Normally at this point in a President’s tenure he is focused on fundraising and planning for his legacy library and not trying to defend his one signature program. So I decided to poke around the internet to see how the 44th president is doing on the institution that will house all the paperwork generated by this administration.
They’ve chosen a city (Chicago) a site (Jackson Park, near the University of Chicago) and have even formed an executive committee. The construction cost are expected to run some were North of $500 million plus another $300 million to outdo “W”‘s library. They expect to open sometime in 2020-21.
Knowing that he’s got to raise nearly $800 million in four short years, you’d think the namesake would be out there hustling for donations. You’d be wrong.
According to the Obama Foundation’s independent auditor they reported about $2.348 million in cash at the end of 2015 with total net assets of just under $4 million. See Here
This article from August 2015 says that they raised $5.4 million from just 12 donors, yet they spent nearly half by the end of that year. That’s quite a burn rate.
The financials for 2016 won’t be ready before May of this year, but when they are made available it will make for some interesting reading.
You didn’t build that!
You think once it’s built we can find copies of his birth certificate and college transcripts on file?
Pretty expensive out house.
izlamo delenda est …
“birth certificate and college transcripts on file?”
They’ll be in a locked safe on the little ‘tidy bowl’ boat in the middle of the turd pool.
Well, there’s still time boost that fundraising with a handy dip into some of that Clinton Foundation cash, you know, for a pardon.
What’s the Dewey Decimal Classification for Man’s country, the Chicago Gay Bath House?
It would be hilarious if Trump’s company won the contract.
Smear the front door with pig’s blood.
800 million? Are they serious
DISGUSTING!😡
Some rich muslim will pay for it eventually. And it will look every bit like it was paid for by a rich muslim. Foot baths, mihrab, prayer rooms. Guaranteed.
Why not just rehab the Lexington Hotel? It’s down there on the south side and has the appropriate panache, having been Al Capone’s headquarters.
Even if it were insulated and have works of art, an out house doesn’t cost that much money
WRONG, Tar Man!
DIOGENES has the CORRECT “vision” of the museum (SCROLL DOWN for image.)
http://suckersonparade.blogspot.com/2017/01/barky-to-say-farewell-unveil-mock-up-of.html
Too much money. Nothing he is, did, or represents is worth even half that much.
Why not a glass door on a closet that contains his golf club collection?
If they voted for Obummer, they probably can’t read. Why bother? Won’t be anything in there his sons will wanna steal.
Once Obummer hits the bath houses again,
he’ll get his 800 million for his master
bath house and library, and north American
mosque.