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	<title>Comments on: John Edwards&#8217; &#8220;slummy&#8221; neighbor sells property</title>
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		<title>By: Larraby</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207932</link>
		<dc:creator>Larraby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody in the MSM asks Edwards how he can be such a populist and say he refuses to negotiate with big business when he was paid close to $500,000.00 for about six months of &quot;work&quot; for the Fortress Group, a company that does not manufacture anything but owns subprime mortgage companies that are now foreclosing on the homes of poor families who were wiped out by Katrina. Will anybody in the MSM ask Edwards about it? How about the phony think tank for the study of poverty the Edwards&#039; set up which was exposed by the New York Times as a place for innocent people to donate money to and just about all the money went for John Edwards to fly around the country on?
  This guy is so phony it is amazing. The champion of the union men and women who, when it was convenient, supported right to work laws.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody in the MSM asks Edwards how he can be such a populist and say he refuses to negotiate with big business when he was paid close to $500,000.00 for about six months of &#8220;work&#8221; for the Fortress Group, a company that does not manufacture anything but owns subprime mortgage companies that are now foreclosing on the homes of poor families who were wiped out by Katrina. Will anybody in the MSM ask Edwards about it? How about the phony think tank for the study of poverty the Edwards&#8217; set up which was exposed by the New York Times as a place for innocent people to donate money to and just about all the money went for John Edwards to fly around the country on?<br />
  This guy is so phony it is amazing. The champion of the union men and women who, when it was convenient, supported right to work laws.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim M.</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207838</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim M.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would not be surprised if the &quot;retired business professor&quot; served John Edwards in his ambulance chasing days as an expert witness or consultant.  Nor would it surprise me if the dear professor was nothing but a straw man through whom funds were routed by Edwards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would not be surprised if the &#8220;retired business professor&#8221; served John Edwards in his ambulance chasing days as an expert witness or consultant.  Nor would it surprise me if the dear professor was nothing but a straw man through whom funds were routed by Edwards.</p>
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		<title>By: Mookie</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207737</link>
		<dc:creator>Mookie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Some on point out a single, solitary member of the Democratic Political Machine, Congressman, Senator or Presidential Candidare that actually lives like or in a poverty stricke or middle class area&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Charlie Rangel.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Some on point out a single, solitary member of the Democratic Political Machine, Congressman, Senator or Presidential Candidare that actually lives like or in a poverty stricke or middle class area</p></blockquote>
<p>Charlie Rangel.</p>
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		<title>By: RetFireman</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207736</link>
		<dc:creator>RetFireman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nothing says &quot;Caring, compassionate, understanding, there for you, feel your pain Democrat&quot; more, that a Democrat couple that can&#039;t stand poor people and hates the way poor people look and live.

this should be a big, huge, monsterous red flag for every single Democrat across this nation as to exactly how their leadershop actually feels about the Working Class...the Class that they slaim to actually support, represent and allegedly &quot;Be from and a part of&quot;

Some on point out a single, solitary member of the Democratic Political Machine, Congressman, Senator or Presidential Candidare that actually lives like or in a poverty stricke or middle class area.  Oh sure, they all tell you that they were all from a one bedroom shack and walked to school in the snow barefoot, up hill both ways 10 miles, but noone has proof of that, and no one has ever bothered to look into it.  This reaction of Little Lizzie and Silkie is more indicative to the true heart of how each and every one of these phoney baloney politicians who have all of these hororscope reading Democrats thinking about them than anything else I have ever seen.  Well, this and the way Chelsea treated that little fourth grader Scholastic Reporter the other day when the 9 year old girl asked her a question and she told her, &quot;I don&#039;t speak to reporters.&quot;  Yup, she is just too special and still off limits, even to fourth grade school reporters too.

