Comments on: Nattering nabobs of complete ignorance http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/27/nattering-nabobs-of-complete-ignorance/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:24:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill C http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/27/nattering-nabobs-of-complete-ignorance/comment-page-1/#comment-32482 Bill C Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:10:36 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4436#comment-32482 I caught the same call and thought that woman got the better of Sean because he did not understand her point. i also thought that the woman was way to articulate and 'on message' to be just any one calling into a talk radio program. But Obama has got me paranoid. I am quite sure I will be one of the 25 million killed. ;-) I caught the same call and thought that woman got the better of Sean because he did not understand her point. i also thought that the woman was way to articulate and ‘on message’ to be just any one calling into a talk radio program. But Obama has got me paranoid.

I am quite sure I will be one of the 25 million killed. ;-)

]]> By: suek http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/27/nattering-nabobs-of-complete-ignorance/comment-page-1/#comment-32466 suek Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:46:08 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4436#comment-32466 I planted some links on this post that are relevant to this topic - I'm not going to "transplant" them! http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/26/blogging-will-resume-monday-afternoon/ I planted some links on this post that are relevant to this topic – I’m not going to “transplant” them!

http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/26/blogging-will-resume-monday-afternoon/

]]> By: Deana http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/27/nattering-nabobs-of-complete-ignorance/comment-page-1/#comment-32465 Deana Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:26:45 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4436#comment-32465 "The Founders are rolling in their graves at the thought." Ever since hearing Obama's thoughts on the Constitution this weekend, I can't get out of my head what the writers of the Constituion and Bill of Rights would think if they were alive today. I'm no lawyer and definitely not an expert on the Constitution but I feel that Obama is turning the Constitution on its head. Deana “The Founders are rolling in their graves at the thought.”

Ever since hearing Obama’s thoughts on the Constitution this weekend, I can’t get out of my head what the writers of the Constituion and Bill of Rights would think if they were alive today.

I’m no lawyer and definitely not an expert on the Constitution but I feel that Obama is turning the Constitution on its head.

Deana

]]> By: David Foster http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/27/nattering-nabobs-of-complete-ignorance/comment-page-1/#comment-32407 David Foster Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:06:48 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4436#comment-32407 Good post. One of the greatest threats to class mobility in America today is the exaggerated reverence for higher education, especially graduate degrees. There are too many cases in which (for example) the talented retail store manager is not considered for the high-profile Region Manager job, which goes to an "elite-college" MBA with minimal if any actual experience in a store. And the bias in favor of the advanced degree and the "elite" university is much stronger in the "nonprofit" sector than it is in the business world. Part of the hostility to Sarah Palin is clearly due to the fact that she has succeeded without riding the kindergarten-to-grad-school conveyor belt that so many people now consider a requisite for success in our society. Consciously or unconsciously, some of this snobbishness is about an attempt to recreate a defacto hereditary aristocracy in this country. Good post.

One of the greatest threats to class mobility in America today is the exaggerated reverence for higher education, especially graduate degrees. There are too many cases in which (for example) the talented retail store manager is not considered for the high-profile Region Manager job, which goes to an “elite-college” MBA with minimal if any actual experience in a store. And the bias in favor of the advanced degree and the “elite” university is much stronger in the “nonprofit” sector than it is in the business world.

Part of the hostility to Sarah Palin is clearly due to the fact that she has succeeded without riding the kindergarten-to-grad-school conveyor belt that so many people now consider a requisite for success in our society. Consciously or unconsciously, some of this snobbishness is about an attempt to recreate a defacto hereditary aristocracy in this country.

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