[myself248]

It seems pretty narrow to assume that because _you_ don't engage in this thinking, that _nobody_ does.

Plenty of us do. The fact that we're not running the world is a detail.

[dotancohen]

  > Plenty of us do. The fact that we're not running the world is a detail.

I think that "we're not running the world" was the GP's point. It _is_ an important detail in the context of the President saying these words, to remember that he is not one of us who do really engage in this type of thinking.

[mistermann]

The magnitude (quantity x quality) of people who do on planet earth is also highly relevant to the objective truth value of the claim.

[mistermann]

I wonder if you do indeed engage in the specific type of thinking I am referring to. Would you be willing to compare notes?