Obama’s Speechwriter on Instilling Hope (with Cody Keenan)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Words matter. Coming from the highest office, they have the power to bring the nation together or tear it apart. Andy speaks with Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter Cody Keenan about some of the most high-stakes speeches Obama gave during his presidency, from the aftermath of a white supremacist shooting to the fate of marriage equality, and why his message of redemption resonated so strongly with the American people. Cody also reacts to the pendulum swing that brought us Trump’s hateful language and Biden’s propensity for unscripted remarks.
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| 0:56.0 | Welcome to the bubble with Andy Slavitt. |
| 1:19.0 | The midterms are two weeks away. If we've learned anything in the past year with the Dive decision, |
| 1:26.0 | elections really do matter. Go back to the year 2000, the Gore versus Bush, |
| 1:32.0 | and where we would be in climate now. You can go to 2016 and say, |
| 1:36.0 | what if Donald Trump had not won? How would the world be different today? |
| 1:41.0 | We have that scope in front of us, which is we're going to reshape another generation of world events. |
| 1:50.0 | That's a good framing for today's conversation with Cody Keenan. |
| 1:53.0 | There was a pivotal moment in the Obama administration in 2015 when a whole bunch of issues were converging with similar kind of feel to the way Dobbs felt today. |
| 2:07.0 | Over the course of 10 days, we were waiting for a scotus ruling on whether gay marriage would be legal in this country, |
| 2:15.0 | but the Affordable Care Act and its pre-existing addition protections would remain the law of the land. |
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