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Reagan's home could become a parking lot for Obama's library
Washington Times ^ | 1/30/2013 | William Kelly

Posted on 01/30/2013 6:40:42 AM PST by SueRae

CHICAGO, Illinois, January 25, 2013 - A new Cold War is brewing here in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and it has nothing to do with the frigid temperature. The apartment building at 832 E. 57th Street was once the Chicago home of a boy who would become a President. No, it’s not Barack Obama of Hawaii. It was at the apartment’s first floor window that a young Ronald Reagan looked out upon the world. But some powerful Chicagoans are planning to demolish Reagan’s historic home. Is it politically motivated? Is Mayor Rahm Emanuel behind the move? Reagan as a child. It was a different world back in 1915. Reagan's family had moved here from Tampico, Illinois. His father had gotten a job at the famed Marshall Field’s – now only a memory. A coin-operated gas lamp was the only home’s only source of heat. But it didn’t stop a young “Dutch” Reagan from dreaming. Young Reagan would watch the horse-drawn fire engines galloping wildly down the streets to save the day and he decided that he, too, would become a firefighter. It was here, too, that he survived a bout with pneumonia – he had the fight in him even then. You can almost imagine him skipping down these streets, playing with his brother Neil, whose nickname was “Moon.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: barry; chicago; generationreagan; il; illinois; muslimtrophy; revisionisthistory; ronaldreagan; stalinisttactics
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To: liberalh8ter
Isn't this what Muslims do at the site of a victory? Don't they erect a mosque to celebrate their victory? Hmmmmmm....

First thing that crossed my mind and an illegal alien muslim too.
41 posted on 01/30/2013 9:56:51 AM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: SueRae

Doesn’t really matter, some crappy apartment in a dying city? Who is really going to go there (especially with the gun ban they have)? Not me and not any body I know. Sure the Lib’s there are trying to rub it in the face of conservatives but it’s the ideas that matter not some apartment.


42 posted on 01/30/2013 10:14:53 AM PST by trapped_in_LA
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To: SueRae

Kinda like building Dome of the Rock on Temple Mount.


43 posted on 01/30/2013 10:17:34 AM PST by blindsangamon
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To: DManA
There is no Obama library, and no site has been chosen for it.

When it's chosen, you won't be told where it is, and if you got in there you wouldn't be allowed to read anything.

44 posted on 01/30/2013 10:50:26 AM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: SueRae

Why doesn’t Obama put his library in Hawaii?

Isn’t that what all presidents do?

Their home state?

LOL!

This move tells a lot about Obama’s lack of a home state.


45 posted on 01/30/2013 10:53:33 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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two of Mo-Hammed’s brothers:

Hussein (”maybe a little blow”)
Hasan (Fort Hood)

- just coincidences?

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46 posted on 01/30/2013 11:04:29 AM PST by devolve ( ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---Barak Hasan Obama II--- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----)
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To: SueRae
I found the part about the coin operated gas lamp interesting.

Found this: http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/Armstrong-s-meters--1

47 posted on 01/30/2013 11:27:51 AM PST by swamp40
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To: Salvation; Black Agnes

LOL.

You’re right.
No home state!


48 posted on 01/30/2013 11:29:21 AM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: SueRae

BFD, are y’all kidding me? Reagan lived there only a couple years as a very small child, this property has no historical significance IMO. Or maybe the Army Air Corps barracks that George Bush lived in during WWII should also be preserved as a historical monument?


49 posted on 01/30/2013 11:52:47 AM PST by WP Lonestar (No matter where you go, there you are)
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To: Salvation; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; KC_Lion; Godzilla; Domestic Church; ...
Oh, oh. Too bad, so sad. 0hbummer doesn't have a Home State.

Why doesn’t Obama put his library in Hawaii?

Isn’t that what all presidents do?

Their home state?

This move tells a lot about Obama’s lack of a home state.

50 posted on 01/30/2013 11:53:34 AM PST by LucyT (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: LucyT
Well, Eisenhower was born in Texas but his Library is at his home here in Kansas.

I don't think Kenya would let us build a Library in their country.

51 posted on 01/30/2013 12:02:06 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: LucyT

Why doesn’t he put his library in Kenya ?


52 posted on 01/30/2013 12:08:16 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Shery

Kinda surprised it is not on the historic housing listing. Since it is not, it probably is not much value to keeping it. I would say the reason is because he probably didn’t live their long. How many homes does a president need preserved anyway. Heck he has many building named after him and the Reagan Airport. A childhood home is probably not necessary to keep or they would.


53 posted on 01/30/2013 12:42:42 PM PST by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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To: DManA

Here we go again, the headline doesn’t match the story.

They always put crappy lying headlines....it sorta stretches to say that they MIGHT put the Obama Library there but not sure yet. This has been going on for years and tons of building have already been torn down. Just another story to ensure that conservatives are pissed about this while amnesty passes and debt go up up up. For once, I wish that we would put important energy into something important like the 2nd Amendment. I see more concern with this story than losing our 2nd Amendment. What a shame!


54 posted on 01/30/2013 12:51:17 PM PST by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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To: LucyT

55 posted on 01/30/2013 1:07:10 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: knittnmom

56 posted on 01/30/2013 1:09:39 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: napscoordinator

I know, I’m angry enough already. I don’t need them to make up things to be angry about.


57 posted on 01/30/2013 1:33:33 PM PST by DManA
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To: SueRae
Call me naive, but no way. This has got to be a fund raising gimmick by someone.

Right?

58 posted on 01/30/2013 2:09:56 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: SueRae; Fred Nerks

59 posted on 01/30/2013 2:43:20 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer

That’s the one...he can frame his forged BC and hang it where the paper roll usually goes.


60 posted on 01/30/2013 3:44:42 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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