Obama Makes ‘Surprise’ Visit to Chicago Food Bank – WITH HIS OWN CAMERA CREW (VIDEO)
November 21, 2018 
Barack Obama made a ‘surprise’ visit to a Chicago food bank on Tuesday and brought his own camera crew.
Obama waltzed into the Greater Chicago Food Depository wearing a White Sox hat with his Obama Foundation camera crew in tow.
Leave it to Obama to make feeding the homeless and poor about himself.
VIDEO:
Obama then tweeted about it, thanking the food bank for ‘letting him crash.’
OBAMA: Thanks to the Chicago @FoodDepository team for all you do and to the volunteers who are doing great work and let me crash today. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
The Obamas are set to become a billion-dollar brand soon off of book deals, speeches and Netflix videos.
Didn’t Barack Obama once say ‘At certain point you’ve made enough money’?
At least he put some potatoes in a netted baggie for the poor while his crew captured it on camera.
THE RISE of BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
Screen grab from Obama Foundation video.
THE RISE of BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
THE RISE of BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
JUDICIAL WATCH TEN MOST CORRUPT
President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
Obama Foundation is raising big bucks but hiding the identities of its mega-donors
The planned Obama presidential library "Presidential Center" that wants to grab priceless lakefront property from taxpayers for a vast campus that amounts to a cenotaph-like monument to the wonderfulness of the 44th president of the United States recently filed its required Form 990 for 2017 with the IRS. It revealed three surprising facts.
One: The Foundation's fundraising skyrocketed from $13.175 million in 2016 to an eye-popping $232.6 million in 2017, 17.6 times as much. Would it be too cynical of me to notice that this coincided with the elimination of the self-imposed limit of $1 million per contributor? We do know that Obama and his wife actively courted donors once out of office with Clinton Global Initiative-like schmooze fests.
Screen grab from Obama Foundation video.
Two: The Obama Foundation decided to mask the identities of its mega-donors. With Obama out of office in 2017, I presume that federal restrictions and disclosure requirements also went by the wayside. Would it be too cynical of me to wonder if any foreign actors were among the mega-donors? We are told, "Most contributions last year came from individuals, 94.9 percent or $220.7 million."
Three: The Foundation is lavishly compensating its top executives. The Chicago Tribune reports:
CEO David Simas earned $590,651. His salary is nearly twice what the CEO of the George W. Bush Foundation earned in 2016, the last year available. ... The executive director of the foundation, Robbin Cohen, earned $827,834 last year[.]
The Nonprofit Quarterly figuratively raised its eyebrows over this 2017 data, in an article entitled "The Obama Foundation's Financials Don't Match Its Rhetoric." Danielle Holley writes:
The Obama Foundation released its 2017 financials early last week, providing an in-depth look at the organization's priorities and the extent to which they match – or in this case, don't match – the overarching narrative that the Foundation has been telling its Chicago South Side neighbors.The Foundation has caused significant controversy over the past year, with Chicago's public sector and activist groups raising questions on whether the Presidential Center at Jackson Park, the Foundation's most significant project, will truly be of public benefit or simply a force for elitism and gentrification in Chicago's South Side. Those flames were fanned again last week when the Foundation's Form 990 filing revealed skyrocketing executive compensation, with Executive Direct Robbin Cohen making an outsized $827,834 annually, and with a fundraising bonanza of unknown – and therefore to many suspicious – origin.One should look at this compensation a few different ways. Prime among them are:· Does it conform to the compensation of like organizations – in this case, presidential libraries?· What mission message does the compensation send to the community, which here includes a relatively low-income neighborhood concerned about gentrification?A compensation comparison among other presidential libraries was done five years ago and reported that some directors have earned more than $600,000. That said, the 2016 Form 990 report from [the] George W. Bush Foundation shows the Obama Library CEO's compensation to be twice the highest there.
Read the whole thing.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune editorial board seems a bit nervous over the possibility of the OPC becoming an issue in the mayoral election, now that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff, has bowed out of the race.
From the start, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been both pitch man and troubleshooter for the proposed Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side.The mayor steered his old boss' project through Plan Commission and City Council approvals earlier this year. He has touted the center's "tremendous economic, educational and cultural" opportunities. This week, his administration is introducing legislation that sets up a 99-year agreement for the center's operation on Chicago Park District property.
