In a headline worthy of the Onion, the Boston Globe solemnly reports today:
The Globe says that $375 in fines and fees from long-overdue tickets was paid two weeks before Obama announced his presidential run. Needless to say, investigative reporters the world over are now flocking to Cambridge, Mass., to investigate chilling rumors of outstanding Obama fines at the Widener Library.
Walter Shapiro, a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, is an award-winning political columnist who has covered the last nine presidential campaigns. Along the way, he has worked as Salon's Washington bureau chief, as well as for The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, Esquire, USA Today and, most recently, Yahoo News. He is also a lecturer in political science at Yale University. He can be reached by email at waltershapiro@ymail.com and followed on Twitter @MrWalterShapiro.
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