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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, September 16, 2006

RE: Penn: Fascist President?

I wonder who wrote all that down for Sean. The poor boy stretches his mental capacity to the breaking point just remembering to get up and put his clothes on. He does appear to be able to memorize lines, though.

Fascism, in its actual form, not the pretend form that Penn, Bush, and the other double-digit IQ types love to bandy about, will likely not come to America. It could be argued that the last 14 years have advanced something very like it here. However, people like George Bush and Bill Clinton, in leading the two factions of America's giant national socialist party, will actually end up preventing such a thing. With their unwavering dedication to socialism and its attendant illusion of participatory democracy, fascism would never be able to take hold here. As well, People like Clinton (both of them), Bush, and their Marxist cheering section (of which Penn is a charter member) are moving this country at a breakneck pace toward the abolition of private property altogether, something not in keeping with fascism.

What this amounts to is the kind of name-calling and polemics that the Bolsheviks engaged in while the lines of power were being established early in the history of the Soviet Union. Fascist was ever the favorite epithet from one faction to the other when wrestling over the hearts and minds of the proletariat.

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