Not that any reasonable person wouldn't have thought that Barack Obama had some skeletons in his closet, but trust me, 17-year-old unpaid parking tickets is not the worst of it.
As he prepared to announce his campaign for the White House, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama took care of some unfinished business at Harvard University -- paying about $400 in parking fines dating back to his days as a law student.Two weeks before the Illinois senator officially entered the presidential race on February 10, he paid parking fines he received while attending Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Cambridge city official said on Thursday.
"I think it's great, we always like to collect," said Susan Clippinger, director of Cambridge's Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department.
Obama paid Cambridge $375 on January 26 for 17 parking tickets received between 1988 and 1990, she said. He paid neighboring Somerville another $45 for late fees on two parking tickets from the early 1990s, a Somerville official added.
Obama also paid a $73 auto excise tax he owed Somerville, said city spokesman Tom Champion.
Let see if I have this right
Lying under oath and perjury (libby) or illegally snopping on private citizens (FBI), is not to be commented on.
But waiting 17 years to pay parking fines is a crime worthy of comment on GOPbloggers.
After a DWI and skipping out on guard duty being a none story if this is the worst you have on a presidential candidate he's an angel comparitively
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at March 9, 2007 01:27 PM
Looks like you've found the subject for Caucus of Corruption volume II.
Posted by: jonas at March 15, 2007 07:27 PM
