How do a majority of DU'ers really feel about this "House" issue?

[Bicoastal]

A poll to end all polls.

[me b zola]

1. I refuse to post in any of them, I don't want to give them a kick

Let this nonsense stop.

[leveymg]

2. Poll to end all polls . . .Promise? No more distracting House meme!

[saltpoint]

3. I just re-read A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY. Ladies and Gentlemen,

I recommend this book.

It's terrific. The funny parts will leave you howling and the sad parts will rip your heart from your chest.

It's better than GARP, at least I thought it was.

Please abandon the house controversy and order this book on-line. You'll be happy to enter the author's world.

An amazing book.

[WillyT]

24. The World According To Garp - My All-Time Favorite Book !!!

I will definitely check out Owen Meany, thanks!

[saltpoint]

53. Hi, WillyT. GARP was a winner, no queston. What a book to

demonstrate the true skill of a novelist.

It just totally works, start to finish.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

29. I think The Cider House Rules is one of the best damn books ever.

I read Garp and wasn't all that impressed. The movie was OK but the plot just seemed to be about losing male body parts. Castration fear or something.

I think John Irving's grandfather was a doctor in New England, and he was writing about what he knew about in his past, in Cider House Rules. And the Cider House Rules were of course a metaphor for the laws against abortion at the time. An excellent book.

[saltpoint]

54. CIDER HOUSE RULES is another great one by Irving.

The sadness in it is almost soul-shredding. But I love it. I thought the film did well also. For some reason I liked Toby McGuire in that role better than he does in SPIDERMAN. I think he'll be remembered for SPIDERMAN, but he got his CIDER HOUSE role lodged into my memory right away.

Great book.

[Clark2008]

34. Wasn't Simon Birch the movie made of this book?

I love Oliver Platt.

[saltpoint]

55. My only complaint about Platt's role in SIMON BURCH was

that they didn't give him enough screen time.

He is an outstanding actor and he got the part of Dan/Ben just right. A surgical read, even. Terrific. I would have loved to see a scene with him and John's mother on the train. Something to establish how much he loved her, and why he became a better "father" to John than anyone else.

I'd give the cinematography and the soundtrack top honors for SIMON BURCH, but I'm in love with the novel and think Irving is too skilled to be upstaged by the screenplay.

[GCP]

46. Owen Meany is my favorite book of all time

I wept buckets at the end, then I picked it up again immediately and read it all the way through again (maybe hoping for a better ending!) :)

[saltpoint]

56. You make a strong statement, but I hear every syllable of it.

It is a hell of a powerful book.

The loneliness of John, whose mother is taken from him, and the clipped destiny of Dan, whom she met on the train and who brings the armadillo...

My god it's a great read. I recommended it to a close associate who HATES fiction and I just INSISTED she read it.

She called me 2 weeks later and said it made her weep like a junky.

[annabanana]

4. just responding to let ya know they are all on "ignore"

And now this post is on its way there too!

[halobeam]

5. I just rec. this thread. LOL does that answer your question?

[Connie_Corleone]

6. House is a good show. Why is everyone hatin' on it?? nt

:crazy: :silly:

[Bucky]

13. I'll tell you exactly why people hate that show---it's popular, dammit. That's evil.

Popular shows encourage people to turn on their TVs. Which wastes electricity. Do you realize how many starving children you could feed with all that wasted electricity, if, you know, they were the kind of children who could eat electricity? Or televisions? Or houses?

[hfojvt]

15. somebody beat me to my joke

:argh: :thumbsup:

[Change has come]

7. enough is fucking enough. N/T

[bleedingheart]

8. a bit jealous...now I have to change my plans and build my 100K sq ft house

:evilgrin:

I can't be upstaged!!!

hee hee

[Trajan]

9. FYI: The story was a hit piece ....

And the REAL house is modest for a couple with the Edwards level of wealth ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x54475

Edwards is a man who genuinely cares about the poor ..... the DU haters can go to hell ...

(edit: I voted 'Rather Annoyed', NOT because of the house, but because of the DUers who would do the work of the RW here in this forum .... )

[MrPrax]

19. No it wasn't...

Nothing in Solomon's piece has been refuted?

Has the Edwards camp come out swinging? nope...

In fact isn't this why this misstep is being talked by Edwards supporters more than his other more serious misstep and that's the obscenity of endorsing an end to the Iraq war while declaring his support to start another war with Iran?

Isn't a more important issue that same 'forces' in America which are now being repudiated by the American people have scored a major coup of sorts -- they actually paid off, what people perceive as a moderate American democrat, to endorse 'war with Iran' which is a policy only shared by the most extreme elements of the American Right including the current President whose approval ratings are the lowest in US history?

But if you agree that having a 'modest' squash court and a pool in a 10,000 square foot house sold quietly to folks being investigated by the SEC is no biggie as well.

...then carry on...you got whole year of carrying this guy's can.

[Trajan]

22. WAY off base .....

Complete fallacy .... disassociated facts swirled together to make ugly insinuations ....

Hey ? ... Didnt Hitler have a big pool ?

[MrPrax]

35. Ah...no...it's not

1) the story is still basically true

2) the guy wants to end the war in Iraq while at the same time wants to start another one with Iran and your as hard-pressed as anyone to try explain that one...

3) ...and living in a gazillion dollar house might only be as important as the 'cost of a loaf of bread'?

You remember...when one guy knew the price right off the top of his head and the OTHER guy didn't.

WE all knew WHY the OTHER guy didn't know the price of a loaf of bread and we KNEW it wasn't because he was 'smeared' or it was 'ambush journalism!!' -- no matter how many times the OTHER guy's supporters said it was ...

