Shoemaker's sixth chapter is "Remembering Muhammad". Coïncidentally, we're hearing a lot about how public-speakers handle memory these days. Delivering the lulz for the lefties is Representative-elect Santos to which Ace is here with some whaddabout. I suggest reading the comments for Hillary!'s memories in Bosnia (and Brian Williams', wherever that was), Richard Blumenthal's brave service in not-Viet-Nam, and Elizabeth Warren's buffalo droppings. Shoemaker's chapter dares overlap some of these!
Well... sort of.
Shoemaker gives Hillary! some benefit-of-doubt, as well as Williams. He adds John Dean for good measure. Even Shoemaker can't pull Da Nang Dick and Lieawatha out of the muck. He doesn't touch our lord and saviour Obama because he hopes to keep his job, not end up as some blogger somewhere. Shoemaker tries as hard as he can not to call the ancient Salafs and Tabi's liars. Whether Shoemaker thinks that, underneath... well, he gotta do what he gotta do.
Overall memories tend to make the "memoriser" a hero of the story, as Shoemaker says we all do for our own stories. Overall to do hadith you have to memorise that hadith - with paper. Same for quran to the extent that's any different.
Shoemaker's wisdom might be wise for all of us, even nonpoliticians.
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