Posted on 02/06/2018 7:29:51 PM PST by Voption
When Barack Obama was President of the United States, he eagerly used his “pen and phone” to achieve his grand environmental objective of locking up public lands to keep them from private use... ...Citizen Obama uses a different playbook now that he is embroiled in his own personal land-use controversy. The Obama Foundation is in a fierce struggle over its proposal, now before The Chicago Parks Commission, to locate the new Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in the high-rent district of Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago.
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Why not a virtual OBAMA Presidential Library to house his virtual Presidential papers?
HAR!
What we need, are all 8 years worth of his Gmail.
Why doesn’t he want to build it in his home town in Kenya? Oh, excuse me, I meant Hawaii. Yeah... Hawaii, That’s the ticket.
tangentially— he sure resembles Frank Marshal Davis quite a bit, doesn’t he?
Good stuff.
Use one of the parking lots of US Cellular Field. That’s where it belongs. That area would speak to his legacy.
It should be built in one of those high crime areas where gangs are killing people. It would solve a lot of problems.
That’s funny. I see another silo ...
Put the damn thing deep in the ‘hood on the South side - by the projects.
When I was in school on the southside of Chicago, that whole south side was dangerous. I remember one Sunday evening driving to a Burger King on Stony Brook. I was about to pull into the parking lot when I saw a man in a blue shirt come running out of the restaurant, shouting and waving his hands. I went around the block and when I returned, everything was quiet, so I went in to order. When I got my sandwich, I went back out to my car and the parking lot was overtaken by Chicago PD cars. I was able to leave, but found out that the manager had been shot by a robber. I NEVER went off campus (unless absolutely necessary) after that and took great care every time I had to drive to the freeways from school. The southside of Chicago is the perfect place for a monument to Obama!
I used go to the university of Chicago medical center 2 or 3 times a year. Would rely on gps to get me in and out of the area. Drove through some neighborhoods that would be sketchy at night.
Was pleasantly surprised to see a building with nice looking graffiti art on it that prominently displayed “All Lives Matter” on the front facing of the building. Wish I could have taken a photo but I was driving.
There are good people everywhere.
Back in the early ‘70s, I was doing construction inspection on Chicago freeways, but staying at a Ramada Inn in Calumet City. Just a little North of there by looking in the yellow pages, I found a BBQ joint called George’s place - deep on the wrong side of the Ell. My out of town co-workers went there with me the first time I went, but due to the stares from the locals, they were too afraid to go back with me again. I went back every Thursday throughout the summer while I was there, got my order of ribs, slaw, and fries, stopped at Walgreen’s on the way back to my motel to pick up a bottle of Cold Duck, and returned in time to watch the weekly episode of “Welcome Back Kotter”. George had mighty tasty ribs. And I figured as long as I was a patron spending money, even if I was the only white for miles around and tipped appropriately, I was welcome. That proved to be correct.
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