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Fear and Self-Loathing in the White House: Inside Obama’s Quest To ‘Solve Race’ With Fancy Words

Remember Barack Obama, the cocksure memoirist who ran for president to pad his résumé and went on to solve racism and restore peace on earth? The guy whose soaring rhetoric sent thrills of ecstasy coursing through the inner thighs of veteran journalists and millions of American voters who could finally prove to the world they weren’t racist?

That was a different time, back when John Boehner and Mitt Romney were considered existential threats to democracy. When the people in charge of deciding such things decided the white dorks who helped Obama write his speeches would be treated like actual celebrities.

One of those white dorks has written a book about what it was like. Grace by Cody Keenan, the top White House speechwriter during Obama’s second term, is a “behind-the-scenes drama” encompassing a 10-day period in 2015 during which the wunderkind author and his genius boss “composed a series of high-stakes speeches” that changed the world or whatever.

The book is as overwrought and tediously verbose as an Obama speech, describing utensils that “blared patriotic merriment” and the “cobalt, maybe sapphire” color of the president’s tie. Riddled with adjectives and synonyms. Written by a Writer. Keenan, best known for wearing a pirate costume to make fun of Fox News, recounts his noble struggle to prepare speeches for momentous Supreme Court rulings on Obamacare and gay marriage, as well as a eulogy for Clementa Pinckney, the pastor murdered by a racist coward along with eight others at a church in Charleston, S.C.

The story eventually culminates in a viral moment the average voter might vaguely remember seeing on Facebook or YouTube. The time Obama sang “Amazing Grace” at the pastor’s funeral. It is regarded by people who regard such things as the “most famous” of the 44th president’s speeches. And it almost didn’t happen. Obama didn’t want to give the eulogy until Valerie Jarrett ordered him to do it. Keenan didn’t want to write it because of time constraints and white guilt and imposter syndrome. Grace is intended for people who find this “drama” compelling.

The way Keenan describes it, being Obama’s top speechwriter


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