Washington Post: Palin Didn’t Write Her Own Speech
According to the opinionators at the Washington Post, Palin’s speech doesn’t matter because she had speech writers. Or, more accurately, because McCain’s campaign speech writers re-wrote her original speech.
Am I the only one thinking that’s more than a little petty? All politicians have speech writers. Politicians haven’t been writing their own speeches since probably the advent of television. Hell, maybe since the advent of radio.
McCain’s got speech-writing professionals working on his campaign. Presidential campaign-caliber writers who are, no doubt, pretty dang good at their jobs.
Regardless, that criticism of Palin’s prepared speech is coming from people whose championed candidate who, when asked to deliver a speech without a few rehearsals and a teleprompter, sounds a bit like a slow fourth grader reading a report about American politics is more than a little ironic.
Update: Surprise, surprise. The “Palin didn’t write her own speech” talking point is coming directly from the Obama campaign.
The speech that Gov. Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush’s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years. If Gov. Palin and John McCain want to define ‘change’ as voting with George Bush 90 percent of the time, that’s their choice, but we don’t think the American people are ready to take a 10 percent chance on change.
Anyone else notice that the Obama campaign didn’t have a direct shot at Palin in there? Just more Bush-bashing.
Someone should remind Obama that Bush isn’t on the ticket this year. Someone should also ask Obama who writes his speeches.
