Texas A&M is not your normal American College. The student body is 95% white, 99% Republican and virtually run by the infamous ROTC Corps of Cadets, compete with sabers, spurs, jack boots and jodhpurs. They may smoke a little dope there but nobody protests nothin', ever. Racism is not an issue there, they're for it.
The student newspaper, The Eagle, usually prints sports news, mostly football. They worship a white God in College Station and his only begotten son, Bear Bryan.
The Eagle doesn't usually endorse candidates for the President of the United States of America. They didn't endorse LBJ in 1964. This week, they gave an only slightly qualified endorsement of Barack Obama for the Presidency. The qualifications were no more harsh than those I would make myself. They praised John McCain for his service to the country. They blistered the paint off the Alaskan Queen. They are, essentially, signing on to the whole transformational figure in American politics package, lock, stock and barrel.
I'm not going to try and analyse what this means in terms of the Texas political scene. I don't pretend to understand anything about Texas, that you can't learn from listening to old Kinky Friedman albums, while at least 600 miles away. I'll just say that if John McCain is having problems beating a liberal black community organizer, from the South side of Chicago, at Texas A&M, he's having real problems. Fundamental problems.
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