Posted on 11/14/2025 1:30:15 AM PST by Libloather
Anger is brewing over former President Barack Obama’s decision to build his presidential library in the heart of a historic Chicago park.
Costing $850 million, the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in Jackson Park began in 2021 and will conclude next spring.
The problem is that many locals do not care for the odd-looking building that is his library, invading their community.
“Obama, of all people, should not be building a palace for himself, a fortress in the middle of a public park,” famous Chicago-area architect Grahm Balkany, a left-winger, told the New York Post. “It’s just contrary to what I thought he believed in.”
“So many people in Chicago, unfortunately, didn’t want to speak truth to power — especially when that power was Obama,” he added.
Balkany wasn’t wrong. Obama is worshipped so much by the left that criticizing the former president in any way is unfathomable to them.
That said, Balkany isn’t entirely alone in his public criticisms.
“I always see it as a cenotaph, a tombstone, a crusader fortress in brutalist style,” W.J.T. Mitchell, a University of Chicago art historian, told the Post, describing Obama’s stone library.
“It’s not a beautiful building. Its monumentality violates the spirit of the democratic urban park,” he added, referencing park-designer Fredrick Law Olmsted’s vision for the space.
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“[Olmsted believed] this is public land, this is owned by everybody. There should not be any great monuments or monumental buildings. It’s about the people.“
Yeah? Well Obozo begs to differ and has shoved his opinion down the throat of the people. Typical of a demon muslim communist.
Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honor the God of fortresses. Daniel 11:37,38
A) Why would any party line stooges, even on the extreme left, expect him to do otherwise? B) how many morons really believe that $850 million was needed to build it (money laundering, grifting), and C) a large part of the population of Chicago deserves to be punished for having embraced his criminality in the first place.
I don’t know about today, but in the 70’s, the Boston Commons was a homosexual pickup spot....now Chicago will have their own “library” with a bathhouse in the basement....
Comparing this MONUMENT with George Washington Carver in SE Missouri is quite a contrast. His was a VERY humble house, with a peaceful walk through the creek where he used to converse with turtles. He learned a lot from the turtles.
The SOB isn’t even an American. Never was.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw it was a Nazi Flakturm.
The left never has a problem tearing things down, so they should just do it. Actually, the Obama building is perfect. Ugly inside and out just like the Obamas.
They whine about a nice big ballroom at the WH which will be in proportion to, and the historical style of the WH, (I am sure they will be an over abundance of hideous golden wall thingees 🤣 which can be removed though) and are vowing to tear it down.
FLAKTURM VS. OBAMA LIBRARY
WHICH ONE WILL STILL BE STANDING IN 100 YEARS?
I hope Obama’s liebarry has a framed picture of Larry SINclair and Reverend Wright’s GD America gay and dead church boyz at the entrance.
That is where Obama got his start in politics.
You’re correct.
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How long before it’s covered with amateur mural paintings and street graffiti?
Barry’s monument of his record of tumescence toward the city of Chicago and the country at large.
Lock him and Mooch inside of it and seal it forever.
Thinking the same. It looks like Soviet architecture. A real eyesore in what used to be a park. There was a lot of opposition to it by the locals too.
I’m surprised that there aren’t any dead bodies floating in that stream.
“Anger is brewing over former President Barack Obama’s decision to build his presidential library in the heart of a historic Chicago park.” This might get zotted, but I might be willing to visit, if I could walk inside and take a giant shit right in front of his portrait.
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