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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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Same guy who designed Central Park in NYC
It appears the mulatto-marxist-muslim has found a different use for that middle finger of his ...
Barad-dur
Barak
Dark Tower
“Welcome to the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), an $830 million (and rising) vanity project in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park.”
Welcome to the Obama Presidential TEMPLE, an $830 million (and rising) vanity project in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park.
There, fixed it
I can't wait for the Tik Tok challenge, self photo pissing on the Obama building.
Doesn’t ValJar own a bunch of slums in Chicongo? The ones she was hoping to make bank on when Barry brought the Olympics to town? *snicker^ Seems some kind of shady deal could have been worked out to buikd the monstrosity on that property. Of course, you’d have to kick a bunch of minorities out in the street, and deal with ones you had for neighbors....
Hard to argue that Chicago doesn’t deserve it.
No room for Swalwell?
Oh that’s funny!! Who’s Next! Great album!
You’re saying it’s worse in person? Yikes!
It’s sad there weren’t any vacant lots or condemned slum buildings in the area... Gues they had to destroy the park /s
“Welcome to the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), an $830 million (and rising) vanity project in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park”. This might get zotted, but I might be willing to visit if I could take a giant shit right in front of his portrait.
Mecca comes to Chicago. I can see the tenting and daily walks around it.
They could have out it on the South Side of Chitcago where it would not drag property values any lower.
Obozo’s forged birth certificate tells the whole story.
Maybe he can water ski
It’s on the South Side - a few blocks away from where Saul Alinsky had his office in the early 60’s - and across the street from where Hyde Park High School was...
Who’s paying for it?
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