Over the last 48 hours, most of the water cooler talk in our office has been about Joe Wilson’s outburst during President Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress. 
My colleague, Jeff Shesol, helped put my rage at Wilson’s rage in perspective in this recent post to Politico’s Arena.  He came across a letter in which the [...]

“Commencement speeches,” the cartoonist Garry Trudeau once quipped, “were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.”
As commencement season rolls around, this post falls (once again) into the category of shameless self promotion. 
But as two of the many who have suffered through [...]

The unwritten rule among speechwriters is that we are heard, but rarely heard from.
But what about when they’re heard from, without actually ever being heard.  Such is the strange case of Jacob Rigg, who has been making a name for himself in the UK claiming to be an Obama speechwriter.
And give him credit for trying [...]