Obama and the Cambidge cops...the plot thickens

[tombogan03884]

Confirmed by snopes

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/parking.asp

 
One reason Barack Obama may have been so critical of the Cambridge Police Department is that he might have a grudge against that law enforcement agency.

Obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge and apparently didn't like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets.

In all, Obama received 17 tickets for parking violations, and he did not pay 15 of them until a local newspaper exposed him as a scofflaw.
According to a 2007 Associated Press story, Obama was a parking ticket deadbeat for more than a decade — and felt the need to pay the 15 outstanding parking ticketsonly as his presidential campaign began in earnest in 2007.

Here is the Associated Press story detailing Obama's negligence:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harvard Law School in the late 1980s. He also got a healthy stack of parking tickets, most of which he never paid.

The Illinois senator shelled out $375 in January — two weeks before he officially launched his presidential campaign — to finally pay for 15 outstanding parking tickets and their associated late fees.

The story was first reported Wednesday by The Somerville News.

Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991, mostly for parking in a bus stop, parking without a resident permit and failing to pay the meter, records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office show.

He incurred $140 in fines and $260 in late fees in Cambridge in all, but he paid $25 for two of the tickets in February 1990.

Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, dismissed the tickets as not relevant.
"He didn't owe that much and what he did owe, he paid," Psaki said on Wednesday. "Many people have parking tickets and late fees. All the parking tickets and late fees were paid in full."
© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

In other words it wasn't important to be an honest citizen until he was running for President.  It seems that the people hired for his cabinet also possess the same character flaws.... "Pay your taxes only when you have to do so."

[ericire12]

In other words it wasn't important to be an honest citizen until he was running for President.  It seems that the people hired for his cabinet also possess the same character flaws.... "Pay your taxes only when you have to do so."

Bullseye!

[tt11758]

Confirmed by snopes

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/parking.asp

 
One reason Barack Obama may have been so critical of the Cambridge Police Department is that he might have a grudge against that law enforcement agency.

Obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge and apparently didn't like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets.

In all, Obama received 17 tickets for parking violations, and he did not pay 15 of them until a local newspaper exposed him as a scofflaw.
According to a 2007 Associated Press story, Obama was a parking ticket deadbeat for more than a decade — and felt the need to pay the 15 outstanding parking ticketsonly as his presidential campaign began in earnest in 2007.

Here is the Associated Press story detailing Obama's negligence:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harvard Law School in the late 1980s. He also got a healthy stack of parking tickets, most of which he never paid.

The Illinois senator shelled out $375 in January — two weeks before he officially launched his presidential campaign — to finally pay for 15 outstanding parking tickets and their associated late fees.

The story was first reported Wednesday by The Somerville News.

Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991, mostly for parking in a bus stop, parking without a resident permit and failing to pay the meter, records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office show.

He incurred $140 in fines and $260 in late fees in Cambridge in all, but he paid $25 for two of the tickets in February 1990.

Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, dismissed the tickets as not relevant.
"He didn't owe that much and what he did owe, he paid," Psaki said on Wednesday. "Many people have parking tickets and late fees. All the parking tickets and late fees were paid in full."
© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

In other words it wasn't important to be an honest citizen until he was running for President.  It seems that the people hired for his cabinet also possess the same character flaws.... "Pay your taxes only when you have to do so."

That's known as "buy now, pay never".

[Kid Shelleen]

Does this surprise anyone?

Typical Obama.

[alfsauve]

In other words it wasn't important to be an honest citizen until he was running for President.  It seems that the people hired for his cabinet also possess the same character flaws.... "Pay your taxes only when you have to do so."

Well you have to understand.  Rules are for the little people.  The elite, the stateists (sp) don't have to be inconvenienced by these trivial things.  They're above everyone else.   

What was it Orwell said? .................   Oh, yeah.  "Some pigs are more equal than others."

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[twyacht]

Based on his Treasury Sec. his first choice for HHS, Daschle,....a couple others,....this parking ticket thing is SOP for these guys.

Paul Harvey would be proud for "The Rest Of The Story".....