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Barack Obama's presidential library may need $1.5 billion
pagesix.com ^ | February 19, 2017 | Richard Johnson

Posted on 02/19/2017 1:29:31 PM PST by John W

The Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could require a $1.5 billion endowment, its architects say, three times what was raised for the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

Husband-and-wife architectural team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien noted that it will be difficult to raise such a huge sum because Obama scrupulously declined to do much fund-raising while he was still in office.

The Obama Center is due to be so expensive because it will require the construction of both a presidential library and a museum about the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama. And federal requirements now stipulate that former presidents must have larger endowments to pay for annual operating costs at the libraries.

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1 posted on 02/19/2017 1:29:31 PM PST by John W
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It’s for the disco lights, I’ll bet.


2 posted on 02/19/2017 1:31:20 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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It should be the size of a jail cell. Neither has accomplished anything worth remembering.


3 posted on 02/19/2017 1:32:15 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: John W

Do the facility managers plan on having the birth certificate and college transcripts available for inspection?


4 posted on 02/19/2017 1:32:18 PM PST by ptsal
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Technicolor vomit ping.


5 posted on 02/19/2017 1:32:22 PM PST by SpaceBar
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... it will be difficult to raise such a huge sum because Obama scrupulously declined to do much fund-raising while he was still in office.

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!

PageSix - FAKE NEWS!

6 posted on 02/19/2017 1:32:29 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: John W

for the limos with the cocaine and gay lovers inside or the lifesize madrassa?


7 posted on 02/19/2017 1:32:47 PM PST by drewh
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Jesus may return before tthe ground breaking ceremony. http://www.thereishopeinjesus.com/


8 posted on 02/19/2017 1:33:24 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: John W

Obama is still wasting money


9 posted on 02/19/2017 1:33:34 PM PST by butlerweave
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Let me guess: 80% of which will go to the Michelle Obama travel fund.


10 posted on 02/19/2017 1:34:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Lot more cheaper and accurate to revamp barrys chicago gay bathhouse, the local CAIR legal office, or a nearby tranny bar for mooch.


11 posted on 02/19/2017 1:35:59 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Anything to keep them busy, and BROKE.


12 posted on 02/19/2017 1:37:12 PM PST by Mamzelle
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what a waste of money - maybe Bam Bam should built this for fraction in Kenya, where it belongs.

Watch for the “Obama Foundation” scam to begin


13 posted on 02/19/2017 1:37:17 PM PST by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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There must be at least one bath-house where Obama got his start, that would be willing to convert to a LieBarry for him.


14 posted on 02/19/2017 1:42:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: John W

Wtf man.. does he need a gold statue??


15 posted on 02/19/2017 1:43:51 PM PST by cdnerds
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To: Henchster

Right Obama and scrupulously in the same sentence.

Never seen that before.

Cognitive, meet Dissonance.


16 posted on 02/19/2017 1:45:11 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: John W

Not bad.
His presidency needed 9 trillion.


17 posted on 02/19/2017 1:49:36 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Moochie will appoint herself curator!


18 posted on 02/19/2017 1:50:32 PM PST by drewh
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How many restrooms and how will they know which one to use? It should only need one, right?


19 posted on 02/19/2017 1:51:42 PM PST by Smittie (Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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Just built an outhouse.


20 posted on 02/19/2017 1:51:47 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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