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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.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

RE: Re: Cindy Sheehan's 'story'

It’s an opportunity for them to sorta talk about the Iraq War without really talking about the Iraq War.

Translation: They're talking about it, but they aren't saying what liberals want to hear.

If conservative news outlets were really covering news of the war, they’d probably have to mention how American support is dwindling...

Maybe, but that is far from an established fact. We heard the same drivel last year when leftists were gleefully anticipating the utter electoral annihilation of the Bush team. Oh wait, I forgot, Bush stole that election as well, didn't he? We won't know the truth of that until next November.

...how the insurgency is getting worse by the second...

This is absolutely untrue. You really should try to get your news from some other sources than Michael Moore and Howie Dean. Look around the 'net. There are dozens of blogs and personal accounts from people who are actually over there. They tell a completely different story.

...and a litany of other failures.

Care to list some actual failures? Not the made-up ones invented by the leftie icons who couldn't trouble themselves to interrupt their Washington and L.A. cocktail parties to discover the truth. I expect you can discover a failure here or there, no military operation is complete without them, but I doubt you'll find a "litany" of them.

Look, I'm as opposed to the fact and basis of the Iraq war as you are. However, our reasons are completely different. You would deny the problem and, therefore, the solution. I don't deny the problem, I just think is is the wrong solution to the wrong problem. And your opposition, as well as Cindy Sheehan's is simply thinly disguised Bush-hatred. She's not protesting the war, she's protesting Bush, and the hate-Bush crowd and the hate-America crowd find her a willing tool in their agenda.

Ms. Sheehan, regardless of what you think of her, is only speaking her conscience. If anyone has forgotten, that’s a God-given right here in the good ‘ol U.S. of A. It’s interesting how Sheehan’s use of that freedom is making so many conservatives mad.

Please cite any reference posted here on the Bully Pulpit (or any other reputable conservative source) in which her right to protest is denied. As much as you folks on the left would like to make that out to be the conservative position, it is not. What has conservatives annoyed is her dishonesty. As I said above, she's not protesting the war, she's protesting Bush. She's making strongly anti-American statements and regurgitating the rhetorical drivel of the extreme left. They are also annoyed because she is dishonoring the service of her son to our country. By all the evidence, he made that service willingly and in the spirit of duty and patriotism. Duty and patriotism are concepts that invariably infuriate the left and they are more than happy to have this obviously unbalanced woman do everything in her power to negate the embodiment of those concepts in her son. And that activity is what angers the right more than anything.

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