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2025-02-12 Government Corruption
The truth of Barack Obama's hopelessly-delayed $830 million DEI nightmare of a presidential library that may never be built
[Daily Mail, wherre America gets its news] Bolting billionaires. Ballooning budgets. A racial discrimination suit from a thwarted subcontractor.

Who needs Jussie Smollett? The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) is turning out to be Chicago's greatest hoax.

Sprouting up on the city's South Side in 2021 like an Egyptian funerary complex, the Taj Barack has already taken nearly twice as long to build as any presidential library in history. And at an estimated cost of $830 million, it's the most expensive... by hundreds of millions.

That's enough to make King Tut's mummy blush, but it's pretty standard when it comes to the modern gods of the Democratic party.

$1.5 million to 'advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces,' $70,000 for an Irish DEI-centric musical, $47,000 for a 'transgender opera' in Colombia and $32,000 on a 'transgender comic book' in Peru is just some of the spending from the now-shuttered US Agency for International Development (or as President Biden called it: The Taxpayer Cash Disposal Department).

Never forget that Biden's White House took a $7.5 billion investment and built a grand total of eight electric vehicle charging stations over two years, which is just a hair-plug shy of his target of 500,000 EV stations by 2030.

Hold my Chardonnay, said Kamala. She burned through $1.5 billion in 15 weeks on her way to electoral disgrace.

But who needs results when you're playing with someone else's money?

Well, now that Demolition Don is taking a sledgehammer to the federal bureaucracy the gig is up. And not just for taxpayer-funded sex changes in Guatemala.

In the sweetest piece of irony ever, Barack's Chicago Shrine is turning out to be a near-perfect metaphor for the entire Democratic party.

A black-owned concrete subcontractor is suing the structural engineering firm behind the project for $40 million claiming that they were discriminated against.

Left lawyers have sought injunctions to halt the constructions after they uncovered plans to cut down 1,000 old-growth trees.

And uncomfortable questions were raised over revelations that ex-White House flunky turned CEO of the Obama Foundation, Valeria Jarrett, raked in a cool $740,000 in a single year, to run the OPC straight into the ground.

For a guy who once branded himself 'No Drama Obama', this has turned into a soap opera. And disillusioned Democrats are rethinking whether to toss more money on this presidential money pyre.

Contributions first started drying up back in 2023 when donations plummeted by 50 percent from the year before – and the evacuation from the USS Obama seems to be accelerating.

'He's arrogant,' one erstwhile backer reportedly said of Obama last week. 'There's no quid pro quo because it's a one-way street.'

Of course! It's the Chicago way... I scratch your back and you scratch mine. It's the American way, in fact.

Is there any real mystery why Bill Clinton's presidential library reportedly raised more than 10 percent of its $165 million cost from foreign sources or why the royal family of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to George H.W. Bush's library? The private tours can't be that good.

These presidential vanity projects are just vehicles for ex-presidents to keep the party going long after they leave the White House.

It should surprise no one that the money spigot is being turned off as Trump rescues the country from the sinking into the swamps of Washington DC.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10328 views ]  Top

#1 Obama should have a presidential laundry mat.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-12 05:52||   2025-02-12 05:52|| Front Page Top

#2 A lot of it is built, including the external structure of the tower.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-12 09:33||   2025-02-12 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I figure that Trump will get the greens on his golf course resodded and Mar A Lago vacuumed.
Posted by alanc 2025-02-12 09:55||   2025-02-12 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Build it in Kenya, next door to a mosque.
Posted by Crusader 2025-02-12 10:43||   2025-02-12 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 His library is such an architectural abomination, when completed it will look dystopian and soviet.

Looky
Posted by mossomo 2025-02-12 12:57||   2025-02-12 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Build his memorial as a restroom in some national park. That's better than he deserves, and far more useful.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-12 13:36||   2025-02-12 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Two-holer: "The George Michael/Barack Obama Friendship Station"

IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by Frank G 2025-02-12 13:48||   2025-02-12 13:48|| Front Page Top

#8 This monstrosity is NOT a presidential library, it is merely a presidential center. The One didn't want to use up his 'library' in a failing city that can't support it.
Posted by illeagle 2025-02-12 13:51||   2025-02-12 13:51|| Front Page Top

#9 As long as no taxpayer money is involved, I really don't care.
Posted by Rambler 2025-02-12 13:52||   2025-02-12 13:52|| Front Page Top

#10 @#9. It is indirectly mostly tax dollars from the a$$ end of USAID and other GIVERnment programs
Posted by Airandee 2025-02-12 14:01||   2025-02-12 14:01|| Front Page Top

#11 It’s a scaled up Chinese takeout box.
Posted by Glolutch Tingle1702 2025-02-12 14:59||   2025-02-12 14:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Good looking prison tower.
Fence and mine the grounds.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 15:31||   2025-02-12 15:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Brotherhood of Nod:
Laundry Center
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-12 20:16||   2025-02-12 20:16|| Front Page Top

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