Celtics/Obama ; Lakers/McCain

2008 was a very special year in politics. And for the NBA. Barack Obama made history when he won the election for the presidency of the United States of America. And the Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship this year. Both Obama and the Celtics had many nay-sayers on the way to realizing their goal, and the path to success was definitely not an easy one.

2008 was a very special year in politics. And for the NBA. Barack Obama made history when he won the election for the presidency of the United States of America. And the Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship this year.
Both Obama and the Celtics had many nay-sayers on the way to realizing their goal, and the path to success was definitely not an easy one. “Not experienced enough,” proclaimed the critics when they began their journeys to prominence.
Sure, they were an instant fan favourite, but many of the experts labelled them as unfamiliar with the entire election, or playoff, process. They were unsure if this was the man, or the team, who could lead the Democrats, or the Eastern Conference, to glory. Besides, the Republicans, or the Western Conference, had won 17 of the past 26 elections, or seven of the past nine NBA championships.
So the race and the season, began. Obama and the Celtics stood out from their peers from the very start. Their only real competition in the party, or conference, was Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, or the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Detroit Pistons. Edwards and the Pistons would fall early, leaving Hillary, and the Cavaliers as Obama’s and the Celtics’ greatest adversary.
Hillary, or the Cavaliers, managed to push Obama, or the Celtics, to an epic and historic democratic nomination race that ran until just days before the party’s convention, or game seven of the Eastern Conference finals.
Both Obama and Boston were able to pull out a triumphant and hard fought victory and looked forward to the race for the presidency and the NBA finals. His/their opponent in this climactic showdown were the impressive John McCain and the Los Angeles Lakers.
McCain and the Lakers had an extremely easy path to this finale, having demolished any competition that stood in his/their path. In fact, it was known for quite some time that McCain, or the Lakers, had won the Republican nomination, or the Western Conference title, and he/they was/were just waiting for his/their tired and fatigued opponent to be named.
In a surprising twist, the crowds got behind Obama and the Celtics in a big way. People were suddenly ecstatic about their candidate, or team, and showed great support. Even though many experts favoured McCain and the Lakers, early on because of his/their impressively storied past, it soon became quite clear into the race, or series, that Obama and the Celtics were running away with the show. It all came together on election night, or game six of the NBA finals, where Obama and the Celtics, simply bulldozed right through his/their once formidable opponent. The final score: Obama 364 McCain 163, and Celtics 131 Lakers 92.
As President-elect Obama so eloquently put it, “This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.” Or, as Celtics forward Kevin Garnett rather less eloquently put it, “Anything is possible.”

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