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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.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Acting Up

(Fox News) - Egyptian actor Omar Sharif says Americans are ignorant.

The actor best known for his roles in "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago", tells Al-Hayat television "only 10 percent of all Americans have a passport. In other words, 90 percent never left America. They don't know anything."

Shariff blasted U.S. policy in the Middle East saying the region will never have a democracy because people like him quote "prefer to go to the neighborhood sheik."

He also claims to have met with President Bush before the war telling him "we, the Arabs... are not like regular countries. You will drown out there."

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