Teabaggers await Obama

Hundreds of demonstrators arrived at the Texas A&M campus at College Station on Friday ahead of a speech by President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to appear with former President George H.W. Bush to mark the 20th anniversary of Bush’s “Thousand Points of Light” initiative.

The demonstrations cover a variety of topics, including immigration and health care. Many protesters are carrying signs, sitting in lawn chairs and listening to speeches and bands over loudspeakers.

“Our only true task is networking and organization,” Mike Openshaw from the North Texas Tea Party in Plano said. “The common thread is the belief in governmental fiscal sanity. We’re spending more than we are taking in, and it’s easier to solve the going out than the coming in.”

The largest protest was organized by members of the Texas A&M University’s College Republicans, who arrived at 5 a.m. to claim an 80,000-sq.-ft. section of Spence Park, which university officials say can hold up to 7,000 people. The College Republicans are partnered with the Brazos County Republican Party, the Republican Women of the Brazos Valley and other conservative organizations. ...Austin American-Statesman