Posted on 06/10/2016 2:15:32 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
Was this guy some type of hero?
I’m actually a fan, but move on to some real news Fox News, this has been going on for a couple hours now.
I was at the barber shop while the cluster f#^k memorial was on. What the hell was that all about? Just a freak show. I was expecting Rue Paul any minute.
“Yeah, 0bama even ordered flags to be flown at half-staff for him. And he was a conscientious objector. What a slap in the face to all who have honorably served their country.”
I don’t think Obama has ordered flags to be flown at half staff.
Where did you see that order by Obama?
Did anyone at the memorial bother to mention that he supported Reagan?
It turned into a Wellstone - like political rally. I loved it when the Islamist dragged the old jew off the stage. Lotsa Trump bashing to thunderous applause
There was a time when politics did not dominate the landscape. You could actually enjoy things without necessarily knowing or caring what someone else’s political views were and it was actually OK. People kind of tended to mind their own business.
Within that framework as a teenager and a varsity athlete myself, watching Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali, I thought he was maybe the best athlete I had ever seen. I also thought he was clever and funny. Still do. A lot of people here on FR probably don’t know that sometime in the 80’s I think, Ali expressed sorrow for his earlier wild and somewhat self-destructive behavior and racial agenda he acknowledged was part of the Black Muslim thing. He was actually a Republican.
If you are a fan of athletic skill as I am, you’ve never seen anything like Ali’s early fights especially. He twice beat Sonny Liston who was a bad dude and mobbed up (before the fight Ali made up a poem about “the total eclipse of the Sonny”). Afterwards, at some point after beating the main challengers, he started what he called “the Bum of the Month Club” and beat whoever they could put in the ring with him. Those fights showed an athletic skill and mastery I have never seen before or since.
Then came the draft and conscientious stupid and being banned from boxing for I think three years. Those three years would have been the zenith of his performance as a boxer. So we were robbed of seeing one of the greatest athletes ever in his prime (reminds me a little of Mozart - what kind of music would we have been able to listen to if he hadn’t died at such a young age).
Ali was like Mozart. Both were precocious and impulsive and both were masters of their art.
He was awesome
Look at some of his early fights - he could throw a jab faster than you can blink
Good one!
The REAL reason so many turned out at his funeral...
.... Cameras were rolling.
That’s all this is about. People who never met him just want to be in front of a camera.
He did some good things and was a great boxer, but that’s all-but over the last 15 years or so, it seems like every sports figure, musician, politician or whatever who had lots of fans and dies gets televised and eulogized ad nauseum, even if they OD’d on drugs, was a rapist or child molester or committed murder...
He was the original “Rapper”.
But he refused to serve his country when called. I lost two close friends and one family member in “Nam”.
Sorry, but I will not share a tear for him.
I told a group last night that Anette Funicello was 10 times braver than that idiot.
I am sure I saw it on FR. Now I am finding that the mayor of Louisville said it. But I have to leave so cannot research further. I apologize if I was factually wrong on this.
Once in a while I have a lucid thought. ;)
No. Nor was he a god.
Mr. Clay was an ambitious young man with athletic ability who was exploited by sports media personality, Howard Cosell, and by Elijah Mohammed, leader of Nation of Islam.
As a boxer.Thats it
Not many people know that Joe Frazier supported Clay financially during his three years of being banned from boxing.
When he then went after Joe Frazier, demeaning him, calling him names, etc, is when I became one of Clay’s haters.
I find it fitting that Joe Frazier gave Clay such beatings that those fights brought on the Parkinson’s which Clay suffered. Poetic Justice! You reap what you sow.
True words.
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