The problem with "reading between the lines" is that you read what you want to be there, instead of what is. It reveals more about the reader than the writer.
But it also expresses experience. I do not think by any means that the issue of a boy building his own clock is of national significance. If it is an issue of racism then that might be, but that is not why the POTUS ostensibly is inviting him. He is inviting him ostensibly because he thinks building your own clock is cool. Seriously? It's a photo opportunity for him. It is surely demeaning to all the rest of the poor kids who have built much better things or who have trained to play their musical instrument to concert standard or whatever. None of them got an invitation to the WH. This is not about me, it is common sense.
It's certainly indicative that perfect love has not yet driven out fear from the individual in question.
Are you saying that I, the individual in question, am spiritually deficient? Is that what you say to everyone you disagree with?
I firmly believe it's a little too early for the President of the United States to give the young man an open invite to the White House. He is (or was) a suspect in a crime and our judicial system has not performed it's full duty yet. It shows poor judgment on the President's part to jump in so quickly.
We, the public, only have what the media has told us and we for sure do not have all the facts.
As I said, I am outsider here, but you seem right to me.
Then we have that his engineering teacher, told him not to show it to anyone else and explained what it resembled, yet he persisted to show it to other teachers.
Its not like a clock is a new invention either, nor like they cant be made quite easily not resembling bombs.
Thanks for the information. Why did the teacher not want him to show it to others? Did he really think it looked like a bomb?
It doesn't matter what it was. It matters what it looked like. Because the issue in hand is not whether it is right to make a home-made clock or to make a home-made bomb. I am sure we are all agreed on the answer to that question; that is beyond debate. The issue is the reaction of those involved.It was not a bomb. It was a clock.
That's it.
There is no "suspect" and there is no "investigation", because there was no crime, or even an intent to commit a crime.
Could this just be you reading between the lines???Obama is acting quickly so that the kid and his school mates will see a positive side to what was otherwise a fairly ugly and stupid (even if necessary) molestation of a school kid and his science project by over-zealous security police.
No. He chose him precisely because he was a Muslim. And that is just as much an expression of religious prejudice.I understand their reaction, but this time they were wrong. So Obama is trying to make it up to the kid with some positive attention. But you want to slander Obama so badly that you can't even let him make this simple gesture to an innocent kid without mud-slinging.