Tue Sep 4, 2012, 04:59 PM
Tony_FLADEM (2,429 posts)
Did Obama buy a $35 million house in Hawaii?Last edited Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:20 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
A Romney supporter just told me this on Facebook.
Tony, at least Romney worked for what he has. Obama purchased a 35 million dollar house in Hawaii... who do you think paid for that??? The man has never worked, ran or owned a business in his life!!! Romney and I DID BUILD OURS!! Think, research and then react. Did Glen Beck report this or something? On Edit: This was my reply Tammy, Obama is an author. His books have sold millions of copies. At least he didn't make money investing in this: www.nowpublic.com/health/mitt-romney-s-abortion-business-made-him-50m And Obama did not say you didn't build your business. He was talking about the things the country does that helps businesses to thrive such as infrastructure and an education system.
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| Tony_FLADEM | Sep 2012 | OP | |
| Vincardog | Sep 2012 | #1 | |
| southernyankeebelle | Sep 2012 | #8 | |
| _Liann_ | Sep 2012 | #38 | |
| madokie | Sep 2012 | #2 | |
| Cha | Sep 2012 | #22 | |
| Tony_FLADEM | Sep 2012 | #29 | |
| madokie | Sep 2012 | #44 | |
| cali | Sep 2012 | #3 | |
| WilliamPitt | Sep 2012 | #4 | |
| hifiguy | Sep 2012 | #5 | |
| LadyHawkAZ | Sep 2012 | #46 | |
| tjwash | Sep 2012 | #6 | |
| Cali_Democrat | Sep 2012 | #7 | |
| lpbk2713 | Sep 2012 | #9 | |
| sadbear | Sep 2012 | #10 | |
| Cali_Democrat | Sep 2012 | #11 | |
| former-republican | Sep 2012 | #17 | |
| JHB | Sep 2012 | #23 | |
| spanone | Sep 2012 | #12 | |
| quinnox | Sep 2012 | #13 | |
| mfcorey1 | Sep 2012 | #14 | |
| DFW | Sep 2012 | #15 | |
| former-republican | Sep 2012 | #24 | |
| CJCRANE | Sep 2012 | #35 | |
| greatauntoftriplets | Sep 2012 | #47 | |
| Debitcrat | Oct 2012 | #50 | |
| DFW | Oct 2012 | #51 | |
| Debitcrat | Oct 2012 | #49 | |
| cynatnite | Sep 2012 | #16 | |
| silverweb | Sep 2012 | #18 | |
| librarylu | Sep 2012 | #19 | |
| CJCRANE | Sep 2012 | #27 | |
| elleng | Sep 2012 | #33 | |
| marmar | Sep 2012 | #37 | |
| Zoeisright | Sep 2012 | #20 | |
| CJCRANE | Sep 2012 | #21 | |
| Initech | Sep 2012 | #25 | |
| alcibiades_mystery | Sep 2012 | #26 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Sep 2012 | #28 | |
| The Velveteen Ocelot | Sep 2012 | #30 | |
| xchrom | Sep 2012 | #31 | |
| Aerows | Sep 2012 | #32 | |
| NYC Liberal | Sep 2012 | #34 | |
| progressivebydesign | Sep 2012 | #36 | |
| aggiesal | Sep 2012 | #39 | |
| nolabear | Sep 2012 | #40 | |
| pinboy3niner | Sep 2012 | #41 | |
| Lone_Star_Dem | Sep 2012 | #42 | |
| Poll_Blind | Sep 2012 | #43 | |
| Egalitarian Thug | Sep 2012 | #45 | |
| GeorgeGist | Sep 2012 | #48 | |
| mzmolly | Oct 2012 | #52 |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:00 PM
Vincardog (17,412 posts)
1. REply that you will pay him $10,000 for a picture of the blister RMoney got doing real labor.
Response to Vincardog (Reply #1)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:04 PM
southernyankeebelle (10,685 posts)
8. You can also say that we saw how hard Romney worked on Labor Day on his speed boat.
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Must have callus on his fingers where he has to turn the key to start the boat. That was some hard work on labor day.
