(John)Edwards' Home County's Largest

Carolina Journal Online ^ | 26 January 2007 | Don Carrington

[CaptainK]

How much fossil fuel will be used to heat and cool that behemoth?

[kcvl]

That looks like my husband after he plays golf! lol!

[Howlin]

I have NO idea; looks like trailers or portapottys to me.

[kcvl]

lol!

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't have a HUGE family wanting that much house. Just to hire the amount of people to clean it would be a pain in the butt. It actually makes me tired thinking about walking from one end of it to the other.

I guess that I am getting too old to want a status symbol home. I want a smaller one than I have now! I enjoy doing things other than thinking about what else needs to be cleaned.

[Howlin]

I know what you mean; we spent last week in Destin and when we drove home Wednesday night, the garage door wouldn't open.

I was like, CRAP.......let's go back!

[rirepublican]

Hypocrite Edwards bump!

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

And now they are talking abut doubling the cost of the 267 Toll Road

I used to take the toll road until they jacked the rates up. Now it's Rt. 7. They sure know how to get people to stop using non-crowded roads...

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Is that a greenhouse behind the barn?

Marijuana crop. Helps when channeling dead children...

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

And those tacky little houses leading from the barn up to 'the big house'...could they be for live-in maids?

Plantation style houses. Rich white man. South. It adds up.

[My Favorite Headache]

cozy little spot

[wolfpat]

I don't know where the home office is now, but it used to be on 54 west of Carrboro.

[wolfpat]

Oh, and sorry for taking so long to respond. I had to leave for work right after my original post, and I'm just getting home now.

[Howlin]

LOL.........I see you and I are about the same age! I remember when it was there, too!

[Abathar]

"Here in Raleigh, we've got 3.5 million dollar houses in lots of place -- and even though they are big, they aren't THAT big. "

The assessed value is 6 million, but that might not be the cost of it at all. I subcontracted and built my home myself and saved 25%, thats about what the developer/builder makes. He might have actually paid a lot more for it if he hired someone to build it complete for him, or less than that if he hired and did it all himself.

[johnpannell]

" Edwards home totaling 28,200 square feet..."

The poor dears, how will they manage?

Well he needs *somewhere* to put the Secret Service detail and presidential aides until he can build a bigger house for them at government expense... or so he thinks.

[Mamzelle]

Not only gargantuan, but hideous--look at that ramshackly structure from the house to the barn! What ghastly, awful, taste!

[volunbeer]

""Since his unsuccessful run in 2004 he's been on the payroll of UNC I think, running some kind of poverty study center.""

Oh, the irony! What a sham....

I can imagine the coverage CNN/MSNBC would give a Republican if they lived in a home like this.

[Dinah Lord]

Ghastly.

Proving once again that having money does not necessarily mean having taste.

Is that barn going to be his Presidential Library?

Looks more like Graceland to me...

[El Sordo]

George Washington was the wealthiest man in America when he became President. He was cash poor, but had land holdings that dwarfed most everyone else.

Both Jefferson and Washington has sprawling estates and lavish homes as well, at least for the time.

A good number of the men we know as the Founding Fathers were the monied elite of the day. Nothing wrong with this. Their social position as established gentlemen gave them the time and resources needed to establish the American experiment.

From where I sit, the greatest difference between then and now is then there was the attitude that their social and economic position burdened them with a responsibility to serve in high office. Today it seem more like high office is regarded as an entitlement due to their social and economic position.

[MSM Hater]

Good grief, it looks like a bunch of ugly little buildings stuck end to end from the house to the barn , is poor John afraid to get his hair wet walking from one building to another?

Normally you don't see the house from this altitude (probably from a helicopter.) The idea is to make his mansion look even bigger by giving it lots of length when viewed from the ground. He's probably compensating for a short wee-wee.