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Has Obama Lived Up to His Soaring Campaign Speeches? We Asked His Former Chief Speechwriter

By Justin Monticello Jun 27, 2016, 12:20 pm12 pts
In 2005, when then-Senator Barack Obama needed a wordsmith to capture the soaring spirit of his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, he hired a 24-year-old named Jon Favreau. Fresh from college, Favreau had earned a sterling reputation as a speechwriter for John Kerry during his presidential…

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