tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post967645416353632048..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Obama Monetizes the Bin Laden AnniversaryKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-86755997795945592512021-05-08T16:26:24.759-04:002021-05-08T16:26:24.759-04:00"In February 2019 Obama's team announced ...<br />"In February 2019 Obama's team announced that they were about to let a contract to begin digitizing. It appears that never happened."<br />- Voice<br /><br />How like Obama: talk, promise, crickets.<br />Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-45190765955007203822021-05-07T22:29:28.601-04:002021-05-07T22:29:28.601-04:00Related to this, I've been tracking Obama'...Related to this, I've been tracking Obama's presidential papers, though there is little reporting on them after the initial surprise that he would not create the traditional presidential library. The many truck loads of them are stored in a former furniture store in a Chicago suburb. Conditions unknown. The plan is to digitize them. <br /><br />In February 2019 Obama's team announced that they were about to let a contract to begin digitizing. It appears that never happened. I wrote NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) about a week ago to find out what is happening, and the reply was nothing new to report.<br /><br />So, we are now in the fifth year following his administration and his papers seem to be in limbo, with Obama struggling to fund what he really cares about, his "brutalist" center and golf course. The biggest surprise is that Trump did not cause the records to just disappear. Imagine Tony Soprano saying, "Nice little warehouse you've got there ..."!<br /><br />voice-in-wildernessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-20824333509683808272021-05-06T01:39:31.856-04:002021-05-06T01:39:31.856-04:00Good Old Obama. Poor guy, having no legacy, he mu...<br />Good Old Obama. Poor guy, having no legacy, he must pass the hat to invent one.<br /><br />Good Old <i>London Review of Books</i><br />Vol. 37 No. 10 · 21 May 2015<br />"The Killing of Osama bin Laden"<br />by Seymour M. Hersh<br />https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n10<br />Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.com