Comments on: The closing argument: Experience versus management http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/28/the-closing-argument-experience-versus-management/ Covering the 2008 election Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:37:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Bluey Blog | RobertBluey.com » links for 2007-12-29 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/28/the-closing-argument-experience-versus-management/#comment-40901 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:18:42 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/28/the-closing-argument-experience-versus-management/#comment-40901 [...] The closing argument: Experience versus management - Soren Dayton, eyeon08.com It is clear that in Iowa, the debate is not about experience. It will be a fight between Mitt Romney’s money and Mike Huckabee’s churches. (tags: romney huckabee mccain 2008 iowa new_hampshire) [...] […] The closing argument: Experience versus management - Soren Dayton, eyeon08.com It is clear that in Iowa, the debate is not about experience. It will be a fight between Mitt Romney’s money and Mike Huckabee’s churches. (tags: romney huckabee mccain 2008 iowa new_hampshire) […]

]]> by: eye http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/28/the-closing-argument-experience-versus-management/#comment-40828 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:27:30 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/28/the-closing-argument-experience-versus-management/#comment-40828 No, I didn't. Someone was giving away free copies, I think. No, I didn’t. Someone was giving away free copies, I think.

]]> by: dotan http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/28/the-closing-argument-experience-versus-management/#comment-40732 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:30:43 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/28/the-closing-argument-experience-versus-management/#comment-40732 Please tell me that you didn't actually buy---as in, pay money---for Hewitt's tome. But thank you for quoting from it. "And Romney knows the war. He he worked to learn its complexities ... " by " ... constantly reading the sorts of books that must be absorbed." This is risible on its face. Romney knows the war because he knows his way around a bookstore or a library? Socrates critiques precisely this sort of way of "knowing" in the closing remarks of his Phaedrus. What is the problem with the written word? It can make "fools appear wise." Please tell me that you didn’t actually buy—as in, pay money—for Hewitt’s tome. But thank you for quoting from it.

“And Romney knows the war. He he worked to learn its complexities … ”

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” … constantly reading the sorts of books that must be absorbed.”

This is risible on its face. Romney knows the war because he knows his way around a bookstore or a library?

Socrates critiques precisely this sort of way of “knowing” in the closing remarks of his Phaedrus. What is the problem with the written word? It can make “fools appear wise.”

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