Michelle Obama: 'Barack Obama gets it'

[babylonsister]

Michelle Obama: 'Barack Obama gets it'

In tough times, campaign closers come down to a few words: Who 'gets it?'
Posted October 24, 2008 12:20 PM


Michelle Obama in the battlegrounds: Today it was Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday Gainesville, Fla.: Photo by Rob C. Witzel, Gainesville Sun)
The Swamp

by Mark Silva


With the Democratic nominee for president away in Hawaii to see his "gravely ill'' grandmother, Michelle Obama campaigned for Barack Obama in Ohio today.

The candidate's wife distilled a message that Obama has attempted to drive home about the difference between himself and Republican rival John McCain during a tough time for working families and people without jobs or health insurance - McCain, the Obama campaign maintains, "doesn't get it.'' Obama, his wife said, "gets it.''

"What I know is, my husband Barack Obama gets it,'' she said. "He gets it.''

The campaigning spouse also demonstrated why the Democrat wasn't forfeiting all that much, politically, by spending more than a day off the campaign trail with less than two weeks to go - though certainly there could be an empathetic edge to be gained in the trip to see grandma.

"She's doing OK,'' Michelle Obama said of the grandmother whom they call "Toot.'' She helped raise Barack, she noted.

"She's tough. Her birthday is on Sunday... I asked Barack the other day, how are you doing this (campaigning)? You are tough. He said, I got my toughness from Toot....

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[nichomachus]

1. Cindy McCain: John McCain doesn't get it

and he ain't getting any until he apologizes for calling me a you-know-what.

[markevil]

2. Obama stay in Hawaii....Michelle's got this...

Amazing speech....First time in my adult life that politics has put a lump in my throat (Obama or Michelle)...

[VWolf]

3. Need a good photoshopper

The above picture of Michelle, with the "Everyone chill the fuck out, I got this" text.

That would be choice.

[babylonsister]

5. That would be hawt; I think it's a great pic of Michelle. nt

[OxQQme]

6. What a beautiful lady.

The slight smile on that SS dude, with his hand on her arm to pull her back from any possible harm, looks like he's very proud and pleased to be there as protector, and pleased with the response shown from the crowd.

[cjsmom44]

4. What a first Lady!

What an amazing woman...We will be so blessed to have her as first lady.....