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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.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Rhetoric??

Tucker responds to Andy:

This class warfare rhetoric is very, very old…

It is very, very old….but it ain't just rhetoric. Anyone who claims that the wealthy/ruling class isn't trying to screw average folks like you and me is either lying or in denial. They've been taking advantage of us for as long as there have been political boundaries. They want their dirty work done, but they don't want to pay for it. Dang liberals like Abe Lincoln messed up that whole slave labor gig they had going for them. And more recently here in the US, if it wasn't for progressives like Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, instead of the already very modest salaries we take home we'd still both be working 80 hour weeks for $5 a day.

Right, class warfare is very, very old. Even Jesus was fed up with the wealthy and ruling classes abusing the poor and working classes. Think about the stuff he was saying, i.e., "blessed are the poor", "easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven". If Jesus was around today, would you call him a socialist? Or even worse…. A liberal?

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