ELECTION DAY 2012

I’ve never really been political. Of course, I faked it in college, but didn’t we all? And, when my Sports Radio mentor and partner, Fred Wallin, called me over a decade ago to say that we’d been offered a national political radio show, and asked if I wanted to do it, at first I said I can’t because I’m not well-versed enough in the area. And then, I said, “Hold on a second! What abut the politics of the Olympics, the politics of Hollywood, etc.?” And, so we did the show. I even hosted all by my lonesome for about a month when Fred got sick! (Fred had never taught me how to sign-on, or even use the equipment, so it was an adventure, but it worked out great.)

I’ve always been a Democrat and proud of it. I do hate the way that this country has gotten so crazy with all the partisanship, fueled by competing television stations. Mr. X has that stuff on constantly and I can’t listen to it most of the time. As I explain to him, I feel that, at this point, no one from either party will change the mind of a person who believes in the opposite.

I don’t discuss the Presidential election because I don’t want to know that anyone I’m acquainted with is a Republican; it really does make me think less of them, I must admit. I have no idea how Maria Shriver lived with a Republican all those years. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s views are almost worse to me than his sleeping with their housekeeper! (All right—those two are a toss-up.)

But, all that being said, I have to acknowledge one thing: even though what I’m about to say has absolutely nothing to do with party affiliations, it’s the only reason I have to cut those people some slack. Here it is: when I lost my mother last Xmas, and during this subsequent hard year, there were only a few friends who were really there for me. Of those main nine, six of them are serious Republicans. And I don’t know what I would have done without them.

So, that’s why I don’t discuss politics; we’ll never agree on that topic. But in the category of knowing how to be good people, those few excel. And that counts more than anything to me.

Outside of that situation, I’m praying that the good people of this country are sufficiently informed and intelligent enough to not make things worse for all of us.

So, may the correct man win again, which is, of course, Obama.