Not enough quarters in his camel?
Posted on 03/08/2007 11:18:00 AM PST by Ellesu
Kind of catchy, isn't it?
Gotta clean up that record before being spotlighted.
Happens to a lot of college students. Certainly happened to me and several of my friends in school - we graduated owing several hundred dollars in parking tickets and late payment penalties, all of which had to be settled when it came time to renew our car registrations. Student parking permits are expensive. I won't be voting for Obama, but this certainly isn't the reason why.
The point is, of course, that he ignored them. But I think you knew that.
I once got a parking ticket in Chicago because there was no sign where I parked for street cleaning. None.
Instead of ignoring it, I took it up with the local precinct, wrote letters explaining my stance and what had happened, and it was voided without me having to pay a cent.
One would think that the "Rising Star of the Democrat Party" could have managed something similar. As it stands, he was deliquent and anybody else could've eventually had a bench warrant issued against them.
All that said, motor vehicle depts often don't do good follow up on parking violations.
whatever happened to "no controlling legal authority"??
Thank you and me too.
Once again, "everybody" does it.
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What is your question?
Where did my post go? I used "jigger" in quotes, Obama's language.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797312/posts
"We tried to see if we could jigger it to make it work better," Obama said.
I definitely don't think that President Bush was a drunk, but he was certainly an abuser as he has even stated. I was just surprised that you did not just say what he was instead of being open ended in your comment.
"Oh... I completely forgot about those back from my college days!"
Now it shows that he knew about them all along, and the ONLY reason he paid them off was so they wouldn't come back to haunt him.
It just shows that he hoped not to get caught, but he done got caught!
Not enough quarters in his camel?
Wasn't there once some sort of deal in Cambridge where it was legal to park on one side of the street until midnight...then you had to move your car?
"I definitely don't think that President Bush was a drunk"
He wasn't a drunk, I don't recall him labeling himself as an abuser of alcohol either
I don't see a reason to make untrue accusations, drinking did not fit into his life anymore so he stopped having drinks, thats all, it is very common.
The efforts to make him sound like a dry drunk, or (commonly) a reformed alcoholic are simply a slander.
Nothing like a little presidential ambition to go back and CYA.
You will never make it to President if you keep telling the truth like that!
I think you might be a little to nieve on this issue. If what you say is true that he was just quitting drinking for the heck of it than Laura would not have issued the altimatum of either your family or the bottle. I think that is a bit more serious than you think and certainly not slander when it came out of his very mouth.
"He didn't owe that much and what he did owe, he paid," Psaki said on Wednesday. "Many people have parking tickets and late fees. All the parking tickets and late fees were paid in full."
Seventeen years is beyond late and it appears he only paid them to keep them from being an issue. If he hadn't planned to run for president I suspect they wouldn't have been paid.
"I think you might be a little to nieve on this issue. If what you say is true that he was just quitting drinking for the heck of it than Laura would not have issued the altimatum of either your family or the bottle."
I'm tired of people "rounding up" to make it something it isn't.
I'm not naive about the issue, but I am a Texan and I know something about drinking in Texas, why don't you just show me the proof you have that he was "a drunk", then I will know what you know, and we will be in agreement.
He sounds to me like a do gooder, health nut, family man, with a wife that doesn't drink, and so just normal social drinking just got where it didn't fit into his life.
I have seen that many times, even I backed off having two beers on a week night because when I started my business it just seemed to interfere with feeling 100% the next day, in other words, it was competing for my energies even at two beers, and I am not nearly as busy as Bush was when he quit.
Here is Bush in his own words:
"BUSH: Probably no more so than others that you know. But I quit drinking. I quit drinking for a couple of reasons. One I was drinking too much at times. But remember during this period of life I was a Sunday school teacher. I was a little league coach. I was a husband. I was a dad, but alcohol began to compete with my energies."
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