If Obama had a scammer kid.....14 year-old kid makes Obama his dupe

14 year-old kid makes Obama his dupe | Power Line
“Cool clock, Ahmed, want to bring it to the White House?”
This was President Obama’s knee-jerk reaction to an incident in which 14 year-old Ahmed Mohamed brought a clock mechanism to school that he claimed to have put together at home, but found himself briefly in trouble with the law because the mechanism looked something like a timing device for a bomb.
“We should inspire more kids like you to like science; it’s what makes America great,” our commentator-in-chief added.
Claiming to be victims of anti-Muslim prejudice, Ahmed and his family have already parlayed the clock into (1) that White House invite from Obama, (2) a scholarship fund that quickly raised more than $10,000, and (3) opportunities from various tech companies.
Not bad a bad haul.
But now, ...Ahmed’s story is unraveling:
...The clock, it appears, is an old-time digital alarm clock sold by Radio Shack. “Nice clock,” indeed. In the 1970s.
Why would Mohamed bring the old device to school? 
I can think of only two plausible reasons: (1) to get credit from his teacher or (2) to cause a reaction by those who might fear the device posed a potential danger.
The first motive seems unlikely.
From all that appears, there was no assignment that called on him to bring in a device.
Mohamed claims that he was encouraged by his father to bring the device to school to show off his skills to his engineering teacher.
But taking apart an old clock would involve no engineering skill or inventiveness.
...Some who initially sympathized with Mohamed have confessed error.
Famous scientist Richard Dawkins, a leftist, said he “feels like a fool” for having been taken in by the hoax..."