Should Pop Singers Go to the Head of the Line?

Billy Hallowell reports on pop singer Usher's being ushered through the voting process:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/voters-infuriated-after-ga-election-officials-let-singer-usher-skip-long-voting-lines-snap-pics/

I think the comments reflect whether people have or have not lived around celebrities. If you have, you realize that it's easier for everyone to deal with the complaints about letting them skip lines and take pictures (or have the pictures taken) than to deal with the people who want a piece of them. Celebrities have a right to vote and, although a good case might be made for letting them vote by mail, they even have a right to be seen going to the polls--and posting pictures with encouragements to Real Fans to go out and vote if they haven't yet.

I wouldn't have a problem standing in line, talking quietly to the person next to me, while Usher Raymond was four places ahead of me. Or while some "star" of my generation, say Julia Roberts or Jerry Rice, was. Or Jimmy Carter. I would be interested in meeting these people, but as an introvert I honestly don't want to intrude on people when they're not equally interested in talking to me.

Unfortunately, we're a society that has coddled extroverts, teaching them to go ahead and act on every "friendly" impulse to annoy others that flits through their scattered brains.

We could use a few more "stars" like Frank Sinatra, whose home, during the peak of his fame, was reportedly identified by a sign reading "If You Weren't Invited You'd Better Have a Good Excuse." Or like Dale Earnhardt, who may actually have disappointed some fans by remembering that his strength was not for hurting people, but who did yell, swear, and push tables toward autograph hounds to keep them at a distance.

As long as we continue to demand that anyone who's achieved any degree of fame encourage the bad manners of autograph hounds, we're going to be a society that needs for celebrities to be ushered around crowds and lines.