CODY KEENAN
George W. Bush and his White House Staff were of a generation that only thiought of a personal computer as a Word Processing and e-mailing machine. In the 8 years of the Bush Presidency, there were dramatic and dynamic breagthouhs on PCs and digital technology. But they percieved no need for anything more, The younger, much more technoplogically savy Obama and his staff were shocked that the headquarters of the most important leader in the world was so far behind the times in their digital capability, The White House Website that was being used was that developed in teh first Clinton Administration which then was the state of the art. But more than 15 years later, it was ancient and decrepid. The Obama Team leaped into the future with a very sophisticated new website whcih was the backbone of Obama's highly sophisticated digital communications strategy.
Cody Keenan is an American political advisor and speechwriter who served as the Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama. Keenan studied political science at Northwestern University. After graduation, he worked in the senate office of Ted Kennedy, before studying for a master's in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. After graduation, he took a full-time position on the Barack Obama presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, he took on the position of Deputy Director of Speechwriting; after Jon Favreau left the White House in 2013, Keenan took over as Director of Speechwriting.