The previous post is one of the most powerful quotes I’ve ever heard, and one I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. A dangerously poignant example of that sort of cultural engineering is this. Live and breathe Obama, be Obama better than him. Give me the face, I’ll give you the words.
“It doesn’t take long to realize that he’s totally synced up with Obama… . He has access to everything and everybody. There’s a lot weighing on his shoulders.”
He has mastered Obama’s writing style — short, elegant sentences — and internalized his boss’s tendency toward reflection and ideological balance.
He helps shape almost every word Obama says, yet the two men have formed a concert so harmonized that Favreau’s own voice disappears.
Obama sometimes jokes that Favreau is not so much a speechwriter as a mind reader.
