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Obama Returns to Chicago Home to Sleep, Cook, ‘Putter in My Backyard’
ABC News ^ | 1 Jun 2012 | Devin Dwyer

Posted on 06/01/2012 7:40:08 PM PDT by mandaladon

CHICAGO — President Obama is back in his adopted hometown tonight for three campaign fundraisers and an overnight stay (sans family) in his private home on the city’s South Side.

“It’s good to be back home. I’m sleeping in my bed tonight. I’m going to go to my kitchen and might cook something. Putter in my backyard,” Obama joked before a crowd of 350 donors at the Chicago Cultural Center. “The White House is nice, but I’m just leasing.”

Obama said he wants to extend that lease for another four years, and argued that voters in November will need to weigh a stark choice before giving him the opportunity.

“The choice in this election will be between a vision that didn’t work in 2000-2008. Didn’t work before the Great Depression. The Gilded Age. We’ve seen this philosophy before. But usually we’ve come to our senses. We see that’s not how democracy is built.”

“That’s the vision we’re going to have to confront and address in this election,” he said. “The good news is when you cut through the noise and just ask people, most people agree with us.”

Obama acknowledged, as he did earlier in the day, that today’s jobs report left much to be desired, attributing the lackluster numbers to the European debt crisis.

“We saw that in today’s job report. A lot of that is attributed to Europe, the cloud coming over the Atlantic. The world economy has been weakened by it, but beyond that we still know too many friends, family out of work. Too many people struggling to pay bills,” he said.

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Putter in Tony Rezco’s backyard. With the SS and Chicago Police providing a ring of steel around him, he and his neighbors will be the only people on the South Side safe from gang gunfire tonight. Last weekend the South Side had ten killed and thirty wounded.


41 posted on 06/01/2012 10:34:57 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: eartrumpet

LMAO Yeah I was wondering what could be in the house worth cooking too.

Where was the wide load? Out flying around in our plane I guess.


42 posted on 06/02/2012 3:59:43 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: One Name

He couldn’t look more GAY than that pic......unless it’s where he’s riding his bike.


43 posted on 06/02/2012 4:07:50 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bgill
Isn’t this the first time he’s been there since the election?

I recall at least one other time, also without the wife and kids.

44 posted on 06/02/2012 4:13:23 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: smalltownslick

The last I heard he rented the house.


45 posted on 06/02/2012 4:26:12 AM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: mandaladon

Obama warns of a return to the policies of 2000-2008.
Did anyone tell him that in 2000, Clinton was president, not Bush??????
Does anyone think the media will highlight this new gaffe?


46 posted on 06/02/2012 4:33:00 AM PDT by CivilWarguy
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To: wetgundog

Getting reaquanted with the homestead...................good


47 posted on 06/02/2012 4:33:19 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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To: wetgundog

Getting reaquanted with the homestead...................good


48 posted on 06/02/2012 4:35:12 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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To: mandaladon

I’m going to go to my kitchen and might cook something

Any dogs in the neighborhood misssing????


49 posted on 06/02/2012 5:06:18 AM PDT by bikerman (Obama lied,economy died.)
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To: bikerman

LOL good one !!!


50 posted on 06/02/2012 7:39:12 AM PDT by mandaladon (PalinGenesis)
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To: Godwin1

Has anyone checked his yard for “Gacy” boys?


51 posted on 06/02/2012 9:05:34 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: mandaladon

Maybe the media will photoshop zipp0's head so the whole world can see what a *man* (haha) he is in his backyard.

52 posted on 06/02/2012 9:12:27 AM PDT by azishot
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To: One Name

OH he getting togehter with former flame HOW CUTE ROFL

NOT


53 posted on 06/02/2012 6:41:01 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: One Name

OH he getting togehter with former flame HOW CUTE ROFL

NOT


54 posted on 06/02/2012 6:41:23 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: bgill

Probably old boyfriend ROFL

They say heart grow fonder when you apart


55 posted on 06/02/2012 6:45:23 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: bgill

Probably old boyfriend ROFL

They say heart grow fonder when you apart


56 posted on 06/02/2012 6:45:42 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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