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Response to Vincardog (Reply #1)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:50 PM
_Liann_ (374 posts)
38. Why isn't this thread banned as pure propaganda?
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:01 PM
madokie (36,543 posts)
2. A rMoney supporter told you that and you have to ask us if it is true
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am I missing something here or what
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Response to madokie (Reply #2)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:15 PM
Cha (124,435 posts)
22. lol Precisely. Spreading their usual brand of Horseshit
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because romney has so many fucking houses. So, hey..let's start a rumor.
Oh, and btw.."he bought a house in his state of BIRTH, mf?" |
Response to madokie (Reply #2)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:27 PM
Tony_FLADEM (2,429 posts)
29. I know it's not true. I just wanted to know where this lie started.
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Perhaps someone had more information.
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:01 PM
cali (80,133 posts)
3. No. this is idiot racist dog shit from hillbuzz
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:01 PM
WilliamPitt (54,468 posts)
4. Sounds like a bullshit rumor
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:02 PM
hifiguy (13,029 posts)
5. Sure, right after he reversed time
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and went back to save Lois Lane. Oh, wait, that was Superman, wasn't it?
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Response to hifiguy (Reply #5)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 06:07 PM
LadyHawkAZ (3,878 posts)
46. Tsk tsk
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Obama went back in time to PLANT HIS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT! Check the tracking on the time machine next time.
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:03 PM
tjwash (8,088 posts)
6. I heard he also took 6 months of vacation this year
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:03 PM
Cali_Democrat (14,658 posts)
7. The only houses I'm aware of....
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are his house in Chicago and the White House.
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:04 PM
lpbk2713 (23,247 posts)
9. WTF?
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Is OxyRush OD'ing again? |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:04 PM
sadbear (4,218 posts)
10. I found this right-wing e-rag site, but obvious it's dubious and filled with blind speculation
Response to sadbear (Reply #10)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:07 PM
Cali_Democrat (14,658 posts)
11. It's pretty easy to find out if a house has been sold
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Last edited Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:07 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) Counties record these transactions when they happen and make the information available to companies and people that want to acquire it. It's easy to find out who the buyer of a house is and how much it sold for.
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Response to sadbear (Reply #10)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:10 PM
former-republican (2,163 posts)
17. even if they did
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most former Presidents make large amounts of cash on speaking tours.
He's also an author and I'm sure will write a huge best seller after he leaves the Whitehouse in another 4 years. Could they be buying this home in a blind trust or some other way? maybe but so what |
Response to sadbear (Reply #10)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:17 PM
JHB (17,798 posts)
23. In the unlikely event that the site has it correct, "who's paying for it" is...
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...a billionaire heiress, part of the Hyatt fortune. So no, not the taxpayers, unless you count all the ways billionaires have of sheltering money from taxes. But I don't think the Republicans want to correct that.
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:07 PM
spanone (72,064 posts)
12. walk out in the sun with this guy, he'll explode
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:07 PM
quinnox (15,669 posts)
13. pics or it didn't happen
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:08 PM
mfcorey1 (3,885 posts)
14. I heard he bought the entire state for just under one dollar!
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:09 PM
DFW (13,329 posts)
15. Does your Romney supporter get his info from National Hate Radio or Fox Noise?
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Why not just ask the source? http://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.html
At least your Romney supporter is keeping the Tampa tradition of lying alive and well. I wouldn't go repeating stuff like that as the subject of a thread before some fact-checking, though, and fact-checking and Romney supporters go together like vegans and Smith & Wollensky. |
Response to DFW (Reply #15)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:41 PM
CJCRANE (13,316 posts)
35. Ah but, you see it was...
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Invisible Obama who bought it. Only tea partiers can see him.
