Did Obama quote my article, Jon?
HAVE YOU READ Barack Obama’s speech he delivered in the University of Indonesia last Wednesday? Some said it was “really moving and somehow personal,” some cited the speech was “something coming from the heart.”
Well, whatever you think about the speech, I heard it was written by Ben Rhodes. Yep, it was Ben, not Jon Favreau, no, not Jon “the hot” Favreau — another speechwriter of his.
What, why, Anita, does it make any difference if the speech was written by Jon the Hot [is he married anyway]?
Personally, for me, it does! Because I have this crazy thought that Obama’s speechwriter or even Obama himself probably HAD READ my paper, specifically my article, and even used a quote from the article me and Armando (my coworker, we shared bylines in the article) wrote a week before Obama came to the country.
Crazy right? Yes, I am saying that Obama quoted a quotation in my article.
Here’s the thing I am bragging about:

