Posted on 02/07/2007 12:23:02 PM PST by pissant
Democrat John Edwards, who has made an anti-poverty message the theme of his 2008 presidential campaign, is taking heat for the lavish home he has constructed in Orange County, N.C.
In December, Edwards chose the modest backyard of a New Orleans woman who had lost her home to Hurricane Katrina as the image that best underscored his campaign theme.
Now voters are seeing another, sharply contrasting image of Edwards: his own home.
Sitting on 102 secluded acres -- surrounded by trees and defended by no-trespassing signs -- the 28,000-square-foot estate that Edwards and his family call home has presidential privacy.
A main home has five bedrooms and six-and-a-half baths. It's connected by a covered walkway to a bright red addition known as "The Barn," that includes its own living facilities along with a handball court, an indoor pool and an indoor basketball court with a stage at one end. Nearby, the family has cleared space for a soccer field.
With a current building value of $4.3 million, the unfinished Edwards estate is already about $1 million more expensive than any other house in the county, according to tax records. It sits on land worth about $1.1 million.
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The haves
The have nots
And the haves because I fleeced a jury just like a televangelist fleeces 95 year old ladies.
What a stunning display of ignorance on his part. Hillary is having belly laughs.
I see that he practices what he preaches. He chose to live in the Nice America, and not the Crappy America.........
Why can't folks finally accept the blatant platform of HYPOCRISY that is the backbone of the liberal existence ???
The haves, the have-nots and the have things the haves and have-nots have never dreamed of having.
Check out post #34(Still don't know how to post pictures)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780729/posts
Wow! Wait until the MSM hears about this! (heavy sarcasm)
A stage?
Or have things that you got from the haves and have nots.
He is a frigging ambulance chaser who whore's himself out for money, money , money..and then looks sad when you don't believe him that he is out for the poor folk.
Meadow Muffin
While I do not like Edwards, I don't get this issue.
This was not an issue with Kerry and he married into far more money than Edwards will ever have. And nobody complains that most Democrat Senators are just like Edwards (except that they didn't earn their money like Edwards).
Thank you.
That red building on the end isn't a barn, it's a basketball court.
Hillary is laughing
He sure killed a lot of trees for that house.
The stage is for Karaoke night at the Edwards!
A stage?
So if the game gets boring they can watch a play?
The design of that place reminds me of the time I picked up my dog's poop after he'd eaten a bunch of string.
It looks clean.
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