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Response to DFW (Reply #15)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 06:12 PM
greatauntoftriplets (129,558 posts)
47. Great find.
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Though I live in the Chicago and (though not in Kenwood -- which is technically where he lives and next door to Hyde Park), I have heard nothing about the Obama selling their house here.
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Response to greatauntoftriplets (Reply #47)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:11 AM
Debitcrat (4 posts)
50. Salary
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Obama makes more than his reported presidential salary, I think its closer to 16 million a year.
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Response to Debitcrat (Reply #50)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 02:41 PM
DFW (13,329 posts)
51. You THINK it's closer to $16 million a year?
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Obama releases his tax returns. Go check it out before posting what Roger Ailes "thinks."
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Response to DFW (Reply #15)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:09 AM
Debitcrat (4 posts)
49. Are you serious ?
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That's a parody site.
I hope you were trolling. |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:09 PM
cynatnite (27,122 posts)
16. I can't find anything legit on this...
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Some RW rag posted an article that is nothing but speculation and had no sources whatsoever.
Besides, even if it was true what's their problem with it? Rmoney's worth at least 5 times the cost of that place and owns multiple homes. It's bullshit. |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:11 PM
silverweb (12,959 posts)
18. I'll bet they're talking about the vacation rentals.
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Last edited Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:20 PM USA/ET - Edit history (2) For a family vacation (I think the Christmas holidays and I think in his 1st or 2nd year of office), the Obamas leased a very expensive, very secure "villa" in Hawaii. I don't remember the details, but it might well have been in that estimated value range.
Betcha that's what's been warped into his "purchase." Here you go. This one is from last year and it's on the market for $7.9 million, not $35 million: Obama 2011 vacation rental Here's the 2008 rental (worth $9 million): Obama 2088 vacation rental |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:11 PM
librarylu (116 posts)
19. Another link....
Response to librarylu (Reply #19)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:22 PM
CJCRANE (13,316 posts)
27. Thanks for the link.
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Last edited Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:37 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) That looks like a gossip and conspiracy nut website.
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Response to librarylu (Reply #19)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:34 PM
elleng (40,519 posts)
33. Sure, and I am Marie of Roumania.
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'You might not realize this, but this is actually not the first time someone in Chicago has helped the Obamas buy a house beyond their financial reach: convicted felon and Chicago machine political “fixer” Tony Rezko helped the Obamas assemble the funding for the home they currently own in Chicago’s murder and robbery-prone neighborhood known as Hyde Park. Penny Pritzker is making aggressive use of the recent headlines about gunshots being fired and people killed just two blocks or so away from the Obamas’ Hyde Park home, with Pritzker saying, “You don’t want them moving back where there’s gunfire, do you? DO YOU?”.' Sorry, idiot site. Rezko b.s. debunked, AND Hyde Park a GREAT combo and middle and upper Chicago neighborhood where they've got a home already, where I lived (years ago,) and where any reasonable city person would be happy to live. Also, Pritzkers do a lot with their money, not all of which we'd all care for, but so what? And, as others have said, PrezO has done very well with his writing, and likely could continue to do so. |
Response to librarylu (Reply #19)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:44 PM
marmar (60,759 posts)
37. Hillbuzz? Isn't that the PUMA website?
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nt |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:12 PM
Zoeisright (7,805 posts)
20. Who says so? And so fucking what?
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That ass Rmoney has SIX houses. And if the PRESIDENT bought that house, who fucking cares? It's not like he's trying to hurt the poor and middle class by giving himself a huge tax cut.
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:13 PM
CJCRANE (13,316 posts)
21. "Romney bought a house on Mars
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and married Hitler. Do some research yourself."
That should be your reply. Fight nonsense with nonsense. |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:20 PM
Initech (38,803 posts)
25. Romney mooched what he has.
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He has six mansions and the one in San Diego is bigger than most Midwest cities and has a car elevator and it's own lobbyist. Romney made more money firing people and gutting companies of their assets than he would have saving them. Anyone who believes this wealthy moocher is better than Obama - well - you get what you vote for.
