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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, December 01, 2005

Re: Following The Thread

This'll be brief, I promise.

You have adopted the attitude that since you were opposed to the action in the first place, the consequences of that action have no bearing on what you perceive to be our ongoing responsibilities.

Where have I once said anything like that? You've got to start reading what people say rather than erroneously jumping to conclusions by what you perceive someone would think.

Lieberman offered solutions, you called him "gung ho." You're not looking for solutions, you're looking for someone to tell you what you want to hear.

No, I called him "gung ho" because he supported this war in the first place. I didn't. He was technically gung ho, you and I weren't.

Just to rant for a moment, the backpedaling of everybody in Washington on this war is just amazing. Anybody that isn’t pissed off about it isn’t really paying attention. I just hope that everybody takes note of each and every politician’s evolving stance regarding the Iraq War come election time. At that point, all of us who knew this was fishy from the beginning — or learned along the way — need to vote these people out of there. All of ‘em.

BTW, I love how some some concerned opinions are concerned opinions, and others are armchair liberals spouting off about duty and honor. Classy, Steve. Wouldn’t expect anything less of you.

Steve on my information from Mary Matalin, who shared Iraqi poll stats this AM on NBC’s Today Show: The only question is, did you come up with that yourself, or did you grab it from somewhere else?

Do you actually read whole posts before you start to respond? I'm starting to wonder.

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