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Barack Obama’s presidential library may need $1.5 billion
Page Six ^ | February 19, 2017 | 9:41am | Richard Johnson

Posted on 02/19/2017 1:31:28 PM PST by COBOL2Java

The Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could require a $1.5 billion endowment, its architects say, three times what was raised for the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

Husband-and-wife architectural team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien noted that it will be difficult to raise such a huge sum because Obama scrupulously declined to do much fund-raising while he was still in office.

(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...


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1 posted on 02/19/2017 1:31:28 PM PST by COBOL2Java
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To: COBOL2Java

Let me guess: 80% of which will go to the Michelle Obama travel fund.


2 posted on 02/19/2017 1:33:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Make Saudi Arabia pay for it.


3 posted on 02/19/2017 1:33:30 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: COBOL2Java

For what? Any normally-sized sewer would hold it all.


4 posted on 02/19/2017 1:33:34 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: COBOL2Java

A janitors closet and a teleprompter, Ill donate


5 posted on 02/19/2017 1:35:30 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: COBOL2Java

$1.5 billion, for what now?

That would pay for three Los Angeles-class submarines.


6 posted on 02/19/2017 1:35:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: COBOL2Java

A BILLION dollars???? With a B? It’s an effing library, what are they going to do, build the thing out of platinum?


7 posted on 02/19/2017 1:35:41 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: COBOL2Java

I call Bull Sh!t! on EVERYTHING Ophonybama and his LIEberal hangers-on say!


8 posted on 02/19/2017 1:35:53 PM PST by Taxman
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To: COBOL2Java

why cant he ask the same bootlickers in the media to cough up the money? These dogs are so obedient Buttcrack Obamatard will make that stupid amount.


9 posted on 02/19/2017 1:36:02 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How does some library need to cost that much?


10 posted on 02/19/2017 1:36:57 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: COBOL2Java

Where in Kenya will it be located? Or should I say Indonesia?


11 posted on 02/19/2017 1:37:59 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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How many copies of “THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO” would you be able to buy with $1.5 billion??? What a joke. Maybe the Iranians could give back some of the pallets of ‘funny money’ Obama gave to them.


12 posted on 02/19/2017 1:38:13 PM PST by EagleUSA
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Since when does a shoebox cost $1.5 billion?


13 posted on 02/19/2017 1:39:45 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Make Soros pay for it.


14 posted on 02/19/2017 1:39:47 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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To: COBOL2Java

There must be at least one bath-house where Obama got his start, that would be willing to convert to a LieBarry for him.


15 posted on 02/19/2017 1:40:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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let SorozNazi pay for it


16 posted on 02/19/2017 1:43:35 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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That’s a lot of porta-potties!


17 posted on 02/19/2017 1:43:55 PM PST by Redleg Duke (He is leading us in Making America Great Again!)
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To: COBOL2Java

PageSix is a gossip column, but this is still quite curious. The column provides a non-explanation of why so much money will be required.

Is it for the building itself, or for salaries?


18 posted on 02/19/2017 1:44:31 PM PST by independentmind
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To: COBOL2Java

It’s be SO much cheaper if they told the true story.


19 posted on 02/19/2017 1:44:54 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Chainmail

Or the contents of my cat’s litter box.


20 posted on 02/19/2017 1:47:58 PM PST by patro (INFIDEL)
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