Jon Favreau (not the "Swingers" dude) heads the small team:
Favreau and Obama rapidly found a relatively direct way to work with one another. "What I do is to sit with him for half an hour," Favreau explains. "He talks and I type everything he says. I reshape it, I write. He writes, he reshapes it. That's how we get a finished product."
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/01/meet-obamas-speech-writers/221690/
