What I wanna know is: how did he manage to pay a $16,000 a month mortgage payment every month?
Hillary, you magnificent BASTARD!
...According to joint tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the Obamas, with their two girls, had $1.67 million in total income last year.
Book royalties and advances brought in about $1.2 million for the senator-author. In late 2004, Obama landed a three-book deal worth $1.9 million. The first book under the contract, The Audacity of Hope: Reclaiming the American Dream, is scheduled for release in mid-October and is to focus on his political convictions and how he became the Senate’s only African American.
During 2005, the South Side Democrat’s income as a public official almost tripled to $154,047, after he left the Illinois state Senate for the nation’s capital.
His wife’s income as an administrator at the not-for-profit University of Chicago Hospitals nearly tripled to $316,962, from $121,910.
In 2005, she was also elected to the board of directors of west suburban Westchester-based TreeHouse Foods, which calls itself the nation’s largest pickle and pepper supplier. For that, she received $12,000 and $33,000 from a subsidiary.
She was promoted to the hospitals’ vice president for community and external affairs in March. Obama said that his wife, who, like him, is a Harvard law school graduate, was deserving of the promotion and raise.
Her previous position was less demanding, he said, and because his Senate campaign had ended and she had more time to devote to her work, she was more marketable with her educational background and other strengths.
‘’You can’t fault her for being smarter and better qualified for all sorts of jobs than I am,’’ he said...
-excerpted- http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/72374,CST-NWS-obama26.article