Local media outlets are reporting that Sen. Barack Obama will be campaigning here in Beaumont, Texas, on Thursday. As I have noted here before, that is likely to create quite a stir in our fair town, provided he doesn’t get mugged on his way to speak. Only kidding. We have a nice city here with only a few crackheads and ne’er-do-wells as in every city.
Thursday is not a work day for me, at least not in my part-time government job. My writing biz hasn’t been exactly setting the world on fire lately either. But that’s another story. So I perhaps will go check out what Obama has to say if it isn’t too much of a hassle. I hate to be that way but after all, I am an old fart and hate being jostled ’round by a bunch of crazed partisans of any ilk. Hey, it would be the same if some performer was playing somewhere near here for free. I could handle those mob scenes in my younger days of laying about with thousands of drunk and stoned people watching ZZ Top or Bob Seger or whomever was getting down those days. But such spectacles don’t excite me enough nowadays for all the discomfort. And a politician? I don’t think so. But I might still go. We shall see.