Show and tell – clock building skills

Okay so Mr. Obama is a politician and he thinks, acts and put himself of full display as a politician.  Move along folks, nothing to see here.

And little risk to his “legacy” by elevating the kid with the “clock” who was treated aggressively by school administrators and local cops.  Not questioning the kid might be some throwback to the 1950’s and 60’s but today we allow government bureaucrats to enter, investigate and control darn near every normal routine movement we make as citizens so a kid with some device with wires and circuitry is probably going to catch the eye of even the average sleepy head administrator/cop, unless its right before “break time.”

Were the handcuffs too much?  Fingerprints?  Of course they were/are too much.  But again our great “first responders” are trained to go over the top first, second and third and, after all, they have immunity for such behaviors which are universally applied to all but their own.  Shoot first; don’t answer questions later; call an attorney, or, even better, the union rep.  Worse that can happen, suspension, with pay (giggle – giggle.)

So what is Obama’s message about the clock builder?  Well, other than lining up the Hollywood media for a photo op of a kid who is “inventive”, we don’t know.  It seems that Obama is grasping for something that evades our limited perceptive skills.

Is he saying to just Muslim kids, build something and take it to school?  We encourage it?  Or is he saying, to all kids, build something and take it to school?  Regardless of who your parents are, how you dress, what you believe or don’t?  We don’t know.  Obama is a bit close lipped on the message he is sending – but we gather he likes the visual?

Here is what we do know.  He sends his kids to private schools.  Let’s ask those schools what they would do if a kid showed up with such a device.  (Can you imagine the secret service response?  Assuming the prostitutes had left?  And they were sober?)  Obama’s head of education?  Sends his kids to private schools?  What would happen there?  His old sidekick the wandering mayor of Chicago; he of the inability to stop building the public debt of his already insolvent city, same question – private schools, okay to bring in devices – one per kid per day?  Or is it just okay to bring devices to public schools like the one in Texas where the clock builder ended up in ‘cuffs?  By the way, shouldn’t the fingerprints be expunged inasmuch as the kid did nothing to warrant their taking?

And here is our closing thought – we like the clock building idea – we think it should be encouraged.  And obviously Mr. Obama, you do too because of your quick, thoughtful, reactive act.  So let’s go whole hog on this idea – put it in the department of education rule book for all public schools taking federal money – students are encouraged to build clock like devices and bring them to school, but no more than one per day.

Why do we like this idea?  We think it might accelerate the end of the monopoly of bad public schools in this country and turn over to parents the money they need and that has been collected to get their kids better choices for K-12 education.  A luxury that few taxpayers have but that Obama and his well paid government “officials” enjoy and that they fully, totally and with no shame deny to the very people who need it the most.