Barack Obama’s a swell guy, always willing to help out Chicago museums with federal taxpayer money… whether they need it or not.

In 2007, after he began his presidential campaign, Obama sought a $1 million federal earmark for the Chicago Children’s Museum to build a new facility. The museum, as of the end of fiscal 2007, had revenue in excess of expenses of $23 million, and net assets of $37 million.

If a museum is sitting on millions in profits, shouldn’t they spend some of that before taxpayers nationwide are asked to kick in?

The Chicago Children’s Museum just happens to be a client of David Axelrod’s firm, ASK Public Strategies, according to Businessweek.

Marathon Pundit has more background on the legal wrangling of the museum wanting to move to a new location. The Next Right looks at two Obama earmarks worth $3,300,000 to the Adler Planetarium, another Chicago museum… whose board consists of many big-ticket Obama donors.