Or how about Teddy K? Also...a 21-year-old superdelegate?!? These are the people that could be deciding the Democratic nominee? How do you get to be a SD when you're barely old enough to drink?

Scarlett and Kal Penn ... put your thinking cap on Jason.

I just got my robocall from Adrian Fenty (on my cell phone).  I'm holding out for a live call from Scarlett.

Are you kidding me?  This is how one of the two major parties goes about deciding who to nominat for President?  The fact that the Dems dreamed up a primary process where stuff like this happens gives one pause as to whether they are fit to hold elected office.  As if no one could foresee the possible train-wreck between mandatory proportional allocation of earned delegates, and the requirement that the nominee gain a majority of total delegates, including unelected "super-delegates."  

Seriously, a 21-year-old superdelegate?  How is this possible?

No, really, please someone explain how this guy got to be a superdelegate.

Yeah, nothing against the dude, but reading that made me sick.  So, we can have a 21-yr-old, and he gets courted like that?  That is democracy.  

If Scarlett called me and told me to vote for Ron Paul I think I would.

A 21 yr.-old-Superdelegate? It can't be true.

Where is the list of superdelegates? Alexander became king when he was 20. Maybe Jason Rae is some kind of super human anointed by the gods...or maybe his dad's a billionaire.

Is this posting accurate?

Shouldn't it read: "The Clintons Charm is Offensive"?

I thought superdelegates were supposed to be present current and former elected officials, or at least from the party elite.

I mean, who did this guy blackmail to get his superdelegate status?

fougasseu: Nice.

"Uh, two words of advice for the Obama people: Scarlett Johansson."

Can I be a superdelegate? Please? (At 24, I could be the old man of the group)

If Scarlett called me, I'd ask if she'd ever looked into acting lessons.

For those who keep asking, the article has a first page:

"Rae was elected as a DNC member at the Wisconsin state party convention in June 2004. He was 17 years old at the time but there are no party rules that say a DNC member has to be of voting age. Rae ran against and defeated the president of the state firefighters' union and a state legislator."

abcnews.go.com/.../Story

Still doesn't explain why/how he won though. Incidentally, he will be casting his superdelegate vote before having ever voted for president.

You know, now that I think about this story kind of brought this word to mind ... [ ethnic colloquialism suspended ] but maybe that's just me.

I might vote for Mike Gravel if Scarlett Johansson called me.

drdan, as ever, we see eye to eye on acting ability. Although, bless her heart, I don't think that's what got her famous. And, I have to say, even Clive Owen calling me couldn't convince me to change my vote. But I'm open to him trying (Clive, if you're reading this...). Alas, so far all I've gotten is the same Adrian Fenty robo-call as stgla.

But this kid's 21 years old. Setting aside how the hell he got to be a superdelegate, it does indeed take an impressive amount of self-assurance to say, "Eh, I'll see" to one of the only two presidents you remember. When I was 21, I probably would have told Pol Pot I'd vote for his wife, if he called me.

DrDan, if Scarlett calls you transfer it over to me.  I think I would, um, appreciate it more.

epic, you'd tell Pol Pot you'd do the same now.  I know you color your face with Khmer Rouge.

....and poor Schuster was suspended for his statement???

Acccording to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (jsonline.com) the young man is a member of the Democratic National Committee.  So he must paid his dues in sweat and shoe leather to get that post so young.

I'm not so sure, Jason: I've heard Scarlett Johansson in interviews. A fantastic actress? Yes. Extraordinarily hot example of the aesthetic benefits of America's ethnic melting pot? Absolutely. Even remotely connected to reality, mentally? No. She seems both really smart and fantastically ignorant in the couple of interviews I've seen.

So I don't think a phone call from Johansson would be of much benefit. A personal visit? Now we're talking ...

But, Bone, I use SHining Path gloss and brown-shirt taupe eyeshadow, so who knows where my loyalties lie? I just hope they don't all call on the same day. Awkward!

If Scarlet were to call me I'd ask her to arrange a test or two with Dr Dan's lab first

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epic, we see eye to eye on Clive Owen. CFKane, thank you for the explanation. Also thank you for the image, in another thread, of HRC on a raft with the corpses and the chattering monkeys. I saw that movie. Yikes.

