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Posted: 6/2/2012
CHICAGO All President Barack Obama wanted to do was go home.No, not to the fancy government house in Washington. He wanted the familiar bed at his Kenwood/Hyde Park house in Chicago. The comfy chair. Maybe watch some ESPN. Chill.'I am sleeping in my bed tonight,' he told a group of fellow Chicagoans at a fundraiser Friday evening. 'I'm going to go into my kitchen. I might cook something for myself, putter around in the backyard a little bit.'Can't blame him, not after a day like Friday. Not with a jobs report that could put his own job in jeopardy. So there he will be, home alone, with his own thoughts and a security detail, puttering. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters would not be joining himHe'd been pining for this for a while. Last month, while in Chicago for a NATO summit, the leader of the free world couldn't even buy a ride home.'Despite being 15 minutes away from my house, nobody would let me go home,' he said at a post-summit news conference. 'I was thinking I would be able to sleep in my own bed tonight. They said I would cause even worse traffic. So I ended up staying in a hotel.'No such limitations this time.The last time Obama stopped by his home was in January. It was a quick visit, not an overnight stay.If you have a nice house with a mortgage between $500,000 and $1 million at a rate of 5.265 percent (according to his 2011 financial report), you might want to spend a night or two in there.He last slept in the house on April 2011, when he was in Chicago on a fundraising trip.He was fundraising in his home city again on Friday, with three events packed into four hours. He added at least $3.5 million to the estimated $1.8 million he raised earlier Friday in Minneapolis.But the love bestowed by his high-dollar donors was weak solace compared with the dismal jobs report from the Labor Department. Only 69,000 jobs created in May and an uptick in unemployment to 8.2 percent, the first i