Wow.
For those who are not Texans, this may seem an insignificant albeit amusing article. Within Texas, Kinky Friedman is a well known and high profile comedian and perennial candidate for some office or other, similar to Pat Paulsen. He is always fun and cordial, but his political commentary is always only half in jest.
Kinky is a left libertarian with a large following among urban white Democrats in Texas. His campaigns are always hopeless (by design probably), but his humorous commentary has an audience and carries some weight, especially in the cities. The significance is this: If Kinky represents the attitude shift of the somewhat left, somewhat libertarian Oat Willie types in Texas, Obama may be losing the smartest, most productive, and most innovative part of his base in other states too.
This article looks cute and harmless, but it is as ominous for Obama as a Trojan rocking horse outside the gates of Chicago al-Islam. To paraphrase the words of the smarter than you and original too Vice President, “this is a big cuffing deal”.
Well put.