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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, October 03, 2008

You can find anything you want — except Katie’s Restaurant

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - One of the more tiresome habits politicians have is to inject personal anecdotes into answers on economic questions as a way of avoiding discussion of real data. Both sides do it, although usually this happens when one side wants to make things look worse than they are by noting that someone, somewhere is suffering. It helps when that someone, somewhere actually exists — as Joe Biden is discovering this morning. In the debate last night, Biden referenced a Katie’s Restaurant in Wilmington as an example of how bad the Bush economic policies have been...

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