Addressing reporters later, Riley denied that he had injected politics into the ceremony. “I’m pro-American, pro-democracy, I’m pro-government,” the coach said. “I follow my boss. He’s my boss.”
Riles is the man.
Riley a man of honor.
He would been lauded as truth to power guy if he gave the Prez a bird in Oval Office.
“Standing next to Shaq,” Bush said, “is an awe-inspiring experience.”
Should have been the other way around.
I won't hold my breath.
If you don't vote, you don't count in the election. But so what? I don't believe everyone should vote. And I'm ok with someone who doesn't follow politics sitting it out, and contributing to society in other ways. Politics is a sleazy, ill business. It's a necessary evil. Nothing more. And the system does fine with only partial participation.
Shaq knew the natural tendancy while holding a basketball is to dribble it, so beforehand, he bled off most of the air as a practical joke. Pretty funny, good natured joke.
Liberal jerks in the Media spinning Riley's comments:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/501181p-422642c.html
"The Heat goes to the White House this afternoon, gets its 20-minute audience with George W. Bush in the East Room. "I'm not a very political man," Pat Riley was saying yesterday about the occasion. Riley voted for Bush the last time around. "You got to vote for someone," he confessed, reluctantly."
And if you vote for someone just because he is electable, no will know what you think.