Word: pulpitation
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...Bill Clinton is right to talk about family values," Quayle told the Commonwealth Club of California, tipping his hat. Clinton's gesture, in his address to the National Baptist Convention, was more oblique, but he firmly agreed with the proposition that politicians should use the bully pulpit to uplift the morals and improve the behavior of the citizenry...
...transformation has been a painful and slow one. As a charismatic priest in the progressive wing of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristide was used to making a strong impression without bearing much responsibility for the political consequences. Fierce and theatrical behind the pulpit, he preached grand ideas of justice and equality, then left his parishioners to decide what to do. Often his sermons brought people out into the streets in a surge of anger, only to be fired upon by the army. With a priest's immunity, he castigated the most powerful sectors of society -- the wealthy elite, the business...
Bill Clinton, the consummate political weathervane, has noted the trend, and he has responded. He has devoted several major speeches to the issue of value. It appears that Clinton has made a conscious decision to use his bully pulpit in an effort to lead the national debate on values. In this endeavor he has been encouraged by even conservative opponents like Bennett...
...Pensacola, Fla., clinic, pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Hill, who had previously pleaded innocent to violating a new federal clinic protection law, had no other comments for the Pensacola judge. Hill-watchers are expecting the activist to turn his trial into another ideological platform. His previous bully pulpit, before the Florida deaths: "Donahue," "Nightline" and other TV shows, where he proclaimed that killing abortionists...
...affirming its own ethical stand against discrimination, the University would be sending an urgent message to washington, and to the rest of the country. Harvard could credibly use its bully pulpit to decry the military's ban on gays as nothing more than a homophobic defense of the status quo... April...