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Kenya won’t be getting the Obama presidential library
New York Daily News ^ | June 30, 2014 | BY LESLIE LARSON

Posted on 06/30/2014 11:03:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Obama’s foundation has nixed a proposal from a Kenyan university to house Obama’s presidential library. The Nairobi-based U.S. International University-Africa submitted a proposal in June to the Barack Obama Foundation for consideration as the site for the Obama library and museum.

The school said the Africa site would shed light on Obama’s heritage and would also help boost the “Obama tourism circuit.”

But the “submission was not responsive to the guidelines and is not under consideration,” the foundation told the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Kenyan proposal was among the 13 submissions received by the Barack Obama Foundation for the library site by the June 17 deadline.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kenya; obama

1 posted on 06/30/2014 11:03:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not big enough to contain all the ‘stuff’ this administration has foisted off on our nation.


2 posted on 06/30/2014 11:05:57 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But the “submission was not responsive to the guidelines and is not under consideration,” the foundation told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Only offers of 40 million and above will be tendered.
See Valjar for details.


3 posted on 06/30/2014 11:07:22 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let “Ripleys Believe it or Not” museum handle it.


4 posted on 06/30/2014 11:08:03 AM PDT by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ROFLMAO !!!!


5 posted on 06/30/2014 11:12:00 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Decriminalize Tax Evasion)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exactly what I was thinking, books by the roll.


6 posted on 06/30/2014 11:12:40 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: DoughtyOne

It’s what’s down below that counts.


7 posted on 06/30/2014 11:13:30 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Imagine the leftist line to deposit materials from the Obama administration.


8 posted on 06/30/2014 11:15:28 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will the Lucky Winner also have to pay all of The Obama’s Bills ?


9 posted on 06/30/2014 11:19:58 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK, if not Kenya then try Indonesia for an appropriate site


10 posted on 06/30/2014 11:51:30 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ve predicted all along that Caliph Baraq will be the first POTUS to have a library with 3 branches:

Hawaii
LA
Chicago

And each one will have an affiliated Choom Gang Museum complex.


11 posted on 06/30/2014 11:53:18 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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