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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, August 11, 2006

RE: Rhetoric

Reagan was once a FDR Democrat who supported FDR's New Deal programs...

So did a lot of conservatives. The New Deal was very carefully wrapped in Keynesian economics to avoid all associations with socialism. Reagan wasn't the only person to eventually see through Keynes, either. The difference is that the neocons want to bring back Keynes and Marx as well.

I'm talking about the words you use... What you say about Bush are the same words that Moore, Franken and other left wingers say about him all the time.

I also use the same words that Jed Babbin, Vox Day, and Bruce Bartlett use. They aren't left-wingers. I use the same language that even Ann Coulter, John Stossel, and Thomas Sowell sometimes use about Bush. They're certainly not left-wingers. Your comment was pure bushbot polemic, meant to cast me in the same mold as the left-wing crazies. I've been seeing exactly the same thing from the bushbots over at Free Republic for years.

No, your rhetoric towards Bush and most Republicans bears more of a resemblance to the rhetoric of the far left...

It is equally accurate to say that the far left's rhetoric bears more of a resemblance to that of Libertarians and "conservatives" who don't worship Bush. It is also an equally pointless comparison.

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