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  • Bristol Palin Misses the Mark When Blasting President Obama Over Ahmed Mohamed Invite

    Bristol Palin clearly missed the mark when she spouted off last week at President Obama over the invitation he extended to Ahmed Mohamed to the White House.

    Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a 9th-grader at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was arrested on Monday after showing a homemade clock he constructed to a teacher. He says he was asked whether he had “tried to make a bomb.” Later in the week, President Obama tweeted to Ahmed and invited him to the White House.

    Bristol Palin argued on her blog, saying President Obama should stay out of the situation with Ahmed Mohamed.

    “This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ crowd and encourages victimhood,” she wrote. The police, she acknowledged, “clearly” made a mistake by taking Ahmed to juvenile detention.

    “But why put more people against [the police]?” Bristol Palin asked. “Why egg it on? Childish games like this from our president have divided our country… even more today than when he was elected.”

    What?

    It’s abundantly clear that the president isn’t “egging on” anti-police sentiment. He’s instead addressing a very real problem head on by tying to attack harmful stereotypes.

    President Obama’s invitation is a positive thing, likely aimed at combatting the mindset that assumes all Muslims are terrorists and that all black people are troublemakers.

    Bristol Palin seems to have a problem with this 14-year-old Muslim boy.

    And isn’t that part of the divisiveness in our country?

  • Sarah Palin Backs Bristol and Slams Obama Over Ahmed Mohamed Too

    Sarah Palin has thrown her two cents into the discussion about Ahmed Mohamed, the clock-making high school teen in Texas who was arrested when he brought a homemade digital clock to school.

    Ahmed Mohamed made his own digital clock and took it to school in a pencil case to show his Engineering teacher. Another teacher reported Ahmed, police were called, and Ahmed was arrested on suspicion of making a bomb.

    As has been pointed out many times in social media and news programs, it seems unlikely that anyone actually thought that Ahmed Mohamed had actually made a bomb. If they had, they would have followed protocols such as evacuating the school, calling the bomb squad, and so on. Instead, Ahmed is likely believed to have been perpetrating a bomb hoax. But others say this was only suspected because of Islamaphobia.

    Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol has already jumped into the fray, accusing President Barack Obama of dividing America with “childish games” like inviting Ahmed Mohamed to the White House.

    President Obama tweeted:

    “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.”

    Bristol Palin saw this as driving a further wedge in America.

    “This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of. This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the “Black Lives Matter” crowd and encourages victimhood.

    “The police made a mistake, clearly.

    “But why put more people against them? Why egg it on? Childish games like this from our president have divided our country… even more today than when he was elected.”

    Sara Palin, for her part, took to Facebook — her pulpit of choice — to back her daughter’s play and further slam Obama and the “liberal media.”

    “Yep, believing that’s a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history…; By the way, President Obama’s practice of jumping in cases prematurely to interject himself as the cool savior, wanting so badly to attach himself to the issue-of-the-day, got old years ago.”

    Of course, Sarah Palin’s audience is not really one to be envied. One commenter on her post said, in all seriousness:

    “Funny but all the clocks I have in my house look nothing like that thing. Where’s the face, the numbers, the hands?”

  • Bristol Palin Slammed After Calling President ‘Childish’ Over Ahmed Mohamed

    Bristol Palin may be a bit confused. Maybe she is getting her political news from the same source her mother is: her imagination.

    The daughter of political firebrand and half-term governor of Sarah Palin took issue with President Obama inviting clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed to the White House. Ahmed Mohamed is the high school student from Texas who made his own digital clock and took it to school in a pencil case to show his Engineering teacher. Another teacher reported Ahmed, police were called, and Ahmed was arrested on suspicion of making a bomb.

    As has been pointed out many times in social media and news programs, it seems unlikely that anyone actually thought that Ahmed Mohamed had actually made a bomb. If they had, they would have followed protocols such as evacuating the school, calling the bomb squad, and so on. Instead, Ahmed is likely believed to have been perpetrating a bomb hoax.

    But that is not how the whole issue has been spread about in social media. Instead, people are laughing at the school administration and police in Texas for believing that a clock was a bomb. If it turns out that Ahmed Mohamed even joked that he had a bomb in his locker, the school administration and police will look much better in hindsight. But so far such revelations have not emerged.

