<p>Jon Favreau is Obama's Chief Speechwriter:</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
<p>When it came time to pick a college, a good friend said he was going to College of the Holy Cross, so Favreau applied, too, and received an academic scholarship. It was while in college that politics really began to entrance him. He took all the political science and sociology classes he could. "The whole gestalt of Holy Cross is how I think about politics," Favreau says, "which is that it's the art of the possible. We can all come together and talk about our differences. We can all come together in the fact that we need to help our community."</p>
<p>Favreau volunteered to help advocate for welfare recipients in Worcester. The experience "left me wondering," he would say, "why I would regularly encounter single working mothers who could not afford food, housing, or medical care, despite the fact that they worked over 40 hours a week. If the idea was to get people off welfare rolls and into jobs, why were the jobs failing to provide even the most basic standard of living? These questions led me to Washington."</p>
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