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Written by jay
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Monday, 18 February 2008 01:11 |
The youngest superdelegate attending this year's Democratic National Convention happens to be a fag! Take back what we said about fly-over states; 21-year-old Jason Rae, a junior at Marquette University, launched a grassroots campaign to become one of Wisconsin's four members of the Democratic National Committee and therefore one of the 796 much-crowed-about-on-cable-news superdelegates who will likely end up deciding this year's nominee (and probably the election) and he just gave an interview to The Advocate.
We'll take a second here for a rare journalistic FYI: The intention of the whole superdelegate thing is so that, in a tight race where there is no clear choice of nominee among the regular delegates' votes, experienced party insiders and "un-pledged" others then confer to throw their weight behind the most electable choice based on their wisdom about these things-this is also meant to help unite the party around a candidate with a large majority, rather than furthering the existing division from primary election results.
So it is in proper form that our little gay superdelegate friend Jason remains undecided between Clinton and Obama, saying:
"I'm really
torn between both of the candidates. I really think
that they're strong individuals and either one
of them would make a fine candidate. For me, it's
really a matter of when I completely feel like the
choice I'm making is the right choice for the
country."
Despite having been giving a fresh gay face to the non-insider contingent among superdelegates on multiple media outlets, Rae had yet to come out to his parents. Until, that is, The Advocate put this interview up on Friday.
"I'm realizing that tonight I may just want to
call them and talk to them. I've been waiting
for the right moment, and now just might happen to be
that right moment," he said rather
matter-of-factly, exhibiting a certain self-possession about
the discussion that only a true generation
"millennial" could.
We love how dorky and old they make themselves sound admiring his quote-unquote Millennial self-possession. Did they forget that they were writing on their website and not just for their thinning (and aging) print subscription audience? Go on doing what you do for the Boomers, Advocate. The rest of us (and probably Jason too) will be reading about the gay porn oscars on the interwebnets and using print mags for ironic wrapping paper.
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