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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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I had no idea it was built on top of a park originally designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
That is just awful.
On the bright side, this immoral boondoggle tells you all you need to know about Leftists, their priorities, their corruption, their ineptitude, their standards, and their tyrannical methods all rolled into one neat package of human excrement called the Obama Presidential Library.
That woman climbing up represents Michelle Obama (sure looks like her) her husband, and the Democrat party.
The kids behind her are the city of Chicago and taxpayers at the local and federal level.
Very apt if I may say so.
I don’t want to even know what that appears to say on the top left part of the building.
But I can guess.
A sh&thole building to honor a sh&thole politician in a sh&thole blue city. Heck, go ahead and build two of them - the area has about as much value as the city dump.
"You are America. Unconstrained by habit and convention. Unencumbered by what is, because you’re ready to seize what ought to be. For everywhere in this country, there are first steps to be taken, there’s new ground to cover, there are more bridges to be crossed. And it is you, the young and fearless at heart, the most diverse and educated generation in our history, who the nation is waiting to follow ... America is not the project of any one person. Because the single-most powerful word in our democracy is the word 'We.' 'We The People.' 'We Shall Overcome.' 'Yes We Can.' That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone. Oh, what a glorious task we are given, to continually try to improve this great nation of ours."
Holy crap. I thought Kamala Harris didn't get elected!!!!!
Hahahahahahaha! Brilliant!
looks like something a halficran would build
Many words to say what he said in fewer words...
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”
“the empty promise could potentially leave Chicagoans on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Sorry, Chicagoans; you should have never gotten in bed with this fraud.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Their mighty odongo....
He’s the holy and sacred “messiah” of the left...he can do no wrong!!! Spit.
SOB should be arrested, tried and hanged.
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