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Ali cuts down the Shrubbery without throwing a punch.

"The Greatest of All Time" stole the show when President Bush bestowed the Medal of Freedom on them and 10 others in a White House ceremony yesterday.Bush, who appeared almost playful, fastened the heavy medal around Muhammad Ali's neck and whispered something in the heavyweight champion's ear. Then, as if to say "bring it on," the president put up his dukes in a mock challenge. Ali, 63, who has Parkinson's disease and moves slowly, looked the president in the eye -- and, finger to head, did the "crazy" twirl for a couple of seconds.

The room of about 200, including Cabinet secretaries, tittered with laughter. Ali, who was then escorted back to his chair, made the twirl again while sitting down. And the president looked visibly taken aback, laughing nervously.


Clearly Mr. Bush is no Joe Frazier.

Come to think of it, he's not even Leon Spinks.

Not to mention Jerry Quarry, who Ali first took on in 1970 after he did the time for refusing to kill in Vietnam straight up - compare that to the route the Shrub took back then.

Which just goes to show.......You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool a few more on Diebold Day. But you can't fool an old guy with Parkinson's who has truth in his heart anytime.

What a wonderful world.

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OriginalLinkSource: Bernhard at MOA.

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