How’s that for scary shit? Here’s a freaky article from ABC News (via Drudge):

Jason Rae is a typical junior in college.

He spends several hours a day in class at Marquette University in Wisconsin where he is majoring in history and political science. He is closely following the Marquette basketball team and has the Golden Eagles’ schedule memorized.

But not many 21-year-olds start their Monday with a personal breakfast with Chelsea Clinton, as Rae did this morning at the student union at the nearby University of Milwaukee.

Rae got the one-on-one treatment from the former—and possibly future—first daughter because he is a Democratic National Committee member from Wisconsin and thus a “super delegate,” one of the 796 free agents who can back any candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination. [Emphasis added with glee.]

Ah, so now Chelsae is being pimped tasked by Mummy Dearest to suck up to court prepubescent Democratic super delegates!  I see!

What I don’t see, however, is how the Democratic Party could give the weighty responsibility carried by a super delegate to a pip-squeak.

The ABC story adds some more gory details:

Rae may be a typical college junior but he is certainly not the typical DNC super delegate.

He is only 21 years old—he has never voted in a presidential election because he turned 18 after Election Day in 2004.

Since the race between New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is so tight, Rae has become a power broker of sorts, as both campaigns push hard to lock down the support of super delegates.

Hmm. A super delegate who has never voted in a presidential election before. No wonder the daughter of the “most experienced” Democratic candidate is circling him like a shark. He’s smarter than Hillary is….

The ABC story continues:

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. [Emphasis added in amazement.]

What the ABC story doesn’t say is that the president of the state firefighter’s union was a 19-year-old bus boy. It also doesn’t mention the fact that the state legislator in question–who was 12 at the time of the party convention–had lied about his age in order to get elected. (He was also tall for his age.)

So the ABC article ends thusly:

The breakfast lasted about 30 minutes. Rae said he had to hustle back to campus and get to his afternoon classes.

But not before getting his diaper changed by his mommy.

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