Posted on 09/17/2015 1:58:20 PM PDT by grundle
On the one hand, I think it’s good that Obama defended Ahmed Mohamed (the innocent clock making teen in Irving, Texas who was wrongly arrested) and invited him to the White House.
On the other hand, during Obama’s presidency there have been students who were not named Mohamed who got in trouble with the police for similar non-dangerous things, but were not defended by Obama or invited to the White House. In 2010 in Forest Hills, New York, a 12 year old girl named Alexa Gonzalez was arrested for writing “I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10 ” on a classroom desk. In 2010 in Sanford, North Carolina, a 17 year old girl named Ashley Smithwick was charged with a misdemeanor for having a small paring knife in her lunchbox. In 2013 in Holmes County, Mississippi, a five year old boy was taken home from school in a police car for violating the school’s dress code. In 2011 in Fort Myers, Florida, police were summoned to an elementary school after a girl kissed a boy. But Obama never defended any of those students or invited them to the White House.
And those are just the ones where the police got involved. In cases where the police did not get involved, there have been dozens of reported incidents where students who were not named Mohamed got in trouble at school for things as ridiculous as pointing their finger like a gun, biting their pastry into the shape of a gun, threatening to shoot someone with a pink plastic toy gun that shoots bubbles, and dozens of other similar examples. But Obama never defended any of those students or invited them to the White House.
As another example of Obama’s hypocrisy on this issue, Mohamed’s parents said they will be transferring him to another school. But if Obama had his way, this kind of school choice would not exist.
In August 2013, the Obama administration sued Louisiana to try to bring an end to its school voucher program – a program which had just been passed in 2012. Under the Louisiana program, both of the following criteria had to be met in order for a student to get a school voucher. First, the student must come from a family whose income is below 250% of the poverty level. And second, the current public school that the student is attending must be rated as “C” or below. 86% of students who received vouchers had used those vouchers to flee from public schools which had been rated as “D” or “F.” Only the most vulnerable children were eligible for the vouchers – the poorest students attending the worst schools.
Obama’s reason for filing the lawsuit was that “many of those vouchers impeded the desegregation process.”
However, in response to Obama’s claim that the vouchers discriminated against blacks, Louisiana Education Superintendent John White pointed out that almost all of the students using the vouchers were black, and said that “it’s a little ridiculous” for Obama to claim that these vouchers caused discrimination against blacks. The Washington Post reported that 90% of the students who receive the vouchers are black.
It’s also worth noting that only students whose parents request such vouchers are eligible to participate in the voucher program. Obama is therefore claiming that parents want their own children to be discriminated against. Obama is extremely wrong on this. These parents do not want their children to be discriminated against. In reality, what these parents want is for their children to have a chance at a better education.
Obama’s opposition to school choice also makes him a hypocrite in another way, because while he was living in both Chicago and Washington D.C., he always sent his own children to private schools. Does Obama really want us to believe that he subjected his own children to racial discrimination by sending them to private schools?
Here are some other things that I have written about Obama and the public schools which you may find interesting:
Here are 36 reasons why I would not be surprised if Obama wanted Iran to destroy Israel
Islamic terrorism, gun control, and Barack Obama – three enemies of freedom
Is Barack Obama a communist? I don’t know. But here are six things I do know.
49 things that defenders of government run schools don’t want you to know
The only reason Obama injected himself into this is so he can stand with the moslems, the only thing he hasn’t lied about.
You got that right.
On the one hand, I think it’s good that Obama defended Ahmed Mohamed (the innocent clock making teen in Irving, Texas who was wrongly arrested) and invited him to the White House.
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You’re making quite a wild leap here and assuming facts not in evidence.
Nothing innocent about that clock that looked like a bomb.
I would have thought bomb. It looks like a bomb.
I heard on the radio some kid got in trouble for eating his pop tart into the shape of a gun. Now no one thought that was a gun. That was stupid. The clock really did look like a bomb. If the kid is so smart, and I assume he is, he had to know it looked like a bomb. He probably thought that was funny. He’s a kid. They have interesting senses of humor.
Who says the Muslim “kid” was innocent? It looks like an orchestrated plan by him and his dad, and CAIR, to me!
So.. you found this out ahead of everyone else?
Or did you just read about it today and stick it on your little blog?
Why not just post about it from the source?
It’s the first time Obama has actually said, “You built that.”
“wrongy arrested”???
What happened to ‘zero tolerance’? If a white kid had broguht in a funny bomb-looking device would Odumba$$ be inviting him to the white mosque?
Does the little muzzie think terrorism is funny?
If grundle is the author, at least he didn’t excerpt it like so many blog pimps do. If he is not, he didn’t violate any rules by posting full content. And there are lots of links in there to. No fault, no foul in my opinion.
At long last, is there any doubt about what he is ?
Muslim kiddies are right up there with young black thugs in the world of Obama.
And he was elected president TWICE.
How low we have sunk.
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Imagine if was-Bruce Jenner goes muz. Instant Presidential invitation.
I think it was Rush this morning .. who was saying that the picture the media was showing was not the real deal. The real thing did look exactly like a “timing device” .. for a bomb.
I’m sorry to say this .. but Muslim people here in America have only one goal .. to tear this country apart and kill as many of us as is possible.
I hope I’m wrong .. but so far, I don’t see any other purpose for Muslim people to come here.
This little future jihadi took the guts out of an alarm clock and put it in a pencil case. Someone put him up to it...his jihadi family is my guess.
Suck suckers we have in America.
Thanks for the link.
He’s innocent. He didn’t do anything wrong.
No, and that's my point.
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