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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, November 25, 2005

Meet Mark Warner

By Shawn Macomber
The American Spectator

MANCHESTER, N.H. --
Were the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary to be decided with a laugh meter rather than counted ballots, soon-to-be ex-Governor of Virginia Mark Warner might have the whole thing tied up already.

After a short, inexplicable welcoming speech last Friday by Lou D'Allesandro, wherein the New Hampshire State Senator explained that holding the event in Manchester, the "Queen City," was appropriate since "there are more queens in front of me than I've ever seen before in my whole life" (one assumes this won't be the Democrats' strategy for reaching out to Red State voters in '06, but who knows?), Warner took the microphone in front of an impressive standing room only crowd of about 200 and broke out the funny.

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