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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.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Re: Crocodile Tears

I'll make no guesses on whether Ms. Sheenan is crazy, but I can firmly say that if I lost my son in an unnecessary quagmire like the Iraq War, I'd be both crazy and mad as hell.

Orlet may make fun of Sheenan's suggestion of sending over the Bush twins to fight in Iraq, but the truth is that if all those who choose to send other folks' kids to their possible deaths had their own kids in the military, we would be more selective about our chosen wars. That's why I'm in favor of mandatory military service after high-school graduation. If that happened, we'd be smarter about the wars we choose to support.

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