Thanks for sharing! What a great photo.
That’s what I’ve always loved about Bush, while he had his faults and decisions I disagreed with, he’s humble and doesn’t seem to think he’s important. That’s why he’s surprised when people like this show up to see him.
Can you see zero if Ali had shown up to see him? It would have been all about the won and not the champ.
Birds of a feather flock together...
I never bought Clay’s jive, but I did buy Bushes for a while.
meh. Can’t think of anything good to say...
I’m glad that Bush enjoyed the moment.
I’ve never had any respect for Cassius Clay, however.
The muzzie convert and coward left our country to avoid military service.
Sigh... Forty five years later he’s STILL a draft dodger, but no one cares now either.
I know this will NEVER happen but I continue to entertain the fantasy that one day we turn on our computer to read “CASSIUS CLAY RENOUNCES ISLAM - CALLS ISLAM EVIL”. Imagine the impact that would have? I know, a guy can dream, can’t he?
When Ali was Ali I couldn’t stand him but I came to respect him after he retired. I was wrong about him. He was a great man who came of age before civil rights and being a white man I had no idea what it was like to be a black man in those days.
Cassius Clay looks as if he took about five too many shots to the head.
Pretty slick!
Cassius Clay aka Gaseous Clay aka draft dodger
Cool. Thanks for posting.
I wonder if there is some meaning to this visit. He was aginst the Vietnam War but now visits Bush, the favorite target of the mindless peaceniks. Have his views changed?
And it should be noted that Greorge Foreman was very pro-US during the same time.
Dubya is a VERY likable guy.
Not a fan. Both because of Ali’s proselytizing for Islam back when few Americans were familiar with it but also for the culture of taunting and trash-talking that he created which has influenced African-American athletes and youth in general to their detriment.
Before Ali, black athletes were dignified men like Willie Mays and Hank Aaron who treated opponents with respect. Ali changed all that.
One thing about Clay; back in day...that still seems to be true today...Is you can never tell exactly where he is coming from.
Bush was gracious as always.
Now Ali did indeed make a sign to President George W.Bush at the White House presentation. He made a loopy wacky twisting of his finger right in the President's face. Was he suborned to do this by the crass anti-Bush brigade? This I do not know.
Did some research on his given name: CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY. The boxer changed his name to Ali. His statement was said to be: "I aint havin'' no slave name". Cassius Marcellus Clay was an abolitionist pre civil war. He was beaten unconscious at one meeting of pro-slavery supporters. Some "slave name". In another meeting he was shot by pros-slavery rowdies and took three months to recover.
At one time Clay had over a hundred hangers on and kept fighting, because if he gave up, their meal ticket would end. I saw on television his four round defeat of "Big Cat Williams". Williams fought, with surgery previously from being shot by a policeman in the abdomen. Clay was at his best that night. I take no pleasure in his condition.