Has it ever occurred to you that a 21-year-old may be completely qualified for the job? Hell, here in Illinois we got Aaron Schock, who won a write-in campaign at 19 to the Peoria Public School District School Board then, three years later, at the ripe young age of 22, was voted unanimously by the board to be board president. Furthermore, at the age of 24, he defeated an incumbent to become the youngest member of the Illinois state assembly, and is poised to be the youngest member of the House of Representatives at 26 (he’s already won the nomination and is so far unopposed.)
So, if a 22-year-old kid can be the president of a school board (or a 26-year-old-kid a Congressman), what the hell is so odd about a 21-year-old being a superdelegate?
The “novelty wrestler guy” was Jesse fucking Ventura, who was the fucking GOVERNOR of Minnesota, not California. Arnold fucking Schwarzenegger was the “novelty bodybuilder guy”, perhaps, or the “novelty barbarian guy”, or maybe the “novelty killer cyborg guy”. I’m pretty fucking sure they’re both a lot fucking smarter than you.
This is a weird thing to admit, but when I just read that I screamed out, slapped the computer monitor on both sides of its face, and started hyperventilating. Am I the only one who has a problem with BABIES making these serious decisions?
Maybe this is a fallout of the greater infantilization of our culture. This is what all those adults reading Harry Potter were working toward - a true, real-world embrace of the mythical child-king to lead us to glory. They want to badly to believe that there is a magical child born with powers that will lead us all to the bosom of Abraham.
The next thing will be electing a toddler to make these decisions, because the noble savage should be king.
Yeah, they were clearly two different thoughts: sentence one was referring to Arnold, sentence 2 referring to Jesse “The Bodybag.”
You’re probably just embarrassed that you voted for Arnold. East Bay - what, did he do a signing at amoeba and that’s all it took for you? BIG MAN BE MY GOVERNOR PLEASE
Wouldn’t that be the opposite of infantilization? And I suspect that rule wasn’t just enacted for this primary, so as an illustration of a trend, it seems a bit suspect of a data point.
Moveover: in the “age ain’t nuthin’ but a number” category of reasoning, I have no idea how old you are, but I certainly wouldn’t recommend you as a superdelegate, even if you were 103.
You’re getting your pop culture all mixed up. If he’s 21 and didn’t vote in the last election, he would have been the right age for pokemon, but only the original GB games, and maybe the first runs of the cartoon and card game… Assuming he wasn’t watching c-span, which seems more likely for him. Yu-Gi-Oh is a couple years too late, and nobody likes Naruto. Seriously.
Avatar–on the other hand–is hot shit, and I fully endore anyone who watches it.
-Aioua. 20 year old, WA precinct 47-3404 democratic delegate.
Can anyone remind me of the rules about wishing death on another Doper, in the Pit? I can’t say for sure why this came to mind right at this moment, but whaddyagonnado?
Prodigies exist in all occupations. If the electorate decides he’s talented enough to elect him into the DNC, why not allow it? From all accounts, the kid worked his ass off and surprisingly won his seat. He deserved it. And he doesn’t look like a fratboy at all.
That would require that I voted for him in either the recall election or the normal one for the following term. I didn’t.
:dubious: How likely do you really think it is that a Republican candidate would campaign at a psychedelic record store in the People’s Republic of Berkeley? Also, see above. I think I’m supposed to be insulted, but it’s all just so awesomely stupid.