Obama presidential library: U of Chicago?

The location should be located on the former site of United States Steel South Works in South Chicago. This large vacant piece of property would bring work to the children of the displaced workers that President Obama worked with when he was a community organizer.

The Presidential Library should be under the auspices of Chicago State University, which his former mentor Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones is closely associated with.

It could advocate the rebuilding of the barrier wall at Promontory Point, which State Senator Obama claimed he would mediate the dispute between the Hyde Park activists and the Chicago Park District in 2001. We are still awaiting the results of this mediation as the barrier wall crumbles!

This is great! It could open in 2016 at the old Michael Reese Hospital Site. This would be a great, the city already owns the land and based on its success on Block 37 it will still be available. So the BHO Foundation can buy the land and help the city budget. We can list the other 80+ Nobel Prize winners on a wall and what they accomplished and how long it took them- BHO World Peace 11 days.
What a great prize for the city that placed one spot out of the medals.
I'm sure there are many other benefits as well and so far I can't think of any downside.

"Less than one year into office, people already are starting to think about President Barack Obama's presidential library."

Why wait? The Nobel Peace Prize committee didn't. Let's build a Grand Altar to The Chosen One NOW!!!!!!

Wow, and from the AP . . .
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance

FACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat
By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Sun Oct 25, 2:34 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry.

In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up."

Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.

That right he is the appointed one and we should start work on a monument to his greatness now before the shine wears off.

Add a wing to Jeremiah Wright's church for the library -- that's ground zero of the Obama con.

I would hold off any big displays for Obama for a while he has more chance of ending like an out of favor Richard Nixon.
Rushing into the Nobel Peace prize proved to be humiliating for both Obama and the committee.

They should wait till he acomplish some construtive agendas before even thinking about it, unless its going to honor his golf.

They're looking for a site already ... people are already aware that it is over and his best days are behind him? Maybe Resco can find him some land ...?

Jackson, Good idea! They could even build in a new church too. Wright, Jackson, et al can take turns every week to spew more of the "us vs. them" false hope religion.

The country's on life support and we're thinking about a Presidential Library. How moronic. let's see if the president can get teh patient off of the operating table and then we'll determine if he's worth of a "Library". The Nobel committee already has egg on it's face for it's collossal gaffe. Let's not take the "honor" of acting w/o thinking away from them just yet.

Mr. President, in case you haven't noticed, we need the economy repaired. Replacing consumer spending with government spending isn't the answer. 2009 is tracking 2007 in the market place and the bubble is already building. The short and long range forecast are looking very grim sir.

Stop beating Healthcare to death. Start looking at employment and the lack thereof. There is a tremendous pool of talent that does not need to be "re-educated". They need jobs Mr. President, jobs.

There is enough room at the United States Steel site to include a golf course.

WOW REALLY.

Let me start out as saying I am a moderate Republican who believes Obama is getting much more "blame" for things that he deserves. Perhaps that is just the political environment we find ourselves in. On the Nobel Peace prize, you can't blame Obama what 5 retired Swedish politicians did, (a country with a population & GDP about 75% that of Illinois).
And on the library idea, from the article it seems like U of C is the instigator, not Obama, especially as the article makes it seem the idea is at best in the back of his mind.

Well, I would certainly hope it not go to U of C library, which has a truly shameful legacy of preventing people from outside the university system use their library. It wouldn't be that much of an issue, except it is a Federal Depository library, and the hoops they make the public go through (in contrast to the general openness of the Northwestern Library -- also a Federal Depository library) are disgusting. Anywhere but the U of C library.

How about the public option? If Obama is so hell-bent on the so-called "public option" for his health care reform, why not the same public thoughts for his library? I'm sure that the U of I in Champaign-Urbana would be a more than willing partner in building the library.

Wow!! A topic about Obama out of office just made me smile!! But who will write all the "letters"? Get going on that Ayers!!

