Okay I made that last part up.
Apparently the President received a fairly serious split lip during the game from an opposing team member. These things happen during contact sports.
Here is the video of Obama leaving the gym and going to receive care from the White House Medical Unit.
According to the Huffington Post:
"After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the President received 12 stitches today administered by the White House Medical Unit. They were done in the doctor's office located on the ground floor of the White House."
The White House announced the culprit who elbowed Obama in the lip earlier today: Rey Decerega, who is the director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
Decerega said in a statement that the game was all in good fun (and didn't apologize):
"I learned today the president is both a tough competitor and a good sport. I enjoyed playing basketball with him this morning. I'm sure he'll be back out on the court again soon," Decerega said.
Speaking of Palin, you just KNOW if this same incident had happened to her she would have milked it for all of the sympathy she could, and then her rabid flying monkeys would have started sending the person who elbowed her threatening e-mails demanding that they apologize IN WRITING and then claimed the whole thing was planned by the "Lamestream media."
Watch for Obama to come out in the next couple of days and make a joke about it and most likely take the blame.
Have I said recently how glad I am that this man is our President?
You may have made the last part up, but it is not outside the realm of possibility where Palin is concerned.
ReplyDeletePrepare for a Palin near-death experience so that she can one-up the President.
ReplyDeleteOur President is intellectually, emotionally and physically superior to Paylin. Period.
ReplyDeleteSociopaths are constantly looking to garner pity and sympathy from normal people WITH a conscience. Based on the behavior by Palin and her family, they clearly fall into this category. They seem to enjoy baing the victim. Obama doesn't even use this excuse.
ReplyDelete$owah PayMe is a vampire sucking us all dry. She is such an embarrASSment to Alaska and all Americans, North, Central and South America included. She has made us the mockingstock of the world.
ReplyDeleteI am so grateful that President Obama is such a great guy. Intelligent, educated, hard working, decent, good ethics, good morals, great family, killer sense of humor. He gives my soul peace and comfort. Gods Bless him and keep him and give him strength to carry on.
Sarah Palin makes President Obama seem even more intelligent, more compassionate, more full of grace and light every time she attacks him or just opens her mouth or releases a Twit or a FB rant. She reminds us how lucky we are that he and Biden beat her and McCain. Wow - I count my blessings every day that she is out scamming the bots and a heartbeat away from the Presidency (oh, my, I think McCain ought to be counting his blessings as well because had they won, he wouldn't be around any more. At least that's my hunch.)
ReplyDeleteA President Palin would be taken immediately to The Prayer Warrior Department of Medicine office on the ground floor of the White House and have them pray away the injury. Just kidding, Palin would have an in-house plastic surgeon take a break from liposuctioning Gristle and trying to pump in personality, common sense and charisma to make sure the GMILF POTUS stayed hawt for the viagra base.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Decerega would be dispatches to a Death Panel.
When's the last time the legendary point guard of the Wasilla Warriors took to the court? And not the kind where she's suing someone cause they kept makin stuff up about her.
ReplyDeleteSarah had such a weak personal narrative, not a stand out, and fearing the label of not just being normal, but forgettable (as she was as a college student in five different colleges) they had to drum up the drama of her high school basketball days. LOL, Sarah Barracuda, the point guard with the sharp elbows who wasn't afraid to foul, technically or physically.
She's even more pathetic than this balding, middle-aged fat guys at the Applebee's exaggerating their glory days prowess on the court or on the field. But at least these guys still typically have a real job, even if it's just selling used cars.
I agree with you Gryphen, the President will joke about it.
ReplyDeleteThe President is a class act and I'm so proud he's our President.
If anybody elbowed a Palin it would make the 6 and 11 o'clock news. It would say the Palin children were molested and are afraid to go on their cement slab. ReTawd would rebuild his flimsy 14 ft fence and Sarah would complain that she cannot work in her garden with her shorts and tank top in the Alaskan 1 degree weather. On top of that Sarah Jong would use speed dial to call for a North Korean artillery barrage on the outskirts of Wasilla.
ReplyDeleteIf a Palin got elbowed, Brisket and Willow would be looking for that sorry faggot.
ReplyDeleteLet's see a one on one game between Obama and the Barracuda!
ReplyDeleteHe'd kick her ass at that too!
Rick
Will our North Korean allies help us invade Mexico?
ReplyDeletewhen is the abortion going to happen for the other one?
ReplyDeleteexpect to see her all skinny looking after she disapears for a few weeks.
any bets??
Some idiot Fox newsboy will ask Sarah if she would be able to beat the potus in basketball (since, you know, she was some kind of gym class hero 30 years ago). Sarah will reply that of course she could beat him but the potus doesn't have time to play with a modest housewife from wasilla (shades of the al gore debate that never could be).
