January 22, 2009

PUTTING WORDS IN OBAMA'S MOUTH

The inaugural speech was written in Starbucks by this 27-year old!



In composing the high notes of the speech, Obama has leant on Favreau, whom he discovered almost by chance four years ago when the younger man was working on John Kerry's failed presidential bid. "Favs" has since studied Obama's speech patterns and cadences with the intensity of a stalker. He memorised the 2004 speech to the Democratic national convention which first brought Obama into the limelight. He is said to carry Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father, wherever he goes. As a result, last November when Favreau sat down to write the first draft of the inaugural address, he could conjure up his master's voice as if an accomplished impersonator.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Mitzi said...

Bunny, what did you think to Aretha's hat?

4:38 PM  

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