Word: pulpiteering
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...Executive decree he has been pursuing modest and relatively uncontroversial but worthwhile goals--requiring teenage welfare mothers to live at home, for instance, and intensifying the pursuit of deadbeat dads, who have been forced to pay 40% more money for the support of their children. From Clinton's bully pulpit these days comes an endless succession of moderate-conservative preachments: for school uniforms, teen curfews and more cops on the street; against TV violence; for gay rights but against same-sex marriage. Affirmative action? "Mend...
...organizations like the PTA and the League of Women Voters, Putnam's essay seemed to reinforce a widespread feeling that civic life in America just wasn't what it used it to be. The nation's diminishing social capital was lamented far and wide, from Bill Clinton's bully pulpit to angry sermons by Bill Bennett to Bill Bradley's eloquent envoi to the Senate...
...three hours of educational programming each week. Didn't cost him a dime to get up before a crowd and propose it, but the idea won him points with parents, McAllister says. "Who can disagree with it?" says McAllister. "He's figured out the value of the bully pulpit. Given Clinton's lead in the polls, people seem to be responding well to his programs, especially since they don't have to bear the burden -->