Yes, because this sure wasn’t doing the trick:
Leave it to NPR to pick up the tingles where Chris Matthews left off:
It took 12 stitches to close The First Fat Lip, if you please. I’m not sure that Joe Frazier needed 12 stitches after the Thrilla in Manila, though the White House stressed that a smaller filament was used, which increases the number of stitches, but leaves a smaller scar.
I wonder if having a larger scar wouldn’t actually fortify President Obama’s profile, as he contends with Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Vladimir Putin.
It gets even better, if that could possibly happen.
As recent presidential injuries go, President Obama’s is almost valiant. His immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, famously choked on a pretzel. President Bill Clinton tore a tendon stumbling on the steps of Greg Norman’s house after a round of golf.
I’m glad that in the storm of record high unemployment and economic instability the media finds valiance not in action, but in sports injuries.
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