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The gray, forbidding, prison-like structure that is going up in Chicago to honor our sainted 44th president is now in its final stages of construction, and soon the Obama Presidential Center, “A Global Center for Change,” will become, as its website promises, “a lively community hub, economic anchor, and beacon of democracy right here on the South Side of Chicago.” Yeah, sure it will, and Danny DeVito is going to become an NBA star.
Whether or not the Obama center is really going to become the jewel of its neighborhood, the relentlessly ugly structure is being adorned with words of wisdom from the man himself, and so the area of Chicago that is unlucky enough to feature this monstrosity will become, if not a beacon of democracy, at very least a beacon of BS.
As president, Obama was famously windy and verbose, couching his socialism, race resentment, and radicalism in avalanches of verbiage that would hide the hard edges of his agenda. Lost and stuttering without a teleprompter, the anointed one relied on a battery of speechwriters to turn out reams of portentous-seeming nonsense that gave an immediate impression of profundity that dissolved with about five seconds’ thought. The Obama Presidential Center is going to feature a choice morsel of that pseudo-profundity on its outer façade, trumpeted in five-foot-high letters as if it were a nugget of actual wisdom, on the order of “BURMA SHAVE” or “HOLLYWOOD.”
Instead, what we’re getting at the Obama State Prison, er, that is, Presidential Center is this, which began to be installed on the building on Monday (it will take a couple of weeks for the whole long-winded thing to be there):
You are America. Unconstrained by habit and convention. Unencumbered by what is, ready to seize what ought to be. For everywhere in this country, there are first steps to be taken, there is new ground to cover, there are more bridges to be crossed. America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word “we.” “We The People.” “We Shall Overcome.” “Yes We Can.” That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone. Oh, what a glorious task we are given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours.
Really, that’s what the building is going to say. If you think “This isn’t exactly ‘With malice toward none and charity for all’ or ‘All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” you’re quite right. Pithier, punchier, and more apt as a summation of the Obama presidency would have been one that PJ’s Matt Margolis suggested: “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Another fitting quote would have been “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
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Hoi Polloi says
“Unencumbered by what is, ready to seize what ought to be”…….“Yes We Can.”
He seems to be campaigning for Kamala, with that special dose of ought that emanates from his smug sense of superiority, as further evidenced by “continually try to improve this great nation of ours.” What has improved under their watch? Nothing.
I was particularly offended at the time by his “you didn’t build that,” and now we see that sentiment behind so much of their evil. We see his aim. Somalis built, but we didn’t. Muslims in general are riding this horse particularly hard. OK, Hussein.
And who chooses a design that resembles a Soviet-era torture center?
somehistory says
bo and his muzzie cronies put this country and the people through eight years of torture. This building…built with the taxpayers’ money…is a symbol in his fond remembrance of that torture.
Winston 101 says
somehistory,
An artistic concrete prison like monolith so the locals can artistically contemplate their futures.
I appreciate the distinct lack of glass anywhere near the ground floor. That should save the taxpayers on plywood installation, removal and storage bills during future riots!
somehistory says
The South Side of Chicago…. the best place…if any place should be so unadorned…If you value freedom, don’t support… bo’s monstrosity.
“Well, the South side of Chicago is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there, you better just beware”
https://genius.com/Jim-croce-bad-bad-leroy-brown-lyrics
James Lincoln says
Just wondering how long it will take before the Obama Presidential Center is turned into a mosque.
tkboxer@comcast.net says
You got that right
Hoi Polloi says
Good question.
Namer says
It looks like something the old Soviet Union would build. Its uglier than Clintos library which looks like an old doublewide house trailer.
Winston 101 says
Namer,
Right on both counts. I thought you were just being snarky but you were spot on! I’d never seen the Clinton Doublewide! Hillarious!
gravenimage says
Obama Center Gets Massive Words of Wisdom From the Man Himself, and It Sounds Like a Threat
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Yes, this inscription on this brutalist monstrosity does indeed sound like a threat.
tkboxer@comcast.net says
He can take his change and shove it up crybaby big mikes butthole , I read about the land it’s on screwed a bunch of poor people !
tkboxer@comcast.net says
Thanks Robert for saying what we’re all thinking ! HAPPY New Year GOD BLESS
Huapakechi says
At least it isn’t a minaret with loud speakers. Not yet, anyway.
Michael says
What a towering assclown, not to mention the second-worst president in my lifetime.
OLD GUY says
These presidential libraries are nothing bur ego trips and paybacks for favors done while he was in office.
Can’t wait to see old Joes library, maybe it will just be an online autopen.
Patrick says
Obama’s tour de art building, looks more like a prison, than a community center/library.
Winston 101 says
Every time there is a group of “teens”, “thieves” or “usual suspects” I think the news announcer should use the following script to describe the scene:
“Unencumbered by what is, ready the seize what ought to be.”
A group of “teens” terrified the owners of the business and seized all they could get their hand on.
“Of course the couple didn’t build that business, someone else made that happen.”
As we all know the business was built by the parents of the “teens”. So this is really reparations. Now on to our next story about
“Fundamentally changing America”