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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 04, 2008

LieberZen

Joementum for McCain.

By Shawn Macomber
National Review Online


Derry, New Hampshire — Joe Lieberman’s tumultuous eight-year odyssey from Democratic standard-bearer to liberal pariah reached what may well be its apotheosis this week as he glad-handed his way through a 1950s themed diner stumping for John McCain and let slip he’s been reading biographies — plural?! — of Ronald Reagan.

“I always liked Reagan, but something he said is really resonating with me recently: ‘I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left me,’” Lieberman said, pausing to add one of his trademark sighs before continuing. “On foreign policy and defense…I really just don’t feel like I’ve changed.”

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