To be fair, almost anyone can do that. Obama’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. And when it comes to evidence that Amerikkka is a racist country, he’s eager to get fooled.
I don’t think the kid should have been arrested, but I also don’t think he should be lionized. It does appear more and more to be some kind of stunt.
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Related links from Instapundit.
For me, this is mostly about the idiocracy of the public-school system, and its “zero-tolerance” insanity.
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The White House behaved stupidly:
Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne “later noted that the president had tweeted about the case and invited Ahmed to the White House before the pictures of the clock were even publicly available. Obama made no attempt to contact her office before making public comments in support of the Muslim teen.”
The country’s in the very best of hands.
Dupe? Duped like a fox. Every race/sex baiting move Obama has made was based on a false narrative. Yet the message got across and activated his low information constituency. The
stupidvenal party Republicans had something going with real illegal alien murders and just let it drop instead of forcing it again and again in the public’s face.In all the hubub about this story, one aspect I haven’t seen anyone write about yet is that this event may very well have been intended as a test and threat:
“Your kids are not safe. We can get bombs into your children’s schools and you won’t be stop it.”
Using otherwise seemingly innocent children to deliver homemade bombs intended to kill large numbers of other innocent people isn’t exactly a new idea among those who surrender to Allah.
“Take this to your school and go plug it in.”
If it had been a bomb, 40-100+ American kids would be dead or maimed now.
I think this media and political reaction is just extra gravy for them, even if it did obscure (what I think) was their intended message.
A successful test perhaps, one more successful than they likely anticipated.
Best comment on the day on this over at instapundit: “Does anyone think it is more than teensie weensie bit ironic that Barack “you didn’t build that” Obama brings a kid to the White House who really didn’t build that?”
Seriously? You guys think that this kid, excited by his home brew science project, was some terrorist in the making?
I have a suggestion. Take another look at the situation, put on your big girl panties, and quit trembling at the prospect of 14 year old boys who seem to just have a healthy interest in science.
Kid was neither a scientist nor discriminated against due to his race/religion. Also, not a terrorist even if his dad is sketchy.
This is just an example of a kid getting caught up in progressive school administration policies that many on the right have been complaining about for decades.
Rather than look at the policies that lead to what took place, Democrats immediately jump on the SJW racial grievance hierarchy bullet train to social divide. As usual, knowing nothing about the events that took place, Democrats rallied around racism.
Why shouldn’t this kid follow the same rules as other kids? Because he is Muslim we lower the standards? Had a white Christian kid done this would the reaction been the same? No, it wouldn’t have. The kid would be rotting away in detention if not juvenile prison.
Really though, this illustrates Democrat’s foreign policy on many levels and also their domestic polices which put creating racial divisions and conflict where none exist in order to gain power.
That was no science project. If it was, he should have received a zero for plagiarism – taking someone else’s work and passing it off as his own.
But, there was no science project. It wasn’t an assignment or a lab or science fair. It was “look what I made!” even though he didn’t make anything. He took a working commercial clock and put it into a different case and claimed he made it.
If he had taken a 555 timer and an up/down counter and some seven segment displays and made a clock on a breadboard, then OK, that’s an engineering project. Disassemble a working clock and put it into an oversize pencil case? Set it so that it goes off in class? The only thing missing is a squib connected to the alarm line and some C4 and you have an IED.
There doesn’t actually seem to be a “healthy interest in science.” Someone interested in science does science, not repackage old clock radios. And his sister was reportedly disciplined for threatening to blow up the school. And his father is an Islamic nutjob who seems to have put him up to it.
But move along, nothing to see here.
Want to put on big boy pants yourself, Dave, and scroll down to the previous post Rand had on the subject? You might find that Rand’s initial (and I believe still standing) position was the school over-reacted. However, the school over-reacting isn’t grounds for Obama running off and acting like a fool as well. No one is afraid of a child who’s engineering ability is removing the casing from a digital clock and sticking it in brief case. But apparently Obama is afraid of cops and wanted the child for his poster on why others should be afraid of cops.
In a country where seven-year-olds get led out of classrooms in handcuffs for biting a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun, none of this is surprising.
For the morons like Dave that visit that think criticism of the kid must be racist, here is a quote from AoS:
“It would be as like a ninth grader simply xeroxing “The Old Man and the Sea” and then telling people “Look at my story.”
No one who is not mentally slow would think that mere act of photocopying made it “his story,” and no ninth grader who was not mentally slow would imagine that taking a mass produced clock out of its case and putting it into another case constituted making an “invention” or even “building” a clock.”
Mentally slow indeed, yet Obama wants to make this kid a poster child, and Dave thinks noting the stupidity must be motivated by racism against the kid. For me, it is racists to think that the only one a Muslim could invent something is to do what this kid did. I don’t hold that opinion of Muslims, but I’m starting to think that is what Dave thinks of Muslims.