"My job is to give Bush words to explain his policy, in his logic"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Former Wall Street Journal editorial writer William McGurn (search) replaced Michael Gerson (search) recently as chief speechwriter for President Bush. Ever since McGurn was accepted into the administration for Bush's second term, White House watchers have been keenly looking for any changes in the president's presentations.

"My job is not the president's image. My job is to give him the words to explain his policy in his language, in his tone of voice, in his logic," McGurn said in an interview with FOXNews.com. "It's not my speech; it's the president's speech."

Over the years, much ado has been made about whether the speechwriter actually "makes the man" who sits in the Oval Office, in terms of creating his persona.

"In general, writers and journalists tend to overestimate the role that speechwriters play in shaping a president's image," said Jennifer Grossman (search), a former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush who is now director of the Dole Nutrition Institute. Most experts agree that rather than the speechwriter making the man, it's usually the other way around — at least in the modern day.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156156,00.html

[tx_dem41]

1. Toughest job in the world....n/t

[catnhatnh]

2. Why no Tex..

...an' let me tell ya why, see...even though fightin' terrarism an buildin' democracy is hard work, figurin out a moron speech paterns ain't...Fooled you once and you shouldn't aughta get fooled again,you see...

[flordehinojos]

3. a part of me wants to say, "are you sure? it shouldn't be tough to find

words for a two or three year old." But then, the other part of me says, "Darn right! you are right! it must be tough to find the words to make a two or three year old sound like a coherent adult human being." So far ... MISSION ACCOMPLISHED--NOT!