Posted on 05/12/2015 2:15:46 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
President Barack Obama will build his presidential library on Chicago’s South Side, choosing the city where his political career was born after searching for more than a year for a location. The nation’s third-largest city was seen as the front-runner from the start, and although stumbling at points, emerged from a shortlist that included such candidates as New York’s Columbia University, where Obama did his undergraduate studies, and the University of Hawaii, located in the state where Obama was born. “All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago,” Obama said in a statement Tuesday. The president worked as a community organizer in Chicago and later was elected to the Illinois state senate and U.S. Senate while a resident of the city’s South Side. His wife, Michelle Obama, grew up on the South Side and worked as an administrator at the University of Chicago, with which the library will partner.
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Will it have targets painted on it? Bullet Proof walls and windows? Armed guards?
and what if we have a baltimore riot on that same block after its built?
Is Tony Rezko going to give him another sweet deal — like on the Chicago mansion?
Statues of Travvon, Freddie Gray and Mike Brown will line the entrance walkway.
After all, if he had a son they would all look like him.
Go and you will be mugged then blamed for the mugging.
The Obama Memorial Landfill?
I hope that Mooshelle will make it ‘minority friendly’ so folks she feels the big city museums don’t want to visit will be welcomed in her and Valerie’s library.
is adolf hitler still alive, cause i am pretty sure he will want one too.
Excellent choice. Very few wanted it in Hawaii.
"From the beginning I have fully supported Chicago's dream of hosting the 2016 games," Obama said. "If Chicago is selected for this honor we will ensure that the Olympics and Paralympic Games are a key priority for our nation. ...
Perhaps we can use the left-over money and land from this effort by the, at that time, new Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
It may be easy to park, but your car won’t be there when you get back.
There’s got to be some kind of corrupt land deal here that VJ the Slum Lord has interests in.
A library in a low-information city. For what purpose?
Just imagine the cost of bussing the people in to there if it was Hawaii!
I vote to move it to Detroit.
The Obama Race Library ?
Can’t think of a better spot than Chicago...It’s got the most corrupt politicians in America.
Will they build it in the ghetto...? Hammer down!
I thought for sure it would be in Kinsasha.
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