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by keg265 on September 7th, 2005

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Why doesn't the US president write his own speeches?

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  • by Alatea on September 9th, 2005

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    The current president has trouble with verbal communication skills
    let alone writing a speech that's worth listening to.

    One must learn how to write first before an attempt is made at speech writing.

    Edit: I often wonder how he made it through high-school.

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  • by Anon on September 8th, 2005

    Anon

    Speech writing is a tough job. The connotations of a single word might become provocation for an international dispute. For this reason, researching for and writing presidential speeches is a full time job - for more than one person. Seeing as the President has a lot of other responsibilities, and might not have been elected on the basis of his speech writing skills, he simply does not have that kind of time to devote to the many speeches he must give. That goes for any U.S. president.

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  • by Persky Bunkermeister on September 14th, 2005

    Persky Bunkermeister

    Presidents don't have time to write their own speeches because their agenda is full of meetings, public appearances and travel. Also, presidents can't be experts on every single thing they have to comment on. Speech writers have to check their work for conformance to law and policy, and consistency to official government position (or lack of position) on the subject at hand.

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  • by Milk Man on September 12th, 2005

    Milk Man

    Why doesn't Ronald McDonald cook and serve to the public his own food? Because he has other people to do it!!!

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  • by Tony on June 5th, 2009

    Tony

    Because he's a President, not a speech writer. Something about the dozens of briefings, meetings with the press, Congress, schools, the military, foreign leaders, etc. that he must attend to.

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  • by Archaeologist on February 2nd, 2006

    Archaeologist

    It's important to note that some presidents have (and continue) to write at least -some- of their own speeches - President Clinton wrote about half of his major speeches, and most presidents of the twentieth century have, at the very least, reviewed the text of all speeches written for them, frequently making edits along the way.

    Incidentally, the law requires that the President of the United States must draft his own State of the Union Speech - though this is frequently edited by speechwriters. In the nineteenth century, presidents were expected to write every word. Thomas Jefferson, for example, who was terrified of public speaking, wrote all of his own speeches (including State of the Union addresses), but had many "read aloud" by friends of the administration.

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  • by Moongrim on June 5th, 2009

    Moongrim

    Because there a kazillion Republicans waiting for him to make a minor fluff so that they can pounce on him and make a mountain out of a molehill.

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  • by snowflake1556 on October 5th, 2005

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    I never knew the US president never wrote his own speeches, but I should have known that none of them do. I wonder who does write a presidents speech. I feel that if you work for the government or as the president you can do whatever you want. It is sad that the US presidents can't write their own speeches. I wonder if they even have a say in what they will say on TV or the newspaper, etc. I wonder if what we haer from the president is really the truth or if someone told him to say what he said.

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  • by faithiskey on June 5th, 2009

    faithiskey

    hmm, part of it may be that he has a little bit more important things to do...but hey, maybe I'm wrong.

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  • by Isaac on June 5th, 2009

    Isaac

    Maybe because he's busy running the country, just a guess.

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  • by Mr. Knowitall- The Poli Sci Guy on June 5th, 2009

    Mr. Knowitall- The Poli Sci Guy

    obama actually does, at least he wrote his campaign speeches, im sure he still writes the majority of each of his current speeches

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  • by Hardcore Conservative on June 5th, 2009

    Hardcore Conservative

    He has a hard enough time, uhh, reading, uhh, the teleprompter.

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  • by Hillbilly on June 5th, 2009

    Hillbilly

    Because Obama is dummer than a bag of rocks.

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  • by what on June 5th, 2009

    what

    and he has time for that.

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  • by Toiletcruncher on June 5th, 2009

    Toiletcruncher

    Because he's too busy shopping for bullet proof vests.

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  • by The Wraith of God is Coming on June 5th, 2009

    The Wraith of God is Coming

    Well he doesn't read the Bills he signs either.

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  • by kittie on June 5th, 2009

    kittie

    It's ok for president Obama to do it. But it wasn't ok for any Republican president to do it.

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