Clintons Expected To Buy 20-Acre Farm

[onehandle]

Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are reportedly giving up their fancy Chappaqua home for a faux-rustic farm in the even pricier Bedford Hills area.

It is believed that the Clintons have settled on a 7,000 square-foot property called Clover Hill Farm.

The 20-acre estate features a wine cellar, a heated pool, an artist's studio, and a horse stable. The house itself contains 5 bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms.

The property is listed for $10.9 million by Coldwell Banker.



More photos at link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/15/clintons-expected-to-buy_n_647272.html#s114374

[YOY]

1. Good for them. Must be nice.

n.t.

[Cleita]

2. Who gets to clear the brush, Bill or Hillary?

Oh Hillary gets to sweep the porch, so it must be Bill.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. nice place.

really nice.

[LWolf]

4. Nice.

Meanwhile, I'll struggle to make mortgage payments on an old, run-down, falling-apart mobile home.

And others will struggle to make rent, or lose their homes.

[DURHAM D]

5. Are you faulting the Clintons for that?

[LWolf]

8. They bear a portion of the blame.

For opening the door to neoliberal policies via the DLC.

Would more people be working, and fewer struggling, if there was no NAFTA?

But no, I'm not faulting them for more than that. Of course, the 10.7 million that place is going to cost them would certainly keep a lot of struggling people in more modest accommodations. The cost of upkeep every month alone would house some people, too.

[Obamanaut]

6. Many (a whole lot) responses about this on an earlier

thread - some favorable, others not so much.

They have the money to do it, they assist via donations to various causes, they get money from speaking engagements, books, and maybe even presidential retirement pay, and SoS salary. More power to them.

I don't want a house that large, but they are nice to look at.

Link to earlier post http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8723341

[tularetom]

7. He can buy my neighbor's property cheap

She has 120 acres and she can't keep it up any longer since she just turned 75.

I sold her the acreage 20 some years ago and she and her husband built a home on it. She offered it to me but I can't afford to buy it back from her with the house, the barn, the corrals, etc.

I'd love to have Clinton as a neighbor. He'd probably put in a pool and have a bunch of young chicks around it every day. I could come over and swim and bs with him.

It's not quite as upscale as the one in the picture and it definitely isn't in as fashionable of a setting.

[Oregone]

9. Idle farmland

:(

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Nice looking place. It kind reminds me of their very first house, sitting about 4 blocks from here.

[DeschutesRiver]

11. I guess if you compare it to Al Gore's 10,000 sf home or John Edwards

palatial spread of 29,000 square feet, the Clintons aren't living nearly as large as they could be.

And with none of the inconsistencies that go along with the having a home that consumes so much in electric and other power resources while you are asking others to go green and reduce their carbon footprint in Gore's case, or making the elimation of poverty your cause while you live in a palace sized home and grounds and complain about the unsightly mess down the road of some local who doesn't like you and lives in a trailer shack.

To each his own, but at least the Clintons don't seem to be sending any kind of a mixed message with this.

[WinkyDink]

13. So only saints should promote causes for good, eh?

[DeschutesRiver]

15. Don't know, don't care about saints or the like

Sounds like a religious thing, and I am not into that.

Inconsistency of behavior, as between these three couples, was what I was reflecting upon.

[DeschutesRiver]

17. In reflecting on your point regarding an individual's inconsistency

between his/her life conduct and the good cause he/she supports, I've seen quite a few examples where inconsistent behavior has had a detrimental effect on a good cause, and Edwards might be one example.

He ran to serve as our President, and made much of his solid marriage and family life as he promoted his candidacy. Voters were not only pleased that he was a loyal married man of long standing, but a man who showed that he would not break a commitment even when the going got tough when his wife became terminally ill. I remember when it was revealed that he'd been having an affair, and the reaction even here at DU to his deception, where it was perceived to have been a convenient lie to garner votes, when in reality, his actions might have tipped the election to the repubs had he been the candidate.

And then people further began to consider other things, such as his lavish lifesyle, his activities such as joining a hedge fund, and even a bit about his reluctance during the campaign to be stuck talking to lowlifes at fair events, and questions arose as to the sincerity of his beliefs with regard to the people he claimed to be devoted to helping. And concerns about whether loyal supporters' donations had been used to fund his affair. And further discussion of whether his alleged devotion to the cause of poverty was nothing more than a scam similar to his use of his marriage as a prop to win sympathy from those who regarded him as a good guy because of it. I watched it snowball until his credibility went into the tank, and support for him, and his individual efforts for his good cause became non-existent.

Many people felt betrayed, and many wrote him off. Which I would suspect had quite a negative effect on his ability to be effective with regard to his good cause. People will still support the issue which was the focus of his good cause; however, it is unlikely that they will support his efforts in this regard. So I am thinking that under the right circumstances and conditions, yes, inconsistency of this kind between someone's personal life and their good cause can potentially so hamper their effectiveness as to be detrimental, instead of useful.

Should it matter? I don't know. Can it? Yep, and there are many other examples out there.

[Bitwit1234]

12. Geezie Peezie I sure hope Bill doesn't get and urge

to cut brush.

[Ignis]

14. And half a mule?

[TwilightGardener]

16. Well, that's a nice looking spread.