‘RIGHT. THAT’S A CLOCK, AND I’M THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND’

Sarah Palin says Ahmed Mohamed was asking to be arrested for making a clock that looked like a bomb and blasts Obama for inviting the wrongfully arrested schoolboy to the White House

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, by now you know that ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested Wednesday for bringing a homemade clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas. His English teacher thought it was a bomb and called the cops.

Since then all kinds of celebrities have come to Ahmed’s defense. President Obama has invited Ahmed to the White House. Obama tweeted: “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.” Ahmed accepted the invitation.

Ahmed also received invitations from MIT, Google, Facebook and Space Camp. But not everyone was impressed, especially not Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol. Here is what Palin said Friday on her Facebook page:

“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. Right. That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England.”

“By the way, President Obama's practice of jumping in cases prematurely to interject himself as the cool savior, wanting so badly to attach himself to the issue-of-the-day, got old years ago.”

“Remember him accusing police officers doing their job as ‘acting stupid’; claiming if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon Martin; claiming he needed to know who was a fault in an industrial accident so he'd ‘know who's ass to kick’; etc., etc. Those actions are about as presidential as his selfie stick.”

Thursday on her blog, Bristol slammed Obama for egging on racial tension by inviting Ahmed to the White House and compared this incident to other incidents in which students were suspended even though they were apparently innocent. Bristol wrote:

“This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of. This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the 'Black Lives Matter' crowd and encourages victimhood. The police made a mistake, clearly. But why put more people against them? Why egg it on? Childish games like this from our president have divided our country. Even more today than when he was elected."

“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.”

“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.”

In his Wednesday press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest all but said that Ahmed was singled out because he was a Muslim. Here is what Earnest said:

“The fact is that America's best teachers in our schools, in our best schools at least, nurture the intellectual curiosity of all our students. In this instance, it's clear that at least some of Ahmed's teachers failed him. That's too bad ... This episode is a good illustration of how pernicious stereotypes can prevent even good-hearted people who have dedicated their lives to educating young people from doing the good work they set out to do.”

Everyone is coming to Ahmed’s defense. Well and good. But what about the teacher who called the cops? Hardly anyone has come to her defense and many have ridiculed the poor woman for thinking the clock was a bomb.

I have to side with the teacher for calling the cops. Teachers all across the country have been instructed to be on the lookout for anything that might put their students in harm's way and Ahmed’s clock certainly could be mistaken for a bomb. It even fooled the cops. The teacher and the cops cannot be faulted for erring on the side of caution.

OK, so Ahmed brought his homemade clock to school and was wrongfully arrested. Call me a skeptic, but I can’t help but wonder if the ninth-grader didn't bring the device to school knowing that it could be mistaken for a bomb.

Instead of being ridiculed, Ahmed’s English teacher should be commended. Why doesn’t Obama invite her to the White House?