{"id":3030,"date":"2011-07-09T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2011-07-09T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T19:50:09","slug":"everyone-round-here-loves-the-ad-populum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"Everyone ’round here loves the ad populum!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quin Hillyer,<\/a> over at the American Spectator<\/em>, is running the "We don't cotton to his kind" argument about President Obama's policies and style of governance. Hillyer has recently moved to Mobile, Alabama after years in Washington, D.C.  He's now writing about how everyday Americans in RedState American cities (or, as Hillyer calls them, "The Real America") have their American sensibilities offended by so obviously an un-American President.  <\/p>\n

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More than anything else, though, again and again and again, the question comes at me, with a deep concern almost plaintive in nature: Who is out there who can beat Obama and do an okay job?<\/em> This isn’t merely a “Clinton is a scuzzbucket” or a “Carter is inept” sort of sentiment. This is different. This is an expression of the conviction that what Obama is doing, <\/strong>along with the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, is alien to our very idea of what being an American means<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All of the alien ideas are: the health insurance mandate and government stimulus spending.  But what Hillyer takes as the indicator that Obama is so alien isn't really that he objects to his policies.  He takes it that because Obama doesn't go in for flag-waving extravaganza, he's not one of us.  Same goes for pretty  much anyone associated with him:<\/p>\n

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Does anybody doubt that Van Jones would sneer at the tri-colored bunting<\/strong>? Does anybody doubt that White House Science Czar John Holdren would look askance at the propagation of so many carbon-emitting children<\/strong>? Does anybody really think that Obama himself feels real joy at hearing a 13-year-old recite the Declaration’s words about rights endowed by a Creator<\/strong>?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, it's come to this — the lefties are sneering cheese-and-brie-crowd<\/a> haters of America and Americans.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quin Hillyer, over at the American Spectator, is running the "We don't cotton to his kind" argument about President Obama's policies and style of governance. Hillyer has recently moved to Mobile, Alabama after years in Washington, D.C.  He's now writing about how everyday Americans in RedState American cities (or, as Hillyer calls them, "The Real … Continue reading Everyone ’round here loves the ad populum!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,15],"tags":[1016,780,1148],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad-hominem-abusive","category-appeal-to-the-people","tag-ad-populum","tag-argumentum-ad-populum-fallacious-kind","tag-quin-hillyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}