Obama gets personal: Politico

Quoted via Politico:

Barack Obama is a storyteller, and lately he has been telling lots of them: tales of sick children and a dying parent, of religious discovery and of a magical journey across the American West. 

The stories have something in common: They all spring from Obama’s own life. And all of them have been invoked in recent weeks to establish a bond with an audience or promote an argument about his agenda. 

Listen carefully to Obama’s speeches, and there is almost always something personal. It might be a reference to a family member — parents, wife or daughters — an aside about their new routine in the White House or an anecdote from his early life.  more