    What irked Bristol Palin was that President Obama invited Ahmed Mohamed to the white House via Twitter, saying:

    “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.”

    Bristol Palin saw this as driving a further wedge in America. She laid out her argument this way:

    “This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of. This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the “Black Lives Matter” crowd and encourages victimhood.

    “The police made a mistake, clearly.

    “But why put more people against them? Why egg it on? Childish games like this from our president have divided our country… even more today than when he was elected.”

    Now social media users are piling on to Bristol Palin, en masse.

    Perhaps what Bristol Palin is forgetting is that it was her own mother who raised the notion of some people in America being “the real America,” so long as they were supporting her in politics.

    Sarah Palin said these areas were “pro-America,” implying that other areas were “anti-America.”

    Where Bristol Palin gets the idea that Barack Obama, simply by virtue of his being elected, divided America, is curious. Did he do this on purpose? Or was there some sort of sentiment against him that caused this rift simply because a majority of what must be “un-real, anti-America” voted him into office twice?

  • Bristol Palin Says President Obama Dividing the Country by Inviting Ahmed Mohamed to White House

    Bristol Palin is speaking out about Ahmed Mohamed, the former MacArthur High School student from Irving, Texas, who has become famous after being arrested on suspicion of bringing a bomb to school. Of course, the rest of the world now knows that Ahmed Mohamed did not bring a bomb, but rather a clock he had built to show an engineering teacher. Bristol Palin knows this, too. She doesn’t have a problem with Ahmed Mohamed. She has a problem with Barack Obama.

    Try to follow along. Bristol Palin heard the news that President Barack Obama had tweeted out to Ahmed Mohamed. It is this tweet that Bristol Palin takes issue with.

    President Obama’s tweet read:

    “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.”

    In response to President Obama’s tweet, Bristol Palin wrote on her own blog:

    “This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of. This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the “Black Lives Matter” crowd and encourages victimhood.

    “The police made a mistake, clearly.

    “But why put more people against them? Why egg it on? Childish games like this from our president have divided our country… even more today than when he was elected.”

    Bristol Palin does not here elaborate on how President Obama managed to divide the country when he was elected. She does not say that his presidency divides the country. Rather, she marks a specific point in time, comparing “today” with “when he was elected.”

    Is Bristol Palin saying that the very act of being Barack Obama being elected divided the country? Is she aware that he did not elect himself, but a majority of voting Americans did? Twice?

    Is Britstol Palin aware that it was her own mother, in the Presidential race of 2008 against Barack Obama, who raised the topic of “the real America,” dividing people into groups?

    Yet somehow, Bristol Palin thinks that the President speaking out in a small way to combat Islamaphobia and show unity with all races is divisive.

  • Ahmed Mohamed, Teen Arrested for Bringing Clock to School, Gets Presidential Support

    Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teen thrust in the national spotlight after he was arrested and suspended for bringing a homemade clock to school, has friends in high places.

    President Obama tweeted his support Wednesday afternoon, asking if Ahmed wants to visit the White House with his clock.

    “Cool clock, Ahmed,” tweeted Obama. “Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great”

    He’s also found support from Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton:

    Ahmed brought what he says was an engineering project to his Irving, Texas school on Monday. According to the Dallas Morning News, Ahmed’s English teacher heard the device going off in class and took it away from him. By sixth period, Ahmed was in the process of being arrested.

    He claims he was interrogated by multiple police officers, threatened, and accused a trying to build a bomb.

    By Wednesday morning, Irving Police have conceded it’s not a dangerous device, but officers had determined it was a “hoax bomb” despite Ahmed’s protestations of it simply being a clock.

    From the Dallas News:

    At a press conference this morning, Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing “a hoax bomb” to school — and not a clock, as Mohamed said he repeatedly told his teachers.

    But, Boyd said, “we are confident it’s not an explosive device” intended to cause “alarm.” Rather, he said, officers determined it was “a hoax bomb” and a “naive accident.”

    As a result, he said, no charges will be filed against Ahmed, and “the case is considered closed.” He also said “the reaction would have been the same regardless” of the student’s skin color.

    His family and many on Twitter feel otherwise.

    The hashtag #IStandWithAhmed has been trending all day.