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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, December 09, 2008

Left Turn

(Fox News) - There is growing anger on the left over President-elect Obama's Cabinet appointments. Tim Carpenter, the national director of the Progressive Democrats of America tells the Politico newspaper:

"He has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with a centrist to right Cabinet."

Chris Bowers at the liberal Open Left Web site asks, "isn't there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?"

And John Aravosis, the editor of the left-leaning AMERICAblog says, "There don't seem to be any liberals in Obama’s cabinet... it reminds me a bit of ... when the Obama campaign didn't seem particularly interested in reaching out to progressives."

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