The crafting of Obama's Cairo speech to world Muslims
He sat with his legs crossed in an armchair in the Oval Office, his brow furrowed. Aides clustered on the couches around him. They could see black scratch marks all over their proposal for the most sensitive speech of his young presidency -- his long-promised address to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims.
For weeks, they had toiled over the text. Now, some stole glances at the lead writer, 31-year-old Ben Rhodes, as the lengthening silence confirmed ...
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I'm pro-Obama but this seems little more than a ploy to raise his approval rating.