In every news story, it is "Teresa Heinz's $3.7mil estate"

[Atman]

I've never heard the value of the Crawford Ranch or Kennebunkport mentioned when Bush is talked about. "Bush cleared brush on his gazillion dollar ranch." EVERY single time they show the photos of the families, they feel compelled to tell us the value of the estate, as if it were relevent. The message is clear...dems arent' supposed to have money. Them that do are elitist.

But, as the saying goes, if being elitist simply means I'm not the biggest dumbfuck in the room, that's fine with me.

[daa]

1. Bush has some nice real estate, too.

His 1,583-acre ranch near Crawford, Texas has a man-made lake stocked with bass, seven canyons and miles of creekfront.

[ProfessorPlum]

2. Yeah, but he's a man of the land.

Why, that ranch has been in his family for almost five years now. It's like a part of him (/presstitute)

[ContinentalOp]

7. Yeah but,

How much can 1583 acres in Texas really be worth? :)

[Killarney]

3. Fucking biased media.

It's the little things like this that shows they are biased.

[tom_paine]

4. Of course it is. Media Whores don't even have to be told how to say it

You gotta love the Anmerikan-style of conspiracy. Right out in the open, everyone knows what to do (wink wink).

How much is that Phony Baloney Stage Prop in Crawford?

God, I so hate Slave Nations, as Imperial Amerika is becoming, with their fraudulent media and their easy-to-lie-to slavish populace.

I want America to be a Free Nation again. So badly.

[wtmusic]

5. The USFD (United States Fax Department) is working overtime

spreading the "truth" to media outlets

[Malva Zebrina]

6. I noticed that also

on a caption to a picture by Reuter's photographer, Jason Cohen

He also called the BBQ that was held there, "elegant" and mentioned later they served hamburgers. Must have been some elegant, gourmet recipe grilled hamburgers. I cannot imagine hamburgers being anything but all American served with gusto, fare.

Who cares? They have money and they are Democrats and they are on our side.

They will be the ones that will kick the little cowardly frat boy out of the house that was never his in the first place and they are far better men than the twit and Cheney.

Oh thank goodness--at long last we will not have to suffer and see the frump speak for us and pretend she is an erudite, scholarly librarian interested and an activist for women's rights or, the same as her old dried up battleaxe mil, some children's reading programs that others are expected to fund and contibute money their money to

That is fine with me if Theresa owns as much as a ten million dollar family estate--it,I think it is called Rosemount,
is 90 acres in Pennsyvania and parts of Pennsyvania are indeed lush, green and beautiful. Not like the dry gulched, sad looking Crawford:




http://gotexas.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.crawfordtx.com/photos.htm



Home of the Western White House purchased primarily to propagandize for his fake cowboy image and dubbed the "Western White House" without the people's approval, in decrepit , sweltering, dusty and dry, Crawford.

It is also called "Prarie Chapel" :eyes:

It, Theresa's estate, probably makes little boy Bush jealous.

[w4rma]

23. C'mon

don't attack Crawford. The folks who live there are good people and Bush has probably never set foot in their town, anyway. Bush doesn't mingle outside of his social class.

[Malva Zebrina]

26. sorry, not attacking the people of Crawford- but it's sorry assed look

whoever they are. and Bush has done not a thing for that sorry looking place so far. Truth is truth--people who live there in Crawford are not to be blamed for the decrepit looking dried out looking place,

It had nothing to boost it up, like tourism that results at least, in small business and boutique shops. but we cannot surely call it the Western White HOuse. It is woebegone. No doubt about that.

You can live there if you like. Why don't you purchase a home there? The school looks really modern and up to date. It looks like a place that many up and coming, bright eyed and intelligent persons seeking a lucrative career would flock to. I am sure you could find a real estate agent in the area on the net.

Come on--buy real estate in beautiful Crawford if you like it so much. Otherwise, I will stick by my assessment

Crawford sucks.

[Not Me]

8. My Dad's take on politicians with money...

It isn't how much they have, it's what they do with it, and how it affects them.

I remember a long time ago at a family gathering, an uncle started going off on the Kennedys and their wealth...trying to say there was no way that they could understand the 'average joe'.

To this day, I remember Dad standing up and railing him on the sacrifices that the Kennedy family has made throughout the years, and how they are responsible for lifting up those in the lesser segments of society.

Dad was a liberal way back then. I guess the acorn doesn't land far from the tree.

[shawmut]

10. Like Al Sharpton says "It's not the income, it's the outcome"

:)

[Zorra]

9. Links to 1999 value of Bu$h's Crawford Estate:

PHONY TO THE CORE: The "Ole Family Ranch" in Crawford is a Set Completed the Same Day the Election was Stolen
By Cheryl Seal
Have you seen all those article and pictures of Bush "at home on the ranch" in Crawford - the ones that imply that he is "just an ole ranch hand" more comfortable on the family homestead than in the "Big City," be it Austin or D.C.? Well, if you bought this image, you've been royally snuckered. The Bush family homestead in Crawford is nothing more than an elaborate set. The house, built in 2000, was designed to be ready for Bush to step into - like a set awaiting an actor - during the 2000 presidential election. Not only was the "ranch" created in 2000 - so, essentially, was the "town" of Crawford! Before then only about 400 people lived in the area. The Crawford Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture were formed shortly after the ranch was finished.

