Obama Gets Personal With Voters

Seeking to shake criticism that he’s nothing more than a talented orator, Barack Obama has spent the week meeting voters face-to-face, the New York Times reports. His massive primary-campaign rallies were energizing, but also “isolating,” said his chief strategist. So instead the presumptive Democratic nominee has hosted round-table discussions, toured a hospital, school, and retirement home, and met privately with a family.

But the smaller-scale events didn't prevent him from tossing some hard words at Republicans: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” he said, quoting The Untouchables. (More Barack Obama stories.)