the Obama Presidential Center will require rerouting road work costing $172 million in 2018 dollars. its 2020 Annual Report estimated that it needed close to $1 billion in new funds to finish construction Not enough graft.
We knew that his 'library' was a exercise in graft and hubris right from the beginning. Even the native wildlife of Chicago could see through the lies right from the start. Only the city council, that was clearly paid off, wanted it. Obama demanded in his hubris that the city bulldoze one of the best green-space parks in the city which was dedicated to a different former president in order to make room for his 'legacy'. As soon as the building site was approved he changed the design to huge structure that will tower over the neighborhood. The argument for the construction was mostly about the prestige that a 'presidential library' would bring to the city but the new design is literally against the law... we limit by law the grandeur of presidential libraries so that no one president can build ostentatious monuments to themselves. But that is exactly what Obama wanted and so the term 'library' was scrapped in favor of 'center'. The resulting ugly monolithic concrete building design is a perfect reflection of the man's megalomania.
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