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Now the Celtics have to repeat

By adamg on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 12:40am

Rajon Rondo reports:

I just got back in the locker room. We just got the W in Houston, and I had to blog. OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT! I can't even explain how I feel right now. All I have to say is that we have to repeat, because we have to go back to the White House to meet Obama. ...

And what of Curt Schilling? Schilling reminds us we're all Americans:

... Do I agree with him? Not a lot. Was he my choice? Nope. But we end that 'stuff' now right? Tomorrow we all wake up Americans. Tomorrow the world once again looks at us in complete awe. Never has a country on this planet selected what was once a 'minority' to its highest political position. No free nation has ever done what we just did, again. ...

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By Anonymous on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 3:44am.

Whatever motivation gets Rajon Rondo motivated to repeat an NBA championship is fine by me.

Barack played a little hoop today after he was finished with his work and before his appearance in Grant Park and his speech.

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By jchristian on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 9:50am.

was brilliant- Schilling is right. It was sincere, surprising, and he said many things that he didn't have to say, but I'm glad for the country's sake that he did. A class act.

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By BStu on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 5:15pm.

Someone get Schilling to look him up on Wikipedia. Like him or not, he was a Democratically elected politician from an ethnic minority in his home country. Won reelection, too. This was just in the 1990's.

What Obama is is the first non-white ethnic minority to be elected by a non-latino white majority. As long as you count Jews as a white ethnic minority, which is debatable in its own right, but if you counted ethnic Jewish as a non-white minority, Britain and France both elected Jewish Prime Ministers.

Obama's election is important and undeniably historical, but that's no reason to use it as an excuse for American triumphalism. Especially in the bizarre context of someone bragging that the nation elected the candidate he opposed.

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By Anonymous on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 6:12pm.

Celtics v. Seattle Supersonics Oklahoma City Thunder
Tonight at 8, ComcastSportsNet

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