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Muhammad Ali has died at age 74
6-3-2016

Posted on 06/03/2016 9:22:34 PM PDT by BAW

No link as yet. TV stations have broken to news that Muhammad Ali had died.


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To: Larry Lucido

CAMPAIGN NOTES; Muhammad Ali Switches His Support to Reagan
UPI
Published: October 3, 1984
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2— Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight boxing champion, who endorsed the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s unsuccessful run for the White House, has announced he is switching to President Reagan.

Mr. Ali announced his support Monday night at a gathering for black Republicans at the home of Jerry Zarg, who is challenging Representative Henry A. Waxman, a Democrat.

Asked to elaborate on his endorsement of Mr. Reagan, Mr. Ali told reporters, ‘’He’s keeping God in schools and that’s enough.’’


221 posted on 06/04/2016 4:54:11 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: BAW

His politics aside, he was a great fighter, including the phantom punch on Sonny Liston. RIP Cassius Clay!


222 posted on 06/04/2016 5:14:10 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Williams

The prosecution was politically motivated.


223 posted on 06/04/2016 5:25:09 AM PDT by G Larry (Avoiding the Truth-Hillary's only expertise)
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To: BAW

Will always be remembered as a trash talking, draft-dodging idiot who converted to Islam to avoid the war. Real tough guy...


224 posted on 06/04/2016 5:27:11 AM PDT by Rocketwolf68 (Bring back the crusades)
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To: truth_seeker

They didn’t prosecute others who were conscientious objectors.

The rejection of that status and prosecution was political.


225 posted on 06/04/2016 5:28:22 AM PDT by G Larry (Avoiding the Truth-Hillary's only expertise)
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To: BAW

I’m 65, and I was an avid boxing fan up until Tyson came along, and then I got disgusted with it. I remember Cassius Clay, and I remember when he became Muhammed Ali, and I remember I ALWAYS pulled for his opponent. And I remember watching him destroy them all. I remember my frustration that no one could touch him (literally) until 1971 when Joe Frazier defeated him in a truly great fight.

Clay/Ali was a great boxer. Patterson probably had quicker hands, but nowhere near the punch (plus, Patterson could not TAKE a punch). Clay/Ali did things in the ring that had never been done before. And he was without doubt the quickest on his feet.

I would like to have seen a fight between Joe Louis in his prime and Clay/Ali in HIS prime.

In my lifetime, Clay/Ali was the greatest boxer.


226 posted on 06/04/2016 5:33:44 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: BAW

Great, now we will have a whole new pile of streets named after him that will turn into depressed property values...


227 posted on 06/04/2016 5:36:07 AM PDT by Rocketwolf68 (Bring back the crusades)
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To: BAW

We’ll miss the old demented Muslim. He was a true fountain of deep and helpful thought.


228 posted on 06/04/2016 5:46:59 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: chris37

....and he didn’t eat pork.


229 posted on 06/04/2016 5:48:55 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: BAW

I ran into him on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia one time when he was around 27. He was very good looking, and quickly mobbed by fans.

I am always sad when a Christian renounces his religion; that he did it so publicly did not help his country. I hope he repented, at least in his heart, before he died.


230 posted on 06/04/2016 5:55:52 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Tailback
He’s in a better place now instead of trapped in his earthly shell.

And you know this how?

231 posted on 06/04/2016 5:57:30 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: ought-six

FWIW, when both were undefeated champions, Frazier won the fight that really counted in 1971...


232 posted on 06/04/2016 6:00:56 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Sorry, both were champions (not undefeated).


233 posted on 06/04/2016 6:01:46 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Tailback

No he isn’t.


234 posted on 06/04/2016 6:04:53 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%9)
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To: dfwgator
Maybe because their was a white woman on the democrat ticket in 1984. Just speculating though.

Ali demolished those feminists arguments, lol.
235 posted on 06/04/2016 6:05:55 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: dfwgator

Crap, their=there


236 posted on 06/04/2016 6:06:46 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Tailback
He's in a better place?

He's in Hell...forever!

Good riddance of the muslim draft-dodger.

237 posted on 06/04/2016 6:07:05 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: Shortstop7

Cosell died in ‘95 at age 77. Had he lived, he would be 91 now.


238 posted on 06/04/2016 6:16:30 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: clintonh8r

He made things interesting.


239 posted on 06/04/2016 6:16:48 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: 867V309; bootless

I share the same understanding of scripture, that your relationship with Jesus at check out time is the game changer.


240 posted on 06/04/2016 6:18:02 AM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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