Obama Gets Lip Busted During Basketball Game

Rey Decerega, who works for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, DC, was identified by the White House as the one who gave President Obama a fat lip during a pickup basketball game at Fort McNair in Washington, DC yesterday. U.S. President Barack Obama took an elbow to the mouth as he went up for a rebound while playing a pickup basketball game with his personal assistant Reggie Love (a former Duke University standout), and “family members” – according to the AP. Obama’s busted lip required 12 stitches to close. The number of stitches was increased due to doctors using a smaller filament (string) to stitch the wound tighter so the resulting scar would not be as visible when it heals.