Paul D. Burgess (born June 6, 1960) is a conservative American writer. Burgess is a former legislative staffer on Capitol Hill, a former director of foreign-policy speechwriting at the White House, and has written essays for Virginia newspapers.
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At the time of his 1999 writing for the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Burgess was identified by the newspaper as a resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia. By 2006, the newspaper identified Burgess as a resident of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He grew up in Maui before moving to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he graduated from Central High in 1978 and attended the University of Wyoming. He served in the Marines and traveled with guerillas in Afghanistan.
Burgess was director of foreign-policy speechwriting at the White House from October 2003 to July 2005. He previously worked for Senators Alan Simpson (R) and Mike Enzi (R) of Wyoming, at the Defense Intelligence Agency after 9/11, and as a speechwriter at the Pentagon for two years.[1]
In 1999, Burgess wrote of what he saw as the harm done by Bill Clinton to the United States military:
In October 2006, Burgess returned to what he believed to be the harm done by leftists to American culture, in an essay entitled "Friends, Neighbors, and Countrymen Of the Left: I Hate Your Lying Guts." Despite his past talk of the "frenzied enthusiasm" of people such as President Clinton, Burgess stated that he had previously not hated the left:
Burgess subsequently complained that an edit to that essay made by the Free Lance Star without his permission, "...turned an opinion piece intended to be edgy into something gratuitously offensive." He has since refused to submit any further columns to that newspaper.