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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, March 04, 2006

Bushes slip into Pakistan

From the AP in today's Winston-Salem Journal:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Traveling under heavy security, President Bush showed solidarity with Pakistan in the war on terror yesterday as anti-American protests flared across this Islamic nation.
Air Force One flew through the night without lights to conceal the plane's profile as it delivered Bush and his wife, Laura, from India. Two helicopters and a motorcade waited for the president at the airport, but it was impossible to tell whether he used a car or a helicopter to get to the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy compound, where he was spending the night.
Anti-American sentiment runs deep in this Islamic nation, and the threat of terrorist attacks is ever present. A day before Bush's visit, an American diplomat was killed in a suicide car-bombing at a U.S. consulate in the southern city of Karachi, a hotbed of Islamic militancy.

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