Britain’s Prestigious Royal Society Says Obama Obsessed With His “Street Cred” After He Snubs Their Offer to Award Him a Medal…
Oh yeah, he’s totally gangsta.
(Telegraph) — Barack Obama has snubbed Britain’s most eminent scientists by refusing to attend a Royal Society banquet in his honour at which he was to be awarded with a prestigious medal.
The US President rejected the invitation from the world-leading group of scientists and instead chose to visit a south London state school.
Sources close to the state visit said members of the Royal Society were “deeply offended” by the snub and had accused Mr Obama of being obsessed with his “street cred”.
The US President was offered the chance to receive the King Charles II medal, which is awarded in “exceptional circumstances” to heads of state who have “made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country”.
But Mr Obama’s aides responded to the invitation with a “very short” note in which they said the president would rather spend time at a south London state school.
Mr Obama visited The Globe Academy in Southwark with David Cameron, the Prime Minister, on Tuesday.
The two leaders swapped a number of high-fives with pupils before rolling up their sleeves for a game of table tennis against two schoolboys.
A British government source close to the Obama visit said: “The Royal Society was really keen to do something with Obama and they expected him to be very honoured by the medal.
“Instead they received a very short response from his people saying that it would be better for him to visit a state school.
“The inference they took from that was that he was more interested in cultivating his street cred than in building links with British scientists.”
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The King Charles II prize to a HEAD of state
That’s funny.
Caption Contest:
So I put my gun against Bin Laden’s head and said; “Make my day punk”
Yeah right!
This must be the first time in his career that Obama has turned down an unmerited honor.
Nah, the Resident is just more comfortable hanging around his intellectual equals, such as a bunch of game playing 12 year olds.
Scientists use too many big words that make his head hurt.
“made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country”
Obama receiving this award would have been a sham. He’s isn’t furthering any actual scientific research in the US, as the number manipulation he is furthering in the “climate change research” doesn’t exactly follow the scientific method. Hell, he effectively shut down the space program. And the actual scientific research he IS furthering is in Muslim countries, not the US.
@buzzsawmonkey
Spot on !
The school is either close to a golf course or a gay bar
He wouldn’t be comfortable surrounded by so many people with intelligence & preferred to go where he would better fit in. You can only fool some of the people part of the time………
He needs to take his dumb ass back to muzzy land where he fits in a little better……….
GANGSTA IN A SUIT. oBAMA IS little MORE.
What the hell is he getting a medal for? Wiping out the US economy? Bogging us down in three wars? Record deficits? Record death toll in Afghanistan on his watch? Ignoring the Middle East burning while he sips on $1000/bottle wine? Wiping out his own Democrat Party to the tune of 800+ seats last November?
What a jackoff!
This is really getting bizarre… Barack Obama is one screwed-up dude
He don’t need no stinkin’ medals!!!!
The sordid truth can now be revealed
Obama went to a British state school
To get a halal meal.
Shocking that obozo would turn down a medal but that begs the question what the hell has he done to deserve a medal from a scientific society?
“The inference they took from that was that he was more interested in cultivating his street cred than in building links with British scientists.”
The Smart Ass Man in the Room knew that at the Royal Society he would be unquestionably, visibly, the Dumbest Man in the Room.
So he took the unprecedented action—for him—of fleeing from the opportunity to accept an undeserved honor as if he were Dracula fleeing a wreath of garlic.
Well, there is a surprise – turning donw another unearned award.
“The US President was offered the chance to receive the King Charles II medal, which is awarded in “exceptional circumstances” to heads of state who have “made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country”.”
Look at it this way, you IDIOTS in the Royal Society. In a few years, you will likely be glad that you didn’t bestow this award on him….and by the way, get your heads out of you political asses and realize he has just about done the opposite of for what you wanted to award him anyway. It is things like this that turn people off to “societies” everywhere – constantly slipping in awards to peoople who don’t deserve them in the first place – the awards are being given for PC reasons, some kind of political favor or future favor or some such crap.
…to heads of state who have “made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country”
Why would he deserve that award?
