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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, January 12, 2007

A Campaign for Order

The president comes back down to earth.

By Rich Lowry
National Review Online

President Bush didn’t talk about the yearning of the human heart for freedom in his latest Iraq speech. Such reductive anthropology used to be a staple of his pronouncements — everywhere human hearts were hungering for freedom, and the global mission of the U.S. was to release this pent-up desire for liberty.

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