A Texas teenager who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school will be at the White House on Monday to participate in an event promoting astronomy, but likely won’t meet with President Obama.
Obama invited Ahmed Mohamed to “Astronomy Night” after his story attracted national attention last month.
“I don’t believe the president will have the opportunity to meet one on one with Ahmed Mohammad,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters. “There are several hundred people who are planning to participate in tonight’s festivities on the South Lawn.”
Mohamed and his family alleged that the ninth-grader was the subject of anti-Muslim bias when teachers mistook his clock for a bomb. Officials in Mohammed’s hometown of Irving, Texas denied those claims.
After the story went viral on social media, Obama tweeted an invitation for Ahmed to visit the White House to meet with NASA scientists and astronauts and bring the clock with him.
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The clock isn’t going to meet Obama either.
I would have loved to see Obama and Ahmed the clock faker together.
I think Obama had the “clock” dropped on ISIS to impress Putin.
the muslin terrorist is the pres.
He got a picture in the handshake line. Any leftists that worried about this kids feelings should ponder how Obama took a dump on him after tweeting him to bring his little “invention” to the White House, then he just gets lost in the crowd.
Well, Ahmed… we tried to warn you.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/10/20/texas-clock-boy-will-move-to-qatar.html
@Wordsmith:
Where he belongs. He wasn’t going to do well with the scrutiny here.