The guy is obviously bright and energetic. No question.

And, it looks as if he has determined what he's going to see before he looks, and/or he has determined what he is going to see by where he looks.

Sort of like this. Imagine the most beautiful woman you've never seen. Now, give a dermatologist a magnifying glass and have him/her go over the skin. That Doctor is going find some skin flaking, an ugly rash, maybe even a small pimple somewhere, which looks like a very large pimple when examined closely, and in fact seems like the entire Universe when it fills the magnifying glass.

Clearly. treating that pimple is important. Don't do it and the insurance company won't pay for the appointment.

Give a gastroenterologist a laproscope and shove it down her throat. Might find a dark pit filled with acids, half decayed food in the stomach, nothing very pretty. Beautiful my foot, that looks bad, smells bad.

A Ph. D. in Economics might find her entire physical examination a drag on the health care system and a waste of resources, regards her as a net debit when it comes to economic growth, wishes she'd not had the exam and invested the money in long-term bonds.

And so on.

Standpoint epistemology.

Another common problem of such inbred thinking (often called "education") when it's not exposed to the larger world, is that it tends to focus upon our own area, our own problems, as the only important considerations.

Bright, well educated people can fall into these traps. Ph. D.s, M. D.s, J. D.s and all manner of people see what they have been trained to see, what they want to see.

People who trust Bush see one thing, I see another. If we only hung around "our own", our thinking would be come pretty stagnant. Standpoint epistemology. Not always the entire picture, not always the appropriate priorities.

Arf