Speach writers? What for? I thought Joe went out there and raw dogged it all the time. Heck, even if they wrote a complete script for him, he couldn't stay on topic because of his lack of staying focused. It must be pretty hard for the writers to come up with great lines and then have him chop those lines to pieces. Oh well, they still get paid even if their words are never spoken. Yea, I figured the President would write his own speaches and then have someone read it and add or delete as necessary. But to have ten folks write for you, that's wrong in my mind. That is putting THEIR words in front of the voters instead of the ideas of the President.