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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said on Saturday that arresting and suspending Ahmed Mohamed, the ninth grader who brought a homemade clock to school, was totally reasonable.
Palin called initial media reports of Mohamed's arrest "fishy" and said that school officials were totally justified in thinking that his clock, made out of a pencil box, was a bomb.
"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," she wrote in a Facebook post in which she shared pictures of her kids' pencil boxes. "Right. That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England."
Palin also compared the incident to others in which students were suspended and said that Mohamed was obviously an "obstinate-answering student."
"Friends, consider the kids disciplined and/or kicked out of school for bringing squirt guns to school or taking bites out of a pop tart until it resembled (to some politically correct yahoo) a gun. Or the student out deer hunting with his dad early one morning who forgot he had a box of ammo in his truck when he parked in the school's lot later that day," she wrote. "Whereas Ahmed Muhammad, an evidently obstinate-answering student bringing in a homemade 'clock' that obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption (teachers who are told 'if you see something, say something!') gets invited to the White House." .....................(more)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sarah-palin-ahmed-clock_55fd7d59e4b0fde8b0ce7ddc?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013§ion=politics
AzDar
(14,023 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)"Obstinate" is one syllable longer than the other words in her .
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)spanone
(135,827 posts)why does our ignorant media keep printing her horseshit?
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)...made her the second most stupid person I've seen.
Guess who's number one? The turd doesn't fall far from the asshole.
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)[ˈäbstənit]
ADJECTIVE
1.stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.
Yep, while the police violated his rights, this "obstinate-answering" student stubbornly refused to admit that his homemade clock was actually a bomb, even though it wasn't.
Johonny
(20,835 posts)The Muslim student with a clock cannot be oppressed by the school system because they are the anti-christ and should be tortured by the full extent of the school curriculum. The logic of a very small mind that was only one heartbeat from the presidency if John McCain had been elected. It's scary what counts as a serious Republican candidate these days.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)anyone to get a chronic disease, but I think that is the only way we will be rid of her.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Can you imagine the money they could grift off that? And the media would lap it up.
Iggo
(47,550 posts)Because it's a clock.
randome
(34,845 posts)...are heroes!
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B Calm
(28,762 posts)call the bomb squad.
olddots
(10,237 posts)and there is a physical resemblance too .
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)My apologies to bags of rocks everywhere.
JHB
(37,158 posts)...about "political correctness".
In the past, a box like the kid used would have been called a cigar box, even if it had never held cigars.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)malaise
(268,949 posts)Perfect
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Nac Mac Feegle
(970 posts)Stonekettle
@Stonekettle
Palin's voice makes me think of an amphetamine fuelled howler monkey forcibly strapped into automatic dildo testing machine.
I'll never be able to shake that image, but I can modify it so that Caribou Barbie is the 'subject'. That helps.
hay rick
(7,607 posts)The stupid- if you got it flaunt it.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)whoooosh coming from her ears.