(And no, that's not Capn Jack Sparrow. He also told a bunch of science nerds that in future they could call themselves "The Royal Society"
Posted on 05/27/2011 10:44:37 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
Members of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom stated yesterday that President Barack Obama was obsessed with his perception of "street cred" and that he intentionally avoids things to keep it high.
This comes after Mr. Obama snubbed the group, an organization of world-leading scientists, when they planned on awarding him the King Charles II medal. The medal is given out only in "extraordinary circumstances" to leaders who "made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country."
Sources also stated that the group was "deeply offended."
According to a source in the British government:
“The Royal Society was really keen to do something with Obama and they expected him to be very honoured by the medal. Instead they received a very short response from his people saying that it would be better for him to visit a state school. The inference they took from that was that he was more interested in cultivating his street cred than in building links with British scientists.”
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I wonder what “outstanding contribution to science” these pointy-headed Brits are fawning about?
What outstanding contribution to science did Obama make? What a useless organization this must be.
Obama probably has no idea who King Charles II was. If there had been money attached he would have found time to accept it--just as he traveled to Sweden for another prize he didn't earn, because there was a large sum of money attached.
The Royal Society could use a little Scientific Cred of its own rather than attempting to live off the capital earned by their predecessors.
I am deeply offended by the Royal Society of the UK who planned on awarding zero the King Charles II medal for “extraordinary circumstances” to leaders who “made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country.”
What absolute morons. At least they realized some truth in their irrational plan although I doubt that they will realize how their stupidity and lack of moral discernment has led to the demise and destruction of the English civil society.
Then why didn’t he turn down the Nobel thingy??
I know... the money!!
Where in hell has the Kenyan Catastrophe made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in America?...This must be another crackerjacks prize award.
This is the key aspect of his personality. It's the narcissism.
Obama seems to make a good first impression on people. He shows up and gets accepted at the school of his choice. People shake his hand and immediately say "You're brilliant!"
After a few years, people start saying "Have you ever actually seen that guy do anything?" And at that point Obama moves on to new territory.
Did he accomplish anything at Occidental? At Harvard? At Harvard Law Review? As a community organizer? As a college lecturer? As a state senator? As a US senator?
He constantly runs to a new position where he will show "great promise" before anyone catches on that he is a complete empty suit. Now that he's president, he has no where to run, so he just avoids engagements where people might say, "My ... you're quite an ordinary person, aren't you? Actually, you are sort of below average, I think."
That’s a brilliant point! You are dead on.
“Street cred” He is a street punk nothing more!
Kneepadding on a world scale now.
Had Mr Obama accepted the invitation, he would have been greeted by Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, who won a Nobel prize in 2001 for advances in genetics and cell biology.Instead he met pupils at the Globe Academy who had won an award for designing a lunchbox which folds out into a plate.
It more likely that after ‘hello’ Obama would be incapable of having a sensible conversation with anyone of intellectual substance.
(And no, that's not Capn Jack Sparrow. He also told a bunch of science nerds that in future they could call themselves "The Royal Society"
“He also told a bunch of science nerds that in future they could call themselves “The Royal Society”
In the future HE will be called,the most worthless president in history.
I get more vocal in public everyday, over the destruction of our society by this filthy primate bastard!
Barack Obama has snubbed Britain’s most eminent scientists by refusing to attend a Royal Society banquet in his honour at which he was to be awarded with a prestigious medal.
Now why in the world would he do that?!
Royal Society issues new climate change guide that admits there are 'uncertainties' about the science
And Benny Peiser, Director of The Global Warming Policy Foundation also welcomed the Royal Society's decision to revise.
He said: 'The former publication gave the misleading impression that the 'science is settled' - the new guide accepts that important questions remain open and uncertainties unresolved.
'The Royal Society now also agrees with the GWPF that the warming trend of the 1980s and 90s has come to a halt in the last 10 years.
Well imagine that!
When you don't follow in lock step you deserve "The Snub".
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