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.
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Timbuktu..................
Maui HI.
Build a Taj Mahal replica.
Does he know how to read?
Build it in Mecca?
The Englewood community of Chicago would be best!
He could help his people and get the land cheap!
Mecca, so only the devout can go to it.
......I suggest putting it in West Texas where, upon completion, it would immediately be burned to the ground.
Then, they could rebuild it every other year and keep all the construction workers busy forever!
Would work for me.
I thought that the decision was already made to put his library in Hawaii?
My $.02. Ought to be in DC with a branch in Indonesia.
Each with it’s own choom room. Realistically it will be a building with a bunch of propaganda crap that no one but the true believers will ever visit.
He should have it built in his town home area like many other presidents.
People who admire him enough to really want to visit the Obama library shouldn’t be deterred by the price of an airline ticket to Kenya.
Leavenworth? Close to the imposter.
How about a site where a nuke went off? Nothing is left. That is what our country will be like with 3 more years of him, so it should be a site for his prez library.
I know where there’s a used outhouse for sale!
versus
The upper version is ahead on design points,but they can't figure out how to incorporate the lower version's appropriate symbology into its door...
Choose a Chicago Bath House. Call it the “Bath House Barry Presidential Library”
Jakarta, Honolulu, Benghazi , What difference does it make?
Great post
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