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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, December 11, 2006

RE: More on migration vs. immigration and Umberto Eco

Steve: I think Eco's subtlety either escaped you or got lost in translation, Strother. I think you're trying to apply a negative connotation, which is strictly American, to the word, "ghetto.

Okay, so remove the sentences that include the word "ghetto" and re-read the same Eco selection I quoted. I'll re-post it:

Eco: Migration is "like a natural phenomenon: it happens, and no one can control it... Immigration can be controlled politically, but like natural phenomena, migration cannot be... That's how it will be, whether you like it or not."

My point remains the same. I insist, as Eco offers here, that this migration that we are so concerned with is natural, inevitable, and essentially unstoppable. So now what? If we can't stop it, how can we as a nation make the situations created by this inevitable migration work best for all Americans?

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