Clay Aiken and Bush!?

Newsvine reports it here.

Clay Aiken is to be named to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Ridiculousness must be surrounding the president of the U.S., because this is just unreal. Do people actually get appointed to such positions who are regular-type people? I thought that politics was for the politicians. (Not to mention in my fair state, a past Governor just got sentenced 6.5 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy, fraud, etc.)