Yet again the GOP turns ugly...

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Where did ya get that from Dogs?

Not that I don't believe, it's just that parking tickets are kinda optional in Chicago until you get a boot on your car.

Got if from local paper where he got tickets Bobby

http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2007/03/obama_finally_p.html

March 07, 2007
Obama finally pays local parking tickets
By George P. Hassett, Senior Editor


Before Barack Obama was a United States senator and a presidential hopeful, he was a Harvard University law student living in Somerville who parked in bus stops and accumulated hundreds of dollars in parking tickets. And for nearly two decades those parking tickets went unpaid, until a representative of Obama?s settled all his outstanding debts with Cambridge?s Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department Jan. 26.

Obama attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991. During his time at Harvard, Obama lived at 365 Broadway in Somerville, according to his parking tickets. Records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office show that between Oct. 5, 1988 and Jan. 12, 1990 Obama was cited for 17 traffic violations, sometimes committing two in the same day. The abuses included parking in a resident permit area, parking in a bus stop and failing to pay the meter. Twelve of Obama?s 17 tickets were given to him on Massachusetts Avenue.

In one eight day stretch in 1988, Obama was cited seven times for parking violations and was fined $45. Thirteen of the 17 violations occurred within one month in 1988.

Obama?s disobedience of the rules of the road earned him $140 in fines from the City of Cambridge. The tickets went unpaid for over 17 years and $260 in late fees were added to the tab. On Jan. 26, the fines and late fees were paid in full. The final tally for Obama?s parking breaches was $400, according to Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation.

Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said the presidential candidate?s parking violations were not relevant.

?He didn?t owe that much and what he did owe, he paid,? Psaki said. ?Many people have parking tickets and late fees. All the parking tickets and late fees were paid in full.?

Psaki declined to comment further. She refused to say how the fines went unpaid so long and what prompted Obama to finally pay them.

At Harvard, Obama became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. After school, he spent eight years in the Illinois state senate before becoming a United States Senator in 2005. He is currently campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president.


Of course Matt and Smurph don't see a character prob with people that think laws don't apply to them--and skip out and say fck you to society.
-but of course they didn't have charater issues with
with disbarred felon in white house sticking the ole :nono: in their face--so not really surprised

 

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Are you guys suggesting that the things you are saying should have been used against Obama have not already been used - extensively - against Obama? If so, I really don't know what to say about that. It's ridiculous...

We had WALL TO WALL Reverend Wright crap on Fox News, Drudge Report and all the conservative and right wing outlets, blogs and commercials for months. MONTHS. We've had big time talking heads (most watched and listened to talk show hosts) talking about Ayres and Rezko in almost every show they have done.

Has anyone listened to Sean Hannity at ALL?!? Good lord, it's all he's been able to talk about for months now. And now Palin's been given the job...

To say it hasn't been done is simply ridiculous. It's been done non-stop, especially since it became clear Obama was the front runner. And it's been done FAR MORE than anything that has come McCain - or Palin's way, that's for should.

I saying people should know the person running--especially when running solely on hope and change rhetoric--
--In simple terms do you judge them on deeds or hype.

I'm getting to like this african american writer Thomas Sowell more all the time--


October 07, 2008
The Real Obama
By Thomas Sowell

Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his "past associations." That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against "guilt by association."

We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics.

Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason. The kind of allies you choose says something about you.
Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom some serious money changed hands.

Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Obama's election campaigns, and Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers' money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance-- but an alliance is not just an "association" from being at the same place at the same time.

Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that.

Unfortunately, all that most people know about Barack Obama is his own rhetoric and that of his critics. Moreover, some of his more irresponsible critics have made wild accusations-- that he is not an American citizen or that he is a Muslim, for example.

All that such false charges do is discredit Obama's critics in general. Fortunately, there is a documented, factual account of what Barack Obama has actually been doing over the years, as distinguished from what he has been saying during this election campaign, in a new best-selling book.

That book is titled "The Case Against Barack Obama" by David Freddoso. He starts off in the introduction by repudiating those critics of Obama who "have been content merely to slander him-- to claim falsely that he refuses to salute the U.S. flag or was sworn into office on a Koran, or that he was born in a foreign country."

This is a serious book with 35 pages of documentation in the back to support the things said in the main text. In other words, if you don't believe what the author says, he lets you know where you can go check it out.

Barack Obama's being the first serious black candidate for President of the United States is what most people consider remarkable but how he got there is at least equally surprising.

The story of Obama's political career is not a pretty story. He won his first political victory by being the only candidate on the ballot-- after hiring someone skilled at disqualifying the signers of opposing candidates' petitions, on whatever technicality he could come up with.

