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Obama's Presidential Library Won't Actually Have Library Materials
Townhall ^ | Oct 9, 2017 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 10/11/2017 4:27:29 PM PDT by RightGeek

Unlike traditional presidential libraries, the Obama Presidential Center will not actually have library materials. That is—it will not house former President Obama’s manuscripts, documents, letters, and gifts from his tenure in office—items presidential centers around the country all have.

Instead, it will include space for outdoor functions and picnics, a basketball court, recording studio, sledding hill, children’s play garden, and more.

As for the actual library documents, the center will rely online archives for Obama’s presidential materials as a way to avoid meeting federal standards in construction, raising money for an endowment, and paying the National Archives and Records Administration to run the facility.

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“Here’s how it will be attractive: through the forums, workshops and programs they conduct,” James Rutherford, the dean of the William J. Clinton School of Public Service, told the Chicago Tribune. “They can host conferences with administration officials, discussions on how Obama approached health care, how he developed the DACA executive order. That’s how the center will become a research institution.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: obama; obamafoundation; obamalibrary
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To: Charles Henrickson

21 posted on 10/11/2017 4:38:47 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

Someday, I’m sure long after I’ve left this earthly plane, the truth about this POS will come out. And it will undoubtedly come to be known as The Greatest Fraud Ever Perpetrated in the History of the United States of America.


22 posted on 10/11/2017 4:38:54 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

However, every donor gets a free copy of his Kenyan Birth Certificate.


23 posted on 10/11/2017 4:39:10 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: RightGeek
Obama's Presidential Library Won't Actually Have Library Materials

Most bathhouses don't ...

24 posted on 10/11/2017 4:39:22 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: RightGeek

A place for “Midnight Basketball”. Maybe a little thug shooting afterwards.


25 posted on 10/11/2017 4:41:50 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: RightGeek

Online i.e. digital documents can be edited at will undetected. Without access to the originals, they can make things say whatever they want.


26 posted on 10/11/2017 4:42:24 PM PDT by Little Pig
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That's how you get Trump.

You get Trump when your nation is in trouble and nobody else will stand up and propose to do the things that need to be done.

Donald Trump was the man for our times.

We've needed this version of him for 28 years.

Sadly we got GHW Bush, Billy Jeff, Garsh W, and Kenya's least favorite son daughter er whatever.

27 posted on 10/11/2017 4:42:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: RightGeek

I want to see the map of the 57 states in the United States.


28 posted on 10/11/2017 4:43:43 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: RightGeek

Didn’t he used to be on the Bong Show?

Oh, nevermind...


29 posted on 10/11/2017 4:43:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: clamper1797

Fill the library with empty chairs.


30 posted on 10/11/2017 4:44:08 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: RightGeek
“What the president and first lady said … is they simply did not want a museum that served as a mausoleum, as a way to look back.”

LOL--there is nothing any of us want to look back and remember during his tenure. Basketball court (will it be green?), maybe a putting green. Picnic tables to serve up some of Moochelle's awful school lunch fare. How about a giant sucking hole to represent all of the wasted taxpayer money. These are memorable Obama accomplishments.

31 posted on 10/11/2017 4:45:00 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Tear down the Mexican Carrier plant and use the materials to build the wall)
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To: RightGeek
Actually, I'm surprised there isn't a golf course. They must have had room for miniature golf at least.


32 posted on 10/11/2017 4:49:03 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: NautiNurse
Yes, a Moochie School Lunch Exhibit is required


33 posted on 10/11/2017 4:53:23 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

Our “undocumented” ex-President has zero respect for documents, history, scholarship, or the US Constitution and political traditions. Why should he bother to create a genuine “presidential library”???


34 posted on 10/11/2017 4:54:07 PM PDT by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: RightGeek

Virtual library, to house his virtual birth certificate.


35 posted on 10/11/2017 4:55:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RightGeek

I was hoping for an indoor shooting range for the greatest gun salesman of all time.


37 posted on 10/11/2017 5:00:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Enchante

The Kenyan from Indonesia has nothing but contempt for the Constitution because it says he can’t be President. He also has contempt for the people who refused to uphold it and prevent him from usurping the office.


38 posted on 10/11/2017 5:02:17 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Teach-ins”


39 posted on 10/11/2017 5:02:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: RightGeek

Put an empty suit on display. No need for documents for research.


40 posted on 10/11/2017 5:03:59 PM PDT by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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