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Lebezniatnikov
Stupidity Annoys Me

Registered: Feb 2004
Location: DC
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| quote: | Jon Favreau has the worst and the best job in political speechwriting. His boss is a best-selling author who doesn't really need his help, having written the 2004 speech that catapulted him onto the national stage. At the same time, the same boss also happens to be capable of delivering a speech in ways that can give his audience the goosebumps.
But Barack Obama is more than a little busy campaigning across Iowa and New Hampshire right now. So it was Favreau who led the team that wrote Obama's victory speech in Des Moines last week—a moment that prompted the TV pundits to drop months of skepticism about Obama's candidacy to make breathless comparisons with the Kennedy era.
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The pitch worked. Favreau and Obama rapidly found a relatively direct way to work with each other. "What I do is to sit with him for half an hour," Favreau explains. "He talks and I type everything he says. I reshape it, I write. He writes, he reshapes it. That's how we get a finished product.
"It's a great way to write speeches. A lot of times, you write something, you hand it in, it gets hacked by advisers, it gets to the candidate and then it gets sent back to you. This is a much more intimate way to work."
Some speeches are much more the product of the candidate himself. Obama e-mailed Favreau his draft of his announcement speech in Springfield, Ill., at 4 a.m. on the morning of the campaign launch last February. |
http://www.newsweek.com/id/84756
In addition, Obama wrote the "Race Speech" on his own, as he has the speech planned for tonight.

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Aug-28-2008 11:40
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Sonic_c
Heaven Scent

Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Midlands
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The first order of business for Obama's team was charting a course for his first two years in the Senate. The game plan was to send Obama into the 2007-2008 election cycle in the strongest form possible," writes Mendell in his forthcoming bio Obama: From Promise to Power. A review copy of the richly detailed and largely positive book was sent to me yesterday. "The Plan, as his team called it, was formalized on a computer file and was consistently updated as events occurred. It was primarily molded by [top adviser David] Axelrod, [communications chief Robert] Gibbs, [Senate office boss Pete] Rouse and Obama. The plan was broken into four quarters per year, with the first quarter being dedicated to hiring Senate staff, learning the names of faces of Washington, writing his book, launching his own political action committee to raise money and turning down the volume on his publicity machine," writes Mendell.
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