Posted on 01/07/2017 9:22:39 AM PST by Zakeet
Oh, Chicago, we will miss having the president be one of our own.
After eight years, we've gotten used to it.
President Barack Obama. First lady Michelle Obama. South Siders, both. They made us proud to be Chicagoans.
We set aside our sides - North, South, West, Southwest, Southeast - and with one voice in Grant Park on election night in 2008 we celebrated. A Chicagoan had won the presidency.
Obama's most tangible Chicago legacy will be the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, which will last beyond our lifetimes.
But consider, too, the intangibles of his legacy, things that Chicagoans share and will pass on about Obama to our next generation because we were there from the start.
No matter our political ideology, race, gender, religion or income, we have a story to tell. We were there when a state senator from Hyde Park with a funny name catapulted from Springfield to the White House - with a brief stop in the U.S. Senate - all in the span of about four years.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Oh, Chicago, we will miss having the president be one of our own ...
“He will always be Chicago’s president.”
Isn’t that just the natural truth?
Don’t forget his legacy of black on black murder.
Right in Chicago more people die their daily than Americans in the Middle East under Obama’s guide.
Lynn =mental disorder.
There daily...
“Obama’s most tangible Chicago legacy will be the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, which will last beyond our lifetimes.”
I just wonder what he will put in it. He has absolutely no “preamble” to his life, Nothing, Nada, Zip! No one who has been in the places where he supposedly got edumuacated ever saw him there. You could park an outhouse on the spot and it would be far more square footage than would be needed to “chronicle” this guy.
Where is the pic and video of him not even knowing a star on the White Sox and tossing the first flamboyant pitch in Mom jeans?
Idiots in Chi-town don’t even realize that they were being used.
The Obamas are NEVER moving back to Illinois. Just like the Clintons are never moving back to Arkansas.
He’s not a Chicagoan. Oh he learned all the dirty, political craftsmanship specialties peculiar to Chicago, but he’s not from Chicago. He’s from Hawaii or some other such odd place (Indonesia, Kenya or whatever), but not Chicago. As much as there’s a lot of $hit from Chicago, he’s not. He belongs in Hawaii, or D.C., hopefully he’ll stay there, at least until the swamp is drained and it’s swirls down the toilet. If he’s part of that dump, so be it. Good riddance. Stay out of Chicago, they have enough problems without him.
Yes, but Richard J. Daley will always be King!
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There’s a reason it’s called “the windy city” and this article just reminds us why.
Obama's most tangible Chicago legacy will be the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park
Obama's most tangible Chicago legacy will be the 4,000 graves of Chicagoans murdered during his reign.
Never thought of him as a black guy from Chicago. I always thought his legacy would be first white liberal female / woman / harpy to be president.
Obama’s presidency proves the adage, “Never elect a Chicagoan as POTUS.” A primary source for corruption and moral turpitude, Chitown is first among the minions of Satan. They praise Obama as prince of the devils.
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