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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.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

RE: RE: Iran threatens Israel if US acts "evil"


I don't see how you can say that since we have fought two wars under Bush.


Have we? Bush used popular sentiment to allow him use of the military to overwhelm two tin-pot dictatorships, but we haven't done anything like fighting a war. We're bogged down in social work and humanitarian aid in both places now. He has lost public sentiment and, being an animal no different than his predecessor, he is completely paralyzed because of it. He can't get any of his major domestic agenda accomplished, even with a rubber-stamp Congress. He's probably going to be impeached next year, so he'll be busy with that for the rest of his term. Even if he isn't impeached, he has shown himself to be spineless, so he will be a Wilsonian lame duck.

I say again, Iran has nothing to fear from us at the moment.

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