"Everything's OK" After Obama Visits Hospital

By: Allison O'Keefe
Topics: Barack Obama

From CBS News' Allison O'Keefe

(CHICAGO) - After publicly mentioning a hip injury last week while visiting the troops in Kuwait, Barack Obama decided to have it looked at tonight.

He arrived at the University of Chicago Medical Center at around 9pm ET for a scheduled appointment.

Per his senior strategist Robert Gibbs, Obama injured his hip while playing basketball a few weeks ago. It has been bothering him a bit and he wanted to have it checked out. And, of course, he wants to get back on the basketball court.

After about 50 minutes inside the hospital, Obama walked out and said that he had some "small x-rays" taken but that "everything's OK."

"Its all good," he said as he left the hospital which was held open late just for this appointment.

With his signature confidence, Obama was upbeat. "I think I'm going to be good in about a week."

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by ukgod1 July 29, 2008 1:42 AM EDT: maccain is a schumuck who has no charisma and makes absolutely no sense when he speaks. his only defense is to attack obama patriotism because he knows he cant go head to head with obama on any issue. that is the reason he keeps emphasizing the "surge" and not the war he voted for. all of a sudden the conditions on the ground are good enough to withdraw in 16 months. whatever happen to having the troops in Iraq for a hundred years? how convenient that the conditions on the ground got so much better after obama visited Europe and practically everyone expect petraeus (a bush crony) are in favor of obama''''s time table. his strategy is so transparent and any idiot who votes for this guy deserves all the disaster that he will bring to the white house. so don''''t start whining and bicccthing (like his adviser said) about how horrible of a president he is when he is elected. frankly 3 times you had a chance to lead the country in the right direction since Clinton and three times in a row you are going to fail; Reply to this comment


by larysinclair July 28, 2008 4:51 PM EDT: Obama has been Flip-Flopping like a gymnast!! It is not surprising that his hip is bothering him!! They call it "Public financing/FISA hip"; Reply to this comment


by wellhell3 July 28, 2008 3:12 PM EDT: He pro''bly just threw his hip out when he was up on the stage with those rock stars he hired to give a free concert.

That''s what all glitz, glamour, and horse ***** will get ya!; Reply to this comment


by ariel133 July 28, 2008 11:06 AM EDT: Next they will be telling us when he has indigestion...The media is a JOKE. Get some honor, you fools.; Reply to this comment


by brimcmike July 28, 2008 10:56 AM EDT: Instead of simply airing and reporting McCain''s response to Couric''s question on Obama''s statements regarding "increased security in Iraq," CBS News editted out the misleading response completely, and instead aired comments by McCain that were spliced together from three separate statements he gave during the interview, one of which was in response to a different question. Couric gave no indication that these comments had been edited in any manner, nor did she otherwise note McCain''s misleading statement.

Paul Friedman''s response http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303659_2.html?sub=new is astounding in its double-speak that after-the-fact cutting-and-pasting is transparency and truth-telling.

In the last decade, CBS News has slid and is sliding more and more into the pit with Fox News. It is sad and dangerous for our country.; Reply to this comment


by brimcmike July 28, 2008 10:56 AM EDT: CBS News caved to wild howls by the right-wing noise machine when 60 Minutes producers and Dan Rather made less culpable mistakes. In a matter of days, you unceremoniously ended people''s careers for risk-taking. On a story of inportance about the integrity of the POTUS. This is an example aggregious window dressing and patch work editing to protect a candidate for the POTUS from his own mistakes. It is a matter of news. The media was poised to make hay of any mistake the other candidate made on his high-profile, high-stakes trip overseas. CBS News gets an exclusive interview with the other candidate who changes his positions as the political winds blow, repeatedly doesn''t know the players on the strategic and tactically court, who in this instance got material facts wrong about material matters of policy and governing. His misconstruction of the timeline of the Sunni awakening and the Bush administrations troop surge leads to a flawed attribution of causation of events in the war in Iraq. This flawed attribution leaves McCain staunch insistence on and support of the Bush administration''s troop surge in an apparently favorable light. The facts of record show that the Sunni awakening in Anbar was a stroke of good luck and a grace that preceded the troop surge, not a result of the troop surge. This is a material issue for voters to consider.; Reply to this comment


by brimcmike July 28, 2008 10:55 AM EDT: Obama visited a doctor''s office, not a hospital. More and more, by hook or by cook CBS News is distorting facts and slanting the news.; Reply to this comment


by jgunther7 July 28, 2008 10:41 AM EDT: McCain is the one who needs to be in a hospital. McCain needs a brain transplant.; Reply to this comment