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:22 PM
alcibiades_mystery (28,394 posts)
26. He bought a whole half of an island
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From this guy:
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:26 PM
1StrongBlackMan (5,374 posts)
28. I would suspect ...
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that this:
UPDATE: Just found out that the asking price of the house they are looking at is most likely $35 million. Bobby Titcomb, the Hawaiian native who brings Obama “fish and poi” (that’s code for “weed and coke”) to the White House is most likely involved in the purchase of the estate on Oahu that the Obamas will most likely be moving into in January. Read more http://hillbuzz.org/the-obamas-already-preparing-for-move-to-hawaii-in-january-2013-hyde-park-neighbors-talking-about-chicago-house-being-sold-soon-63935 Should make the discerning observer doubt the validity of everything preceding or following. |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:29 PM
The Velveteen Ocelot (34,703 posts)
30. Obama never had a job? You mean, apart from the years
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he worked for a private law firm, or the twelve years he taught law at the University of Chicago? Or the years he worked as the director of the Developing Communities Project, a Catholic charity? These private-sector jobs don't count?
And now we have Paul Ryan, who really hasn't worked in the private sector - he's been suckin' off the gummint tit for his entire adult life. But I guess that's OK because he's a Republican. |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:33 PM
xchrom (90,464 posts)
31. He's got money - he doesn't have 35 million dollar house
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Money.
That would be Rmoney. |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:33 PM
Aerows (13,827 posts)
32. I've done more labor than Mitt Romney ever has
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And I'm a female white collar worker. I'd bet that I could architect and construct a house from start to finish before Romney could (my father has taught me a LOT about building, and we have worked side by side on a lot of projects). I'd bet that President Obama could, too, because he sees value in hard work. Romney only sees value in what he can steal from other people and then call it "hard work".
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:36 PM
NYC Liberal (15,599 posts)
34. "who do you think paid for that" Um, Obama. He wrote several bestselling books,
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pays taxes, and doesn't have illegal offshore bank accounts in Switzerland.
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:43 PM
progressivebydesign (19,363 posts)
36. Calling bullshit. They are not the 35 million dollar house types.
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Last edited Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:44 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) Frankly, you'd be hard pressed to find a home in Hawaii that would be suitable for 35 million, in that they'd rival Versaille.
Here are some of the most expensive homes on all islands of Hawaii. Even at 23 million, it's a place that they'd never live. http://www.hawaiilife.com/gallery/6003/ Beyond the fact that NO politician in history would do something so ham-handed as to put their home on the market and buy an "consolation" house for after they lose. Think about it... |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:54 PM
aggiesal (1,521 posts)
39. You're confusing him with the facts! n/t
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:55 PM
nolabear (14,681 posts)
40. His net worth is listed as 11.8 million. So, uh, no.
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:57 PM
pinboy3niner (27,473 posts)
41. Suuuuure. And it included a yacht and a string of poloponies!1!!
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:58 PM
Lone_Star_Dem (27,534 posts)
42. Yes, and it's invisible. Only RW nuts can see it...
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The only furniture is one empty chair.
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:59 PM
Poll_Blind (23,171 posts)
43. The President is a wealthy man but, IMO, not THAT wealthy. Unless he's willing to...
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...plunk down some motherfucking stinging house payments every month, LOL!
Also doesn't quite strike me as his style. PB |
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 06:07 PM
Egalitarian Thug (7,033 posts)
45. "I know this is BS because I've SEEN the President's tax returns. He doesn't have that kind of $"
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See, how you turn that around on them?
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Wed Sep 5, 2012, 02:26 PM
GeorgeGist (9,515 posts)
48. Most likely ...
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Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 03:01 PM
mzmolly (47,353 posts)
52. No.
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There is no credible information that this is true.
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