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Title: Obama receives (elbow and) 12 stitches to lip
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BBC
URL Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11852078
Published: Nov 26, 2010
Author: BBC
Post Date: 2010-11-26 15:25:37 by Hondo68
Keywords: Hit with elbow, at Fort McNair, given a local anaesthetic
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Comments: 6
US President Barack Obama has been given 12 stitches after he was hit in the lip during a basketball game. Mr Obama was inadvertently struck by someone's elbow during the game on Friday morning, the White House said. The US president was treated in the doctor's office of the White House following the game at at Fort McNair, in Washington DC. Later, Mr Obama was seen at the White House holding what appeared to be an ice pack to his lip. "After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip ... the president received 12 stitches today, administered by the White House Medical Unit," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement. Mr Obama was given a local anaesthetic while receiving the stitches, he added. Mr Obama was playing basketball with his personal aide Reggie Love - who played basketball for Duke University - and other members of his family on what is a national holiday in United States. He was photographed in a grey T-shirt and jogging bottoms leaving the basketball facility, holding his bottom lip. A few hours later, reporters who had gathered on the White House driveway for the arrival of the Christmas Tree saw the president in an upstairs window, pressing what appeared to be a cold compress against his mouth.
President Obama was struck by someone's elbow during the game
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"Personal aide"????? Is that what they are calling it now?
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