Old Grudge: Could College Parking Tickets Be Obama’s Secret Reason for Slamming Cambridge Police?
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 25, 2009
Undated photo of Barack and Michelle Obama many years ago at Christmas: did multiple parking tickets from BHO's college days motivate his attack this week on Cambridge police?
But admit it—it’s an intriguing idea to mull that Pres. Obama could be harboring a 20-year grudge against the Cambridge police department. A young Barack Obama, while attending Harvard, was issued multiple parking tickets (most of which were left unpaid until just two weeks before he announced his plans to run for the presidency). Those tickets were written by officers of the Cambridge police department.
The very same police department that recently arrested his buddy Prof. Henry Louis Gates.
Does such a childish motive hold any credence? Could anyone be that petty or bitter over such a long period of time, retaliating years after the fact? Who knows what grudges lurk in the hearts of men? Tough to determine… your call. Read the news report below and subsequent links to other stories on this.
From Newsmax:
‘Scofflaw’ Obama Grudge Against Cambridge Police?
Newsmax
July 23, 2009One reason Barack Obama may have been so critical of the Cambridge Police Department is that he might have a grudge against the 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 tickets only 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.
Related reading:
The Campaign Spot, National Review Online: How Did Obama Answer His State Bar Application Question About Parking Tickets?
The Somerville News: Obama finally pays local parking tickets
American Thinker: Did Obama have a personal vendetta against Cambridge cops?
Free Republic: Obama pays parking tickets 17 years late
WorldNetDaily: ‘Scofflaw’ Obama has history with ‘stupid’ Cambridge police
Ketchup Is A Vegetable: Stick It To The Man!
The Feldman Blog: Barack Obama’s Parking Ticket Scandal: Unanswered Questions
She Knows: Barack Obama clears up Harvard parking tickets in time for campaigning
Will Never Give Up: Obama’s had his own scrapes with Cambridge police (and statistics)
Mama Bin Cranky: Obama Acting Stupidly
Yahoo! Answers: Is Obama just bitter because he had to pay his parking tickets?
Patterico’s Pontifications: The Officer Didn’t Stereotype Henry Louis Gates — Henry Louis Gates Stereotyped the Officer
Political Byline: Video: The Police Union Demands an Apology
Wake Up Black America: A Distinguished Gentleman or Distinguished Fool?
Boston.com: Gates caller says she didn’t cite race – Woman laments media accounts
Gateway Pundit: Black Police Sgt. Leon Lashley Backs Sgt. Crowley 100% In Arresting Unruly Professor Gates (Video) and President of International Brotherhood of Police Officers Slams Obama! …Update: Cop Considers Lawsuit Against Gates and Bill Cosby “Shocked” At Dear Leader’s Attack on Boston Police Officer
VotingFemale Speaks!: Obama Gives Almost Apology after calling Cambridge Police Stupid; the FOP Supported McCain-Palin; Socialist Race Politics at its Ugliest and Obama guilty of Race Baiting for Political Gain; Socialist “Victimology” Honed to a Razor Edge
The Foxhole: On Henry (I’m Important Because I’m Black) Gates
The Christian Science Monitor: Bill Cosby ’shocked’ at Obama’s statement on Harvard prof’s arrest
Dakota Voice: President Obama’s Comments on Gates Arrest Hurt, Not Help Race Relations
The Sundries Shack: Upper-Class Gates and No-Class Ambinder
GayPatriot: Obama Needs to Learn from Himself About Apologizing
Amy Holmes, Big Hollywood: Inside Harvard’s Gates
The Powers That Be: That’s What the Police Union Gets for Endorsing McCain
Hot Air: Obama: The Gates clusterfark is a “teachable moment” or something and Video: Obama blames the media for making a big deal about Gates comment and How not to win support from police unions; Update: Obama retreats; Update: Bill Cosby “shocked” by Obama’s remarks
The B.S. Report: Obama: Cambridge Police Acted “Stupidly” In Arrest Of Gates
JP’s Film Blog: President Obama squanders leadership opportunity
African Press International: Fighting for the Black man without having facts on the table: Obama hits at police for arresting black scholar
Hard Starboard: “National Racial Firestorm”?
My Country Matters: Monti Says: The “Great Uniter” is nothing but a complete “Divider”!
The Pugnacious Irishman: Acting Stupidly
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Tempest Brewing: Police Association Head Wants Obama to Apologize for Remarks Against Arresting Officer of Prof. Gates (video) and Stop Already… Obama Defends His Biased Criticism of Cambridge Police Arresting Prof. Henry Gates and The Good & Bad: Sgt. Crowley Won’t Apologize to Gates (Good), Obama Still Making Stupid Remarks about Police (Bad), Pundits Smacking Obama for His Lameness (Good)
Legal Insurrection: Race and Class In Harvard Square and Et Tu, Lynn Sweet?
Written on the Wind: Obama opines on Gates arrest
The Gun Toting Liberal: President Obama Torques Police Officers Off Nationwide By Playing The Race Card In Harvard Professor’s Disorderly Conduct Arrest
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: Before Calling Cambridge Police “Stupid” The President should have read the “Police Report” and Reviewed the Officer’s Background
Autographed Letter Signed: Conservative Night Cap: Still Stitching, Still Bitching and Thursday Stitch N’ Bitch: It’s All Black and White To Me
America’s Watchtower: Obama is Feeling the Heat For His Comment About the Cambridge Police
The Smoking Gun: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Police Report -”I’ll speak with your mama outside,” Harvard prof told Cambridge cops
Mary Katharine Hamm, Weekly Standard: In Which We Gather Facts About the Gates Arrest Before Opining Upon It
Michelle Malkin: Stuck on stupid(ly) and The anti-police bigotry of the Left and The “Don’t taze me, bro” moment of Henry Louis Gates
Rosita the Prole: Was the Harvard Professor Who’s Claiming Police Racism Trying to Get Arrested?
Big Ed, LibertarianHumor.com: I Hate to Say I Told You So
Stop The ACLU: Obama Bashes Police and Doctors and Obama Attacks More Private Citizens During Prime Time Presser
GOPMom: “Cambridge Cop Says Obama’s ‘Stupidly’ Comment Disappoints Him”
Bloodthirsty Liberal: The Cop Speaks [UPDATED]
American Conservative Daily: Obama Almost Gets It Right on Gates’ Arrest
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BO is a “scofflaw”, no really he is an example of the arrogant bullies we have ruling OUR NATION !!
Parking tickets ?
I’m surprised ACORN isn’t demonstrating outside the family homes that had the arrogance to even ADMINISTER a parking ticket to our “great leader”.
The audacity of this man is almost inconceivable.
And now all of the IG’s have to report to the administration ?? Promoted.
We have to stop this as soon as we can.
And we will.
Hey Obama, I would LOVE to have “a BEER with you”.
As they say in Texas, “all talk. no hat.”
Obama has shown us his talk, he has no hat.
Great post.
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