Clinton Video: "..The problem with ideology is..."

[truthpusher]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bill_Clinton_talks_about_common_good_1018.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1kr9uQEW9Y



Excerpt:

"The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results. This new Bob Woodward book, "State of Denial," is well named, but I think it's important to point out that if you are an ideologue, denial is an essential part of your political being, whichever side. Listen to me. You've got to -- because if you're an ideologue, you've got your mind made up. So when an inconvenient pops up, you have to be in denial. It has to be a less significant fact."

Full transcript here: http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bill_Clinton_talks_about_common_good_1018.html

[Lex]

1. He talked about being in the "reality based community"

and not ignoring facts when they contradict your ideas.

Bush and Rove actually bragged on creating their own reality, which is total idealogue BS.