We Vote Leave Clay Aiken Alone 
 Friday, February 29th, 2008

I like Clay Aiken fans.  They are so innocent and pure of heart.  Yes, that's a generalization, but that's just what I've found to be true.  On Wednesday, the Washington Post's "Reliable Source" published an article on "Clay Aiken Playing Hooky."  Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post - which is usually one of our favorite publications - picked it up, with the header "Clay Aiken Shirks High-Level Government Duties As Wikipedia Nerds Go Ballistic."

The whole schtick was that Aiken - who's currently starring in Broadway's rendition of Monty Python's Spamalot - has, according to The Reliable Source, only made it to one of his quarterly meetings for the Presidential Committee For People With Intellectual Disabilities.  Aiken was given the position by President George W. Bush in September of 2006.

I find it silly that this is even making news - enough so that Claymates are in a tizzy.  If you were appointed to a position by the current administration (Bush, Cheney and the gang)...would you still want to be associated with them?  I wouldn't!  Unless that means being given the power to magically heal by touch - and I personally don't think Bush is close enough with old JC for that to happen.

After all of this, if I were Clay, I'd be making myself too busy with other things, too!  After all, his position was within the administration - an assistant to the President, essentially.  I'm not a Claymate - I hardly have time to be my own mate these days (wait, that sounded weird) - but my vote is:  leave Clay Aiken alone!

Thanks, lefter!

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