[Neshanic]

44. You are so right. Edwards is their guy no matter what.

[Rosemary2205]

10. We need a list of candidates and the sq. ft. of their houses.

the one in the smallest house wins.

Though I still say we should choose by who sings the worst. LOL

[Divernan]

20. Hey, You should see the 2 bedroom shack Santorum claimed as his home in PA

Well, on the county tax roll it was described as 2 bedrooms, but those who have been in it claim there are 3 bedrooms - and one bath! In reality he has a MacMansion in northern Virginia.

[tridim]

11. I haven't looked at a single thread about the house..

Except this one. I'm not even sure what this is all about, but I can tell from the post headers that it doesn't look very fun. No thanks.

[terrya]

12. I could care less.

As if I'm going to go to the voting booth in November 2008 and worry about a stupid thing like that...

[Bucky]

14. In what way could you care less? What might change about this issue to make you care less about it?

[terrya]

16. If John Edwards is the nominee, I'm not going to care...

how large his house is. Period. That's completely off the radar for me.

[Bucky]

17. But if you don't care NOW, how could you possibly care less?

That just doesn't make any sense.

That, or I'm being an asshole.

[terrya]

18. I guess it doesn't make sense.

I was trying to get my apathy on this issue across.

I hope you know what I mean.

[kdpeters]

40. If I found out I had testicular cancer, I might care less at that point.

[halobeam]

21. kick....

I can't believe I'm kicking a poll. LOL

[dweller]

28. still trying to figure how to vote on

your post. . .

:freak:

dp

[WillyT]

23. LOL !!! - Amen !!! - K & R !!!

:rofl::kick::rofl:

[RegimeChange2008]

25. I got here a little late for the "house" issue, I guess.

Frankly, I don't see the point in having an excessive sized house, but it does seem hypocritical in light of Edwards' speeches about fighting poverty and the need to get rid of the "Two Americas".

But this is FAR LESS OF AN ISSUE to me right now than Edwards' apparent enthusiasm for the AIPAC/Likud/PNAC agenda's next planned clusterfuck in Iran. That is the MAJOR issue of this campaign (if indeed we can even call it a campaign a full year before the first primary.)

My chosen screen name here, "RegimeChange2008", isn't merely a reference to kicking the Bush and the Dick out of our lives. It means that this insane, genocidal, imperialist, fascist foreign policy must end, and I absolutely will not tolerate it under the name of the Democratic Party.

[file83]

51. My take on this is...

...what part of an attorney having a big house is shocking????

...what part of a politician being a hypocrite is unexpected???

I honestly don't expect any more or less from John Edwards as I do anyone else. What I'd like to see are the threads applauding someone in politics who had SHITLOADS of money, yet just gave it away, and lives a humble existence.

Don't see many threads like that around here...

[cynatnite]

26. This is the only 'House' I care about...

[Senator]

27. Oh, and are we to suppose Hugh Laurie never "put on airs" ??

[sandnsea]

30. Other: Humored

I think it's frickin' hysterical and a delightful diversion from an otherwise shitty week.

[many a good man]

31. I like House!

[BlooInBloo]

32. DU blissfully continue to talk about whatever republicans tell them to....

[liberalnurse]

33. None of the above.....

but if you want my opinion.....go to this DU Thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x61088

[Jacobin]

36. It screams "nouveau riche"

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

37. What's this about a house now?

Jesus, I think I picked the right week to be working 14 hours a day. I seem to have missed the kerfuffle.

[barbtries]

38. i sure am p0ut of the loop

don't know what the issue is. oh well.. GORE FOR President

[kdpeters]

39. I feel like insulting both sides just so they can unite in their common hatred for me

Maybe not a bad idea, but I might make a too convincing Public enemy #1 and have everyone really hating me. :)

[Jacklyn75]

41. I can't believe there is such an uproar about this!

It's just not important BUT a lot of other things are - like bringing our troops HOME NOW!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

42. *Shrug* It's just the usual crappola of American politics. More to come.

Anybody expecting dignified debates on the issues hasn't paid attention to presidential political campaigns over the last 50 years. Hell, mudslinging has been around since Jefferson and Adams ran.

[spanone]

43. I'm tired of hiding these fucking threads.

[Jack Rabbit]

45. My feelings about the issue . . .

:boring:

[Breeze54]

47. My opinion & impression of 'those' people posting 'that' topic.

People who live in small houses shouldn't throw stones!

[emulatorloo]

48. Nobody is going to care about it except Rush Limbag and Sean Inhannity

It is a non-issue.

[Quixote1818]

50. It looks like 20% of DU cares about it. Thats no small chunk.

That probably equates to 20% of Democrats in general. It matters enough that the Edwards campaign contacted Daily KOS to tell everyone how green there mega mansion is. So what if they cut down 48,000 trees to build it. It's created quite a fuss here on DU for two days. You can bet John Edwards is now wishing he hadn't built it. In a close election with 20% of Democrats seeing it as an issue, this house thing could actually end his campaign.

[emulatorloo]

52. JMHO but I think DU isn't representative of Dems at large

I think DU'ers are more tuned in and maybe more extreme in their viewpoints than Dems in the non-internet chatroom world.

I also beleive that DU attracts a fair number of paid GOP operatives whose job is to "Divide and Conquer"

That is, to set Dems against each other by posting inflammatory stuff that later turns out not to be as inflammatory or important as it first seemed to be. We saw a lot of that happening during primary and general in '04. . .

[LeftishBrit]

49. The only houses that I care about in American politics...

are the White House and the House of Representatives. And the Senate if that counts as a house!

[Marie26]

57. Could not care less.

GD seems to go into full-out hysteria every once in awhile.