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Hubris breeds arrogance

Will Obama ever have a presidential library?



Anybody out there heard where President Obama’s planning to build his Presidential Library? Eight years generates a lot of documents, but if all those thousands of pages of documents from his administration undergo any serious FOIA redaction, like those communications the Congressional investigating committees got from the IRS and the myriad of other White House scandals, they probably won't take up a whole lot of shelf space.

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Fast on his way to becoming one of America's lesser leaders, and having fewer letters of any importance to leave behind, President Obama may want to save a few bucks and have his architects go with a condo conversion, or a patio-style design for his official repository of his limited accomplishments; or maybe, do something more symbolic and just throw'em all in a large sinkhole like he did with the American nation. Getting back to the location, let's remember, after all, while our First Dude is really from Chicago; this guy has shown time and time again, he's all about first and foremost, collecting the perks of his office. Barack Obama just pretends he still has 'roots' in Hawaii so he can get rack up the most expensive vacations as he possibly can at the taxpayer's expense. How many Hawaiian vacations do you think he'll take on his own dime after he leaves the White House? The big problem with Hawaii as a location isn't the real estate costs, which alone are gonna kill his wallet. It will be the longevity of his legacy. Hubris breeds arrogance so if President Obama is fool enough to build in the Islands, do you think ticket sales--even at $25 a head--are going to affirm that legacy, and reaffirm his "It was all Bush's fault!" presidential story, and still generate sufficient revenue to keep the doors open or put fresh lei's on any planned 'I Am the Chosen One' statue? Fact is, people suffer the penal-like flights to Hawaii for the beaches, not to visit a boring second-rate indoor historical site. If it's lesser in stature than Pearl Harbor and you can't get a drink in a coconut, it ain't gonna be on the 'keep the family happy' itinerary, so any Hawaiian Edifice Rex would be a financial bust. On the other hand, if the president builds his library in Chicago proper, it’ll probably get plunked down on a cheap piece of one of Valerie Jarrett's underwater slum properties. He'll pay her way above market price; which he in turn will buy with money collected from the fools who believed in him--twice! Anybody want to bet it will probably be one of the same seedy parcels she intended to unload on Chicago's failed Olympic venue? Personally, I don't see any tourists willin' to risk getting a 'cap' busted in their behind just to pick up one of his overpriced souvenir Obama logo coffee mugs or t-shirts from the official gift shop. The way I see it, President Obama will just need one solid bookcase to support the weight of the Democrat Party's statist (Un)Affordable Care Act, with another twenty shelves for the attendant regulations and pages of tax codes that were written to choke the ever-lovin' daylights out of what's left of our Republic. K.J. Dolney Columbia, SC


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