Obama’s house (and a bit of news)

December 6, 2020 • 3:15 pm

I think it’s been a long time since the Obama family have visited their fancy house—a mansion, really—in Kenwood, not too far from where I live. I believe they have a house in Washington, D.C., and have recently bought an $11.75 million house in Edgartown, on Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts). Here’s the Edgartown property. Crikey! But what with the sales of their books, they can well afford it.

Here’s the Washington D. C. house, worth 8.1 million and located in the Kalorama area of the city. This is a nice one, too:

In fact, it’s not clear whether Obama even owns the house his family used to inhabit in Chicago. I walked by it on my constitutional today, and it was still cordoned off and festooned with Secret Service signs.

Here are a couple of iPhone photos. If he doesn’t own it, why are the signs still up? Presumably, one could also see a sale recorded in Chicago real-estate records.

The whole street used to be blocked off with cement blocks, with patrol cars idling right nearby at each end of the block, and nobody could enter that street save the people who lived there. Now anybody can walk down the block, but the street is still prohibited to non-resident vehicular traffic. Here you can see three sets of concrete barriers. Obama’s (erstwhile) house is on the right with the white trim.

I once thought he’d move back to Hawaii after his Presidency, but that was a foolish speculation, since he’d be far from the levers of power, and it’s pretty crowded on Oahu, where he grew up.

So that’s that.

And now, the news—not fake news since it was tweeted by the President-Eject:

The China Virus! Sounds like a movie. Why didn’t he just say “coronavirus”? Well, we know why. As for Trump carrying on, his legal gambits about voting have all failed, and only 45 days till he’s out of the White House!

 

33 thoughts on “Obama’s house (and a bit of news)”

  2. That would be only 35 days left to pile it up. I’ve become convinced that this whole show since November 3 has been for raising money. That would explain the clown car legal team. They don’t have to be effective. They just have to perform well for the crowd in front of the tent. It’s pathetic that so few Republicans are willing to call it like it is.

  3. Hmmm… which means there’s a good chance that we’ll very shortly be hearing something quite similar about Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and the rest of the legal aces on the Elite Strike Force Kraken-Riders team…

  4. About that house on Martha’s Vineyard …

    It is ironic.

    Former President Obama believes

    1) BlueTeam will stop Global Warming and his house will be safe; or
    2) He knows there is no actual threat of the ocean rising; or
    3) He actually believes we are doomed to sea rise, but considers that property disposable.

    I wonder which. Seriously. What does he wife believe? Seriously.

    In any case, it is a very bold gesture of hubris to purchase and flaunt such a property, based on the climate change contention, not to mention the wealth inequality contention.

    The picture posted above is a view due south over Edgartown Great Pond, with a low sandbar the only obstacle to the Atlantic Ocean’s attacks. I lived on that Island for 3 years in the 1970s, and continue a fond connection with it. The Atlantic then and now makes assaults on the sandbar. It has to be fought with bulldozers and ocean-going dredges constantly.

    Good luck Mr. Obama, but watch out for bluefish in the basement.

      1. Fair enough. However, you won’t have him to kick around much longer.

        Moreover … I’ll up your Trump and raise you a Gates cottage in Del Mar, right on the ocean — 120 feet of ocean frontage.

        Again, I challenge … do these BlueTeam people know there’s no danger, or do they think their policy will end sea rise?

          1. Mr. Obama’s face hit my foot when he bought a house on the ocean at sea level and spent millions on it based on income from books touting egalitarianism and climate crisis.

          2. I’m reminded of an influential humanist who eloquently writes about animal suffering but eats foie gras and wears elephant leather boots :\

          3. Obama’s an optimist. He likely believes mankind will bite the bullet and get serious about forestalling climate change.

          4. BTW… anyone know if taxpayers have to pay for an out-of-office tho never-conceded Trmp family members? Melania? Don? Eric? Ivanka? Jared?

        2. … you won’t have him to kick around much longer.

          That’s what Dick Nixon promised when he got his ass handed to him by Pat Brown in the 1962 California gubernatorial race. Look how that turned out.

          Word round the campfire is that Trump’s thinking of holding a rally to kick off his 2024 presidential campaign at the same time as Biden’s inauguration. I plan to keep kicking him around until he disappears from public life.

          1. Maybe T could make appearances at rally, inauguration, and still have time for a round of golf.

  6. Not to be churlish, but isn’t 35 really 45, or is there some 10 days when nobody’s the pres.

    If so, maybe the Mass murderer could be arrested then, with bail of $10 to the power 131313.

  7. How do you get 35 days? I get 25 days in December, and 20 days in January. Just wondering.
    I am assuming that Rudy will qualify for the mono-clonal antibody treatment, which seems to be a very effective treatment. Otherwise he might be quite vulnerable.

  8. I heard the Obama’s also have a private jet to get around in. No need to live in Hawaii when you can just jet over any time. Really hard being rich and famous. Good pension too.

  9. It’s not the China virus, it’s the Trump virus. He is the owner of most of the deaths.

  10. Their Martha’s Vineyard property is likely to be under water, or very close to it, by the end of the Century, but it’ll be their heirs that will have to worry about that, not them.

    1. They’ll figure out how to write it off their taxes and probably come out ahead, if their ancestor-to-be is any indication of what they’ll be like.

  12. It’s not clear to me why Obama would want to return to Hawaii. It seems he only spent a small proportion of his life living there. Even if he had a desire to return to the place where he spent some of his childhood, Michelle must have an equal say in where they live and she has no connection to Hawaii whatsoever.

    Also, to my eye, the first two houses are pretty ugly. The Washington house in particular looks like what an American architect who’d never set foot in the UK would think a Scottish laird’s manor should look like.

  13. I wish you good health, Mr. Guliani, and a long and successful recovery.
    Long enough that it does not pay off for anyone to cram him under the bus. The cordial friendship of prominents (currently in the USA) is best strengthened by insurance. Rudy Guliani often joked that he had such insurance.

    And Hawaii is beautiful at any time of the year.(I think once, I even had a dream about Hawaii.)

    China, Japan and Israel, Russia and India and Germany are also beautiful.

    1. The dream of Hawaii was very beautiful, I was lying under leaves in the open sky.
      Only later did the terrible storm break out.

      I am sorry for this banal digression.

      It is a bit unbecoming on a serious scientific forum.

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