[maica]

"He has made some pretty good points, Bush SHOULD have used the Bully Pulpit more often and the speak softly less. "

Can you please explain to me what you mean by this statement? I hear it regularly, and do not understand what it means.
I am asking sincerely in an effort to learn.

[mercy]

In answer to your question.

See Ronald Wilson Reagan.

[Aric2000]

What I mean is that he had LOTS of political capital, the problem with that capitol is that it has a short Shelf life.

He should have used the bully pulpit to get his judges on the bench, he should have used it to get his bills through the senate. He should have shouted from the rooftops about domestic things while his poll numbers were in the stratosphere.

He didn't and it's a shame that all that political capitol was wasted.

I know that he chooses his battles, but he had enough capitol for all of that and more, but he chose not to use it, and that I will never understtand.