{"id":9393,"date":"2012-11-06T04:33:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2012-11-06T04:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:33:53","slug":"miscellaneous-election-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/miscellaneous-election-day-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"MISCELLANEOUS: ELECTION DAY 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELECTION DAY 2012<\/h1>\n

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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, \u201cHold on a second! What abut the politics of the Olympics, the politics of Hollywood, etc.?\u201d 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.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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\u2014those two are a toss-up.)<\/p>\n

But, all that being said, I have to acknowledge one thing: even though what I’m about to say has absolutely nothing<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Outside of that<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

So, may the correct man win again, which is, of course, Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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,<\/p>\n

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