to excessive bleeding. They had everything to do with Obama's vanity.