PHILADELPHIA On June 15 Politico ran a story about Hillary Clinton s bureaucratic speechwriting process It describes how she gets input from a handful of staffers various consultants and her husband She tweaks it herself usually to make it more prosaic Clinton is known for taking a draft of a speech and changing it some indelible way to make it more literal and less readable the piece said Created in this fashion the speeches are comprehensive but lack poetry a sustained argument or a narrative arc 