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The battle to shut down Obama's Presidential Center (Worship Center)
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 1/15/18 | Anna Giaritelli

Posted on 01/15/2018 1:15:26 AM PST by a little elbow grease

The Obama Foundation released plans last week for the presidential center it plans to build in Chicago's Jackson Park, but behind the scenes, a battle is taking place to keep the former Democratic president from building on that specific plot of land, and there's still a chance that it gets delayed when it seeks federal approval.

What initially started out as a library has morphed into a 20-acre private "center," and some environmentalists and historians are unhappy with the Obama Foundation's plans to swoop in and take over a national historic place.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; corrupt; library; obama; obamalibrary; x44
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Obama The Corrupt ............. tries to pull another fast one ..... this time in the city where his father Frank Marshall Davis did his best communist writing.
1 posted on 01/15/2018 1:15:27 AM PST by a little elbow grease
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From the article:

The spot is near the Museum of Science and Industry, Lake Michigan and the eastern edge of the university campus, where Obama used to teach constitutional law. The location is also near Woodlawn, a low-income black neighborhood that recently has begun to gentrify. The Obamas are longtime Chicago residents, and sought a part of their hometown that needed revitalization but could also benefit from the addition.

This week, the Obama Foundation shared dozens of changes to its proposal, including road closures within the park, a revamping of the picturesque landscaping, a five-acre parking garage on adjacent parkland, and the consolidation and privatization of two golf courses. In addition, the newly designed main building would stretch 23 stories high at 235 feet tall.

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"a five acre parking garage"? -- That's one hell of a parking garage.

Who is going to fill that parking garage? Antifa thugs......... The Black Caucus and friends?

2 posted on 01/15/2018 1:25:36 AM PST by a little elbow grease (I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Haven’t read this version, but another version of the story claimed that the Zeros wanted the tax payers to pick up the bill for a road or detour around the ‘library’.


3 posted on 01/15/2018 2:02:46 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: a little elbow grease
"The Obamas are longtime Chicago residents, and sought a part of their hometown that needed revitalization but could also benefit from the addition."

GITMO is a better choice.
4 posted on 01/15/2018 2:14:32 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: a little elbow grease
The worst thing of all is that Obama's shrine desecrates an historic and architecturally significant park designed by the same person who designed Central Park in New York City.

That man is Frederick Law Olmsted who is considered the father of landscape architecture, and who set the standards to which landscape architects still aspire.

The Negro neighborhoods which would benefit from the Obama shrine are many, many blocks away. Oh well, Obama lies are so common they hardly draw attention to themselves anymore.


5 posted on 01/15/2018 3:21:35 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: a little elbow grease
It's the islamic tactic of building a mosque on conquered land.

It is refreshing to see news out of Chicagostan refusing the usurper and false emissary of America and disallowing the construction of land taken by a boy king with no clothes on.

6 posted on 01/15/2018 3:34:03 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: a little elbow grease

He doesn’t need a 20 acre center” to display his koran and fake birth certificate.


7 posted on 01/15/2018 4:07:24 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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...some environmentalists and historians are unhappy with the Obama Foundation’s plans to swoop in and take over a national historic place...

I felt that way when he swooped in to take over another national historical place. The White House.


8 posted on 01/15/2018 4:08:33 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: a little elbow grease

“In addition, the newly designed main building would stretch 23 stories high at 235 feet tall.”

Tower of Babel?


9 posted on 01/15/2018 4:09:48 AM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Nothing but a shrine to his narcissist self


10 posted on 01/15/2018 4:18:25 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: a little elbow grease
What once was there. If folks get the time, take the tour. The pictures are incredible, the architecture breathtaking ...

Take a 'walking tour' of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition — the 'White City'

What Obama is planning for that site in an abomination.

11 posted on 01/15/2018 4:25:11 AM PST by mewzilla
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I love this story. The Obamas have adopted the lifestyle of jet setters and live in a house that looks like a castle.

Meanwhile, the folks from the Southside of Chicago have been ignored. The open lakefront in Chicago, which isopen to the public, is one of the distinguishing characteristics of Chicago. It also provides a great benefit to those who live in the City, and who can’t afford to go on fancy vacations.

That the Obamas appear oblivious to how their proposed monument to their own greatness will affect those nearby, says much about how phony the former president and his wife really are.


12 posted on 01/15/2018 4:26:17 AM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: ronnie raygun

Shrine is the perfect word to describe it.


13 posted on 01/15/2018 4:30:56 AM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Now he doesn’t want the National Archives in control? This should be on private land then, elsewhere, such as the basement of the Jakarta Stock Exchange.


14 posted on 01/15/2018 4:38:02 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: a little elbow grease

I am so betting that it faces Mecca.


15 posted on 01/15/2018 5:02:41 AM PST by Missouri gal
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And Crescents.


16 posted on 01/15/2018 5:09:19 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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I am so betting that it faces Mecca.

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LOL

Also along those lies, I'm hearing there are to be some large granite sculptures of camels out in a sand area ........ all the camels' sh*tholes are reportedly facing east/southeast toward the White House.

17 posted on 01/15/2018 5:17:38 AM PST by a little elbow grease (I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.)
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..... another version of the story claimed that the Zeros wanted the tax payers to pick up the bill for a road or detour around the ‘library’.

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Yes............ but it looks like even some people in Chicago are starting to get hip to The The Skinny Ghoulish Fraud Obama.

18 posted on 01/15/2018 5:20:05 AM PST by a little elbow grease (I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.)
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To: clearcarbon
GITMO is a better choice.

.... in our dreams.

19 posted on 01/15/2018 5:21:01 AM PST by a little elbow grease (I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.)
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To: ronnie raygun

Stick it in some south side shithole where it belongs.


20 posted on 01/15/2018 5:23:43 AM PST by hardspunned
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