Is Favreau Finished?
January 13, 2010
by The New Agenda
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Is Favreau gonzo?
You’ll recall Obama’s young speechwriter who thought it was a pretty cool thing to post a picture of his drunken self groping a cardboard figure of Secretary Clinton in December 2008. The New Agenda, then a 4 month old organization, spoke out in the media to call this prankster out.
The Washington Post is reporting:
In a scene from a recent HBO documentary about the Obama campaign, the candidate’s chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau, looks exhausted after churning out a victory address following the last Democratic primary.
Asked about the tone of the June 3 remarks, he shrugs: “Hope. Change. Y’know.”
A year into the Obama presidency, the White House appears to have had enough of that speech, too.
The rhetorical crescendo upon which Obama soared into office worked wonders in the campaign. But for Obama, governing has been less a grand narrative sweep than a grueling incremental push powered by exposition and argument. And especially on the delicate world stage, Obama has turned to Ben Rhodes to make the case.
And adds:
But this has been a year in the legislative trenches, and the most discerning consumers of Obama’s words — the battle-hardened political people in Congress and the media — got impatient with the oratorical lift. On the complicated international stage, the president had steadily moved away from the “Yes we can” and “Fired up” narratives that sent a thrill up the leg of Chris Matthews and made Favreau famous, and has worked Rhodes’s metronomic beats into domestic speeches as well.
Rhodes said that it was “a false dichotomy” to parse the president’s speech into Favreau’s flourish and his own all-business bluntness. “We complement each other,” he said. “I was able to pick up the rhythms of political campaign speechwriting. I had basically been focused on articulating policy.”
We’ll be watching – and cheering for this young punk to be kicked to the curb!
Wow…Obama is going from rousing rhetoric to the tune of celestial choirs to the static drip,drip,drip tonality of reading an ancient toom? Cheers on that….not.
Remember if they dump Favreau it will be because they are finished with him not because they care what women think.
The picture above was the intended message. “Hope. Change. Y’know” was just the fig leaf handed by Obama to faugressives so they could vote for him with moral smugness intact.
It’s served its purpose. The punk’s replacement can begin working on O’s “This isn’t the Favreau I knew” speech anytime.
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