The worry about the future of the lavishly funded project is palpable:
If we could have a moment with each mayoral candidate, we'd explain that this situation is delicate. That the center is far from a slam dunk. That the competing interests will try to lure candidates into their respective camps.
That use of the word "lure" is revealing.
And as the Trib editorialists note, there is a precedent for Chicago rejecting use of park land for monuments to gigantic egos:
Recall that Star Wars creator George Lucas envisioned a private museum on public lakefront parkland – and got derailed by a lawsuit challenging his vision. Lucas abandoned the idea after the federal judge in the case said he did not believe it would benefit the public, but would instead "promote private and/or commercial interests." The Obama Foundation says the public benefit here is obvious – and has agreed to transfer ownership of the center to the city once it's built. Will that persuade a judge to toss the lawsuit? Or will the case lurch along? We'll see you in court – someday.
In the end, the Trib wants the project built:
So, in our hypothetical huddles with the candidates, we'd advise them not to shoot from the lip: Emanuel and his decisions are fair game; many of the candidates got into the race to defeat him. But this proposal should be too crucial to the South Side to become a chew toy for candidates eager to build their anti-Rahm cred. We'd remind the candidates that for South Siders and other Chicagoans who see the promise of an Obama Center, squandering this opportunity would be a sorry mistake.
Everyone's entitled to his opinions, of course. As are we.
From $13 to $232 million -
Clinton Foundation laundering money through
the Obama Presidential Center?
David Brock runs a scam like that between
his various foundations
How much overlap in personnel between
Clinton and Obama Center?
Obama’s monument to himself covertly grabbing $244 million of Illinois taxpayers’ money for ‘privately-funded’ project
Barack Obama announced that he would not have a federally-funded presidential library, but instead would rely on private money paid to the Obama Foundation to build a “presidential center” that may or may not have any books (we still don’t know, but there definitely will be basketball courts). That's what Obama wants, so that's what Obama gets.
The entire project would be all his to control, a monument created by the person being honored. Normally, that is the practice of dictators like Saddam Hussein, but Barack Hussein Obama was a president like no other.
(Source: Obama.org)
And oddly enough, the building style chosen by the Obamas resembles nothing so much as a cenotaph, even though Obama is alive and kicking.
3 cenotaphs:
Hong Kong
New Zealand
London
Of course, the usual claque applauded. Politico Magazine gushed that it would be:
…a new model for a privately run presidential museum that can be laudatory in its exhibits and partisan in its programming, but not while under the troubling imprimatur of the federal government—and without the taxpayers footing the bill.
Unfortunately, the notion that taxpayers would be unmolested is fake news. Start with the acres of city-owned park land on the shore of Lake Michigan that Chicago handed over as a gift, in apparent violation of law. The group Protect Our Parks has sued to prevent the giveaway, and cites this Illinois State Law. (They have also cited my writings, which gratifies me no end.)
But the taxpayer-owned parkland is but one aspect of the rape of the taxpayers. The new Illinois state budget artfully obscures the estimated $244 million dollars that Land of Lincoln Obama taxpayers will be giving to make the project happen. The Illinois Policy Institute writes:
Projects relevant to the forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park will cost taxpayers $224 million, according to the Washington Examiner.This includes $174 million for roadwork in and around Jackson Park and $50 million for renovations to the Garfield Green Line station, two miles from the presidential center. Illinois taxpayers will be on the hook for $199 million of the total cost, with $25 million of the Garfield station renovations funded through a federal grant, according to the Washington Examiner.
Fifty million dollars for renovating one El station that is two miles from the project? Are we supposed to believe that tourists would walk that far though Chicago’s notoriously dangerous Southside to visit the library? And how can it take that much money to spiff up a station that already is in operation? Paint and ceramic tiles aren’t that expensive. Elevators and escalators don’t cost ten million dollars each.
Unfortunately, Illinois taxpayers would have no way of knowing this money was flowing to the presidential project from looking at the state’s 1,245-page budget, which makes no mention of the Obama Presidential Center. That spending is hidden, but has been confirmed by political figures such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Taxpayers aren’t the only ones kept in the dark:
The negotiating process in drafting of the budget took place outside of public view and state senators were given five hours to read the massive document before taking a vote.
But rest assured that diversity will be foremost in the minds of those selecting contractors to build unusually expensive projects for the library. As the Obama Foundation promises:
In our first year, we announced our plans to hire a diversity consultant to prioritize the hiring of local, diverse residents for construction and subcontracting.
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