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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.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Say what? Black doesn't think he will be indicted?

By Scott Sexton
Winston-Salem Journal

Whatever Jim Black is drinking, he ought to consider bottling it and selling to the rest of us. Although his decision not to run in January for a fifth term as speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives doesn't come as a surprise, the statement he made after announcing his decision was.

"I have no more reason to think today that I will be indicted than I did a year ago," Black told The Associated Press after a dinner meeting in Raleigh on Tuesday.

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