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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, October 18, 2006

RE: Carter Blames Bush For Korean Crisis


Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday night that an agreement he brokered 12 years ago for North Korea to halt nuclear weapons development is "“in the wastebasket."


A number of people have answered this. Ann Coulter's response was the most complete that I've read, but they all amount to the same thing. The Carter Administration consistently employed appeasement and non-confrontation with regard to foreign policy. This "agreement" was nothing more than a formalized arrangement allowing the Carter Administration to ignore what North Korea was doing.

I was in the military when this was going on and I paid close attention to what was going on at the time. I remember this well. Carter and company spent all their time sucking up to communists in Asia and denigrating those who criticized them.

Leave it to a dimwitted liberal doofus like Carter to blame the Bush Administration's rhetoric for this. Isn't it interesting that all the foreign policy chickens coming home to roost in the last four or five years seem to have their roots in the administrations of Democrats?

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