Posted on 12/14/2021 4:14:51 PM PST by Libloather
“The Seventh Circuit was skeptical Thursday of a parks advocacy organization’s arguments opposing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park, in a case that has left many supporters of the former president bewildered and angry.
“If the Clinton Foundation had approached New York City and asked for 20 acres of Central Park for its Harlem headquarters, it would have been laughed out of court.
“But that is essentially what the Obama Foundation asked of Chicago - and got, in a sweetheart deal inked under former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who previously served as Obama’s chief of staff. The deal gives the foundation the right to use 20 acres of lakefront public land in Jackson Park for 99 years for $10.
“A lawsuit challenging this transfer under the public trust doctrine has garnered the attention of local and national preservation organizations.
“‘It’s wrenching,’ Preservation Chicago’s CEO Ward Miller told Courthouse News. ‘We welcome the center with open arms, but this is a terrible site. It’s being shoehorned in. So many laws are being ill-used, and even gutted to make this happen.’
“Charles Birnbaum, CEO and founder of the Washington, D.C.-based the Cultural Landscape Foundation, echoed these sentiments.
“‘When you have a beloved figure like President Obama basically getting the Good Housekeeping seal of approval to the confiscation of public parkland, it sends a message to other municipalities. Which is, if you have a powerful and well-connected board of directors, you too can confiscate parkland held in trust,’ Birnbaum told Courthouse News.
(Excerpt) Read more at preservationchicago.org ...
When you make the Clintdogs look good you are pretty sleazy!
That building looks a little honky-ish to me.
If the Constitution could not stop him from being sworn in, why would anyone think they could stop this monument to himself?
“in a case that has left many supporters of the former president bewildered and angry”
More the fools, they.
All the dead trees around this evil temple are a nice touch.
Is Barry all wee-wee’d up? That’s a shame.
It really needs some wind turbines on top....
I have a daughter who lives near the area, UChicago neighborhood. She says it is a total mess, beautiful historic parkland being destroyed for nothing. Long time black residents being forced out as rents skyrocket. Obama is exhibiting abusive Stalinist disregard for the actual people.
I’m surprised he didn’t put it in Hawaii.
Would be a lot better place to spend time at.
He’s trying for a Ziggurat for Dems to worship him
Im not local and I dont want it either ...
If he has 20 supporters and 18 are not happy that would be many ...
The worlds first presidential library that will contain no books
Well, Mayor Daley the Younger got away with tearing up Meigs Field under cover of darkness.
A poster on another thread likened it to a Nazi flak tower. I think the flak towers were better looking. This is just like him. Another in your face F You of bad taste (see official portraits of the “first couple”).
Aw gee, that's a real shame, Mr. "I Sucked Dem D**k My Whole Life and All I Got Was This Crappy Fake Library."
Isn’t the temple on Epstein Island available? 0bama could put his temple there.
This building reminds me of the one in Mecca.
What does the lettering in the windows say? M The last four are “PIAP,” maybe for “pig in a pantsuit”?
The dead trees are perfect for this abomination. All it’s missing are some windmills.
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