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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.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Jimmy Carter: Hoping to be Relevant

By Martha Zoller
Human Events


"But you can make your own definition of human rights and say we don't violate them, and you can make your own definition of torture and say we don't violate them." -- Former President Jimmy Carter, October 10, 2007

Jimmy Carter, Segregationist, Nobel Laureate and former US President, is striving for a place in history. He did a round of interviews airing on Wednesday on the BBC and on CNN ripping Vice President Dick Cheney as "a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military."

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