And yet, these people still believe in their Golden Calfs and dance naked around their Bonn Fires.  &quot;These False Gods Will Save us.  Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie!!!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing says &#8220;Caring, compassionate, understanding, there for you, feel your pain Democrat&#8221; more, that a Democrat couple that can&#8217;t stand poor people and hates the way poor people look and live.</p>
<p>this should be a big, huge, monsterous red flag for every single Democrat across this nation as to exactly how their leadershop actually feels about the Working Class&#8230;the Class that they slaim to actually support, represent and allegedly &#8220;Be from and a part of&#8221;</p>
<p>Some on point out a single, solitary member of the Democratic Political Machine, Congressman, Senator or Presidential Candidare that actually lives like or in a poverty stricke or middle class area.  Oh sure, they all tell you that they were all from a one bedroom shack and walked to school in the snow barefoot, up hill both ways 10 miles, but noone has proof of that, and no one has ever bothered to look into it.  This reaction of Little Lizzie and Silkie is more indicative to the true heart of how each and every one of these phoney baloney politicians who have all of these hororscope reading Democrats thinking about them than anything else I have ever seen.  Well, this and the way Chelsea treated that little fourth grader Scholastic Reporter the other day when the 9 year old girl asked her a question and she told her, &#8220;I don&#8217;t speak to reporters.&#8221;  Yup, she is just too special and still off limits, even to fourth grade school reporters too.</p>
<p>And yet, these people still believe in their Golden Calfs and dance naked around their Bonn Fires.  &#8220;These False Gods Will Save us.  Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie!!!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: silverlightstar</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207697</link>
		<dc:creator>silverlightstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To be honest, this isn&#039;t surprising.  I used to live near Raleigh; stuff like that happens a lot, especially with Edwards involved.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be honest, this isn&#8217;t surprising.  I used to live near Raleigh; stuff like that happens a lot, especially with Edwards involved.</p>
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		<title>By: TXRose</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207695</link>
		<dc:creator>TXRose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perhaps he&#039;s a shill for the Edwards family.  They may have decided that the only
way to get rid of an unwanted neighbor was to buy him out, but knew that he 
wouldn&#039;t sell to them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps he&#8217;s a shill for the Edwards family.  They may have decided that the only<br />
way to get rid of an unwanted neighbor was to buy him out, but knew that he<br />
wouldn&#8217;t sell to them.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim M.</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207606</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim M.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From the Carolina Journal:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Griffin, who ultimately bought the property, told Johnson he was paying for the land with family money, but records show that Griffin signed two separate deeds of trust, or mortgages, totaling $1.1 million to Richard I. Levin of Chapel Hill, a retired UNC business professor. Public records indicate that Griffin has none of his own funds involved in the purchase.

On Friday, Levin acknowledged making loans of more than $1 million to Griffin for the purchase of the Johnson property. He said he has no idea what Griffin plans to do with the property, and has no information that he is buying the land for someone else.

He said his loan was secured by the value of the land, but would not say whether he’d had the land appraised. “I am a lender, that is what I do to make money,&quot; he said.&lt;/blockquote&gt;


So, Cowan Griffin lies about the source of funds to the seller.  And borrows the entire $1.1 million down not from a bank but from a retired UNC professor. And while the professor claims that he is a &quot;lender&quot;, and that is what he does to make money, he has no idea what his loan is going to be used for regarding the property.  Most &quot;lenders&quot; would want some idea of how they would be repaid, and the use of the property is front and center on that issue.

Oh yeah, the professor/lender says is loan is secured by the value of the land, which has a value per tax records of less than half the amount of his loan.  So our professor is willing to make a 200% LTV loan without any information regarding the use of the collateral.  

Something stinks to high heaven here.  No one is that reckless with their money, especially in today&#039;s real estate market.  Especially someone who claims to be living on retirement income.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the Carolina Journal:</p>
<blockquote><p>Griffin, who ultimately bought the property, told Johnson he was paying for the land with family money, but records show that Griffin signed two separate deeds of trust, or mortgages, totaling $1.1 million to Richard I. Levin of Chapel Hill, a retired UNC business professor. Public records indicate that Griffin has none of his own funds involved in the purchase.</p>
<p>On Friday, Levin acknowledged making loans of more than $1 million to Griffin for the purchase of the Johnson property. He said he has no idea what Griffin plans to do with the property, and has no information that he is buying the land for someone else.</p>
<p>He said his loan was secured by the value of the land, but would not say whether he’d had the land appraised. “I am a lender, that is what I do to make money,&#8221; he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, Cowan Griffin lies about the source of funds to the seller.  And borrows the entire $1.1 million down not from a bank but from a retired UNC professor. And while the professor claims that he is a &#8220;lender&#8221;, and that is what he does to make money, he has no idea what his loan is going to be used for regarding the property.  Most &#8220;lenders&#8221; would want some idea of how they would be repaid, and the use of the property is front and center on that issue.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, the professor/lender says is loan is secured by the value of the land, which has a value per tax records of less than half the amount of his loan.  So our professor is willing to make a 200% LTV loan without any information regarding the use of the collateral.  </p>
<p>Something stinks to high heaven here.  No one is that reckless with their money, especially in today&#8217;s real estate market.  Especially someone who claims to be living on retirement income.</p>
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		<title>By: Lifeofthemind</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207570</link>
		<dc:creator>Lifeofthemind</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;On January 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

