Obama Center Has Picked Up Another Opponent

Crain's Chicago Business ^ | January 8, 2018 | Steven R. Strahler

[PBRCat]

Barack Obama may be the pride of University of Chicago, but a lot of heavy hitters there are strongly opposing current plans for his library.

More than 100 U of C faculty members who say they support the location of an Obama Center near the campus nevertheless are opposing plans for it on economic and preservation grounds.

They say the center’s proposed location lacks room to jump-start economic development, and its footprint will consume parts of historic Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. “Not only are public lands being given to a private entity but the public will pay to have Cornell Drive closed and Stony Island Avenue and Lake Shore Drive widened,” at an estimated cost to taxpayers of more than $100 million, the faculty wrote in a letter.

[PBRCat]

The proposed center has numerous planned uses quite unlike any other presidential library, including diet and nutrition training and counseling and community activist (Marxist/Alinskyite) training centers.

[Lurker]

His “library” will be built in NYC or Hawaii.

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[Nevadan]

Clearly the opposition is racist. There can’t possibly be any other rational for opposing anything Obama wants.

[Da Coyote]

One does not need a lbrary to hold the books that Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy understands.
A small comc book stand would suffice.

[montag813]

Why can’t he just build it in Wakanda?

[hinckley buzzard]

Ive been in the area— the park and Midway are the only real open space available to the largely black, poor, south Chicago neighborhood. This monstrosity will bitch up a large chunk of that park, depriving “his people” of their best local asset.

[laplata]

One does not need a lbrary to hold the books that Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy understands.

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The Communist Manifesto and the Koran are the most important. Throw in some books on Fabian socialism, community organizing, Cloward-Piven and Rules for Radicals and that’s about all that’s needed.

[Paladin2]

Where is Dorkbmama today?

[yoe]

Along with being a classic narcissist, the ex-first this ‘an that have delusions of grandeur as shown by the proposal. Will the Obama papers from college be opened? Or will they be housed elsewhere?

[drypowder]

A public institution in this country investing in anything Obama is extremely risky because the dude is a fraud and a class one anti-American criminal. One day that will be historical fact known to all and investments to his permanent notoriety will be like and kind to having leprosy.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Obama getting NIMBYed by a bunch of Libs.

Irony: The Mark of Quality Literature.

[jobim]

built in ..... Hawaii

Say it ain't so! But at any rate it wouldn't be built here on my
beloved Big Island.

But I hail from Chicago, and we Chi-towners know all too well the neighborhood he
wishes to build in, the land of Bigger Thomas & unlimited number of ghetto thugs from
the Great Society days until now.

I say let he & the little lady include a living quarters there in Jackson Park, for the odds of
them over time receiving thew same fate of multitudinous nightime pedestrians would be
good for community organizing.

[faithhopecharity]

Who needs this obama building? Copies of the f—-ing koran and Mein Kmapf and the commie manifesto are widely available already

[nuke_road_warrior]

How about Nairobi?

[alternatives?]

His “library” will be built in NYC or Hawaii.

or SF?

[17th Miss Regt]

Clearly the opposition is racist. There can’t possibly be any other rational for opposing anything Obama wants.

It might not be racism. It could also be homophobia!

[PIF]

His entire library should become the payload for Musk’s BFR and sent to to sun ...

[Billthedrill]

Library? That’s a temple. And it isn’t going to hold any books.

[yoe]

Library? That’s a temple..."

Or a mosque...........

[unread]

Maybe they should call obama’s library “Lying Berry.” :)