Posted on 11/02/2019 2:19:40 PM PDT by simpson96
(full article title: 'Michelle Obama: Barack could build presidential library anywhere because 'so many people' feel 'like he is their president')
Former first lady Michelle Obama suggested that former President Barack Obama could build his presidential library anywhere around the world because people in foreign countries feel like he is their president.
Michelle Obama explained at Tuesday's Obama Foundation Summit at the Illinois Institute of Technology that Chicago's Jackson Park was selected as the location for the Obama Presidential Center because it is close to the couple's old home and near her childhood home.
“There’s power in the selection of Jackson Park,” the former first lady said. “Barack and I don’t do things incidentally. There’s a strategy.”
“Barack’s presidential library could have been anywhere in the world because there are so many people who feel like he is their president,” Obama said. “New York wanted it. Hawaii wants it. Because it’s also an economic engine."
The Barack Obama Presidential Library will be the first fully digital presidential library.
Former President Obama also spoke at the event and made waves for condemning "wokeness" and "cancel culture."
“This idea of purity, and you’re never compromised, and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly,” the former president said. “The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I’m on board. Build it in Kenya or Indonesia. Consider it a gift of “shovel-ready jobs” from the U.S. But they have to take the Obummers, too. It’s a package deal.
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Why is she suddenly making headlines?
Hey, Mike? The REST of the ‘world’ can have him. We didn’t want him THEN, we do NOT want him now!
Such hubris. Her fall from grace is going to be spectacular!
build on Guam.
On property real close to the coast, maybe the island will capsize from the weight imbalance about the time the building is finished.
Build it in Hawaii. No one reads there.
My Obama Museum is the 2nd door on the left. Don’t forget to turn the light fan off when you leave.
Mike is blowing smoke and passing Bovine Scat to the people. Traditionally the presidential Library is normally within the state the president calls home. He could have made it Hawaii but it didn’t. He chose Chicago Illinois.
An ipod would be enough to store everything.
Well... They should because he was, for 8 years...
It's good to see our pet gorilla admit that he was never "our" president...
New Fallujah could use an “economic engine”, and land’s cheap there right now.
Hahahaha! Michael certainly lives in his own little world.
Then build it in Iran Michelle.
How about The Greatest Fraud Ever building it next to GITMO so he can be right next door to it, you buffoon?
How about the E. St. Louis Barak Obama food truck? At least there would be a reason to visit.
Let him build it in Kenya.
It could be the first Presidential Library in Nairobi. Since they aren’t planning to have books in it like other Presidential libraries, scholars won’t need to go to it.
How about his home town, Mombassa Kenya
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