Posted on 05/26/2011 10:28:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Barack Obama snubs British scientists by refusing to receive Royal Society medal
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.
By Heidi Blake 6:30AM BST 26 May 2011
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”.
The last person to receive the medal was Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, in 2010.
The honour was to be conferred on the US President at a dinner where he would be introduced to “some of Britain’s brightest and best young scientists” as well as some of the society’s most prestigious fellows.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Obama is an ill-mannered, self-centered clod.
No-class little man.
Hm. Well, it looks like a scam prize in any case then -- they just wanted an excuse for a fancy banquet.
Don’t bother with our president, Britain, he is an uncouth, irritating, bigoted, fascist, person. Not worth the trouble.
He was afraid the scientists would recognize his idiocy if they met him in person.
Good. They should be snubbed. He doesn’t deserve that medal on an academic basis and the Society deserves the snub for awarding him any such medal.
“made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country”.
What specific contribution are they referring to?
The fools shouldn't have wanted to honor him in the first place.
“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”.
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And when exactly did the RaceMarxist do that?
He is ALL about punishing the productive.
He SHOULD have turned down this award.
Is the Royal Society another Nobel Committee; a group of propagandizing Leftists for whom political propaganda trumps “science”?
On what grounds is Obama, a liberal arts retard, competent to receive a medal for science?
Ahhh...remember the days when he would tell people he was the great reconciler? Apparently that only applies to Muslims.
He is just mad because Her Majesty berated him in public and humiliated him.
3:38 mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7VSt0_VcU
They sound a little political themselves.
Was the Royal Society’s award for Obama’s resolute
misdirection and destruction of NASA?
or his tyrannical elimination of American science?
or the antisemitic Imam’s funding to be used for genocide
of the entire Israeli scientific community?
Err, uhh...if the young scientists were Muslim I would have happily accepted the invitation so I could make them feel better about... as I have said many times in the past... their enormous contributions to science, just like I asked my NASA director to do.
[ But in the interest of fairness, if he had accepted the medal, we would have made fun of him for that, too. ]
“What specific contribution are they referring to?”
Slinging mature without a machine?
What specific contribution are they referring to?
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That's what I'd like to know. AFAIK, he hasn't done S@*% to further scientific research in the U.S.
Unless one counts requiring muslim outreach as being a mission goal for NASA.
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