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Hasan Stands Up To CPAC

by: Colorado Pols

Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 07:09:53 AM MST

We've had a lot of fun over the past year or so with former Republican statehouse candidate Muhammad Ali Hasan, who well and truly earned the title we bestowed on him of "Master of the Terrible Press."

Having been the punchline of so many jokes, it would be unfair of us to ignore what Hasan said recently at the Conservative Political Action Conference--as the Colorado Independent reports:

No shoes were thrown, but Ali Hasan did put his foot in his mouth last week at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., baffling the arch-conservative crowd with some decidedly moderate views.
"The problem with Republicans and the conservative movement right now," he said, according to Sarah Posner in the American Prospect, "is we've identified the wrong enemy. Our enemies are not Muslims, are not gays, Mexicans, or immigrants - our enemies are labor unions and bailouts." [Pols emphasis]
The Beaver Creek Republican and founder of Muslims for America ran a colorful, and expensive but ultimately unsuccessful statehouse campaign against Democrat Christine Scanlan last year, touting celibacy, monorails and pheromone packs on pine trees.
In the American Prospect, Posner interviewed Akir Kahn, who works for Hasan's Muslims for America and decried the portrayal of American Muslims as terrorists by conservative Christian groups.
But in the next breath Kahn charged Democrats with fomenting the same stereotypes, even feeding the Obama-as-a-Muslim rumor mill and putting out pre-election robo-calls questioning why Hasan dropped his first name, Muhammad, during the campaign.

We've never seen conclusive proof that the robocalls in question ever actually occurred, and we certainly don't know what he's talking about with this charge that Democrats were somehow "feeding the Obama-as-a-Muslim rumor mill."

Oh right, Hillary Clinton. Last bit retracted.

Anyway, Hasan is half-right when he declares who his enemies are not--broader acknowledgment of this criticism among Republicans could only help them, as we've said for years. Unfortunately, his real "enemies" aren't generally perceived by the American people to be "enemies" either (and isn't George "Bailout" Bush a big friend of the Hasan family?), but at least that's honorable ground to lose on.

For once, maybe for the first time ever, we're proud of Ali Hasan.

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I don't know about robocalls

which questioned why Hasan had dropped his first name. But, I did ask here on a thread he was posting in, why he dropped his first name. I'm not anti-Muslim. The simple answer would have been "Too many associate the name with Islam and my campaign is about more than that." He simply chose not to answer.

by: Gray in the mountains @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 08:58:52 AM CST

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I had a friend growing up who did the same

Because, in his words, "there is only one Muhammed Ali, and he could kick my ass."

He saw it as a gratuitous expropriation of the boxer's name by his parents (and it was) and prefers to go by Ali (which he pronounced "alley"). Of course we also had a friend Allison who went by a similarly pronounced nickname, so that was always interesting.

I'm pretty sure the two got together in high school. There might even be little Ali-Ali kids running around for all I know. Which I suppose mathematically would me them the product of Ali^2.

Non impediti ratione cogitationis.

"Some of the people that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'." --Rep. Barney Frank

by: ThillyWabbit @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 10:00:05 AM CST

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I don't see the difference

between naming a kid Muhammad Ali, and naming a kid Thomas Jefferson. Both names pay tribute to great Americans.

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by: redstateblues @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 10:07:59 AM CST

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TJ had been dead for a few years

Muhammed Ali was a big celebrity when I was born. It would be like naming your kid John Elway.

Not saying Hasan's parents had the same motivation, but my friend's parents definitely did. He just found it to be cheesy and I imagine kids made fun of him.

Non impediti ratione cogitationis.

"Some of the people that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'." --Rep. Barney Frank

by: ThillyWabbit @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 10:27:54 AM CST

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I have a friend

who named his dog Elway. The dog runs if the cat hisses.

by: Gray in the mountains @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:40:17 PM CST

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Thanks Pols

I appreciate the kind words

However, my message was VERY well received at CPAC --- I gave a speech to CPAC that was broadcasted on CSPAN where I said the exact same thing -- you can see it at this link, however, you got to fast forward to around 01:54:54

http://cspan.org/Watch/watch.a...

peace and love all! - ALI

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by: Muhammad Ali Hasan @ Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:48 AM CST

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Newt and Sarah in 2012?

Oooookay...

Really though, it was pretty well received...good job. Now, if you could just work on not dressing down for minimally formal occasions. I mean, come on...even the professional eating guy after you at least threw on a suit.

I'm just sayin'...

by: Dabee47 @ Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 13:56:25 PM CST

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thanks for watching

...no more suits for me

I dressed in the same outfit I went door-knocking in --- good enough for me

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by: Muhammad Ali Hasan @ Sat Mar 07, 2009 at 15:40:54 PM CST

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