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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, October 01, 2005

Jimmy Carter's other hobby

From OpinionJournal.com:

Jimmy Carter may not have been the best president in American history, or even in the top 33, but he has developed quite a reputation for good works out out office: building houses, observing elections, fighting Third World disease, photographing Ethiopian girls while they urinate . . .

Seriously, he says he photographs Ethiopian girls while they urinate! From the Emory Wheel, a student newspaper:

Carter shared two experiences that he said have been most memorable from througout [sic] all his travels and volunteer work. . . .

The second image Carter recalled was of a young Ethiopian girl's eagerness to demonstrate that she, like her brother, could use the small latrine their father had made for them.

"She spread her skirt out very carefully and she squatted down to relieve herself." Carter said.

Carter added jokingly, "We took some pictures of it."
We've observed before that because of his tendency to badmouth his successors, Carter makes Bill Clinton look like a statesman. We never thought we'd say Carter makes Clinton look like a normal man.

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