THIS is what it's come to?

This is craziness:

Barack Obama is no longer a scofflaw, at least in Cambridge and Somerville. Two weeks before the US senator from Illinois launched his presidential campaign, he paid parking tickets he received while attending Harvard Law School, officials said yesterday. Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991, according to the city's Traffic, Parking & Transportation Department. Of those tickets, he paid only two while he was a student and paid them late, said Susan Clippinger, the office's director.

I remember reading (I think it may have been in The Onion) that Obama sometimes took a penny, but never left a penny. This story approaches that level of nonsense. Whomever among us who doesn't have, or has never had, an unpaid parking ticket somewhere, please feel free to cast the first stone. And how exactly does this reflect on his ability to be president? Does it speak to character? To respect for the law? I don't think so.

But, if we're going back to 1988, 1988! looking for stuff, there are going to be a ton of candidates with some 'splainin' to do (I'm talking to you Rudy...).

If this is what the media is going to focus on over the next 2 years this is going to be the longest, most pathetic race in history.