Barack Obama's $1.1 Million Botanical Garden -- Er, $100,000 Gazebo

Newsbusters ^ | September 7, 2008 | Tom Blumer

[library user]

Is Hussein Obama the same guy who got earmarks for his wife’s hospital, so she could get a phat raise?

[edzo4]

Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said through a spokesman he wasn't responsible for monitoring the work; the staffs of Gov. Blagojevich and former Gov. George Ryan were.

alright you two under the bus!

[Norman Bates]

THAT costed $100 grand?? I'd demand my money back!

[Westlander]

[Loyal Buckeye]

Pretty basic. The money should not have been released w/o having the other funding committed. My dog would know that.

[Twinkie]

Obama is running against McCain for POTUS. . but trying to run against Palin and is still weighed in the balance and found wanting.

[OBXWanderer]

Materials needed for gazebo.

Concrete $5000
Lumber $10000
Labor $ 5000
Escalade $60000
Misc $20000

[SJackson]

The Handy Home Products Monterey 10 Ft. x 14 Ft. Oval Gazebo for $2,539.00 at Home Depot, leaving $97,461 for necessary political expenses.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Wow.
Good find!

[Plutarch]

Google Street View

[mazda77]

Parrot sanctuary? Don’t they realize that a parrot cannot live in that environment, let alone find the fresh fruits and veggies they need to eat?

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/bugs_bunny/ltbb_331.mp3

[Popman]

Is that a elevated railway behind the $100,000 Obama open air crack house?

It looks like the beams are sagging unless it's an optical illusion due to the way the picture was taken

[Dad yer funny]

just a little “get-high spot” , ... aka “A CRACK SHACK”

[mazda77]

Whoops, the link is dead, try this;

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Bugs_Bunny/ltbb_127.mp3

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Bugs_Bunny/ltbb_103.mp3

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Bugs_Bunny/ltbb_084.mp3

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Bugs_Bunny/ltbb_082.mp3

[Irishguy]

the audacity of gazebo...his new book....

[Entrepreneur]

Isn’t that a picture of the Clinton Presidential Library?

[Westlander]

[bray]

Materials needed for gazebo.

Concrete $5000
Lumber $10000
Labor $ 5000
Escalade $60000
Misc $20000
Sinking a Pompus Windbag priceless

[iopscusa]

Thanks, finally something useful from Goggle Maps