Reply #: Essentially I agree with you, however...

[Tom Rinaldo]

There is a real element of "Live by the pen, Die by the pen" at play in this. So much of the positive media buzz about Obama has centered on his dazzling oratory skills, about his uplifting and powerful speeches and his amazing way with words, that there is almost an inevitable reverse focus now on whether Obama can take full credit for those speeches, and for those words, as his own.

It's the other side of the coin. Obama has run his campaign less on his record of accomplishments (with the notable but ironic exception of his powerful 2002 speech against pending war with Iraq) than on his ability to inspire, and his ability to lead and unify America through his ability to inspire with words. Therefor the mechanics of how Obama inspires with words almost inevitably become newsworthy to a media that was mesmerized by them in the first place.