Muhammad Ali, January 17, 1942 (Louisville, Ky.) – June 3, 2016 (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
VP candidate for Independent (aka Independent Republican) (2008)
Running mate with nominee: Michael Stephen Levinson (b. 1942)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
A perennial candidate since the 1980s, Michael S. Levinson's campaigns usually used the Republican primaries as a vehicle for expressing the candidate's views on issues of the day. Once the primaries were over, he was generally done for the election season. But it appears that starting with the 2008 election Levinson was moving to the Independent route, although Levinson would also call himself an Independent Republican at times.
In late October, 1972 Mary Levinson of Buffalo, NY announced she was running for President as an independent write-in. Actually she was serving as a stand-in for her son, Michael, who at age 30 was too young to be elected President. Michael had, according to the press, "definite views on ending the Vietnam war and cutting rents everywhere." The campaign's motto was "You stand on your own two feet." Mary Levinson selected James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, to be her running mate.
Michael did campaign on his own at a later date and through time became known as a perennial candidate. His decision to wear odd headgear during debates and panel discussions did draw some attention, but viewers were distracted by his form which overshadowed the content. Levinson's campaign literature was delivered in his interpretation of the English language, using wordplay and puns which, like the hats, made the voter have to work in order to discover his platform.
Mary Levinson died in 1995 but she contributed to her son's campaign webpage as if she was still alive as evidenced by Michael's 2008 online marketing--
MY SON IS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT TO BE INDEPENDENT NOMINEE OF BOTH PARTIES!
As soon as he's sworn into office he's giving The Bush clan
30 seconds to get off the platform. Especially
Bush's mother, Bar-Donna Bush-Corleone.
Isn't that great!
Stop the music and shoe them off. I get to hold the Bible.
Everything below is part of his platform. Read his Iraq Exit Strategy. Read about your FBI.
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Hi! This is the website which I, Mary T. Levinson, the oldest Webmaster in cyberspace, created for my son's 2008 presidential campaign. A lot of the writing that appears so new and original was actually written in 1999.
My son, Michael Stephen Levinson is a prophet of G-d. He is running to be your president so he can create the first peaceful night in 5,000 years of recorded history. With my son as your president he's going to establish world peace and food chain harmony in his first term! World peace for the new millennium, beginning with a peaceful whirled wide night.
His, soon-to-be-yours-for-free vehicle for world peace, The Television Scripture, is the "spoken poem, written down for all man kind," that God revealed to my son 38 years ago, when he was on a ship 40 days and 40 nights. Click on the www.youtube.com/poetprophet link above!
On this website, by his inspired works, Executive Orders , and sweeping innovations, you can judge for yourself the potential benefits for all the world's people with my son as our president; and whether or not my son Michael Stephen Levinson is the genuine article, a poet prophet who comes from G-d, chosen to make peace here on earth for the next millennium.
Do you want world peace, or do you prefer the politishinz' fear driven status quo? My son sees the presidency as a stepping stone to giving the world peace. His "new word order," the prophetic The Book ov Lev was written down in design, in 1969-70, to perform on world wide television, for all the world's peoples to sea, listen to and be a part of all at once.
My son, our soon-to-be prophetic bard president plans his peace poem to go from dusk until dawn, like old blind Homer, who sang of Oddyseus, with everyone at home, sitting back like lords of the manor, but better - he will give the world, on world wide television, an American lingo dusk until dawn thriller, a God inspired mull tie ling well giant art from my son's heart right off the top of his head, running and punning thru every spoken tongue, with every line a delicate sensible rhyme.
G-d is going to move through him, as described above, in his twelve "our" video trans crypt, to be given living when ever you are ready. It's your world, shleppers. The Book ov Lev he wrote is the prophetic advance television script sure of what is coming. As president, with you behind Hymn, my son, Michael will accomplish world peace, and lead the world to a better place.
Vote for my son, the poet prophet president!
And Muhammed Ali, the people's draft choice for vice president! VOTE LEV / ALI
Just read the essay I am linking here about the TWA 800 crash. He wrote the TWA part about a week after the plane blew up. When you read this piece you will see that his mind is above all of ours - that his revelationary sense of the universe, and the inspired words he has to express our collective place in G-d's scheme of things, is beyond any ordinary sense of common imagination. He talks about another water planet - describes it. The planet was just discovered in 2007! My son is a living prophet!Read this on our hot button issues. I should save the hair that falls off his head that he leaves in my clean sink and sell it for ten bucks per hair. I could finally get rich in my old age!
