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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.

Friday, August 19, 2005

More Sheehan stuff...

From the Federalist Patriot:

"We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We're waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!" --Anti-war poster child Cindy Sheehan, who, in her new MSM heroine status as "Peace Mom," now claims that she found President Bush "cold and calloused" after her visit with him in June of 2004, following the death of her son in Iraq.

Curiously, immediately following her visit with the president, she said: "We have a lot of respect for the office of the President, and I have a new respect for him because he was sincere and he didn't have to take the time to meet with us. I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis. I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith." What a difference a few media lights can make...

As for 24-year-old Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, he was a mechanic (not an infantryman) who was killed in action after volunteering for a rapid-rescue force deployed to help save fellow soldiers in a convoy that was ambushed near Sadr City. Spc. Sheehan proclaimed, "I go where my chief goes." His sister Carly says, "He didn't have to go, but he was all about 'God and his country.' He chose the military because...it was all he wanted to do his whole life." Indeed, Casey enlisted, and he re-enlisted in April of 2004, in order to go to Iraq. He died heroically serving "the man beside him." Despite Cindy Sheehan's disgracing her son's sacrifice, the nation accords him full honor due.

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