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Obama Got Discount on Home Loan
Washington Post ^ | June 2, 2008 | Joe Stephens

Posted on 07/01/2008 10:41:27 PM PDT by Kleebo151

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To: ConservativeMan55
I’m really suprised Hillary didn’t bring this out in the primaries.

Maybe Barrack could claim racism if Hillary got an even better deal.

21 posted on 07/01/2008 11:11:14 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Kleebo151

LOL...the media will be sure to cover this tomorrow...especially the hacks over at MSNBC...just like the Dodd story..it will go nowhere.

However, if this were McCain?!? LMAO. Well...you know how that would play out.


22 posted on 07/01/2008 11:12:38 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Barack Hussein Obama is as American as camel pie)
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To: Kleebo151

“They chose a house with six bedrooms, four fireplaces, a four-car garage and 5 1/2 baths, including a double steam shower and a marble powder room. It had a wine cellar, a music room, a library, a solarium, beveled glass doors and a granite-floored kitchen.”

How’s that carbon footprint?


23 posted on 07/01/2008 11:12:49 PM PDT by HarryCaul (Verify Possums! Pogo's Enemy is Us!)
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To: Kleebo151
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!!


24 posted on 07/01/2008 11:12:56 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: STARWISE

Methinks so.


25 posted on 07/01/2008 11:13:14 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Lancey Howard; BossLady; Calpernia

Commie bottom feeder PING


26 posted on 07/01/2008 11:14:02 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: ConservativeMan55
My thoughts exactly.


"This is not the ba-Rack Hussien Obama I knew before...."

27 posted on 07/01/2008 11:14:03 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (What value does Black Liberation Theology hold in a post racial Republic?)
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To: ConservativeMan55

So true...I can hear Colmes right now in my head saying “Hey...so and so..isn’t this really a non-issue and another way for Republicans to toss anything they can at Obama...with a weak opponent like McCain this is the best they got...don’t most politicians have some sort of deal like this in their past?”

I can hear it now.


28 posted on 07/01/2008 11:14:58 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Barack Hussein Obama is as American as camel pie)
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To: Kleebo151

The Demonrat Party = party of

Lawlessness
Privilege for the few
Corruption and graft
Death

Yet according to the “polls” - it is always 50% of voting Americans who support this TRASH.

Either these polls continue to be MADE UP by the Clintonista pollsters - or America is sicker than I really think she is...


29 posted on 07/01/2008 11:17:52 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (communism killed 100 milion people in 20th century.only cause USA did not give it chance to succeed)
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To: Kleebo151

<... a house with six bedrooms, four fireplaces, a four-car garage and 5 1/2 baths, including a double steam shower and a marble powder room. It had a wine cellar, a music room, a library, a solarium, beveled glass doors and a granite-floored kitchen...>

THIS is called “Plantation Envy”. (As per a book written by Collin Powell, describing his wife’s desire for a really big house.)


30 posted on 07/01/2008 11:19:38 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: Kleebo151

——Driving the recent debate is concern that public officials, knowingly or unknowingly, may receive special treatment from lenders and that the discounts could constitute gifts that are prohibited by law.——

Here’s the convenient out for Obama...”Hey, I didn’t know I was getting any special kind of deal. They told me this was the standard package.”


31 posted on 07/01/2008 11:20:32 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Government tends to never fix the problems it creates in the first place)
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To: Kleebo151

It’s hard out there for a pimp.


32 posted on 07/01/2008 11:26:20 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: My Favorite Headache; All
The Obamas had no prior relationship with Northern Trust when they applied for the loan. They received an oral commitment on Feb. 4, 2005, and locked in the rate of 5.625 percent, the campaign said. On that date, HSH data show, the average rate in Chicago for a 30-year fixed-rate jumbo loan with no points was about 5.94 percent.

Jumbo loans are for amounts up to $650,000, but the Obamas' $1.32 million loan was so large that few comparables are available.

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Man .. the fix was in all thru ChiTown and IL politics, the Machine's networks and the glitterati ... this deal was set in stone before we ever heard of him. Hand picked chosen one.

33 posted on 07/01/2008 11:26:44 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE
Man .. the fix was in all thru ChiTown and IL politics, the Machine's networks and the glitterati ... this deal was set in stone before we ever heard of him. Hand picked chosen one.

I think you're right about. They sure couldn't have him living in a little townhouse, could they?

34 posted on 07/01/2008 11:29:59 PM PDT by Aria (Obama: Potluck for President! "I serve as a blank screen on which people..project their own views")
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To: Kleebo151

Who OWNS Borat Obama?...


35 posted on 07/01/2008 11:31:27 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Kleebo151

I saw it on Foxnews today.

It was actually the Clinton’s campaign manager that said something early on in the primary.

I’ll look deeper to see if I can find it.


36 posted on 07/01/2008 11:33:16 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: My Favorite Headache

Especially that last part.

That is his standard answer to defend any political wrongdoings.

He says that EVERY NIGHT


37 posted on 07/01/2008 11:34:12 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Kleebo151

****The Obama campaign called the rate “consistent with Northern Trust policies, and it reflected the base rate set for that period discounted to address the competition for the account and other opportunities, such as personal financial services, that the relationship would bring to Northern Trust.”****

I guess they have a more...shall we say...in your face explanation.


38 posted on 07/01/2008 11:34:21 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Government tends to never fix the problems it creates in the first place)
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To: Kleebo151

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3992371


39 posted on 07/01/2008 11:35:06 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ResponseAbility


In his 1996 memoir, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," Obama wrote about his high school-era drug use: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."


Me thinks Barak still smokes crack!
40 posted on 07/01/2008 11:40:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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