World peace will begin with a peaceful night, and when everyone is doing the same thing at the same time - world wide - watching my son telling his vision as God moves through him live on live TV, that is going to be the first beginning of world peace!
Here! Read The Clintstones. I just added some pictures of my Michael with the whales. No. Don't read it now. Select all and download it for reading later. It's great, H. L. Menchkin tough, and every paragraph leads to the next and the next. (The pics are black and white). Instead, right this minute read his poem Clintstone of Forkskinova. Now read Free Political TV for Candidates, his campaign finance reform plan that is unbeatable! Are there any Literati out there? Here is Kuwaiting for the Dough, in the raw, originally the intro chapter of, New World Hors Doeuvres, his work of historical fix shin. We haven't had a president who wrote his own books since Teddy Roosevelt! Kuwaiting for the Dough has a paragraph describing 9 / 11 ten years in advance.
Well. the other candidates aren't talking world peace. They don't have any programs for world peace and food chain harmony. Not even a clue! They preach fears to scare the voters. My son says that when all these candidate politishinz talk it's bad poetry.
They sure aren't world class poets with creative policies and innovative nuts & bolts solutions for all of our mammoth prob limbs! My son has a wealth of world experience and a giant vision for our country that he is writing down in these pages.
His long term economic program will give us the four day week, leading to the six hour day, and down the road to the seven month year with enough money coming in to support a spouse and two kids. He will do more than just deliver World Peace for all the world's peoples for the next millennium! Together, we can get him elected and all of us will change the course of human history on the good ship mother urf.
The other so-called anointed candidates you see on television, the insider money and power gang, they don't hold a candle to my son. They are just politishinz who feed off the public trough and squander our tax wealth. Their autobiographies are all focus group pre-tested and ghost written.
Silly-Billy links to Dolphins teaching alphabet demonstration
This website is Levinson for president headquarters. Sea Silly Billy dolphin above - click on him! Visit Http://www.thekidskeyboard.com His keyBoard site is where you find all about my son's Macromedia Flash program for teaching liddle kids the alphabet and numbers with the idea of ending illiteracy, world wide. My son will be the education president, and on election day all of his stew dense (us) get to teach the dirt bag politishinz a lesson. (He loves it when I adopt his phony netick style). The Kid's KeyBoard is available for purchase, and may also be given to people as a tool for gathering up dough nations on the campaign trail. Translation: more $$$ for you! Keep reading, my little yokels.
My son, as president, will be the leader of the free world. He will free the world of its tyranny. That's why he is here! To settle up the turf on the good ship mother urf. Watch him talk to everyone in the Middle East. He's going to sing an ancient Hebrew hymn, slowly turn it into an Arabic Hymn, and then, when every eyeball in the Middle east is glued to their televisions. . . settle everything.
Can you imagine Hillary Clintstone even talking to the Palestinian people? Or Barky Obama? Or that cross dressing J. Edgarina wanna be, Rudy G? Can we win the election for president? Of course! It's the Internet, stupid.
All it's going to take is for all the folks presently backing the losing candidates, plus a healthy dollop of presently unregistered voters that you will register, to get behind my son, the candidate. My son is the one, and we will win the election in November 2008!
Michael says I shouldn't write any bad stuff about the other candidates. He likes that loser, John McCain. Michael says he would like John McCain to join his cabinet as Secretary of Defense, and he liked Steve Forbes in 1995, because Forbes wants to drive a stake thru the tax code, for Treasurer, and John Edwards to revamp HUD, and Gary Bauer to be in charge of my son's White House anti-abortion program, 800-lovekid. And Thomas L. Friedman for Secretary of State with Bill Bradley under-secretary of state.
I told my son I want him to get Ralph Nader involved because Ralph would be a great Attorney General. That guy Alberto Gonzalaz. . . He needs a lawyer. What does Bush call him? Fredo? That loser from The Godfather trilogy. Don't you get it? That is why Bush chose him. Poor Fredo from the movie. He was a great character actor. He died recently and is hanging out in heaven with Marlon Brando.