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of b-ball, Is Willow too busy drinking and hanging out with her loser rasist boyfriend and NOT having sex to play on her h.s.team this year? I guess they have attendance rules and whatnot. Can't they make an exception for the daughter of the woman who "won" the big game all those years ago? (snark)
This would be a great opportunity for Sarah to attack the First Lady ... again
ReplyDeletea Rill 'Murikun Mama Griz woulda' stitched up her man herself ... don't need no stinkin' health care! No one's gonna do it for you! Duh! Lame MO!
- kellygrrrl
Hilarious! 12 stitches is a lot - my son had three in his lip seven years ago and still has a big scar. $P would be MY FACE! MY FACE! MY LOVELY FACE!
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 4:41pm--True that! ;-)
ReplyDeleteImagine if something like this happened to Sarah Palin (WGE-AK). She'd blessedly shut up for a week or so, but then we'd be subjected to the usual rotten rhetoric written instead on her palms and the soles of her feet with the Faux Snooze cameras zeroing in.
So proud of our truly athletic and active President who can take a painful injury with grace and class!
Seems to me that SP thought she could play our President in a one on one.
ReplyDeleteShe'd need a baseball bat in that match-up, don't you think?
There are those who talk about it and those who do it: Sarah is sure a talker.
Our President is a doer! (And I agree, he'll be gracious about the whole episode.)
I love how the ad on your blog is for a free copy of SP's new book with a subscription for "I'm a Crazed Amway Christian", or whatever it's called.
ReplyDeleteGryphen,
ReplyDeleteThe Barbara Walter's special is on now here in NY. Barbara walks throughout the WHite House and looks at the the portrait of President Lincoln and asks President Obama what he thinks about when he looks at the portrait. Of course his off cuff response is deep, thoughtful and meaningful. I thought afterwards what the fuck Sarah's response would be. This whole presidential thing has to be a joke.
I would love it if you took Barbara's questions to President and Mrs. Obama and gave your version of Sarah's responses.
Mr. President - Iam sorry for your injury. Please take care. We the people of the USA appreciate all that you are doing for this country and wnat you to stay healthy - and wise.
ReplyDeleteA voter.
I completely agree, Gryphen. The Obamas are incredible people.
ReplyDeleteI was both irritated and offended that Barbara Walters felt the need to run two separate pieces of SP tape during this program. She was the only Republican featured... Almost strange, and I think Barbara will take flak for it. Talk about framing the current political climate as SP vs. President Obama/Dems, as if they are equivalent!
Both Barack and Michelle showed how self-controlled they are, however, for they did not take the bait and give Barbara any quotes that would get further response from the Quitter Queen. These people know how to be political. They will only acknowledge her if they have to, and hopefully that will be NEVER!!!!!
Think I will write and complain about it now. It was uncalled for. Why make Sarah Palin such an important issue on a holiday program interview? Because she's a loudmouth who can't stay out of the limelight? That's justification enough? God help us. Talk about lazy "journalism".
Sarah Palin is a professional victim.
ReplyDelete@ 5:14
ReplyDelete"The President is a class act and I'm so proud he's our President."
Absolutely correct. But Palin is also a class act. The difference is that he's all high class and she is allll LOW class.
I can only imagine how Paylin would have reacted if she were President---thankfully, we dodged that bullet!
ReplyDeleteI'm proud of our President, and thankful every day, that we have him.
Anonymous @7:06
ReplyDeleteI am with you regarding the Barbara Walters interview. IMO, it was insulting to even mention Sarah Palin.
I did send an e-mail to ABC news indicating my disgust with their decision to promote Sarah and her spawn via GMC, The View, DWTS, and injecting her into the interview with the POTUS and FLOTUS.
I told them many Americans are on to the 24/7 scam that is Palin and hold the media complicit in its perpetration. They have lost this households viewership as a result of their cynical and irresponsible decisions to continually provide Palin with a public platform.
I checked out Palin's Thanksgiving Day Facebook weep and noted she now had about 2.5 million fans.
ReplyDeleteI then wondered whether there was a Barack Obama Facebook page and was delighted to find that there is and he has nearly 17 million fans.
I'll be adding one more...and if you're not yet a fan, help pump up his numbers. I know its not just a popularity thing but an 8 to 1 spread provides a little reassurance about our country.
Gryphen.... There's no way you made that up...You just left a few facts out... Actually Laura Ingram and Michelle Malkin sent a flash tweet to the Swag-Hag's staff and it was reported simultaneously by Fluster-FOX and the Hag-O-Gram express..
ReplyDeleteWith N Korea lobbing fire over the border, I had the same thought this AM: I'm sure glad Obama is our president.
ReplyDeleteI didn't watch 20/20 tonight and it was because I feared Walters might bring up up the subject of Palin to President and Mrs. Obama and it would have embarrassed the heck out of me for them. And, now I find out that she did exactly that! I, too, will write Ms. Walters and suggest she stop promoting Palin along w/the rest of the media.
