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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

A GOP Renunciation

It appears that the GOP is trying to mend fences with the NAACP. There's a few really good point in here... Thoughts?

An editorial from today's Winston-Salem Journal:

The Republican National Committee acted constructively last week when it renounced the racially divisive "southern strategy" devised by Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater and former President Richard Nixon in the 1960s...

Speaking to the NAACP's national convention of the NAACP Thursday, Ken Mehlman, the RNC chief, said his party had been wrong to use issues like school busing and desegregation to win Southern white voters in the 1960s and after, according to the Los Angeles Times...

The GOP might want to consider whether anything in its current array of issues will require a renunciation 50 years from now - for example, its socially divisive tactics on issues involving gays and immigration.

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