http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30tuition.html
Candidates’ Positions on Student Loans Reflect Experience and Market Views
New York Times, The (NY) - Thursday, October 30, 2008
Author: PATRICK HEALY
Barack and Michelle Obama paid off their last student loan on Jan. 17, 2004, a date they sometimes share with voters to commiserate over rising tuitions and the fact that the average graduating senior carries $21,000 in college debt.
Mr. Obama personally took out $42,753 in loans for Harvard Law School, on top of several thousand dollars for his undergraduate education at Columbia University. ...
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article870963.ece
Obama e-mail propaganda
(Q) I received some disturbing e-mail questioning just how Sen. Barack Obama, a man of such modest means, could afford to go to Harvard University. All these innuendos are creating fear about who helped Obama at that time and whether he will be an open ear to their causes once he’s in the White House.
(A) This e-mail has started making the rounds again. It uses questions, suppositions and conjecture with a large dose of conspiracy theory to conclude that Sen. Obama’s education was paid for by foreign interests, and ends with the ominous implication that we must “beware the enemy from within.”
Obama has addressed this question many times in the past two years. He says he took out student loans and had some scholarship money to pay the approximately $75,000 for his three years at Harvard.
His wife, Michelle, also a Harvard Law School graduate, has said the family didn’t get out of debt until Obama wrote two bestselling books, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father. She said the monthly payments on their school debt was larger than their mortgage.
The Obamas reported income of almost $1.7-million in 2005, about $1-million in 2006 and about $4-million in 2007.
How does the NY times know this as a fact? Oh wait, Barry told them right?
There is also an article which Lynn Sweet wrote for “The Chicago Sun Times” in which she tried to get exact information to the claim that Jr had worked summer jobs during his time at University. The claim made by his campaign is that he sold subscriptions to the NYT and he also (now don’t fall off your seat laughing) worked in construction.