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Bully Pulpit

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 12, 2005

Stupid polls, or stupid pollees?

"Those are the people I have a problem with, and it is with regard to those people that our polling system failed us two years ago and continues to fail today.

It seems fairly obvious that, in the course of the last few years, roughly 25-30 percent of the country has been influenced by the steady issue of news about increased violence and instability in Iraq. Apparently, a large percentage of Americans who supported the war two years ago have since become freaked out by the fact that, surprise, surprise, people are dying."

Absolutely! This guy has nailed it. These folks haven't thought things through. You can't go to war and not expect to see body bags.

The problem lies in the fact that these people (who gave those of us who DID think it through 2 years ago a hard time) won't ADMIT that we've made a mistake and call the administration's hand on it. Instead, they sit back and mumble about how glad they are the it isn't their kids being blown to bits. Wake up! It isn't un-American to admit a mistake.

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