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The Obamas are moving to the DC neighborhood of Kalorama after office
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:34 pm
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Not bad. I would have done Foxhall but Kalorama is pretty nice.
Not bad. I would have done Foxhall but Kalorama is pretty nice.
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But as far as legacies go, the thought of our President of Hope and Change moving to one of the oldest, most established, filthy-richest neighborhoods in the city just doesn’t jibe. It’s hard to imagine the Obama of eight years ago deciding to forgo the potential to move to a revitalizing area, or just a slightly less hoity one, in favor of a zip code where the blood runs royal blue and the servants’ stairs are still used by the help. It feels bizarrely out of a character for a man who proclaimed “We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed,” to settle down on a block where a 4-bedroom home averages about $2.8 million.
Perhaps Obama is simply trying to emulate his predecessors. After all, five former presidents have lived in Kalorama as well: Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, and Herbert Hoover. But Obama is not simply about to be a former president, he’s also a former community organizer. Imagine the good it could do a struggling DC neighborhood if he moved in and established himself as a figurehead of the community, showing his face at local spots and bringing a sense of excitement. The Obamas could have made a real estate selection that would have confirmed their post-presidential commitments to be of the people and not just for the people. Instead, they’ll probably have more marble columns.
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Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:35 pm to RedRifle
Went to a fundraiser at a house in that neighborhood about a year ago. Insanely nice neighborhood, but I would have thought they'd go back to Chicago.
This post was edited on 5/24/16 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:35 pm to RedRifle
Putin just bought a house there.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:36 pm to RedRifle
Shocked he doesn't want to move back to the Southside
Wait, no I'm not, because it's human nature to want the highest quality of living possible for you and your family
Wait, no I'm not, because it's human nature to want the highest quality of living possible for you and your family
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:36 pm to AbitaFan08
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I would have thought they'd go back to Chicago.
I remember they said they planned to stay in DC until their youngest graduated from Sidwell.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:38 pm to RedRifle
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Imagine the good it could do a struggling DC neighborhood if he moved in and established himself as a figurehead of the community, showing his face at local spots
frick that. Who goes from the White House to the outhouse?
The dude made it, he's not going back after getting a taste of the good life.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:40 pm to RedRifle
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:40 pm to RedRifle
I wouldn't mind moving to DC
One of my top 5 cities in the US id like to live in
One of my top 5 cities in the US id like to live in
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:41 pm to AbitaFan08
Why go back to that shithole and be faced with thousands of problems left in your and your buddy's wake? People are gonna want answers, and he surely doesn't want to answer them
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:41 pm to RedRifle
DC is nice if you have money and full-time Secret Service protection.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:41 pm to AbitaFan08
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but I would have thought they'd go back to Chicago.
They've claimed they want to stay there for their daughters, but "insider" speculation has been that Obama wants to stay heavily connected in politics so that his "legacy" isn't tainted. He wants to be person that sets Democrat political policy for the next 40 years.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:42 pm to RedRifle
I heard he was looking for a house in BR
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:42 pm to Hammertime
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Why go back to that shithole and be faced with thousands of problems left in your and your buddy's wake? People are gonna want answers, and he surely doesn't want to answer them
No one in the MSM questions him now, you think they are going to bother after he's out?
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:42 pm to upgrayedd
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I heard he was looking for a house in BR
I heard that too. Next door to Justin Timberlake, right?
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:43 pm to BACONisMEATcandy
Or the Rockefeller Estate
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His Washington residence, for its part, is a 1920s mansion on more than a dozen acres of land just off Rock Creek Park just four miles north of the White House. The property was assessed at $16.5 million by the D.C. government in 2012, and Zillow currently estimates its value at about $17.7 million.
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The home, called the Rocks, a name chosen before Mr. Rockefeller bought the home, was described in a 2008 pool report (and later condensed into a New York Times reporter’s notebook) by Times reporter Michael Powell this way: “Our night began at The Rocks, Jay Rockefeller’s chateau away from chateau deep in the hills of Rock Creek Park. To reach the site of this particular Obama fundraiser, you wind along the edges of Rock Creek Park and then turn up a steep, long, hey mistah Rockefeller, howabout $3000 to shovel your driveway sort of entryway. … There are oaks and Chestnut trees and then there’s the house, with four Ionic columns and a slate roof and 17 windows across the front and the Rockefellers apparently suffer no critical shortage of guest bedrooms. It is a useful reminder that before the Gates and Bloomberg and Warren B., there was old man John D. Rockefeller, who bequeathed successive generations of descendants a truly astonishing boodle of money.”
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:44 pm to AbitaFan08
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Went to a fundraiser at a house in that neighborhood about a year ago. Insanely nice neighborhood
Was it at Robert McNamara's old house? Perhaps we went to the same fundraiser.
Anyway, I met the brother of the First Dog there. It was a little a-hole.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:45 pm to AbitaFan08
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I heard that too. Next door to Justin Timberlake, right?
Yeah. Same neighborhood as my parents
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:46 pm to Bluefin
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Was it at Robert McNamara's old house? Perhaps we went to the same fundraiser.
Or was it at the Rumsfelds? They live there too. Or Jon Huntsman Jr.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:46 pm to Fun Bunch
I meant the people would be looking to him for answers and solutions that he wants to completely put behind him
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:51 pm to Fun Bunch
I've said since he was first elected that one of the big problems going forward would be that he's young enough to be influential for a long time following his time in office. I don't expect him to fade away gracefully.
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