Posted on 06/04/2016 8:19:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama, who keeps a pair of boxing gloves worn by Muhammad Ali in his private study off the Oval Office, said Saturday that Ali shook up the world and the world is better for it.
Obama likened Ali, who died Friday, to other civil rights leaders of his era, and said the boxer stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela in fighting for what was right. [ ]
He wasnt perfect, of course. For all his magic in the ring, he could be careless with his words, and full of contradictions as his faith evolved, Obama said in a statement with first lady Michelle Obama. But his wonderful, infectious, even innocent spirit ultimately won him more fans than foes maybe because in him, we hoped to see something of ourselves.
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In jail it took ONE visit by Elijah Mohamed to convert Clay(Ali) to becoming a black moslem. When he came out of jail he billed himself as a moslem imman and a conscientious objector. Who ever heard of a BLACK MOSLEM IMMAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO KILL!
He could have served as a medic, or served as a hospital attendant but No-0-0-o. While others did serve, this now loudmouth braggart, rehabilitated by the MSM as a “beloved sports figure”, never served. He would have been used in Public Relations and never seen Vietnam. Smokin Joe Frasier finally landed a blow that scrambled Ali’s brains and silenced his loud mouth.
THAT is the one that scrambled Ali’s brains!
Somebody else built that!
That's a pet peeve of mine: People who have been successful and don't realize they've been lucky.
I wonder what Obama has to say about Clay’s opposition to race mixing.
I’m not going to join the Ali-bashing bandwagon. I’m just still amazed at how even after all these years that Obola still engages in such wild hyperbole. Even about things as inconsequential as this.
Let's read between the lines, shall we? This is what the narcissist Bath House is really wanting to say:
Obama says Obama shook up the world and left it better off.
Lies, he didn’t make the world a better place, all Ali ever cared about was himself.
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