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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.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Hillary Clinton's Big-Bucks Donations From Waiters and Dishwashers

From Jim Geraghty of National Review Online:


Heard about this story on Laura Ingraham driving in to Washington for the Family Research Council summit:


Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Hillary Clinton's campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.

Will any of her Democratic rivals have the guts to decry this, and declare these fishy circumstances, and grubbing for every last dollar, as unworthy of a serious political party?

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