Posted on 12/14/2008 12:56:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
CHICAGO — When President-elect Barack Obama heads home for a break from the White House, he won’t go to a sprawling ranch or private seaside compound.
Obama will come back to a crowded city neighborhood, creating different security challenges for the Secret Service and perhaps headaches for his neighbors.
No other recent first family has lived in a city neighborhood like the Obamas. The $1.6 million mansion he and his wife, Michelle, share with their two young daughters sits just off a busy street — a stretch of which has been closed to traffic — and his closest neighbors are just a few feet away.
“My Kennebunkport is on the South Side of Chicago,” Obama said in a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune. “Our friends are here. Our family is here. We are going to try to come back here as often as possible ... at least once every six weeks or couple months.”
His busy South Side neighborhood affords none of the privacy of President George W. Bush’s 1,600-acre Texas spread or President George H.W. Bush’s seaside summer retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine. President Ronald Reagan’s White House in the West was his mountaintop Rancho del Cielo in California. President Bill Clinton moved to the White House from the governor’s mansion in Arkansas.
But Obama is a Chicago transplant whose campaign was rooted in the notion that he’s not like the other guys, and living in an urban neighborhood near the University of Chicago is a symbol of that, said Paul Light, a presidential historian at New York University.
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Work release?
$1.6 million dollar house, huh? Man of the people....
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is going to create a security nightmare for the Secret Service.
Note to trick or treaters:
Next year, don’t even try.
Sure, Professor Light, he's just a guy with a $1.6 million dollar home in an exclusive Chicago neighborhood with a sideyard "donated" by a convicted felon looking for a favor. A real regular guy.
Goin’ back to the ‘hood.
Bambi is already considering the distance between himself and bill ayers....
Oh, but remember; he really didn’t pay $1.6 million for it, he bought it from “Crazy” Tony Rezko!!
This is going to create a broad playing field for Federal investigators. He'll be returning home to his family (the Chicago Machine).
BS! Obama’s spending this Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii!!
“President-elect Barack Obama will spend the Christmas and New Year’s holidays on an extended vacation with his family in Hawaii, Democratic sources confirmed today.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/01/obama-going-to-hawaii-for_n_147546.html
What a crock! Who’s this “man of the people” going to visit in his old neighborhood - Wright, Pfleger, Rezko, Ayers? Maybe Blegoyovich, his old buddy whom he endorsed in the rotten Chicago political machine?
Goody for him...going down to meet the peasants.
I still think Rezko should donate his adjacent lot as a “Peoples’ Park” where folks can go live in tents until they get pie and can petition 0be regarding their grievances.
Muzzling the Justice Dept is gonna be job#1 with the magic mulatto.
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As long as security and the TV cameras are with him, right?
The headlines gives me visions of 0be living in a cardboard box in the alley behind his house. Streets?
I think the article is saying that during the next 4-8 years, "President" Obama, his family and retinue will be returning to Chicago on a regular basis, contrasting it with the Bush family's Kennebunkport and Crawford retreats. Anotherwords, Barack isn't an elitist snob, but rather a "down-home, man-of-the-people" that will be returning to his roots to commune with the peasan...er, common man.
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