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Home Front: Politix
Barack Obama dismisses claims his controversial $500m 'Presidential Center' will destroy historic Chicago park and trigger gentrification that could price black locals out of the area as construction work begins
2021-09-28
"Your concerns are nothing compared to the greater good: adoration of ME"
Posted by:Skidmark

#13  Alternative (or additional) monument requiring no real estate whatever...

"In Lake Michigan, just off the Loop,
Let's erect a prodigious, um, hoop,
That the sun might shine through
Every morn, like it do
For a certain benighted, um, group!"
Posted by: Lampedusa Sinatra8304   2021-09-28 17:21  

#12  ^ LOL
Posted by: Matt   2021-09-28 17:08  

#11  ahhh, no. Upon the light-bringer's death he will be bodily called to Heaven so God can sit at his right hand. It is foretold. Vero Possimus or some shit
Posted by: Frank G   2021-09-28 16:23  

#10  Probably a place for a glass-topped coffin at some point, too.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-09-28 15:34  

#9  Take out the lattice, paint it red, and have it across the perimeter of the roof, fill the blank with concrete and yeah, that's it.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-09-28 14:40  

#8  Speaking as a former architect it's damned ugly.

I'm sure some East German architects dig it.
Posted by: Raj   2021-09-28 13:12  

#7  At a glance it looks like those drop-ships in X-Men:Days of Future Past...but the lattice work is actually one of his speeches. Maybe the part in his book about eating dog. Don't Know. But its done in all Caps. Last I heard, capital letters are racist.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-09-28 12:51  

#6  ^-- you just need the basement of that Abu....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-09-28 12:42  

#5  Speaking as a former architect it's damned ugly.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-09-28 12:42  

#4  This ought to do.

Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-09-28 12:14  

#3  "Leave your shoes at the door"
"Rug distribution at the two separate entrances"
"Basement bunker tours upon request"
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-28 08:23  

#2  Link to Center advert.There are certain geometric similarities. Will there be a burial chamber, a viewing room ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-28 07:42  

#1  Obama: Stop Pretending It’s ‘Hardship’ for Wealthiest to Pay More Taxes to Make Economy Fair
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-28 06:58  

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