Hawaii envisions presidential library on the beach

Associated Press ^ | Dec 11, 2014 7:55 PM EST | Audrey McAvoy

[Olog-hai]

Hawaii hopes it has an offer Honolulu-born President Barack Obama won’t be able to turn down.

It hopes to build him a presidential library on the ocean, with a dramatic view of his hometown’s famed Diamond Head volcanic crater. The state’s abundant sunshine would generate solar power and support vegetable gardens on site.

Hawaii officials predicted Thursday that the prime, 8-acre spot on a rocky shoreline between Waikiki and downtown Honolulu, combined with the state’s many tourists, would make the facility one of the nation's most heavily visited presidential centers. …

[duckbutt]

In the lava’s path, I hope??

[a fool in paradise]

...in Kenya?

[doorgunner69]

In Pahoa would be your choice, about to be overrun by lava. Mauna Loa is fairly quiet these days.

[logic101.net]

Actually it should be built underwater; where he put so many of us!

[Kackikat]

roflmto...absolutely. Surely zero would feel more at home. OR do they want it washed away so they can forget?

[glorgau]

Here’s to hoping for a tsunami.

[nathanbedford]

Surely, we can find locations in Alaska that are even farther away from Washington.

[pepsi_junkie]

You, sir, have won the internet post of the day!

[Kackikat]

And surrounded by sharks?

[VanDeKoik]

Newsflash 2020: The Barry Obama presidential library and Bath House was unexpectedly hit with a well-aimed lava flow.

[DoughtyOne]

Kenya?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kenya-won-obama-presidential-library-article-1.1849070

[molson209]

then the ground opens up and SLURP

[Bernard]

The state’s abundant sunshine would generate solar power and support vegetable gardens on site.

So the entire facility would be fueled by hot air? How appropriate. Or maybe just the Solyndra wing...

[eclecticEel]

Assuming Obama has succeeded in his campaign pledge to stop the rising ocean.

[LibWhacker]

That’s obscene! Eight acres of some of the most expensive property anywhere in America? For that treasonous turd? Obscene doesn’t quite capture it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He’s not “from Hawaii.”

[HMS Surprise]

Hawaii isn’t far enough away... How about Raratonga?

[TigersEye]

A presidency built on sand. They couldn’t find a site made of a tissue of lies to build the liebary on.

[SandRat]

What HI will get from O'

[BerryDingle]

I’d like to know who told Obama Hawaii was part of the U.S.