{"id":10144,"date":"2007-03-08T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10144.html"},"modified":"2007-03-08T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:20:21","slug":"barack-obama-ex-scofflaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/barack-obama-ex-scofflaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama, ex-scofflaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings<\/a><\/p>\n

The Boston Globe<\/em> (tip: The Plank<\/a>) is reporting<\/a> today that the political demigod known to mortals as Barack Obama “received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991” while a student at Harvard Law. This according to the city’s Traffic, Parking & Transportation Department:<\/p>\n

Of those tickets, he paid only two while he was a student and paid them late, said Susan Clippinger, the office’s director.<\/p>\n

In January, about when the Globe began asking local officials about Obama’s time at Harvard, including any violations of local laws, someone representing the senator called the parking office to inquire about the decades-old tickets.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 26, the remaining $375 in fines and fees were paid by credit card using the city’s website, Clippinger said. She said she didn’t know who paid them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SCANDAL!<\/strong>
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\nIn related news, Obama is half-black, or something, may or may not be Muslim, may or may not belong to a pseudo-Christian cult that promotes racial segregation, has the suspicious middle name “Hussein,” and is only one consonent of separation away from Osama. Oh, and when he was younger he attended an Indonesian school that’s really a terrorist training camp, something called a “madrassa,” you know, highly dubious and foreign-sounding. And there were those shady real estate deals in Chicago. So, really, there’s no way he can be president. He’s totally unqualified and he’s probably a traitor. For God’s sake, he doesn’t even pay his parking tickets on time!<\/p>\n

Oh… sorry. My brain was temporarily overrun by the right-wing smear machine.<\/p>\n

How long before Fox News and its ilk picks up on this? Or have they already?<\/p>\n

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Personal note: I attended Tufts Univ. from 1991-95. It’s just a few minutes away by car from Cambridge and I spent many, many hours, wasted hours, circling around Harvard Square trying to find parking, night after night. It’s like driving around Boston in concentrated microcosm. In other words: a nightmare. Sure, Obama should have paid his fines, but it’s hard for me to hold his parking violations against him.<\/p>\n

Let’s move on, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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