President Obama, who targeted the Cambridge, Mass., police department with his comment that one of its officers acted "stupidly" in the arrest of a black man, has a history with the department dating from his college years to as recently as the launch of his presidential campaign. ...I'm sure the growing stack of tickets simply heightened Obama's hatred of the police, a character flaw that is quite common among his friends and mentors.
According to the Somerville Times in 2007, as a Harvard Law School student, Obama got 17 parking tickets during 1989-1991 from the Cambridge Police Department that he left unpaid until just weeks before he announced his bid for the presidency.
"In other words, as a practicing lawyer in Chicago, he allowed these tickets and penalties to remain unpaid; as an Illinois state senator he allowed these tickets and fines to remain unpaid; and as a United States senator he allowed these almost-two-decade-old signs of his disdain for the law to remain unpaid," commented John LeBoutillier on Newsmax.com.
The Washington Post said two years ago that the tickets included parking without a proper permit and parking in a bus stop.
The Associated Press reported in 2007 that Obama's "healthy stack" of parking tickets was finally paid, including late fees, "two weeks before he officially launched his presidential campaign."
Said Jen Psaki, spokeswoman for Obama's campaign during his race to the White House, "He didn't owe that much and what he did owe, he paid. … Many people have parking tickets and late fees."
The White House press office did not respond to a request for a comment.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Maybe This is Why Obama Reacted So Strongly to the Cambridge PD
It seems that during his days at Harvard Barack Obama was quite the scofflaw, and that may explain why he so quickly, and without sufficient facts, condemned the department when they arrested his friend and fundraiser Henry Louis Gates for excessive racial jerkitude:
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Obama does have one Big Flaw and that is a Character Flaw. How can anyone who wants to aspire as a political leader not live within the bounds of the law. He new he was violating the law when he parked where he did, he violated common sense when he decided not to pay his tickets until he decided to run for the highest office in the land, then to buy votes he decided to pay off all of his back tickets. What a sham. I think he felt it was now his time to get even with the police department by saying what he did.
Why should someone Constitutionally ineligible to be "President" care about a bunch of parking tickets?
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