The Voice of Generation Obama (Kasper Verkaik, VPRO 2009)

This documentary profiles the Obama campaign's massive youth movement and Obama's 27-year-old speechwriter Jon Favreau.

What made the Obama speeches so appealing to young people? And why does the Millennial generation born after 1981, and now coming of age as voters, seem the perfect generation for Obamas message of hope and optimism? What impact did the campaign rhetoric have on the Millennials and is Obamas young speechwriter Jon Favreau the voice of this new generation?

Young campaign volunteers in Virginia and Obama's national student leader in Washington DC explain how the Obama speeches inspired them to join the movement. There are also interviews with Jon Favreau's former college professors. Who is Jon Favreau? What shaped his political views? And how much of the speeches that gave words to the hope, aspirations and energy of a new generation is Jon, and how much is Obama?

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Obama
• Favreau
• generation
• 2.0
• Internet
• speech
• youth movement
• elections
• speechwriter
• campaign
• milennial

[boots920]

New boss is looking like the old boss

Counterfeiting money won't solve anything

[leninstreet]

Let's see that hope and yes we can after a couple of years of bailout and rising unemployment. Obama is a product of the corrupt American political system. The system is fueled by money and influence. It is build upon ignorance of obvious truths and emphasis of blatant lies. Until America is ready to face reality words will remain useless.

[stap0510]

@RondelleDerable

This wasn't a real documentary.

It missed contrasting views, for an example.

[RondelleDerable]

Interesting look at the "youth" movement in the Obama campaign. What I missed from the filmmaker, or from VPRO (as a gatekeeper of sorts) was a critical look at this movement. Was Obama taking advantage of youth's idealism? Its wishful thinking? Would love to see a follow-up to this film, see what this youth thinks of Obama's bank bail outs, for example. I'm not asking for pessimism, but a little reality perhaps.

[ribcat]

Obama is da man

[akieya02]

People need to get a life, sitting around the Internet watching videos of someone you claim to not like and even worse "hate"? You dont even know that man..your party lost the election..get over it. If half of you would spend the amount of time and energy pertaining to bettering your own lives then being bitter watching this President all day, this country wouldn't be struggling like it is. Both Wall Street and the American people are to blame for this mess. Take accountibility and move on

[caymanhost]

It is sad.

The exploitation of the young, written by the young and delivered by a Wall Street servant who happens to be a good actor.

A generation and a nation brainwashed and propagandized, and slowly turned into communist drones. This man is no Martin Luther King.

What a cruel, cruel hoax.

[EgyptianPrinceCB]

How different is Obama from Bush???

How different is Obama from McCain??????

[zacky89]

Yes Indeed.

Jon Favreau,

its no difference

TED SORENSON, SPEECHWRITER FOR JFK.

Even The Funny Guy, Bushy

had a speechwriter.

that is the author of the new book.

;-)

[wakkaboom1987]

look at all those white people behind Obama. i bet they're regretting everything they did for him after realizing that his stronghold and main reason for his WIN WIN came from a young smart white kid who went to catholic school.

Black people don't need to know, shhhh.

[666j1]

Dank je wel vpro om alles op bittorrent(isohunt) te zetten.

[thomas242007]

I cant beleive people bought into obamas bullshit, you got tricked again people this president is a wolf in sheep clothing, hes wanting to change america yes but its starting to resemble a communist fascist state, redistribution of wealth sound familiar?? Obama is a fraud and Liar