Instead of watching ... or really caring ... who won ... I was playing live music with friends and laughing a lot before going home to talk to little girls, cuddle with my wife and vaguely remember her guiding me from the sofa to our bed.
It's funny because I know how to do politics.
It's a game of stroking an elected officials ego while providing them a "Hero Opportunity" to make themselves look like a leader ... problem solver ... smart ... charismatic ... interesting ... re-electable ... and don't occasionally pee their pants like everybody else.
I've had the incredible fortune ... maybe it's misfortune ... to have met many.
Presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton and Carter ... Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Newt Gingrich, Andrew Cuomo and a gazillion others.
My favorite was Congressman Lindsay Thomas ... who like all sane people left politics to actually make a difference in the world ... though we drank beers on the beach together, telling jokes and helped one another out.
The rest are all the same.
There's really no difference.
What's exciting about politics is the game.
I won as much under Bush as I did Clinton!
They financed things differently but if you play the game right ... you end up getting what you want.
In my case I wanted money and policies to benefit the homeless, People with AIDS, the uninsured, the Elderly, addicts, whores and other normal people struggling to get by the ways they know how.
Today people I know won ... Mitch McConnell ... and people I know lost ... John Barrow.
There's little difference between them.
BUT ... the sky is an incredible deep blue today.
It's warm and nice on the Beloved Back Deck surrounded by purple and orange blooms, the sound of waves crashing in the distance and the pungent aroma of the Marsh.
I'm planning a nice romantic dinner for my wife.
Maybe a movie.
Maybe more!
It's a good day regardless of who's in charge.
Because I believe with everything in me that it's not whoever won or lost yesterday.
And I swear to God that it's God I hear laughing.