You know, for all you people saying things like "WOW REALLY," I'll point out a couple of things: 1) The article explains that it is not unusual (cf. John Kennedy, 1962); 2) You have no idea how the inner workings of things like this function. Do some research on the George W. Bush library and you will find similar information, i.e. planning for it before his term(s) ended. Calm the f down and stop acting like you're a veteran of Washington who understands how these things work.

boobie moobie.......These poor CEO's wonder the same thing.......why can't they make as much as the Yohoo CEO?

United Health Group
CEO: William W McGuire
2005: 124.8 mil
5-year: 342 mil

Forest Labs
CEO: Howard Solomon
2005: 92.1 mil
5-year: 295 mil

Caremark Rx
CEO: Edwin M Crawford
2005: 77.9 mil
5-year: 93.6 mil

Abbott Lab
CEO: Miles White
2005: 26.2 mil
5-year: 25.8 mil

Aetna
CEO: John Rowe
2005: 22.1 mil
5-year:57.8 mil

How about Sing Sing in Ossining , NY?

Pat H

Reference your comment on Promontory Point.

It appears that Barack Obama is still "dithering" on his decision relating to this issue!

Now dont get ahead of yourselves. He might decide to build it in Hawaii.
Doesnt really matter, if he follows suit with what he has been doing lately. He won't ever make up his mind anway

Build it in Hawaii where he is alleged to have been born ... to a virgin in a stable ...

I like the idea Lee Bey proposed last year: use and restore the abandoned Pullman Factory and Administration building. Its a gorgeous and historical facade in an area of the city that could deeply use investment, and the site is large enough to accommodate parking and expansion. The U of C has enough multi-million dollar libraries.

http://leebey.com/blog1/2008/11/president_obama_how_about_pull.html

As long as it looks better than Regenstein Library, possibly the butt-ugliest library in existence, certainly the ugliest building in Chicago, and all the uglier when you compare it with the architecture across the street.

No, I like President Obama but he dies not need anotehr distration related to an honor that it could be said he has nto earned yet. There will be plenty of time for honros like this after he is out of office.

No, I like President Obama but he dies not need anotehr distration related to an honor that it could be said he has nto earned yet. There will be plenty of time for honros like this after he is out of office.

The library should be the cornerstone for redevelopment in one of the nearby deteriorated neighborhoods. It could be a solution for the high crime, empty buildings, and poverty because it would attract adjacent hotels, restaurants, memorabilia stores and condos. And most importantly, jobs for those for whom Obama worked so hard as an organizer for ACORN. He has a chance to pay back his supporters; here's the opportunity.

BIR, you are proof there is at least one compos mentis Republican left!

EricP, it is true the U of C has been harsh in its attitude toward the "town" part of town & gown in Hyde Park.

Used their lock on real estate to destroy the Hyde Park Coop on a fit of personal spite of the current president who didn't like it when he shopped there as a student.

Closed athletic facilities to members of the Hyde Park community.

And for an institution of "learning" block access to their libraries.

As Barack might say, we can do better.

Lincoln in the Farewell Address acknowledged his debt to the kindness of the people of Springfield.

I think it is very true that Obama's political career would never have developed as it did had he run for office from any base other than Hyde Park.

Which is decidedly not Chicago.

I would think the City of Chicago would cede a parcel of land in Hyde Park, such as the park land between 56th St. and the Museum of Science & Industry, for some Chicago architect to build a great lakefront building--that's what Chicago is famous for, right? Architecture.

FDR made preliminary plans for his library at Hyde Park, NY, as I recall, as early as 1939.

Outsiders don't really understand that there is a tension in Hyde Park between the right wingers who control the Universiy of Chicago and the mostly liberal Chicagoans who live in Hyde Park (many are lifetime residents).

I'd like to see a presidential library in Hyde Park that becomes like the JFK School at Harvard, and gives those right wingers a bit of a comeuppance.

And Pat H-- please give that tired Promontory Point rag a rest for awhile.

No one I know in Hyde Park really gives a ---- what kind of rip rap goes along the lakeshore.

And I do believe the President is working on some more important things in his in box just now.....

