As I read one account that included a comment from Kareem Abdul Jabar, though it was about Ali, I was struck by how fearfully descriptive it could also be of what we see happening in the arena of our politics.

Kareem Abdul Jabar said, in part, of Ali:
"… A master of self-promotion, he declared early in his boxing career, I am the greatest! This kind of boasting enraged many people, just as he'd hoped, ensuring a large audience that just wanted to see this upstart boy taught a lesson.

But it was Muhammad who taught the lesson because, as he once said, It's not bragging if you can back it up. And back it up, he did. Again and again. And not just in the ring… "

Now, I think, though some disagree with me, that if that's true of politicians, of one in particular, we Americans could be in great trouble. Of course, even if the Presidency is the grand prize, most people don't support prize fighting any more.