Posted on 03/14/2025 12:24:51 AM PDT by Libloather
*Barack Obama’s efforts to raise money to compete construction on his $830 million presidential center are reportedly in jeopardy.
According to The Daily Beast, costly delays and worrying setbacks are hindering what should be a lasting tribute to America’s first black president. So much so that its raised questions among center fundraisers about the M.I.A. status of some of the center’s heavy contributors.
To some, Obama’s struggle to obtain funds is music to their ears, considering fundraising for the center dipped more than 50% to $129,320,227. in 2023. IRS filings also found that more than $311 million in funds were amassed in 2022 from respective $100 million donations from Jeff Bezos and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. As a result, the 2024 totals are nervously anticipated by supporters as costs and delays rise.
“He’s arrogant,” a donor who ended up giving substantially less than they could told the Beast. “He didn’t help others when they were trying to fundraise and so they’re not going to look out for the Obamas now. There’s no quid pro quo because it’s a one-way street.”
The fundraising drama is further heightened by questions donors may be raising on more than $5 million paid out in “executive compensation” in 2023 as well as $27,365,683 in other wages the same year. In addition, the $740,000 salary paid to Obama’s friend Valerie Jarret is coming under the microscope, especially for a project that is not likely to open for another year at the earliest.
According to the Beast, the Obama presidential center is on track to take a record time – at least 3,100 days – between the end of a presidency and the opening of a presidential library. Right now, various buildings with the looming tower at the heart of the privately-funded 10-acre complex are in various...
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> $830 million
A monument to waste and fraud.
Obama supporters are takers, not givers.
Maybe he can get his butt buttie Mahmoud Khalil to take up a collection for his Presidential Center.
It’ll be repurposed for a KFC
Gimme a nine piece
“ $830 million presidential”
Just imagine what Jimmy Carter would have done with that much money.
With all his flaws , Jimmy would never act like this .
obama’s “$830 million (to date) presidential center”, library, museum and burial place.
I will certainly die a very happy man ;-)
Is EVERY Democrat on The Take?
Bammy could have coordinated with Carter’s Habitat for Humanity group, built some low cost housing for a community plus a modest library within that also contained classrooms for citizens to access both practical and instructional courses to better their lives. The so-called ‘Community Organizer’ only cares about the over bloated monument to the glory of himself.
Why does it cost so much to build a gay bath house?? Can’t someone in San Fransisco just donate one of theirs??
It isn’t hard to notice that few ever even mention Obama anymore.
The guy has never accomplished anything worth sh_t his whole life. Other than his media driven meteoric rise that put the total fraud of a person in the White House.
He has done nothing worth anything since then. His influence to get Kamala elected only made it worse as he treated black men like he was their boss.
Who wants to plunk out more money on this loser?
This is what happens to fake people with concocted backgrounds. Truth is Obama was as much a puppet as Joe Biden. He just came off better.
Habitat could used this money in several states to help thousands of people .
Instead the king has to have a monument .
Disgusting
“He’s arrogant”
These lefty donors are just now figuring that out? They may be wealthy, but they’re not very bright.
I was always impressed that he got away with the fake birth certificate.
That took talent!
You’re gonna be rich....../s.
I’m sorry to say I have not donated to the Obama center.
I also didn’t donate to the Clintons.
I didn’t even buy carbon credits with Al Gore.
I’m in big trouble with certain people.......
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