http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/06/11/obamas-latest-change/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/06/11/obamas-latest-change/comment-page-1/#comment-37 The Blog @ Spolitics » Countrywide and the Democrats — A Friendship that Helped Make a Mortgage Crisis? Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:35:29 +0000 http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/06/11/obamas-latest-change/#comment-37 [...] Before Jim Johnson stepped down from Obama’s campaign, the Presidential candidate said the questions about Johnson were just “a game.”  Now it seems we’re getting a glimpse at the reasons why Barack Obama thought it was no big deal that Johnson received cheap mortgages from Countrywide’s CEO, Angelo Mozilo.  According to the Wall Street Journal, other prominent Dems have been skipping through the mortgage market, hand in hand, with their “friend” Angelo.  Apparently, Johnson told his Democrat colleagues where preferential loans could be gotten for people in power.  [...] [...] Before Jim Johnson stepped down from Obama’s campaign, the Presidential candidate said the questions about Johnson were just “a game.”  Now it seems we’re getting a glimpse at the reasons why Barack Obama thought it was no big deal that Johnson received cheap mortgages from Countrywide’s CEO, Angelo Mozilo.  According to the Wall Street Journal, other prominent Dems have been skipping through the mortgage market, hand in hand, with their “friend” Angelo.  Apparently, Johnson told his Democrat colleagues where preferential loans could be gotten for people in power.  [...]

]]>