Word: pulpitation
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...afterward. When Bush tries to communicate with a TV audience, he often lacks confidence. More important, except when he is campaigning for himself, Bush shrinks from framing options in a stark and persuasive manner that can force people to make a choice. He often speaks of using the "bully pulpit" to get his way, but to him it means little more than "telling people how deeply you feel" instead of knocking heads together to get things done...
...economic superpower, the country suffers from global parochialism. The closest approximation of a grand strategy is the goal of keeping the world safe for Japanese exports and investments. The political system depends, sometimes to the point of paralysis, on consensus. The prime ministership has rarely been a bully pulpit, especially in recent years. After a massive stock-trading scandal, the shoguns of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party chose Kaifu in 1989 not just because he was untainted. He was untested and unthreatening as well, a caretaker who would be easy to push around and eventually to push aside...
...guise as TV journalist, Jackson will have to prove that he can elicit the opinions of others and not just expound on his own. He will, moreover, have to demonstrate that his TV platform is not simply a political launching pad. Does Jackson consider his new bully pulpit a key to the White House? "I see this as a key to all houses," he replies. "Everybody's house will see this." Sounds suspiciously like...
...five years. For a while, everything seemed to be on track. Budget Director Richard Darman and congressional leaders had made some progress in bargaining sessions that started Sept. 7. But the negotiations bogged down before the speech. So instead of making a triumphant announcement, Bush used his prime-time pulpit to sermonize: "Most Americans are sick and tired of endless battles in the Congress and between the branches over budget matters. It is high time we pull together and get the job done right...
...recall the Hanukah presentation--complete with menorah, skullcap and tallit--that I gave to my sixth-grade class, and the invitation that followed to give an encore performance for the younger kids. I recall looking out from the pulpit at my Bar Mitzvah and seeing the attentive faces of my Bible-thumping friends...