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The brain behind Obama's speeches
Los Angeles Times / latimes.com ^ | September 3, 2010|5:26 p.m. | By Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times

Posted on 09/04/2010 10:46:15 PM PDT by thecodont

Edited on 09/05/2010 8:52:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Reporting from Washington

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adamfrankel; benrhodes; bs; favreau; frankel; jonfavreau; obamawordsmyths; propagandists; rhodes; speechwriter; speechwriters; whitehouse
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To: Candor7

It really upsets me to see the refined and highly esoteric concept of “Kwisatz Haderach” merged into the pedestrian political Marxist hack that is The Usurper.

He who is the Nexus of all possible places at once has nothing in common with Nowhere Man.


21 posted on 09/05/2010 12:03:32 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo is Miley- wily, clever and detractive as all get out!)
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To: thecodont; Candor7



Of course, it should read "Pinko and The Brain."

22 posted on 09/05/2010 12:07:35 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo is Miley- wily, clever and detractive as all get out!)
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To: Terry Mross

A different Jon Favreau.


23 posted on 09/05/2010 12:09:33 AM PDT by cpanter
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To: thecodont

When did our presidents stop speaking on their own? I get speechwriters for major events. Otherwise, it’d be nice to think the man elected to the highest office in the land could construct a statement to reflect his own thoughts and feelings.

When ‘the first thing we do’ is run to a speechwriter to craft a presidential comment, I think we’re all in trouble.


24 posted on 09/05/2010 12:14:30 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: thecodont

There was even a catchy sound bite: “A ticking time bomb.”

WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!

So catchy.... and so original too.


25 posted on 09/05/2010 12:18:29 AM PDT by cpanter
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To: thecodont

Presidents ought to have to write their own dang speeches.


26 posted on 09/05/2010 12:42:45 AM PDT by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote! DeMint, 2012)
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To: thecodont

speeches that fail to inspire people to listen and act on what they hear.

It’s the actions that fail to inspire...
No amount of rhetorical polishing
can fix THAT.


27 posted on 09/05/2010 2:11:28 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: thecodont
speeches that fail to inspire people to listen and act on what they hear

Who is listening to his speeches?

28 posted on 09/05/2010 3:11:32 AM PDT by Need4Truth (the just shall live by faith.)
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To: thecodont

29 posted on 09/05/2010 4:10:47 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (CNN:AP:etc:Today, President Obama's stool was firm and well-formed. One end was slightly pointed. ")
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To: Need4Truth

“Who is listening to his speeches?”

The speechwriters are—to see if he pronounced the words right, so they know when to insert phonetic pronunciation guides in the next speech.

Or, more likely, to admire their handiwork and bask in the warm glow of reflected brilliance from Zero. Favreau is only a couple of years out of college—these guys have no real-world experience. They probably still think Zero is brilliant.


30 posted on 09/05/2010 4:14:17 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: thecodont

Adam must be effective becauee I have been in tears since the day after Obama’s reign of “terror” started in the WH.


31 posted on 09/05/2010 4:17:13 AM PDT by rod1
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To: thecodont

Obama’s strongest point is his speeches. Unfortunately for him, I and a lot of others do not think it is a very strong asset. The writing is terrible and his delivery stinks. That maddening slow motion tennis match thing he does with the prompters, the constant pointing with thumb and forefinger together, the tightening of the throat when he wants to sound emotional, and the otherwise Spock like put on professorial demeanor, make him amateur at best. I can’t believe, outside of the world of politics, that this guy could make a dime as an orator.


32 posted on 09/05/2010 5:15:29 AM PDT by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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To: thecodont

It doesn’t take much of a brain to write “I” and “me” dozens of times. When you write for an empty suit, you get empty words.


33 posted on 09/05/2010 6:22:03 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: thecodont

Here’s how Adam writes for Obama...”ME....ME......ME....I.....MICHELLE.....INHERITED THIS PROBLEM......>ME.....ME....I.....Michelle...ME....I.....I......I.....INHERITED PROBLEM.....ME.......MICHELLE.....INHERITED PROBLEM.....ME.


34 posted on 09/05/2010 7:01:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: sergeantdave

I SWEAR I didn’t read your post first...I SWEAR!! GMTA.


35 posted on 09/05/2010 7:03:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Great minds think alike. :-)


36 posted on 09/05/2010 7:23:46 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: EDINVA

He doesn’t have any thoughts and feelings of his own!!
He repeats what someone else tells him. That’s why he comes across as not caring and insincere...because he doesn’t and he isn’t.


37 posted on 09/05/2010 9:13:56 AM PDT by jch10 (Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war...)
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To: thecodont

: “Most days they would emerge from the dark mine, squinting at the light. Most days, they would emerge, sweaty, dirty, dusted with coal. Most days, they would come home. Most days, but not that day.”

Pedestrian doggerel.


38 posted on 09/05/2010 9:54:23 AM PDT by texmexis best (My)
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To: thecodont

The reason these people think this is poetry is that they have never heard of or read Everitt Dirkson.


39 posted on 09/05/2010 9:57:00 AM PDT by texmexis best (My)
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To: texmexis best

My thought exactly. I was getting ready to paste that line and say something similar but you beat me to it.


40 posted on 09/05/2010 10:21:02 AM PDT by Yardstick
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