Despite his words today about "change" and "cleaning up the mess in Washington," Obama was not on the side of reformers who were trying to change the status quo of corrupt, machine politics in Chicago and clean up the mess there. Obama came out in favor of the Daley machine and against reform candidates.

Senator Obama is running on an image that is directly the opposite of what he has been doing for two decades. His escapes from his past have been as remarkable as the great escapes of Houdini.
Why much of the public and the media have been so mesmerized by the words and the image of Obama, and so little interested in learning about the factual reality, was perhaps best explained by an official of the Democratic Party: "People don't come to Obama for what he's done, they come because of what they hope he can be."

David Freddoso's book should be read by those people who want to know what the facts are. But neither this book nor anything else is likely to change the minds of Obama's true believers, who have made up their minds and don't want to be confused by the facts

 

[BobbyBlueChip]

Got if from local paper where he got tickets Bobby

http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2007/03/obama_finally_p.html

March 07, 2007
Obama finally pays local parking tickets
By George P. Hassett, Senior Editor


Before Barack Obama was a United States senator and a presidential hopeful, he was a Harvard University law student living in Somerville who parked in bus stops and accumulated hundreds of dollars in parking tickets. And for nearly two decades those parking tickets went unpaid, until a representative of Obama?s settled all his outstanding debts with Cambridge?s Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department Jan. 26.

Obama attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991. During his time at Harvard, Obama lived at 365 Broadway in Somerville, according to his parking tickets. Records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office show that between Oct. 5, 1988 and Jan. 12, 1990 Obama was cited for 17 traffic violations, sometimes committing two in the same day. The abuses included parking in a resident permit area, parking in a bus stop and failing to pay the meter. Twelve of Obama?s 17 tickets were given to him on Massachusetts Avenue.

In one eight day stretch in 1988, Obama was cited seven times for parking violations and was fined $45. Thirteen of the 17 violations occurred within one month in 1988.

Obama?s disobedience of the rules of the road earned him $140 in fines from the City of Cambridge. The tickets went unpaid for over 17 years and $260 in late fees were added to the tab. On Jan. 26, the fines and late fees were paid in full. The final tally for Obama?s parking breaches was $400, according to Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation.

Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said the presidential candidate?s parking violations were not relevant.

?He didn?t owe that much and what he did owe, he paid,? Psaki said. ?Many people have parking tickets and late fees. All the parking tickets and late fees were paid in full.?

Psaki declined to comment further. She refused to say how the fines went unpaid so long and what prompted Obama to finally pay them.

At Harvard, Obama became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. After school, he spent eight years in the Illinois state senate before becoming a United States Senator in 2005. He is currently campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president.


Of course Matt and Smurph don't see a character prob with people that think laws don't apply to them--and skip out and say fck you to society.
-but of course they didn't have charater issues with
with disbarred felon in white house sticking the ole :nono: in their face--so not really surprised

I inferred that these were from Chicago which at one point I certainly considered optional from a deep seeded thinking that you shouldn't have to pay to park on city streets. But these are from college when a university that you pay money to doesn't have the proper amount of parking spots to let the students go to class. These parking tickets are even more optional.

Count me in on the side that thinks this is a non-issue.

 

[kosar]

Of course Matt and Smurph don't see a character prob with people that think laws don't apply to them--and skip out and say fck you to society.
-but of course they didn't have charater issues with
with disbarred felon in white house sticking the ole :nono: in their face--so not really surprised

Nope, not my idea of family values at all. I agree, he has no family values and very shaky 'character.'

I just posted this yesterday in another thread in regards to Bubba.

You still haven't chimed in on Prescott Bush or McCain banging his mistress while his wife was on her deathbed. I'll bump it for you in case you missed it.

 

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I just posted this yesterday in another thread in regards to Bubba.

You still haven't chimed in on Prescott Bush or McCain banging his mistress while his wife was on her deathbed. I'll bump it for you in case you missed it.

I believe I've asked you earlier who Prescott was--

Yes please put link to both here and I take a look.

 

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I inferred that these were from Chicago which at one point I certainly considered optional from a deep seeded thinking that you shouldn't have to pay to park on city streets. But these are from college when a university that you pay money to doesn't have the proper amount of parking spots to let the students go to class. These parking tickets are even more optional.

Count me in on the side that thinks this is a non-issue.

I see --non issue ?
Thinking your above the law--then say fck em and don't pay.

Consider what world would be if everone thought like you and O.:nono:

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

I inferred that these were from Chicago which at one point I certainly considered optional from a deep seeded thinking that you shouldn't have to pay to park on city streets. But these are from college when a university that you pay money to doesn't have the proper amount of parking spots to let the students go to class. These parking tickets are even more optional.

Count me in on the side that thinks this is a non-issue.

I see --non issue ?
Thinking your above the law--then say fck em and don't pay.

Consider what world would be if everone thought like you and O.:nono: