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Guess Who Is Selling This Home?

By Uppity Woman on October 12, 2008 at 7:10 PM in Barack Obama, Housing & Housing Crisis

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Come on. Guess.

Whomever owns this home is doing pretty well, wouldn’t you say?

I mean, whomever owns this home isn’t exactly suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in the face of this wall street disaster–like seniors are with their IRAs in the gutter, or middle class people who have watched their life savings land in the crapper.

No sir. The owner of this house is All Set. But he doesn’t live here. No sir. He’s selling it.

The guy who owns this For-Sale pad is named Raines. Franklin Raines. He’s doing reallllllly well! He is the former CEO of Fannie Mae for enough years to commit fraud, put Fannie in the red and rob your “Bailout” pockets in the end.

Mr. Raines is the guy who cooked Fannie Mae’s books so he could lie through his thieving teeth and make things look just great at Fannie’s place. Then he patted himself on his lying thieving back and gave his treasonous self $90 Million in salaries and bonuses for his good work, all the time gaming the free market besides.

That’s $90,000,000. Dollars. I wanted you to see the zeros.

In the meantime, members of the Democratic Party I no longer care to belong to helped the ongoing coverup by thwarting all efforts to recognize Mr. Raine’s handiwork or regulate the dying Fannie Mae trough–thus guaranteeing the future train wreck we are feeling today. But Mr. Raines isn’t feeling a thing. Mr. Raines got off the tracks before the train arrived. He took our his $90 mil with him too.

I thought you might like to see the information on Mr. Raines’ For-Sale Home:

The former Fannie Mae head’s Forest Hills home went on the market two weeks ago. Called Beechwoods, the 98-year-old stucco Colonial sits on more than an acre and has views of nearby Soapstone Valley National Park. Highlights include a family room with cathedral ceiling, a library, a movie theater, a recreation room, and an exercise room. The remodeled kitchen has granite countertops, a skylight, a SubZero refrigerator/freezer, and double Wolf ovens. Outside is a pool, a cabana, a shared tennis court, and a four-car garage.

Care to see a slide show of this home? Lying, cooking books and filling your own coffers while bringing an entire Industry and Wall Street down pays off really well doesn’t it? (Note, the slide show link is verrrrrrrrry busy. There are lots of folks looking at the slide show of the House that Fannie Mae bought).

Well, where is Mr. Raines going to live then? You might say, maybe Mr. Raines has fallen on hard times with his $90,000,000.

Nope. While the home pictured above is for sale, Mr. Raines bought another place.

He bought a 3 bedroom, 7 bath penthouse condominium located in the posh West End’s Ritz-Carlton area. He paid $4.9 million of your dollars for it in the end–because you bailed his smarmy trickster book-cooking, self-rewarding deal out, and the joke is on you, sucker. And you are paying for the residual effects of this creep’s trickery besides. It’s called Wall Street! You don’t mind, do you? I didn’t think so.

Mr. Raines’ new home has a rooftop terrace complete with a hot tub, a butler’s pantry and three parking spaces.

Ritz-Carlton Residences, for those unfamiliar with them, are the residential equivalent of the luxury spa where AIG sales champions frolicked for a few days. The lucky owners of condos in these RCR developments have access to room service and other services of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Buying a condo like Raines’ is kind of like living permanently in the well-coddled circumstances of a high roller suite at a high end Vegas casino, while having the permanence and customization of home ownership, along, of course, with the tax benefits.

Say, would you like to see some Ritz-Carlton residences? Here you go!!

Mr. Raines, I know I speak for my readers when I say that we wish you everything you deserve in life.

For those of you who didn’t click on the video link above, here it is for your viewing pleasure:

  • Jose Habib

    He’s black! It must be Obama’s fault!

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    • Ferd McBerfle

      How much is Oburqa paying you to sound like a nut-case?

      • WildChild

        really Ferd? LOL…. sound like?

        • Ferd McBerfle

          Oops…Oh, well.

    • Touchet

      LOL, the obama supporter got banned, lol

      • Ferd McBerfle

        It is a fitting demise for a doubly-bigotted troll.

  • Objective Analysis

    Divided Goverment. Deport Obama back to Kenya or Indonesia. McCain-Palin as President and put these bumbs in jail and remove them from office:

    Maxine Waters
    Chris Dodd
    Barney Frank
    Clay
    Meeks
    and others Democrats/Republicans who caused this mess….

    Sounds good to me.

    PUMA 2008!

  • pasmalltowngirl

    OT
    Obama’s Kenya ghosts
    Mark Hyman
    About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.
    The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.
    By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
    The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama’s father.

    [[and has numerous ties to Barack Obama, as detailed in the remainder of the story]]

    http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/print/

    OMG, Both Obama and Scumbag Dick Morris donated to Odinga’a campaign. I copied this from a blogger at the Wash. Times. Hannity needs to ask Morris about this. I want answers to why Dick Morris would support Odinga? I am soooo sick of all this bull shit crap !!!!

    By: Kevin25
    Here is some interesting information on Raila Odinga’s campaign that was leaked by ODM party members that were doubled-crossed by Odinga in November 2007 when Odinga supported others for the Bunge (Parliment) seats after those who got screwed donated huge sums of money to Odinga. Read and review:http://www.network54.com/Forum/204096/thread/1200846405/last-1200846405/ODM Friends on Senator BO (yes that is Barack Obama gave 66 million Kenyan Shillings ($1 million) to the ODM. Muammar gaddafi’s pldest son gave 53,450,000 Kenyan Shillings ($825,000) and Dick Morris (yes the Fox News analyst) gave 21,335,000 Shillings ($325,000). In fact Dick Morris held a press conference with Odinga )available on YouTube) in November 2007 to announce his pro bono work for Odinga just before the Odinga pact with the Mombassa based radical Muslims was leaked. Thereafter, Morris being a good Jew quitely exited from the scene once the Muslim MOU revealed that Kenya would become asanctuary for Muslim terrorists. Forget the Shariah law part of the MOU, harped on by many, the sanctuary for terrorists is the problem. Just this month, Odinga was attempting to get known terrorisrs extradicted to Ethiopia back to Kenya. The good news is taht Muammar Gaddafi who bought the Liaco Regency 5 star hotel by bribing Kenyan government officials said he will not give it back, after a popular uprising by the citizens of Kenya. Kenya is a battleground in the war with Islamic terrorists. Mombassa and the Kildini Harbour deep water port is a strategic asset because it is the best harbour in East Africa and the terminus of the Ugandan and Kenyan Railways built by the British when Mombassa was the capitol of British East Africa. It is the choke point for access to the sea for the natural resource rich African interior providing a means to export raw materials needed in industrial production. You Yanks know little about the rest of the world and the role of Muammar Gaddafi to rid East Africa of its two majority Christian countries Kenya and Ethiopia.

    America has three weeks to sober up from the intoxication from Barack Hussein Obama, who I hold complicit in the atrocities visited upon the East Indian shopkeepers in Kisumu,Kenya. (Odinga’s thugs resorted to the old Mau Mau tactic of his Communist father of murder, mutilation, arson, rape and pillaging on a peaceful minority.) Obama used a Senate staffer, Mark Lippert, to assist his cousin Raila Odinga in Odinga political campaign for the Kenyan presidency. Obama and Lippert violated the Logan Act, Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 953. Lippert was the “filter” between the ODM and Obama. Will Obama nad Odinga slug down Jonnie Black scotch at the Royal Nairobi Golf Clud or the Stanley or Regency hotels in the future and trade stories how the scunked two democratic nations in gaining power? I fear for America and for East Africa. Don’t let the Obama counter-attack shout down the truth.
    http://www.network54.com/Forum/204096/thread/1200846405/last-1200846405/ODM

    Raila gets Clinton advisor for campaigns(Morris)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyprn8P8FaU

    • lark

      This is unbelievable and to think that Sarah Palin an Assembly of God devotee has to confront and compete with this man in rhetorical content and political context without having feelings of real rage going through her veins.

  • lark

    Saying Hillary is Obama’s maid is sexist.

    I agree. And I apologize for that. I take it back. I agree that Bill Clinton also campaigned for the Oblablamessiah and I didn’t criticize him that harsh. And I was equally as disappointed, but not as angry. But then he was not insulted and robbed like she was from the Oliar. And he has no incumbency in our government to speak off like she does. So it is much difficult to for me to accept the role she is taking. It is simply difficult for me to see her campaigning aggressively for him at this stage of the process knowing that he does not rise anything significant to his campaign without McCain speaking about it first. It is difficult for me to see Hillary disrespecting an old colleague that she knows knows more about all the issues than even she does.

    So I can apologize and do. Something that I would expect of any decent person that is running for the presidency of the our country. Too bad he was never taught to do that.

    • Docelder

      I am finding it harder to see the Clinton’s in the glory of the 90′s… much as I try. But, I have to think somewhere deep down that they do mean well, and we don’t understand everything we are up against. For example, were it not for Monicagate, we would probably have had Gore as President in 2000. As much as we can look back at Bush and wonder “what if”… we may just as easily wonder “what if” about Gore. Knowing what we know now about the socialist if not fascist far left… I think Bill saved us in 2000… if not by design then by providence. I am hopeful he is doing the same now in his way.

      • tek

        Never start thinking that. If not for Monica. If not for 13 Dems who voted to impeach Clinton over what should have been a censure, if anything–GHW Bush had a mistress openly the entire time he was in the WH–then Gore could have sailed into the WH. If he had the sense not to chose Lieberman.

        And where are those 13 Democrat impeaching Democrats today? They are the people behind Obama’s candidacy. Rotten to the core.

        The only people I know who repeat this mantra about Bill Clinton costing Gore the presidency are all Obamabots. Gore could have still won the election easily if he had run on Clinton’s record–Clinton had a popularity rating in the 70% when he left office.

        Guess who ran Gore’s campaign and advised him against running on Clinton’s record? Donna Brazile. Where is Donna Brazile today? She’s breaking all the rules of the DNC to get Obama on the Dem ticket.

        So tell me, is it really Bill Clinton’s fault that Gore didn’t win? Gore could have run again if he really wanted to be president, but he didn’t.

        • NoBamaNoWay

          personally, i think that if gore hadn’t run AWAY from clinton (who, remember, left office with 60+% approval ratings) he would have won. he basically legitimized all the “moral values” whiners by picking lieberman and by refusing to have clinton campaign with him. he should have owned the clinton presidency, and not shown weakness by caving to the hypocritical whiners, and he would have won.

          • BernieO

            Let’s not forget that Gore was also mercilessly attacked and lied about by the RNC and the mainstream media, especially…….guess who!………MSNBC! gleefully jumped on the bandwagon even though they knew the accusations were lies. (Like the one about Gore supposedly claiming to have invented the internet.)
            How often did you see Democratic leaders stepping up to debunk these smears? Pretty much never – just like they did not stand up against the sexism aimed at Hillary by the media. Read the archives at dailyhowler.com to see just how much the media hated Gore. The press even booed him during one debate. (They were in a separate press room watching so the crowd couldn’t hear them.)

  • HARP

    I found this on a Hannity post:

    The doctor said my grandmother’s brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. For the first time in her life she was a Liberal.

    • tek

      Is this supposed to be funny? It’s sick.

  • sotonightthatimightsee

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    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

      The regulars here are not racists. Thanks for busting this asshat. If they try to circumvent your block contact their ISP.

  • McHope

    So Sorry OT~ Anyone else watching Huckabee?
    Seems the ticker at FOX is scrolling information that Islamic leaders are rejoicing in the economic crisis and are boasting about taking advantage of it, and about the fact they say they control all the world’s oil and wealth.
    Yikes!

    • http://home.comcast.net/~vincep312 VinceP1974

      The Muslims see this era as the era of the ushering in of the world-wide Caliphate and the submission of the entire world to Islamic Law.

      Islam is much more than a spiritual religion… it’s a military-governmental ideology wrapped up in a paganistic Monotheism

      The mandate Islam compells upon Muslim is the abolition of all other religions and all other systems of Law.

      Man-made Law is considered to be Shirk.. a denial of the Oneness of Allah and the Oneness of his plan for the world , which is Sharia Law.

      Man Made Law is considered to be idolatry in Islam.

      Anything in the world that can be perceived as advancing this goal is seen as confirmation that this is the time that this will happen.

      Any setbacks are taken as a sign that Muslims are insufficiently pious.

      It’s because of this I have a special contempt for Political leaders in the United States who keep telegraphing to our enemies that America is losing the war of terror/Iraq/Afghanistan.. especially when they were attacking the Surge before it even started.

      The Muslims see the political divisions in America as proof that we’re no longer a true superpower and just the slightest setback will have many factions in the US calling for a end of US operations that stymie the goals of Islamists.

      • http://home.comcast.net/~vincep312 VinceP1974

        Oh I should say that of course not ALL Muslims think this way. I was speaking of the ones for whom Islam is their entire life, plus there is a lot of difference between Sunni and Shiia eschatology and even within the branches…

        All that being said, I think my statement is more or less an accurate statement of orthodox Islamic belief.

        • Liz B

          Wow! Just think, the far Left considers Sarah Palin and my fellow Evangelicans scary! Yeah, we are really frightening with our whole trying to live by The Ten Commandments thing.

          If Obama sides with the Muslims like he says he will, what will happen to the Christians and The Jews? Obama is not a Christian, nor is he a friend of Israel…

          Amazingly, we were foretold of this in the BIBLE. And it even warned us that we should beware of false prophets…the Antichrist would only have daughters, no sons…he would come to power promising peace…only the Saved would be able to recognize the truth, everyone else would believe he is The One, The Messiah, The Prince of Peace. Anybody here ever see the movie “Left Behind?”

          At first, when some of my friends, and then my husband said they believed “that one” is the AntiChrist, I LMAO, now I’m not laughing anymore. Conspiracy theories don’t seem so far fetched, and The Book of Revelations may be something we are witnessing the unfolding of.

          Think about it…most of us here would have laughed in somebody’s face this time a year ago if they had told us what the events of 2008 would bring. Any Liberal Dems new GOP supportors? Non violent pacifists now aggressive and ready to arm themselves if necessary?

          In a year when what was once left is right, what’s up is down, I don’t know what one day after the next will bring. I feel very much like I did post 9/11, and because I lived through that once, I now believe it’s always a real possibility of happening again, and in much larger proportions.

          I pray I am wrong, but the signs are there. George Soros would love to usher in one world currency, and the weather has been crazy for the last couple of years, national disasters like floods, tsunamis, tornado’s and earthquakes…

          I can’t tell ANYONE what to believe, nor would I want anyone to tell me, but I am glad that I have a God who I can count on.

          Whatever your faith, take heart and try to spend time centering yourself and spend time in prayer. Have faith, we will get through this, and we aren’t crazy or alone, we have friends here who listen to us and offer us wisdom and reassurance. As frightening as this all is, I believe that nothing will happen that is not part of a plan greater than one you or I could design, and it will be okay.

          Sorry to be Debbie Downer, I sometimes read one crazy thing after another, and I realize I have never felt so inundated with information in my life. There just never seems to be a slow day. It gets overwhelming, and then I get agitated and depressed. Please forgive me for sounding so fatalist, I really intended a different message, one a little more hopeful. Sometimes I just want to vent.

          • bethtopaz

            There are a lot of folks who are wondering if these are the Last Days.

            I’ve talked to a few people I know who think Obama is the anti-Christ.

            I don’t think so — he’s got way too much corruption surrounding him.

            I think he’s a wannabe, but we certainly are living in interesting times.

            “May you live in interesting times.”
            – Chinese curse

            I’ve read so much about the Holocaust and the Soviet Union and the gulags.

            I’m sure the Germans (the Jewish people, especially) felt they were in the Last Days.

          • http://firefox McAnnie Carmel Baracuda

            As a former “Yellow-Dog-Democrat”, I felt that a veil had been lifted when I saw what was happening in the Democratic Party with the stolen primary. It altered the landscape for me forever. I started to wonder why I had ever belonged to the party and how it could have changed so drastically.

            I am not aligned with any organized religion but have some friends who are and they are always drawing on biblical prophesy. I just keep praying for our country, Mac and Sarah.

        • NoBamaNoWay

          actually, mainstream islam IS radical, that’s the problem. show me one muslim country that has freedom of religion, democracy, equal rights for all, and basic human rights protections. no way are lefist, obamacrat thugs going to get me to parrot their dangerous orthodoxy and say with a straight face “what’s wrong with islam?” when someone raises these truths.

  • AnninCA

    I have no problem with people doing well in our country. If he parlayed his real estate investments, good going.

    Raines in on my own short list of jerks because he clearly participated and benefitted from ripping of Americans.

    Just that simple.

    • BernieO

      Exactly. However, as much as the Dems were complicit in the Fannie Freddie mess, this was not the cause of the mortgage crisis. Republicans have been pushing this lie because they will do anything to try to blame government and Dems for the problems rather than admit that their radical ideology of unregulated free markets is dead wrong.

      I trust McClatchy more than other outlets. They actually bother to do their homework. They were the only major newspaper outlet to get the story right about the lack of WMD’s in the run up to the war, so I put a lot of faith in their work. Here is their article about the role of Fannie and Freddie in the mortgage meltdown:
      http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/v-print/story/53802.html

  • ford

    I read on Hillbuzz that Obama is rumored to have a secret named Vera Baker.

    Lots of buzz about Ben Smith?

    Lots of buzz about the whitey tapes?

    Lots of buzz about Mary Mapes?

    • tek

      Lots of buzz in the empty space between obamabots’ ears.

  • Cubs in 08

    I went to the Ritz-Carlton website and requested that they email information on their condominiums. This is how I filled out their form:

    Fannie Mae
    3900 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
    Washington, D.C. 20016
    (202) 752-7000
    headquarters@fanniemae.com

    In the comment box I wrote, “We the People of the United States own the condominium that Franklin Raines bought.”

    I don’t know if I’m angry mad or nuts mad, but I just couldn’t resist. :lol:

    • bethtopaz

      very creative!

  • Dark Knight

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MCCAIN_ECONOMY?SITE=NVREN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

    “Republican John McCain vowed Sunday to ‘whip’ Democratic rival Barack Obama’s ‘you-know-what’ when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in their final televised debate.”

    “We’re a couple points down, OK, nationally, but we’re right in this game,” McCain said to cheers. “The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we’ve seen it come back up because they want experience, they want knowledge and they want vision. We’ll give that to America.”

    Still, McCain promised to run a “respectful” campaign in the weeks to come.

    “I respect Senator Obama, we will conduct a respectful race and be sure everyone else does too. But there are stark difference between us,” McCain said.

  • http://mybluecountry.googlepages.com/whattheobamademocratsaresayingposter Linda

    Uppity, you are just amazing! Thank you. And I so appreciate you speaking for us. YES, we do hope he gets EVERYTHING he is due.

    Great post and thanks for sharing the info.

    But I must say, how much is he asking for that house? He mustn’t have spent much time in the place, or at least didn’t cook. Must have had a lot of catered meals. Granite top and Sub Zero Fridge/freezer? How embarrassing. Granite is so last year. It breaks too easy. I myself and going with Stainless Steel and Sub zero combo? No NO No, it should be Fridge only and have a seperate freezer.

    …It might be on the market for a while.

  • TeakWoodKite

    Uppity Woman,
    What’s up with BO and friends when it comes to houses?

    Two Wolf ovens? I would love to have just one.

  • barry bums a ciggie

    I got a letter from the DNC asking for a donation. Inside was a sticker that read: Ask me how many house I own.

    HUH?
    I peeled off the sticker, stuck it on their donation sheet and wrote: Ask Frank Raines how many houses he owns. DNC=FRAUD

    • Kelly

      Good idea – I still have my packet from them and I think I’ll do something similar.