The 1,600 acres on which the "ranch" sits was purchased in 1999 for an undisclosed price, but it was a helluva lot less than the current real estate agents' appraisal of $1.2 million. Yep, worth $1.2 million, but G.W. has a sweet deal at the tax appraiser's office, where the property is valued at about $988,000. Oh, and that "homey ole ranch house?" It's actually a 10,000-square-foot single level mansion/compound that won't even be 2 years old until this November! The compound features a swimming pool for daughters Jenna and Barbara, who apparently loudly demanded it - the Bushes call it the girls' "Whining pool." Btw - we hear Bush got a sweet deal on the house construction, (the cost, of course remains undisclosed): the builders came from a religious community in El Mott, Texas. The original completion date of the house was November 7 - election day 2000. In other words, the curtain went up on the set on schedule for "show time." The very timing of this event indicates that Bush was absolutely confident that the election would be successfully engineered in his favor.

http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6687

The president's most expensive items sit on his Crawford ranch, a dock and boat, valued at $5,728. Mr. Bush also accepted a cowboy hat worth $1,000, an $823 honorary membership at the Yale Club in New York City, $359 cooking pit, and for the avid runner, three pairs of athletic shoes valued at $765.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/16/se.03.html

(on edit: post line error)

[paulk]

11. They mention Theresa Heinz's money

because in a perfect Republican world women should be barefoot and pregnant, depending solely on the man for support. Also, any man that would marry a woman with money is not a real man, so it must be pointed out constantly that Theresa has more bucks than John.

Since money is the only denominator of success in Republicanworld, a rich woman is the ultimate sign of what's wrong with the world.

[supernova]

14. Yes, it reinforces the notion

that Kerry is a kept man. :P

Nevermind that I'm sure Kerry built up his own resources over the years.

[radfringe]

12. we are all missing the boat on this

need to turn it around and start saying the repugs are inciting CLASS WARFARE!

if the repugs are sooooooooooo upset by Teresa Heinz's money and all the rest of money that makes rich people rich then they need to start pushing some legislation to RE-DISTRIBUTE the wealth

and they can start by re-distrubuting bush* and Cheney's wealth-- ALL OF IT

[spanone]

13. Yea, like Cheney is living in a double-wide.

[fdr_hst_fan]

16. Not Cheney-

just his MOUTH!

[Jacobin]

15. Kennebunkport is in the ghetto!!

It is.

Judy Woodruff told me so.

/sarcasm

[fdr_hst_fan]

18. Yes, isn't it amazing?

All you hear about is Theresa's money; you NEVER hear about the estate in Maine or the phony ranch in Texas. The Repukes DON'T WANT you to remember that SMIRK HAS MONEY, TOO! Smirk STOLE his through stock swindles; Theresa inherited hers from her late husband, John Heinz III.

[Malva Zebrina]

25. The "estate" in Maine is nothing to brag about believe me.

It sits on nothing but rock and juts out into the ocean . It is quite visible from the road and the Bush family hardly spends any time there at all. They have not done a thing for the state of Maine,or it's people. This is the gloomy looking Walker Point home in Kennebunkport. There are far more pleasant looking homes around the area than this dumpy, dreary looking place.

[geniph]

17. It'll be interesting to see how long Shrub actually lives on the "ranch"

after we send him back to it in November. My guess is that he'll be living in the family's Kennebunkport compound within about three days. He belongs in Crawford like a turd belongs in a punchbowl.

[NewJeffCT]

19. never a mention of the Bush fortune

Built on supplying the Kaiser & then Hitler...

[fdr_hst_fan]

21. Never forgeet, and try to tell every Repuke

you can: Grandfather Prescott Bush was a Nazi sympathizer! So you see, the nut doesn't fall far from thr BUSH!

[bingoboingo]

20. You're right

I agree that the price of Kerry's home shouldn't be mentioned so much.

BUT, what do you expect when he campaigns as a champion of the working class? You had to know the press would jump all over that.

[fdr_hst_fan]

22. Ah, yes-the WHORE PRESS!

They ALL need a good DOUCHE!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. Property values are very high in MA

modest houses in certain towns may be $1 million. It would be nice if they put it in perspective that the average shitbox in MA is over $400K.

[texas1928]

27. Well even to be run for president, and have a shot at it you have

to be able to afford to pay out to get the votes. So I would expect to see a rich candidate. I would not vote for some person who works at the local drug store as a sacker. The qualifications are not there.