Holy age-ism Batman - the guy was terrific, even after getting a call from the big guy himself - more than I can say for most people (visions of Denise Rich and her ilk come to mind).  Since when is age a sign of intelligence or good decision making?  We can send the guy off to war, he has every right to some real power.

I work with lots of people his age with better heads on their shoulders than 90% of boomers I know. Exhibit A in boomer idiocy: the wasteful, unnecessary mess the our poltical culture is in.  Jack Abrahoff? Enron? Globla warming?  Since when are WE such geniuses at decision making?

Let's not let prejudice (or ideas of what useless nitwits we were at that age, speaking of myself) limit what is possible in people.

I don't object to this kid being a super-delegate as much as I object to the basic idea of super-delegates. Why do we give them so much power?

True, wandrey, and I have nothing against the dude per se- I just wonder what this says abut exactly how supers are chosen and what that means.  I was an idiot at 21, but still pretty heavily involved in local politics.  Who knows?  With the right greasing of various power-levers maybe I could have been a super-delegate, and lord knows what that would have meant for the Republic.

I mean, I am still a dope at 29, but worse then.  

The point is the whole thing seems terrifyingly arbitrary.  

Epic, Shining Path lip gloss is awesome.   I would make another joke here, but my knowledge of makeup is even worse than my knowledge of Peru.  

One of the two Democratic National Committee members from Maine, and therefore a super delegate, Sam Spencer, says in his bio that he's "one of the DNC's youngest members."  From his Myspace page (!), he's thirty-five (35), but I'm sure he'd like a call from Scarlett too.

The other Maine DNC member is a practicing pagan, which at least the Maine Christian Civic League thinks is a polite word for .  .  .  (rhymes with .  .  .)  Should pagan be capitalized?  Maybe Bill will have more luck with her.

kyoung, you should hear what the Maine Christian Civic League has to say about the town where I live.  They called us the "gay mecca" of Maine.  Needless to say, we've made that into bumper stickers.  (For serious.)

And I don't object to a 21-year-old being a superdelegate.  I object to a 21-year-old being a superdelegate when I'm NOT a superdelegate.

Michelle (Cottle) & Peter (Beinert) were just the ridiculousness of this kid choosing the president on MSNBC. Incidentally, he was still on the air while they were doing so. He didn't look too hurt (though I'm sure he was crying on the inside).

I was going to be a superdelegate, but they said the cape was unnecessary.

Supposed to read:

Michelle (Cottle) & Peter (Beinert) were just discussing the ridiculousness of this kid choosing the president on MSNBC. Incidentally, he was still on the air while they were doing so. He didn't look too hurt (though I'm sure he was crying on the inside).

Clinton's calling to tell this kid that his wife is electable?! You know what predicts electability? Getting the most votes! The superdelegates should just follow the electorate and split accordingly.  After the fiasco of the 2000 election which gave us a president not chosen by the majority, Democrats are not in any mood for anything but transparency and straight up democracy.

Is it just me or is there something really schmucky about having a rrobot on your phone that says, ""Please hold for the former president"?

I could get one of those, too.  I don't have to say the president of what.

Ageism on live TV, barf.

ChanRobt: Agreed. When a robot tells me to "hold," I never do. Matter of personal policy. In this case, I'd expect it to be some prerecorded message, even if I knew what President they were talking about. Seems an odd way to begin the phone call, really.

In a dystopian future, of course, when an armed robot might say "freeze," I'll probably have to come up with a different policy.

fougasseu: Well, you also have to look at past experience. Alexander also commanded a successful charge against the Theban Sacred Band, one of the most effective elite fighting forces of his day, at age 16. So that's kind of like defeating the president of a firefighters' union at 17 in an election, I guess.

Oh please!  Superdelegates of any age don't "decide the presidency" (CFK).  The relatively (in comparison to other industrial democracies) small percentage of American citizens who bother to vote in November do.

Was this an "out call" by Chelsea, as opposed to an "in call"?