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Obama, Like Dodd and Conrad, Got Cheap Home Loan
NewsMax.com ^ | 2 Jul 08 | Rick Pedraza

Posted on 07/02/2008 11:50:03 AM PDT by seanmerc

Presidential nominee Barack Obama joins the list of several other high-profile Democratic Party members who received highly favorable home loans.

Obama, D-Ill., reportedly purchased a $1.65 million mansion in Chicago through a “super, super jumbo” loan he received from Northern Trust Bank in Illinois, the Washington Post reports.

The portion of the money financed through the lender ($1.32 million) was offered to the Obamas at an unusually low discount interest rate locked in at 5.625 percent over the life of the 30-year fixed-rate loan, which was below the average of what a typical Chicagoan pursuing a similar low loan rate received at the time.

For his part, Obama and his camp are defending the lower rate as lender competition for business. A spokesman for the camp says, “The Obamas have since had as much as $3 million invested through Northern Trust."

Obama joins Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., on the list of high-profile public figures who received “VIP” loans that some now are scrutinizing as alleged trade-offs for political favors.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
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1 posted on 07/02/2008 11:50:05 AM PDT by seanmerc
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To: seanmerc
No, I cannot believe obama would get preferential treatment.
2 posted on 07/02/2008 11:52:31 AM PDT by zek157
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To: seanmerc
Obama is a corrupt, militant anti-American and an abject Marxist.

There needs to be much more digging into his dealing while in Chicago. He's up to his eyebrows in the left-wing Chicago political machine.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WILL CHANGE THE WORLD

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


3 posted on 07/02/2008 11:53:18 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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I’ll be honest, I have no problem with people getting discount and such. What I have a problem with is the people getting the discounts and special treatment turning around and trying to deny it to others.

That is exactly what Obama, and his ilk do.


4 posted on 07/02/2008 11:54:03 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: seanmerc
Pilosi’s culture of corruption?
5 posted on 07/02/2008 11:54:14 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Huh?)
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To: seanmerc
http://obama.3cdn.net/b689982572ef6e7ad4_mlbzaoxb2.pdf

2006 Interest and Dividend income listed doesn't show much from Northern Trust. I'm certainly no CPA and don't know where all to look on the return but if he had $3 million there wouldn't there be more listed?

6 posted on 07/02/2008 11:56:17 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: zek157

“That’s not the super super jumbo gumbo I knew.”


7 posted on 07/02/2008 11:57:00 AM PDT by Jagman
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To: seanmerc
Obama Got Discount on Home Loan
8 posted on 07/02/2008 12:01:12 PM PDT by Stentor (Obama supporters. Letting the little void do the thinking for the big void.)
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To: jennyjenny

At the end of 2006, Obama’s holdings were worth $455,000 to $1.125 million. When he entered the U.S. Senate in 2005, he reported assets worth between $200,000 and $400,000.

That is from his Seante filings. So we know when he took out the loan in 2005 he did NOT have 3 million $ to put into NOrthern Trust, so that is an outright lie by the Bank.


9 posted on 07/02/2008 12:02:27 PM PDT by milwguy (........)
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To: seanmerc
As long as it was a democrat getting the loan, there is nothing wrong here. The lenders know these democrats will bend over for them at a later date, so that is why they do these loans.

Example: Senator Dodd's mortgage bailout bill, written by the Bank of America. This is Dodd's pay back to his home mortgage lender.

10 posted on 07/02/2008 12:04:25 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: zek157

I am sure it is nothing.... he will say this is not the mortgage broker he has known for years.


11 posted on 07/02/2008 12:11:35 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: jennyjenny

The story says the 3 million was “put through”, whatever that means, the bank at some unspecified later date. It is not uncommon for banks to give favorable loan rates if individuals or companies keep large (very large) compensating balances in their bank. There is no evidence that at the time of this loan there was any substantial monies in the bank belonging to Hussein.

Someone needs to look and see if any legislation was pending around that time that the bank had an interest in seeing passed or defeated. Perhaps HUSSEIN and his other lib friends who took the cheap money helped them with their votes.


12 posted on 07/02/2008 12:14:44 PM PDT by lexusppd
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Yeah, but this article says this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039827/posts

The Obama campaign explained to The Crypt this morning that the Obamas did not get a special deal because of his position in the Senate. Rather, he got the deal because he borrowed $1.3 million but agreed to bring nearly $3 million in assets to the bank, which was more than happy to knock off a few points from his interest rate in order to manage his cash. Such a lower rate is often offered to wealthy individuals if there is competition for the loan, which there was in Obama's case.

13 posted on 07/02/2008 12:20:58 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: seanmerc

Won’t see that headline on MSM.


14 posted on 07/02/2008 12:25:33 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW ,)
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To: jennyjenny
So, he's a rich guy who got special treatment cause he's rich?

Yessiree, a true Tribune of the People.

15 posted on 07/02/2008 12:26:39 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: jennyjenny

“but agreed to bring nearly $3 million in assets to the bank”

Oh yeah, a Obama/Democrat PROMISE, that’s one you can bank on? Ha!


16 posted on 07/02/2008 12:28:59 PM PDT by RicocheT
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To: seanmerc

Gee is this part of the”new kind of politics”? Sure looks like the same old same old from the Dims!


17 posted on 07/02/2008 12:32:10 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: rawhide

HIGH CORRUPTION!!


18 posted on 07/02/2008 12:34:16 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: seanmerc

“Community Organizer” is a very lucrative career path.

It would be interesting to trace back to the source of the supposed down payment. It seems to be a six figure sum of money.

Not the sort of sum one usually thinks of for community organizers, or young state legislators.

So what did Hillary overlook? Or was there an agreement to not go into personal finances in the primary?


19 posted on 07/02/2008 12:40:13 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: seanmerc
Forty Acres & A Mule
20 posted on 07/02/2008 12:47:21 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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