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To: TigerPaw who wrote (389852)	6/9/2008 9:44:23 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573933

Did Obama write all this himself? His officials say that he did. But they always say that. There's talk of him dictating the first draft to his speechwriter Jon Favreau and the closing section, no question about it, was a long story Obama has used before. The central idea, though? Definitely Obama's. For nothing is more personal to him than his strategy for dealing with his racial identity. Don't know about that particular speech. I would be surprised if he wrote it by himself. Who owned the concept, I don't know. I would expect Axelrod said, "You need to make a major statement on race". They all use speechwriters, there is nothing new about that. But lest anyone get confused about who is writing Obama's, just about everything you hear from him was written by someone else. I'm sure there are occasions where he gets his own remarks in. The overriding point, to me, is that the speeches are being written by kids. This explains why they are all so idealistic without the slightest consideration given to how one might actually accomplish any of the promises. Long on concept, short on detail. He is very vulnerable on this point, I believe.