You from the area? My inlaws are. (I can’t believe I just admitted that!)
:sounds of dueling banjo’s in the background:&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Now if your inlaws are criminals do you get to call them your outlaws?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>On January 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm, On-my-soap-box said:</p>
<p>You from the area? My inlaws are. (I can’t believe I just admitted that!)<br />
:sounds of dueling banjo’s in the background:</p></blockquote>
<p>Now if your inlaws are criminals do you get to call them your outlaws?</p>
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		<title>By: TXRose</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207562</link>
		<dc:creator>TXRose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listening to Metroplex news.  Apparently, another &quot;honor&quot; killing.  This one 
in Dallas because 2 daughters were dating wrong people, acting western,
etc.
Back to topic. Maybe he pulled gun when Edwards came on property because
he was afraid of an Edwards slip and fall lawsuit and wanted him off of the
property before that could happen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listening to Metroplex news.  Apparently, another &#8220;honor&#8221; killing.  This one<br />
in Dallas because 2 daughters were dating wrong people, acting western,<br />
etc.<br />
Back to topic. Maybe he pulled gun when Edwards came on property because<br />
he was afraid of an Edwards slip and fall lawsuit and wanted him off of the<br />
property before that could happen.</p>
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		<title>By: Speakup</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207560</link>
		<dc:creator>Speakup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If ol Monty wanted to increase the sale price he could have just put in a pig farm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If ol Monty wanted to increase the sale price he could have just put in a pig farm.</p>
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		<title>By: in_awe</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207557</link>
		<dc:creator>in_awe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m thinkin&#039; an illegal immigrant housing and employment sanctuary would be just right for the neighborhood. Wouldn&#039;t even need to improve the current &quot;housing&quot; stock...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; an illegal immigrant housing and employment sanctuary would be just right for the neighborhood. Wouldn&#8217;t even need to improve the current &#8220;housing&#8221; stock&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: englishqueen01</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207552</link>
		<dc:creator>englishqueen01</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The man cant make some type of a sensible agreeable solution with a neighbor and wants to be President?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Excellent point.

&lt;blockquote&gt;“I don’t want my kids anywhere near some guy who when he doesn’t like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out,” 
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Why do I think there&#039;s more to that than meets the eye?  As in, that the guy was protecting his property and home - a Constitutional right.  Or does Mrs. Edwards prescribe to the Rosie O&#039;Donnell method of gun control: They&#039;re dangerous when law abiding common citizens to use to protect themselves, but fine when in the hands of armed guards that protect Ms. O&#039;Donnell and her family.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The man cant make some type of a sensible agreeable solution with a neighbor and wants to be President?</p></blockquote>
<p>Excellent point.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I don’t want my kids anywhere near some guy who when he doesn’t like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out,”
</p></blockquote>
<p>Why do I think there&#8217;s more to that than meets the eye?  As in, that the guy was protecting his property and home &#8211; a Constitutional right.  Or does Mrs. Edwards prescribe to the Rosie O&#8217;Donnell method of gun control: They&#8217;re dangerous when law abiding common citizens to use to protect themselves, but fine when in the hands of armed guards that protect Ms. O&#8217;Donnell and her family.</p>
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		<title>By: The Raging Republican</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207544</link>
		<dc:creator>The Raging Republican</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;“I don’t want my kids anywhere near some guy who &lt;strong&gt;when he doesn’t like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out&lt;/strong&gt;,” &lt;/blockquote&gt;

Maybe its only when she comes around...... and come on, who can blame him???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>“I don’t want my kids anywhere near some guy who <strong>when he doesn’t like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out</strong>,” </p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe its only when she comes around&#8230;&#8230; and come on, who can blame him???</p>
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		<title>By: Master Shake</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-slummy-neighbor-sells-property/comment-page-1/#comment-207539</link>
		<dc:creator>Master Shake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;In darkness, the bus with the entire Edwards entourage pulled over at a service station and was abandoned.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Following a phone conversation with Congressman Murtha, they redeployed to Okinawa....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>In darkness, the bus with the entire Edwards entourage pulled over at a service station and was abandoned.</p></blockquote>
<p>Following a phone conversation with Congressman Murtha, they redeployed to Okinawa&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Speakup</title>
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		<dc:creator>Speakup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Last April, Elizabeth Edwards made national news when she criticized the family’s across-the-road neighbor, Monty Johnson, for pulling a gun on trespassers and for not maintaining his “slummy” property.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Everybody has at least one neighbor like the Edwardses, holier than thou hypocrites and threatening bullies. 

They&#039;re both phonies, they may talk about more than one America but they&#039;re really only concerned about one America, theirs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Last April, Elizabeth Edwards made national news when she criticized the family’s across-the-road neighbor, Monty Johnson, for pulling a gun on trespassers and for not maintaining his “slummy” property.</p></blockquote>
<p>Everybody has at least one neighbor like the Edwardses, holier than thou hypocrites and threatening bullies. </p>
<p>They&#8217;re both phonies, they may talk about more than one America but they&#8217;re really only concerned about one America, theirs.</p>
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