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Just_Saying says:
May 26, 2011 at 10:42 am
…to heads of state who have “made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country”
Why would he deserve that award?
Given the state of the UK, probably for turning NASA into an agency for “Muslim outreach.”
ThomNJ pins the tail on the donkeys
Nobel prizes, Royal Society medals and confederate money
just don’t have the value they used to.
Once again, you blatantly lie in order to feed red meat to your drooling Neandertal readers.
The “Royal Society” did NOT say anything about “street cred”. As is clear in the passage you quote, the street cred line came from “A British government source close to the Obama visit…”
In another passage from that same story, that you did not quote here, the “Royal Society” (or a spokeman for them) states:
Bill Hartnett, the Royal Soctiety’s communications chief, confirmed that the offer had been rejected but insisted that no offence had been taken.
He said: “There were some early discussions about whether the visit was an opportunity for him to come to the society and meet some of the UK’s brightest and best young scientists as well as some of our fellows.
“We also discussed giving him the King Charles II Medal which is presented to heads of state.
“We put it to the Department of Business who sounded out his people and we were told it wasn’t possible.
“We were not offended. The idea was in its early stages so there was never any real expectation of it happening.”
You people are really pathetic. Get a life…
JoeCitizen says:
May 26, 2011 at 11:05 am
Keep straining at those gnats Joe.
JoeCitizen, given your bravado and your devotion to our Dear Leader, I’m sure there is a position waiting for you upon BHO’s return to the US. Congrats. I know you will be a good fit to this administration.
That is O-bysmal’s personal level – a high(secondary) school. After his handlers found he could not even remember the date when he signed a book, and could not follow simple instructions on how to behave at a banquet, they probably decided that enough blunders was enough!! But how could Obumbla legitimately claim this medal as he seems to be giving arabs and mozlem terrorists access to America’s hard-won and superlative scientific discoveries. He also has some moron in charge of NASA!
We are all aware that Obummer is most at home with a talentless rabble like Beyonce, Jay Z, oPrah, in gay baths with Rahm Goebbels, than with normal people, and that he is just a puppet for Soros and others.
You can call a Communist Agitator a Community Organizer all day long but he is still a Communist Agitator.
After Zero is deposed in 2012 and back in the gutter where he came from he’ll have all the street cred he wants.. and heating vent cred, and Thunderbird cred..
POS does not deserve a medal for anything! Except for Destroying America, if they are giving a medal for that..then he wins hands down. Disgusting.
buzzsawmonkey says:
May 26, 2011 at 10:35 am
“The inference they took from that was that he was more interested in cultivating his street cred than in building links with British scientists.”
The Smart Ass Man in the Room knew that at the Royal Society he would be unquestionably, visibly, the Dumbest Man in the Room.
So he took the unprecedented action—for him—of fleeing from the opportunity to accept an undeserved honor as if he were Dracula fleeing a wreath of garlic.
ROFL……. so true!
Bozo has to keep his street creds up, cause he’s gonna need em when we kick his ass back down to the gutter where he belongs.
@JoeCitizen
Obama may be able to squeeze you in under Clinton’s desk!
This is all good, just as in the Big Picture, Obamanchurian’s election was good. It’s hard to imagine another president who would have mobilized so many conservatives, got them off their asses and into the fray. There wouldn’t be a Tea Party if it wasn’t for him. and it’s great that he turned down this medal. In the first place, he doesn’t deserve it any more than any of the other medals and awards whose values are dimiminished by virtue of his having received them. Every time he insults an individual or organization who has more substance and public standing than he does-and that covers a lot of ground- he knocks another chunk out of his so-called cred-with the people that matter. The hits just keep on comin’.
@ComradeJoe (Joe Citizen)
You once again prove that leftists have no sense of humor……this is a web site, with comments from people who have no power except that of their vote.
Perhaps you would feel more at home with some Democrat Leadership mendacity: “Republicans want to kill old people” “Republicans will send your Grandma off a cliff” “Republicans hate women” “Republican policies will make rape legal” “Republicans want to hang every black man they see”
“Republicans want to starve old folks and children”
Is that enough? Or do you need more, to remind us of what a disgusting little hypocrite you are?