Even the Office of the President, sometimes benevolently referred to as "the bully pulpit" to promote social change without government mandates, was misused to bully and impugn collectively the major opposition party in the United States when President Barack Hussein Obama openly accused the Republican Party of seditious acts by "encouraging our enemies".<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/senate-votes-avoid-default-open-government-20593201 Obama Lashes Republicans as Government Reopens], October 17, 2013, By DAVID ESPO AP. abcnews.</ref> | Even the Office of the President, sometimes benevolently referred to as "the bully pulpit" to promote social change without government mandates, was misused to bully and impugn collectively the major opposition party in the United States when President Barack Hussein Obama openly accused the Republican Party of seditious acts by "encouraging our enemies".<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/senate-votes-avoid-default-open-government-20593201 Obama Lashes Republicans as Government Reopens], October 17, 2013, By DAVID ESPO AP. abcnews.</ref> |