I'm positive we can win this presidential election and shoe those shoddy Bushbergs right off the inaugural platform. Positive. I'm going to hold the Bible. But my son's righteousness won't triumph over their scumbaggery without you getting off the side lines and pitching in for our campaign!
That's the bottom line: your involvement.
I'm an old lady. Old. And waiting a lifetime. Am I talking plain? Click on me. Give me a hand in getting my son elected president and I will send you plenty of tax free dollars for 'walking around money,' so you aren't going to die of starvation on the Lev campaign trail!
The prophetic c.1971 Book ov Lev that described the Gulf War in detail, in advance, and Nixon leaving the W. House early, and Governor Wallace getting a shot in the back, and the ozone layer depleting, amongst many other written-down-in-advance world events, might be original and new to you, but not to the domestic intelligence folks in the federal government.
The longest, deepest, most intrusive files ever compiled on any American citizen are the files your government's intelligence bureaucrats actively keep on my son. That's because they see my Michael as a genuine threat to their way of doing things and they have conspired against him. Thank God for the Internet!
During the campaign I am going to post lots of documents besides my son's platform. Some of the documents are raw material from, New World Hors Doeuvres, to prove to you what I am telling you about your above-the-law domestic intelligence government.
Come back every day and scroll down to read his growing platform of Executive Orders because everything he is going to do for us as president is getting spelled out clearly in advance right here on the website.
Muhammed Ali is my son's choice for vice-president. That will put two holy men in our two highest offices! It's a split ticket. Muhammed is a registered democrat - my son republican. Muhammed is black. My son is white. Both are poets. Prophets.
Love to you from me, Mary Levinson, the oldest webmaster in cyberspace. I need to live rent free in the White House and be in charge of the kitchen.
My son has the recipe for world peace - a new word order - he is the inspired master of words, world orders and word hors doeuvres. I have the recipe for chicken soup which you can get to with a mouse click. My son has email for both of us-I read everything: jacklegsjumpingup@earthlink.net
As mentioned above, like his mother, Levinson chose a celebrity as his running-mate. Most major party candidates traditionally do not name a running-mate before the convention. Possibly they do not want to appear presumptuous or they would like to create some sense of suspense to gain attention at the conventions, which are normally mind-numbingly long political advertisements. But Levinson, running as a Republican in several elections, not only named Muhammad Ali as his Vice-Presidential choice, he produced a poster heralding the ticket in 1988.
In Levinson's 1996, 2000 and 2004 runs Ali remained his first choice for the second spot. He did have backup choices, as he explained during the 2000 election, "I like Liddy Dole. With her no nonsense style, she could easily fit in my cabinet, to take down an agency or two; and Bob for sure in my kitchen cabinet. Bob Dole was my 2nd choice for V.P., in '96, after Muhammed Ali. This time, after Ali, my 2nd choice is Jesse Ventura for Vice President."
In 2008 he hung on to the idea of having Ali as his VP but this time Levinson was going all the way to the general election.
Having grown up in the era when Ali was at his peak not only as a boxer but also as a symbol of personal/human rights protest it is difficult for me to visualize The Greatest accepting second place in anything. A champion for so many on so many different levels, Ali the private citizen was more influential than most public officials.
Ali's politics could be a bit unpredictable, much like the man himself. He campaigned for Jimmy Carter in 1980. In 1984 he supported Jesse Jackson in the primaries but endorsed Reagan's re-election later in the year because, "He's keeping God in schools and that's enough."
Ali had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease the same year he endorsed Jackson, and then Reagan. In subsequent years he had been engaged in philanthropic pursuits and international goodwill missions. In 1990 he met with Saddam Hussein and negotiated the release of American hostages much to the consternation of the George H.W. Bush administration. By the 2008 election Ali's health had declined dramatically but he was still an active and beloved public figure. Needless to say, I could not find a public response from Ali about being Levinson's running-mate.
Levinson had managed to become a certified write-in in Washington and perhaps a few other states, but did not seem to obtain a measurable number of votes on Election Day 2008.
Election history: none.
Other occupations: heavyweight champion boxer of the world, philanthropist, social and antiwar activist, actor, writer, poet, recording artist
Buried: Cave Hill Cemetery (Louisville, Ky.)
Notes:
In the same cemetery as Colonel Sanders.
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."--Muhammad Ali
