Nothing new - Bush had very young speechwriters too: http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:-EuLK3eajXIJ:americasfuture.org/doublethink/2008/02/dcs-kid-speechwrit

Nothing new - Bush had very young speechwriters too: http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:-EuLK3eajXIJ:americasfuture.org/doublethink/2008/02/dcs-kid-speechwriters/ http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:-EuLK3eajXIJ:americasfu... Now, I'd be fascinated to hear why speechwriters tend to be young. Because, unlike other political roles, it doesn't require decades' work building up contacts? Because younger writers are somehow fresher or more energetic? It's certainly an odd, interesting phenomenon. But it's Washington as a whole, not just Obama.