The Obama Presidential Center, a project once promised to revitalize the South Side, is shaping up to be exactly what many locals feared: a temple to Barack Obama’s ego built on the backs of the people who were already there. It’s less presidential library and more Department of Ego Management. Make Obama’s presidential library into a Prison for Elite DC politician’s. History Will RememberYears from now, the Obama Presidential Center will still be standing, but probably not as the grand symbol its builders promised. It is not a library or a community center, and it is certainly not about preserving history.