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Posted on 12/04/2025 4:54:49 AM PST by MtnClimber
Nothing says “hope and change” quite like bulldozing a beloved public park for a 235-foot phallic tower dedicated to oneself. Welcome to the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), an $830 million (and rising) vanity project in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park. The man who once preached community organizing couldn’t find a single non-park site in his hometown for his monument. I get angry every time I see a story about this thing. It feels as if Obama is giving America a gigantic, double-barreled middle finger. No honest observer can look at this monstrosity and feel inspired. Like the modern Democrat Party, the OPC has zero redeeming features.
Let’s start with the trees: over 800 mature oaks, many a century old, were felled for parking and “campus” space. Environmentalists who paralyzed industries to save a single spotted owl suddenly decided trees are renewable when a favored Democrat is involved. A Frederick Law Olmsted-designed urban oasis was sacrificed without a shrug. The community hated it from the start. Bronzeville residents, preservationists, and even Obama voters begged the foundation to build somewhere, anywhere else -- abandoned lots and shuttered factories were plentiful. Instead, the Obamas demanded federally protected parkland for a private foundation that will one day charge admission. Lawsuits were filed, federal reviews manipulated, and courts eventually capitulated.
The building itself defies description. Critics call it Stalinist, Brutalist, or a rejected Bond-villain lair; supporters claim that it’s “bold.” It offends traditionalists and competent modernists alike. It resembles either a North Korean guard tower or a Star Wars Jawa sandcrawler -- take your pick.
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Howz about sending him one ticket good for a free ride on an open Venezuelan boat? He’ll be with folks of his moral character5.
Yes, FUBS
Barry should hang from the top of it.
I’d send Rand Paul, Mark Kelly, Slotkin and Schiff on an all-inclusive deep sea fishing vacation on a Venezuelan muscle boat from one of those scenic villages in cartel country
I drove by the Obama disaster last week - it is hard to describe just how ugly it is.
That’s not all that’s happening...
bho is going to shaft chicago again, because...
Obama Presidential Center deposits just $1M into $470M reserve fund aimed to protect taxpayers
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-center-deposits-just-1m-into-470m-reserve-fund-aimed-to-protect-taxpayers-fueling-new-criticism
When the Obama Foundation snagged a sweetheart deal to build its beleaguered Obama Presidential Center in a Chicago public park, it pledged to create a $470 million reserve fund to spare taxpayers should the project ever go belly up.
But new tax filings show the foundation has only deposited $1 million into the fund and has not added to it in years, with critics saying the empty promise could potentially leave Chicagoans on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars.
I like it! It’s more of a middle finger to residents of Chicago who vote for BS like this on a consistent basis. In my opinion, it has no effect on anyone except the residents of Chicago. And actually of that neighborhood.
I beg to differ:
You did quite well.
or. "Michelle in shorts ugly" ?
good, an ugly library for an ugly person.
Hey, chicango spawned this demon.......and these are the fruits.
This Obomanation and the cost overruns is a perfect idol for democrat grift worship.
I hope they enjoy the addition to their skyline.
From the pictures I’ve seen, it is pretty ugly. Hard to understand why anyone would want something like that built unless they were using it on a farm to store grain maybe. Unlikely if I would ever be in Chicago again,but if I was I wouldn’t visit that monstrosity & I doubt that there is anything inside I’d want to see either. Maybe some influential person in Chicago could pull some strings & get it torn down.
From the pictures I’ve seen, it is pretty ugly. Hard to understand why anyone would want something like that built unless they were using it on a farm to store grain maybe. Unlikely if I would ever be in Chicago again,but if I was I wouldn’t visit that monstrosity & I doubt that there is anything inside I’d want to see either. Maybe some influential person in Chicago could pull some strings & get it torn down.
“One of these is the Obama Library and the other is a North Korean guard tower.”
https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1979903820885848443
Nice meme that says it all. Brutalist hideousness. Expected from a Commie like Obama.
That will be incredibly expensive. There are flak towers left over from WWII still around in Germany. Similar construction, lots of steel reinforced concrete.
Jackson Park was the site of the famous 1893 World’s Fair. An incredible video about the fair.
Everything about Obama is ugly. Everything.
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