Posted on 06/03/2026 12:22:26 PM PDT by DFG
The Egyptians had their pyramids. The Anglo-Saxons had their barrows. And the Americans have their presidential libraries – the chief difference being that the leaders the US venerates are usually still alive at the opening.
Lacking a royal family or a state religion, the US presidency has swelled to fill the void, transforming over the decades into a national personality cult, complete with its own secular temples to these powerful men. The latest pharaonic edifice is about to open on Chicago’s south side, where it looms on the skyline as a towering totem to the 44th president, Barack Obama. He might have seemed humble in office, but in his post-presidential, Netflix-producing afterlife, Obama has erected the largest, costliest and most audacious complex of them all. Behold the $850m Obamalisk – or, as it sometimes feels morbidly like, the Obamausoleum.
Previous presidential libraries have taken many forms, reflecting the values of their creators. Franklin D Roosevelt began the tradition in 1940, building a library in Dutch colonial style alongside his grave in upstate New York, which he hoped would be swarmed with “an appalling number of sightseers”. Since then, every president has followed suit in their quest for immortality, dreaming up ever larger museums and archives, conceived as hallowed places of pilgrimage. Lyndon B Johnson commissioned a brutalist hulk for Austin, Texas, a fitting symbol, its architect Gordon Bunshaft remarked, for “an aggressive … big man”. Ronald Reagan opted for a sprawling California hacienda, with a dedicated hangar for Air Force One, while Bill Clinton conjured a cantilevered metallic box in Arkansas – a literal interpretation of his promise to “build a bridge to the 21st century”.
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Picture caption says Alaska.
Reminds me of the alien HQ in Cowboys vs. Aliens (a fun movie).
Yup. That’s it from Cowboys vs. Aliens.
Official Obama portraits (by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald) are also disappointing.
Just needs a little graffiti.
Nazi flack tower.
Looks like a high-rise bomb shelter.
I’ve always said it looks like what one would think a Borg’s penis would look like.
Dig deep under it.
Is there a place for a gold-plated Obama mummy?
Will they bury him with still-alive Michelle?
Get Geraldo on it now.
Clinton’s library gets the fewest visitors of all presidential libraries according to the Ntl Archives which operates them.
What about the massage parlor and brothel in the penthouse?
As I understand this monstrosity is not his presidential “library.” It is just the “Obmunism center” to spread his evil ideology.
Everything about Obama was ugly. Marxists like him adore ugliness. Look at the ugly portraits. The ugly decoration of the oral orifice. The ugly faggotry and trannies.
What about visitors to the massage parlor and brothel?
Bill is the best customer there......./s.
Residential Lieberry und Flakturm
Or from star wars
I’d be afraid of picking up an STD just walking through the door.
The bridge to nowhere.
Ironically it sits by a river with an old, rusty train bridge nearby.
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