If not writing your own speeches is such a crime as the Obama campaign would have us believe, then why did Newsweek profile Obama’s speechwriter at the beginning of the year?

Excuse me, Obama actually calls the man in question his personal “editor” — even though according to Newsweek “he led the team” that wrote Obama’s victory speech in Iowa. But don’t call him — or anyone else on the team who writes his speeches –a speechwriter!

UPDATE: Here’s the NYT discussing the “chief speechwriter to Senator Barack Obama.”