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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.

Monday, May 15, 2006

Steyn's Kool-aid Habits

Is Steyn a Kool-aid drinker??? :-)

I think Steyn sees world events with a great deal of clarity. Given that, I don't understand how he reaches the favorable conclusions he does with regard to the Bush Administration's actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. In that, he falls in the same category as Victor Davis Hanson, who I would hold up against anyone in terms of historical knowledge.

I sometimes think they see the way the Europeans are just sitting around, waiting for the jihad to reach them and practicing for their roles as dhimmis. I think that prompts them to believe that the fact that the Bush Administration is doing something, no matter how wrong, is better than that.

I have to respectfully disagree. I think conceding the aims of a pack of global socialists is easily as bad as the outcome of worldwide jihad.

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