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Obama Presidential Library Search Kicks Off
The Associated Press ^ | Friday, January 31, 2014 | Josh Lederman

Posted on 01/31/2014 12:28:16 PM PST by kristinn

The formal process to build a library housing President Barack Obama's presidential records and artifacts began Friday with the formation of a new foundation, launched by top supporters with Obama's blessing, that will develop and build the monument to his legacy.

The nonprofit Barack H. Obama Foundation will be led by Marty Nesbitt, a close Obama friend from Chicago, and Julianna Smoot, a former White House social secretary and top official in Obama's re-election campaign.

A vigorous competition to host the library is already underway. Hawaii, where Obama was born, and Illinois, his longtime home, have been lobbying the Obamas both publicly and privately. New York, where Obama went to college, also has expressed interest.

With so many of Obama's aides and supporters calling Chicago home, the focus has increasingly turned to the Windy City, where Obama was first elected and came into his own as a national political figure. The involvement of Nesbitt, a Chicago businessman, in forming the foundation is likely to amplify speculation that Chicago has an inside track to getting the library. The third founding member of the nonprofit's board, Kevin Poorman, is also based in Chicago and runs a company formed by Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker, who is now Obama's commerce secretary.

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The foundation plans to hire fulltime staff later this year. Although it will start fundraising right away to cover its own costs, most of the money to build the library won't be raised until after Obama leaves the White House. While Obama is still in office, the foundation won't take donations from foreign nationals, lobbyists or organizations that aren't nonprofits. It also plans to disclose all donations over $200.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: obama; obamaliebrary; obamalies
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1 posted on 01/31/2014 12:28:16 PM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Jakarta, Honolulu, Benghazi , What difference does it make?


2 posted on 01/31/2014 12:29:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: kristinn

Oh heck, here I thought they were searching for his
long form birth certificate...


3 posted on 01/31/2014 12:29:46 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: kristinn

I’ve predicted on here previously that he will be the first to have 3 branches.

Hawaii, LA, and Chicago.

And each will have it’s own Choom Gang Museum as an adjunct.


4 posted on 01/31/2014 12:29:54 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: NormsRevenge

New Mecca


5 posted on 01/31/2014 12:30:01 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: kristinn

Just have it online at www.obamalib.org


6 posted on 01/31/2014 12:30:33 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: kristinn

NAIROBI, Kenya


7 posted on 01/31/2014 12:31:11 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: kristinn

South Side of Chicago in the vicinity of New Comiskey?

I think not.


8 posted on 01/31/2014 12:31:44 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: kristinn

Yah fine except you won’t be allowed in, and every printed page in the place will just say “redacted” all over it.


9 posted on 01/31/2014 12:32:02 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Mombassalulu


10 posted on 01/31/2014 12:32:04 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Oops, left Nairobi off.


11 posted on 01/31/2014 12:32:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: kristinn

Based on his history of documentation, I’d suggest a dropbox at a local “Pack-n-Mail”.


12 posted on 01/31/2014 12:32:33 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: kristinn

Back to Kenya!


13 posted on 01/31/2014 12:34:05 PM PST by kenmcg
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To: kristinn

Keep It Mobile
14 posted on 01/31/2014 12:35:42 PM PST by meadsjn
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To: NormsRevenge

Benghazi sounds right. He interfered in Middle East politics because he thought he’d be having statues built to the great liberator. He may have once more been mistaken.


15 posted on 01/31/2014 12:35:45 PM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: meadsjn

Well Clinton’s emulates a double wide mobile home, so that makes sense.


16 posted on 01/31/2014 12:36:57 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: kristinn

Harare, Zimbabwe for the logical conclusion of what he wants to do with the remaking of the racial composition of the US.


17 posted on 01/31/2014 12:37:08 PM PST by Truth29
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To: kristinn

it can be a very very small facility
since he’s destroyed or deep-sixed every shred of his records that could possibly help identify who he really is

how about just renting a little locker at the Mombasa, Kenya bus station for his library? Cost only 25 cents per day. That should more than do it, insofar as any remotely useful documents he might decide to share with us....


18 posted on 01/31/2014 12:37:41 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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To: kristinn

I suggest the Gates of Hell.


19 posted on 01/31/2014 12:37:55 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: NormsRevenge




SOEBARKAH (aka ‘Obama’) is NOT BLACK.

He’s most likely a muslim from Indonesia.

He’s a plant by IRAN or PAKISTAN or __________.

Try running an Indonesian moslem with NO I.D. for president.

Then, try running the historic ‘1ST BLACK PRESIDENT.’
20 posted on 01/31/2014 12:38:02 PM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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