"We create our own reality"

[JasonG]

"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the

White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen

Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the

White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I

didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of

the Bush presidency.

 

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based

community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge

from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured

something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off.

''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're

an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're

studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again,

creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things

will sort out. We're history's actors .

. . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''"

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html

 

I missed this the first go around, but I think it helps explain the difficulty that Rove (senior aide quoted above) had with accepting the "reality" that Obama won.

 

Wow.

[tvashtarkatena]

Writing history usually goes better if you read history beforehand. Including the phrase "then a miracle happens" in your plan, or lack thereof, certainly does save time up front, but...

[Pete_H]

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.

[rob]

Remember they were gonna parade us around and cheer for their liberation?

[Pete_H]

We won the war when Bush declared victory aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Its the liberal media that keeps deceiving the people.

[Off_White]

Well, in a funny way we did Pete. Its just that many people are uncomfortable using the term "occupation" to describe what we've been doing ever since, but its much more accurate than saying "war".

[JosephH]

You know you are delusional when you can't bribe the Turks with $36 billion and have to leave one of your linchpin armies stranded on Turkish docks during the invasion of Iraq.