{"id":817,"date":"2008-09-03T07:38:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2008-09-03T07:38:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:38:51","slug":"not-everyone-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Not everyone made it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I would wander alone through the woods, walk home alone from school (as a kindergartner), and ride a bike without a helmet (among much else).&nbsp; Wondering aloud once not long ago how anyone ever survived, a friend of mine quipped: not everyone made it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On to today&#39;s story.&nbsp; George &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/will110600.asp\">The Case for a Man with Little Experience<\/a>&quot; Will seems rightly dismayed by the idea that a person with such little experience as Sarah Palin might be chosen as a Vice Presidential candidate.&nbsp; No argument here, though it&#39;s mainly her views on everything that bother me.&nbsp; While complaining, however, that she has no Madisonian intellectual heft, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/02\/AR2008090202441.html\">Will<\/a> displays his:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his Denver speech, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/related\/topic\/Barack+Obama?tid=informline\">Barack Obama<\/a> derided the &quot;discredited Republican philosophy&quot; that he caricatured in four words &#8212; &quot;you&#39;re on your own.&quot; Then he promised to &quot;keep . . . our toys safe.&quot; Among the four candidates for national office, perhaps only Palin might give a Madisonian answer &#8212; one cognizant of the idea that the federal government&#39;s powers are limited because they are enumerated &#8212; if asked to identify any provision of the Constitution, other than the First Amendment, that imposes meaningful limits on congressional or executive authority to act.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#39;t seem much of a caricature when you then go on to complain that kids, when it comes to toys imported from another country, commerce of an international kind, you are indeed on your own.&nbsp; But hey, not everyone makes it. &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I would wander alone through the woods, walk home alone from school (as a kindergartner), and ride a bike without a helmet (among much else).&nbsp; Wondering aloud once not long ago how anyone ever survived, a friend of mine quipped: not everyone made it.&nbsp; On to today&#39;s story.&nbsp; George &quot;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not everyone made it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,204,12],"tags":[246,292,129,293,288],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","category-specious-allegations-of-fallacy","category-straw-man","tag-barack-obama","tag-conservatism","tag-george-will","tag-lead-toys","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}