On Hardball: Obama's 'Gut Moment' With Daughter May Quiet Critics

Geoffrey | May 27, 2010
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Both Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd were taken aback by Barack Obama delivering a "personal connection moment" in today's press conference when he told reporters that his daughter Malia asked him: "Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?" Of the anecdote Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, declared he delivered "personally there, in a way he rarely does."