The buzz from many media pundits after Governor Sarah Palin's successful speech last night was that she didn't right her speech. So the inference is that although the speech was excellent, the ideas and accomplishments weren't really Gov. Palin's because a speechwriter was involved. Could the members of the press who have advocated this position be more silly?
I guess it may be news to the many politicos who cover these campaigns that all Presidential campaigns employ speechwriters. Senator Obama's campaign employs three speechwriters as detailed in a January 20, 2008 article in the New York Times titled What Would Obama Say?
Mr. Favreau, or Favs, as everyone calls him, looks every bit his age, with a baby face and closely shorn stubble. And he leads a team of two other young speechwriters: 26-year-old Adam Frankel, who worked with John F. Kennedy’s adviser and speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen on his memoirs, and Ben Rhodes, who, at 30, calls himself the “elder statesman” of the group and who helped write the Iraq Study Group report as an assistant to Lee H. Hamilton.
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