Speechwriter

President Obama is addressing a joint session of Congress tonight to sell health care reform. To help him get in touch with his inner Willie Loman and sell health care reform to a seemingly skeptical audience, we have gathered a roundtable of experts.

For weeks speechwriters, politicians and pundits have been forecasting the policy and prose that President Obama would deliver in his inaugural address. Now we turn to contributor David Wall Rice for his assessment of the message and the moment.