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Obama's communications director, Robert Gibbs, called Favreau after Kerry's defeat and asked him to talk to the newly installed senator. "We're looking for a speechwriter," Gibbs told Favreau.

"Why?" asked Favreau.

"If there were 48 hours in a day, we wouldn't need a speechwriter," Gibbs said. "But he needs to work with someone."

Favreau met with Obama and Gibbs in the Senate cafeteria in the Dirksen office building on Capitol Hill on the senator's first day in his new job. Obama didn't want to know about Favreau's résumé, but he did want to know about his motivation.

"What got you into politics, what got you interested?" he asked.

Favreau told him about the social service project he started in Worcester, defending the legal rights of welfare recipients as the state tried to move people off the rolls and into work.

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  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 10/10/2009 12:57:13 AM

    Here it is , October of 09 and Obama STILL isn't for real. We have teleprompter "it's gonna" "we're gonna" I'm gonna" and his ME,MY, I as he spends. Iraq is not concluded yet--just removed from press coverage. He was going to get the terrorists in Afgahnistan but now--NOPE! Stay tuned!
    The health care bid isn't in writing..he wont share it on the web...and it's about lawyers making money any way! not health care!
    Spend money! The economic stimulus didn't ,and cash for clunkers was a clunker way to stimulate or auto industry.
    Cap and trade is a major tax to come! Only that and we now see ACORN was vote rigging on a grand scale! We only touched the tip of the iceberg on this!
    Now he got the Nobel Peace prize and maybe he should give it to the person who really won it!
    The Obamaprompter is a stuffed suit! More Americans will catch on in the months ahead!
    HEY! Has anyone been saving our oil industry with tire gauges,out there? How's it working?

  • Posted By: Hagbard Celine @ 08/20/2009 12:34:24 PM

    Take your meds.

  • Posted By: Hagbard Celine @ 08/20/2009 12:34:04 PM

    "If some one in the Obama administration had experience doing anything REAL it's possible N. Korea and Iran would not be saber sharpening and our economy a bit better off!"

    Uh huh. Who was president when North Korea tested their first nuke?

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