Obama on Twitter: "Cool clock, Ahmed"

[Recursion]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is my President.

[Egnever]

1. Just awesome

This is not the first time he has made me feel nothing but pride for supporting him.

[L. Coyote]

9. Mark Zuckerberg 40 mins ago · Palo Alto, CA · "Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook ...."

Mark Zuckerberg
40 mins · Palo Alto, CA ·

You’ve probably seen the story about Ahmed, the 14 year old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he took it to school.

Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed.

Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I'd love to meet you. Keep building.

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102373304096361

[liberal N proud]

2. How will the GOP respond tonight?

Republican presidential hopefuls, however, remain curiously silent. So please, Jake Tapper, broach the topic during tonight's GOP debate. As our own Kevin Drum explains, it might even give GOP candidates a shot at demonstrating that unlike their party's current front runner, "occasionally they care about obvious bigotry like this."


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/09/obama-ahmed-mohamed-clock

[L. Coyote]

7. Time, it's Obama's fault. Time is a left wing conspiracy so throw away your clocks.

And burn any clock makers in the public square with dunce caps.

[LibDemAlways]

13. If the issue comes up, the Repukes will

side with the school and the cops -- erred on the side of caution, need to protect students, can't ignore possible threat, yada yada. They will never address the obvious racist treatment Ahmed was subjected to.

[lunatica]

16. Well waddaya expect?

It was ticking you know. What else could it be?!

[Luminous Animal]

3. That is great! And it is great that people all over the world are responding to

this.

#IStandWithAhmed: Scientists and the public surge to support boy arrested for homemade clock

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/09/16/istandwithahmed-scientists-and-the-public-surge-to-support-boy-arrested-for-homemade-clock/?tid=sm_tw

The ordeal reminds many of what a young woman named Kiera Wilmot endured in 2013: Wilmot, also a budding scientist, was accused of lighting a chemical fire when one of her experiments went awry. By the time criminal charges were dropped, she had already been expelled from her school.

But in a silver lining, Wilmot was offered a trip to space camp by a NASA veteran.

Many are hoping that Mohamed can have a similar outcome, especially since he's made a heartbreaking vow never to bring an experiment to school again.


Already, Mohamed has NASA scientists offering up visits to their labs:


Anil Dash, the founder of Makerbase, is collecting ideas for how to help Mohamed -- and other kids like him -- in a Google survey.

Here is the link to the Google survey.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ws7e8WyQvrsLfhSFvdGot3n9NWKfY3XLPBgbHaZDy3k/viewform?c=0&w=1

[Recursion]

5. My friends at NASA are working on a response

Expect something awesome.

[Luminous Animal]

14. Looking forward to it!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. ZOMG!!!11!!!! HE'S SIDING WITH THE CLOCK TERRORISTS!!!111!!!!!!!!

THEY WANT TO DESTROY OUR FREEDOM WITH THEIR TIME AWARENESS AND SUCH!!!!1!!!!


SAVE US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP!!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shandris]

15. I know you think this is funny, but...

...you can never underestimate the horrifying power of the Cool Clocks Clan!

[L. Coyote]

6. Tweet screen-capture:

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[Recursion]

8. Beautiful. Thank you (nt)

[L. Coyote]

11. The Coolest Man on Earth weights in:

[lunatica]

17. LOL!

[Fred Sanders]

20. 108,000 re-tweets....that has to be a lot!

[L. Coyote]

22. Nothing short of astonishing. Just passed the 300K mark.

That tweet went out at 9:58 AM (mine clock), just 6 hours ago. We are now at:

Retweets 300,494
Favorites 283,126

50,000 retweets per hour averaged since then. And the number of favorites in proportion to the retweets is even more impressive.

https://twitter.com/POTUS

[Fred Sanders]

23. More newsworthy than the CNN clown car coverage, I do hope Chris Hayes has a good result.

[L. Coyote]

24. Invention to detect Islamophobia overshadows Republican debate ....

At least in my world that is the case today.

[Fred Sanders]

25. I like it!! Invention to detect Islamaphobia.....a clock with wires!

[UtahLib]

10. Thank you Mr. President

For caring and taking the time to encourage a very special young man.

[mainer]

12. I have to say, it's a lot better than Hillary's tweet

Obama's sounds like a real human being actually wrote it.

[Fred Sanders]

21. Somehow found a way to use a totally unrelated good news story to smear Clinton....good for you...make it an OP

and get plenty of Rec's!

[loyalsister]

18. cold and aloof president shows a delightful preference for people who are treated unfairly

I find his response inspiring!

[retrowire]

19. I didn't vote but I'm happy he won!

I too, am pleased with Obama.