Does anyone get the picture that Obama GETS "IT"?

[Taverner]

Watching him speak, reading his comments, listening to his interviews...this is a guy who gets it - whatever "it" is.

McCain does not.

Bush does not.

Kerry didn't.

Gore acted like he didn't (even though he did)

Clinton got it.

What do you think?

[Bucky]

1. IT?

Do tell.

I know I got it, but they gave me shots.

[Taverner]

4. Hard to explain

But more or less what its like to be on the ground

What its like to have to pay rent, work for a paycheck, pay for day care, commute in traffic, etc....

[Bucky]

9. Oh, that 'it.' My new hero Sarah Palin "gets it" too!

Psych!

[Taverner]

10. Um no

She rode wherever she had to ride by either fucking her way to the top, or giving the impression she would fuck you to ride to the top

It's all in their playbook

She never had to work a real day in her life

[AndyA]

2. Yup.

Obama was never my choice. In fact, for a very long time I said I would not support him and I would not vote for him.

He is not perfect, but he is far, far, far better than anything the GOP could ever come up with! And, we have to start somewhere. I think Barack will be a great start to putting America in the direction it needs to go.

I do think Barack "gets it" and it took me a while to see that in him.

[gravity]

3. He is a true leader

Many people can fake it, but Obama is one of the rare few who gets it

[Taverner]

5. It's beyond mere leadership

Leadership is important, but so is knowing what's going on at the ground level.

What does the average American do from the moment they wake up, to the moment they go to sleep

McCain married into money, so he doesn't know

[gravity]

13. That's why he is a real leader

He is able to command respect, while able to see the world from other points of view and even from those who he disagrees with. Not only does he know where he stands, but where his opponents stand and why they feel that way. It's a rare quality, and that is why he gets it

[haunted]

6. I get it

I get it that he reads from the prompter real well but starts to hmmm and hmmm if he looses it. :)

[Celebration]

7. Welcome to DU, no matter how long you stay n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

24. pizza was served above nt

[Taverner]

8. Well then watch him when he's not on prompter

At that point, he "gets it"

[high density]

11. .

[dbmk]

15. Its called thinking before you speak.

If Bush or McCain tried that, we would all think we had tinnitus for years.

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Clinton sorta got it.

Gore got it on an intellectual level but got stuck there.

Obama gets it. He just plain gets it, in a way that nobody since FDR has gotten it.

I'm in the midst of reading Lakoff's the Political Mind, and I heard Obama's "quiet deperation" speech, and I was able to map that speech back onto Lakoff's ideas, and saw how Obama is not only putting those ideas into practice, but eclipsing them. Even his "family is off limits" remarks were brilliantly executed, and will resonate forever. He's taking over the national narrative, advancing in every speech. e is brilliant, he empowers those who hear him.

Yeah. Obama gets it.

[Taverner]

16. For Clinton, it nailed it for me when asked the price of common goods

A reporter asked both Bush Sr. and Clinton the price of a gallon of milk, a gallon of gas, a loaf of bread and Clinton was pretty much spot on. Bush Sr. was way off, almost in Montgomery Burns territory (thinking a loaf of bread would cost a quarter in 1990!)

Gore I think got it, but he also played that down in 2000 for some reason - no idea why.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. for all the Kennedy esque comparisons, when I listen to and watch Obama, it's FDR

I envision.

and FDR did get it
and LBJ did get it in many ways
JFK got it but
RFK got it more

[Taverner]

21. LBJ did not get Vietnam

That was a mistake with his name written all over it

[yellowdogintexas]

23. exactly which is why I said he got it in some way. When it came to what

the downtrodden, disadvantaged and poor needed, LBJ did get that. Our impression of him would be so different without Vietnam

[Taverner]

25. Yes but Vietnam was enough

Just like Watergate was enough. Despite the SALT talks, China Diplomacy and the creation of the EPA - he is a bad President just because of Watergate - and his prolonging of Vietnam.

[RoadRage]

14. Yes.. it's stunning.

Everytime something has happened in the past couple of weeks - I would wonder, "HOW IS OBAMA GOING TO RESPOND TO THIS"?

And each time i'm blown away by his perfect response.... he takes the perfect tone that can't be criticized, and that reaffirms his true belief in not playing dirty politics, but yet he still stands up for himself. It's astounding - and it's great to see how much it's pissing off the republicans that are just hoping for any Gaffe so they can get the attention back on him.

[Taverner]

17. Family is off limits is great

I may not personally agree, but he is ethically correct.

[RoadRage]

20. He played it perfectly..

Obama knew that the press will do whatever the hell they want to do - they've done it plenty AGAINST him as well. So, he takes the high ground, and knows full well that if the press wants to sniff around the story - they're going to do it anyway.

No reason to add fuel to the fire, he looks better for it anyway.

[Orsino]

18. He talks around it...

...but comes closer to "it" than any of the others you mentioned, including both Clintons.

It's the money, stupid. Money rules us. For all our talk of populism, no one is talking about rousting the goddamned corporate lobbyists.

But if Obama can help the few remaining liberals sneak in a restriction of Big Money's influence, his Administration won't have been wasted. Let's keep agitating.

[holiday]

22. I think it's because he is not too far gone from what middle/lower

class go thru on daily basis. That is what he gets. He understands it. Even with success he has not forgotten