ReplyDeletePalin isn't qualified to carry President Obama's water! I voted for, support and am proud of President Obama and I think Michelle is lovely. And, they are wonderful parents to two beautiful girls.
@8:19 PM,
ReplyDeleteI am in agreement. I have quit watching the ABC network, especially The View and GMA.
I was so disgusted with BaBa WaWa's interview it brought up all the mockery about her from what? 30-40 years ago?
The $OW Grisly Mama has worn out her welcome.
I love how normal the Obama family is. Seeing them play with Bo makes me wonder why the Palins don't have a pet. Really, if they are so outdoorsy, why don't they have a dog?
ReplyDeleteOT - went to my local Walmart late on Black Friday afternoon to avoid the crowd. The sale displays in the aisles were pretty empty - all the good stuff was gone. But when I got to a discounted book display, it was still full of George W.'s and Sarah Palin's new books. Even on sale, they hadn't sold! That really made my day!!
ReplyDeleteHilarious! Made my day...
ReplyDeleteThere was a really nice article on Yahoo News about how the Obama girls just want to be "regular kids," the whole article was like an oasis of normalcy in a sea of crazy. Like the polar opposite of SP and her clan.
ReplyDeleteIt's called "Obamas say their daughters prefer to be just kids." I can't figure out how to make the link not 100 miles long...
Sarah Palin has announced her theme song for her 2012 presidential election bid:
ReplyDeleteWatch the Standells sing it in this medley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adNlRps5DmE&feature=related
It really grasps Sarah's true essence, no?
They should sew his lips together and let the audience read the the gaffes from the teleprompter.
ReplyDeleteUnhinged facebook rant from $arah (ie Becky) using the President's stitches to condemn "Obamacare" and a metaphor for why he shouldn't cut defense spending in 3...2...1...
ReplyDeleteVisited c4p. "No over-sized basketball jerseys in Palin's Alaska"? WTF?
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting because I force myself to read comments on Politico as a reminder of how ghastly Palin supporters can be. Of course, there are the ones who post that it's too bad that this wasn't fatal, that it will "shut him up," that Mrs. Obama did it, etc. When confronted with their ugliness, the response is that Bush put up with worse.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine anyone being such a miserable human being as to think, much less voice, that sort of crap. Yet, these are her followers, and it is precisely because she attracts and encourages such horrors that blogs such as yours are so important. Thank you.
At least when President Obama reads from a teleprompter, he is reading a good deal of his own writing, and that writing is coherent and substantive. Sarah supporters need to get over the fact that he is well-educated and brilliant. (I guess they like their Presidents to be average.)
ReplyDeleteAre people suggesting that the President use his valuable time to memorize his writing? Or are people suggesting that he only speak extemporaneously? I, for one, look forward to hearing thoughts he has put to paper. The time that goes into thoughtful reflection is time well spent.
Ms. Palin seems to think of herself as a deep thinker, but even with much help from hack political writers and fanatical ideologues, she comes up short every time. Reading off off prepared text sitting before her on the podium (no different from a teleprompter), she rambles and she rants, she is shrill and angry. Sarah sycophants know it, and they can't stand it. Deep down they are painfully embarrassed by her, which is why they keep attacking others to distract from their own sense of shame and humiliation.
Btw, why do Palin supporters take pleasure in violent images? They seem to be a bunch of sadists. Can't imagine their childhoods...
Faux nation wishes he got more then a split lip. Secret Service must spend a lot of time on that "tolerant" website. You know I don't like Palin but I don't wish her or her family harm. Just to stay from any public office that requires more then a 3rd grade education.
ReplyDeleteMr. Obama plays hard when it comes to basketball. Its his way to release tension. When you play hard people occasionally get hurt. I, too, expect that Mr. Obama will call it an accident and blame no-one.
ReplyDeleteI am proud of my President. It is so refreshing to have a President that is mobile, intelligent, and loves to enjoy life.
ReplyDeleteIt is so different to have a President that can actually do some physical sport, basketball, surfing.
It makes me feel like he is one of us, he is not hoity toity, country clubs, nose in the air, aristocrat.
Keep it up Mr. President, tell all those haters to suck it up and to FO. Personally I think you are great for us some of us are not good enough for you because the way they are treating you, your family.
Please can I elbow Palin? Please. Please.
ReplyDeleteWhat have we done in the Midwest to deserve the scourge of Sarah Palin? This whole weekend she is flying her broom around NE, IA, KS and OK in an effort to get someone to buy her book.
ReplyDelete"Really, if they are so outdoorsy, why don't they have a dog?"
ReplyDeletesomeone would have to CARE for the animal. The Palins are never home and can't even remember to feed the kids, never mind an animal.