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Buzz,

This deserves to be seen by all. I pulled it from the NYT article "Without a Doubt: Faith, Certainty and The Presidency of George W. Bush."

In an interview with a senior advisor to Bush:

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.''

Also, this part, in an interview with Mark McKinnon, senior media advisor to Bush:

He started by challenging me. ''You think he's an idiot, don't you?'' I said, no, I didn't. ''No, you do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!'' In this instance, the final ''you,'' of course, meant the entire reality-based community.

I don't know which part makes me angrier. From the best of my recollection, I don't remember the last administration demonstrating, with such apparent relish, an unchecked God complex. These people.....they are nuts.

Also, I'd like to clue Mark McKinnon in on something. I am not from the West or East coast, or Wall Street. And frankly, I don't like the way George walks.

A BuzzFlash Reader from New Orleans, Louisiana

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