President Obama receives 12 stitches after blow from elbow during basketball game delivered by Hispanic player. Sarah Palin immediately takes to Facebook and claims America under attack by Mexico.

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?