Obama speechwriter departing White House

LATimes ^ | September 30, 2011 | Peter Nicholas

[maggief]

One of the young wordsmiths behind President Obama’s oratory is leaving the administration, a crack in a close-knit speechwriting team that helped propel Obama to the White House and has played a major role in shaping his words ever since.

Adam Frankel is leaving to become executive director of Digital Promise, a new nonprofit group that will explore ways technology can be used to strengthen education.

“I worked with the president on a lot of his education speeches,’’ Frankel said in an interview Friday. “So I was thinking about what I want to do and I realized that I wanted to see if I could have some kind of impact in education.’’

Frankel, 30, was part of the original core of campaign wunderkinds led by Jon Favreau and Ben Rhodes who toiled on speeches as Obama slogged his way past Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. Today is his last day.

At the White House, Frankel’s forte was speeches that involved issues of morality and history. When Obama would be called on to give a eulogy, the assignment often fell to Frankel.

[Doomonyou]

Foul mouth of Sauron!

[PLD]

Now that is a great one..Thanks for the laughs..

God Bless!!

[COUNTrecount]

Thanks and same to you!

[EDINVA]

So Frankel is very good at writing speeches that say nothing (when/if analyzed).

[ex91B10]

Writing at an 8th grade level must take its toll on the team.

[RobinOfKingston]

... to become executive director of Digital Promise, a new nonprofit group...

None of these bastages know how to work for a living.

[little jeremiah]

FW - thought you might be interested in this.

[Fantasywriter]

Thanks for the ping. It’s not as if Axelrod was coy about it. He said reelecting Obama would be a “titantic” struggle. A lot of Rats are contemplating the fate of the Titanic and disembarking while they still can. Axelrod gets the prize for the worst possible word choice—evoking, as he did, the delectable image of the entire Dem hitting the Nov ‘12 iceberg and sinking like a rock through water.