Obama’s $850 Million “Eagle Palace”: A Monument to Failure?

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Chris Markowski takes aim at Barack Obama’s presidential library, blasting its design as a Mordor-style monstrosity and highlighting how the project is driving up rents and displacing longtime South Side residents. From ugly architecture to broken promises—from “Recovery Summer” to foreign policy disasters—Chris argues the Obama legacy is more eyesore than inspiration.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to Barack Obama's ego palace. Yeah, why not talk
about this absolutely? I mean, honestly, who designed this thing?
Does Lucifer have architects for crying out loud? I don't
think you could make an uglier building. Go if you

(00:41):
don't believe me, look it up. Okay, go look at
images of Barack Hussein Obama's presidential library. It looks like
a structure. I swear it belongs in what was it,
Mordore in Lord of the Rings. It looks like storrons
damn palace for crying out loud. Ahh eight hundred and

(01:03):
fifty million dollar presidential center in you know, the outside
of Chicago. All the local residents are now saying, oh no,
oh no, this is not good. They want to put
in hotels near here, and it's driving our rents up
and we can no longer afford the homes. And the
funny thing is, the funny thing is these people are

(01:23):
getting burnt by this. They're all Obama supporters. I believed
in Obama. I still believe in Obama, and I believe
in the project. But nobody can afford to live here anymore. Again,
I don't know why anybody would even want to be
near that building. You have even notice that again, any

(01:45):
time you any has there ever been a nice looking
left wing building ever throughout history? Then even take a
look at what we've done to certain cities. See the
was it the old it was the old post office?
Was it or was it the train station? I can't

(02:06):
remember the original one before they decided to knock it
down and put in Madison Square Garden. You want to
see how beautiful that building was, the gorgeous buildings that
we knocked down in the name of progress to put
up absolute ice sores. Yeah, it's amazing to me. You go,
you go to places in Europe, they you know, they
had cities and the buildings they're standing for forever and

(02:29):
they're absolutely gorgeous. We decide, I don't know, our architects
are kind of like obsessed with putting up ugly crap. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't know what's wrong with you kids? I you
know that that go to architecture school where you get
this from. Let me suggest I'm just throwing it out
there and spend a semester in Florence, Italy, would you please?
We wanted to see what Brunleshki did. Okay, anyway, not

(02:51):
either here nor there. Yeah, all these people now upset
they can no longer afford the homes in the air
right now. They're also saying, it looks like this big
piece of rock just landed here out of nowhere, in
what used to be a really nice landscape of trees
and flowers. I'm not kidding. People, don't taken, don't go

(03:14):
take a look at the building it belongs in more
door And again I guess it's apropos. Apropos for a
presidency that did what what? And again I'm throwing this
out there. It's all you Obama supporters. Okay, hope he changes, Okay,

(03:38):
hope he changes out there? What did he do? What?
I may go back and take a look at the
one failure after another failure, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Obamacare,
bailing out the automakers. But that just wasn't him, Okay,
that was w as well, oh yeah, letting all the

(04:00):
big bankers skate free after the whole financial crisis. Shall
I go on? Remember remember, oh yeah, he was gonna
turn the economy around. Remember Joe Biden out there as
vice president touting it's gonna be recovery summer. Yeah, we're
still waiting one after all. No, let's get it started.

(04:23):
On foreign policy, let's go. We got we got Hillary
Clinton as your secretary of state. What does it matter
that people died in Benghazi? Hey, I got an idea.
Let's let's blow up Libya and now it's, you know,
an absolute disaster, open air slave markets taken place there.

(04:43):
Name one thing. But he was such a gentleman, and
he was so well spoken. Yeah, that is a subway
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