Posted on 09/19/2025 6:23:40 AM PDT by PBRCat
The Obama library — which isn't a library — has ballooned to a construction cost of more than $615 million, up from the original estimate of $300 million when the edifice was proposed in 2019.
As 2024, the estimate had soared to $615 million, with the cost adding up to a whopping $615,674,047.
But according to the Chicago Tribune, other estimates have already placed construction costs past the $700 million mark.
Along with these massive cost overruns, the Barack Obama Presidential Center has had a very troubled history already, and it hasn’t even been completed yet.
Originally, the Obama Center was sold to City Hall and the Illinois General Assembly as a "privately funded" enterprise that would require no tax dollars. Nevertheless, that has since turned out not to be entirely true. After ground breaking and construction began, it became clear that the city and state would indeed be on the hook for the cost of rerouting streets and reconfiguring local mass transit lines to support the center. The cost is expected to come to at least $200 million in tax dollars to achieve all that, according to the Washington Examiner.
Other lies over costs associated with the Obama Center were sold to Chicago residents, as well. The first was the whopper the center would not cause harm to the federally protected Jackson Park in which it is being built. And many supporters of the park quickly launched a series of lawsuits against Barack Obama to stop the desecration of more than 20 acres of the park. Nonetheless, Obama’s people continued to claim there’d be no real harm done to the decades-old park.
The actual design of the building is also spurring disgust over how ugly it is. Many are blasting the design as a "monstrosity" and an eyesore.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagocontrarian.com ...
Black hole on earth
It looks like a WWII flak tower.
Correct, and that's the point. Moving money around is the whole point, not the library.
Money that everyone involved gets a piece of, including Obama in the way of kickbacks from the contractors.
No need to spend all that money. A porta-potty with a couple of magazine racks inside would be a fitting tribute to his mental capacity....
Will it have his birth certificate?
Which one?
(I suspect the only displays will be an empty chair, and an empty suit...)
Why locate it in a place so inconvenient for the neighbors and harmful to the landscape? Because Sultan Hussein can do anything he wants. His rule is absolute.
Originally, lying Obama “sold” his library to City Hall and the Ill General Assembly
<><>presented as a “privately funded” enterprise that would require no tax dollars.
<><>that Obama promise turned out to be entirely bogus.
<><>as construction began, turns out Obama bamboozled the city and state
<><>taxpayers were indeed on the hook
<><>tax costs included rerouting streets and local mass transit to support the center.
<><>costs came to some $200 million tax dollars, as per the Washington Examiner.
<><>Other Obama lies wrt costs were “sold” to Chicago residents.
<><>a big Obama whopper was it would not cause harm to the location
<><>park lovers quickly launched lawsuits against Obama to stop the desecration.
<><>yet Obama continued to claim there’d be no real harm to the decades-old park.
<><>The building is also spurring disgust over how ugly it is.
<><>Many blasted the design as a “monstrosity” and an eyesore.
The Chika’aba.
What’s the Vegas line on this being a major scam?
Would have been a LOT cheaper to build it where he is actually from, Africa...
Any bets on DJT’s Presidential Library being finished before this one?
Just a giant money-laundering scheme.
How high can you build with wattle and daub?
Have to admit it fits his personality and reasoning UGLY indeed.
THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
Yep.
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