Fogbuster

UNbelievable. No wait... actually, VERY believable.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Two homes, two images, one candidate.

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.

Edwards first purchased the land in 2004, during his failed run as vice president. He recently sold his mansion in Washington's tony Georgetown neighborhood for $5.2 million.

Edwards, a former trial lawyer who made millions before ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070207/.../edwards_house

All_Around_Brown

Noone cares. Edwards is a flake.

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Fogbuster

Apparently so. On both counts.


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Real World

John Edwards....

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

All_Around_Brown

Real World, so you think girls who get their intestines sucked through their rear end via a defective jacuzzi tub drain shouldn't be represented with counsel?

Interesting... it shall be duly noted.

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Harry Boy

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All_Around_Brown

Harry, these are important questions. Senator, where's your pimple? Did you use Bo Tox? Whats your favorite American Idol contestant? Do you prefer, whole, 1%, or 2% milk with your cereal?

This should be in every presidential debate. This is how "mainstream" america views politics.

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Real World

Sounds like your talking about an abortion. Aren't they legal?

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

BelichickFan

I'm not sure what the big deal is, you can be an advocate for the poor even if you're rich.

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