The chosen one?
Sure! We chose him, so let us build him a library the same way ALL president get one... if Nixon got one, ANY BODY can... he was the most corrupt president... well. maybe Bush and Dixon can dispute that title.

A lame duck president needs a building set in a swamp.

"Build it in Hawaii where he is alleged to have been born ... to a virgin in a stable ... "

Posted by: Kevin

LOL...you win Kevin! That is hilarious.

AND JUST WHAT MEMORABILIA WILL BE PUT INTO THIS LAVISH BUILDING? I THOUGHT YOU HAD TO ACCOMPLISH AT LEAST ONE THING BEOFRE EVEN BEING CONSIDERED FOR A LIBRARY: ANOTHER WASTE OF TAX PAYERS MONEY. WILL THERE BE ALTERS AND LAVISH COLUMNS, BUILT IN ORGAN MUSIC? DON'T WASTE TAX PAYERS MONEY ON SOMETHING UnNECESSARY. Don;t you think that money could be used towards something NEEDED? I know the man was given the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, at least let him EARN A LIBRARY.

AN OBAMA LIBRARY, AND JUST WHAT WOULD BE PUT IN THIS LIBRARY? A picture of BO the dog? OR MAYBE ONE OF HIS BASKETBALLS that he uses when he shoots hoops with his friend ARNE? THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE? WOW a big beautiful custom built building to hold all the OBAMA has accomplished. Why not just put up a shelf in the rectory of WRIGHTS CHURCH, or MAYBE ONE IN DALEYS OFFICE AT CITY HALL? DON'T WASTE TAX PAYERS MONEY ON SOMETHING AS SENSELESS AS AN OBAMA LIBRARY. JUST WHEN WILL THESE PEOPLE STOP KISSING HIS BEHIND AND BOWING TO HIM, SO MANY OF YOU AHVE ALREADY CROWNED HIM. HE WAS GIVEN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE , AT LEAST LET HIM TRY AND EARN A LIBRARY.

I'm sensing a pattern here. A library? Already? Really? Maybe HE'D like to stop now and we'll just give it to him anyway? There is no real point in dragging this presidency out. It will accomplish a lot in symbolism and pass off nothing to the next guy (or gal : NOT Sarah Palin).

BillyR,

Three of those five companies you shown are part of big Pahrma - you know the companies that are in bed with BO on health care reform. Maybe BO should go after the fat cats at Big Pharma

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_bi_ge/us_fact_check_health_insurance

Ornery

If no one cares in Hyde park cares about Promontory Point why did the "Save the Point" group come into being?

Why did State Senator Obama say he would mediate between the "Save the Point" group and the Chicago Park District?

Also, why do you attack everyone who does not share your point of view?

A better choice would be Acorn headquarters!.

'There's already talk about a Barack Obama presidential library at U. of C. Like his Nobel, a tad premature, no?' Claro naõ de ambos!

Do you even know the meaning of "mediate" or "mediation"?

Many cases are mediated with the result that the parties agree to disagree.

The parties do not reach an agreement.

Mediation is not a trial and mediation is not an arbitration.

It is a meeting with a "neutral" who attempts to facilitate a settlement, agreement or resolution.

I'm tired of that tired talking point about "Save the Point".

Yes I've lived in Hyde Park 36 years and I don't know anyone else here who was ir is a member of the "Save the Point" organization.

People in Hyde Park, in my experience, are interested in weightier issues than what kind of rip rap goes along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Obviously this is the case because the rest of Chicago has modern revettments.

I don't think I attack others unduly.

Particularly when you sample the nasty racist tone of many of the anti-Obama posters in this Swamp.

Ornery you have not disappointed. 'Racist' - where??? You people really should learn to move past Alinsky's Rule # 2, you really should - it is time...

F4N, at least you stuck to the "Communist" canard.

But check out any story on here about Obama and you'll find plenty of racist comments.

Particularly the one with 700 or so comments about Michelle a few days back.

But you get a bonus point for just sticking to the "Commnist" canard.