Bill Clinton Talks About Common Good----
<< Ron Suskind wrote a book -- a related book called "The One Percent Solution (sic/Doctrine)." I don't know if any of you have read that. He also co-wrote former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill memoirs. But the most interesting thing to me in this 1 percent solution is not the part that people have talked about, about 9/11, that -- I don't know whether that's true or not. But Mr. Suskind says in the 1 percent solution that the ideologues within the current government defer -- refer to people not just like me, although I'm included, but even moderate Republicans like Colin Powell and Admiral Scowcroft, as somehow lesser political mortals because we are trapped in, quote, "the reality-based world."
And what they mean by that, in fairness to them, what they mean by that is that we are an empire, we're the world's only military superpower, and that you can use power to change reality. And if you don't see that, then you will always be condemning your country to a lesser status.
I -- when I was a kid, I grew up in an alcoholic home. I spent half my childhood trying to get into the reality-based world, and I like it here. >>
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