It rains on the just and the unjust. And on golfers.

 What is it about humans that we can’t be satisfied with what we have? Or, have the patience to see how things work out?

Today a neighbor of mine was complaining about the rain. The rain?  We’re in a drought in Texas.  We’re about 6.5 inches below our rainfall totals. And he is out there in his yard complaining about a little rain messing up his golf date.

Now I know this article should have been about golf, but I’ll let that one slide.

Rain?

What could be wrong with a little weekend rain? We need it. We got it. Why the moaning? Maybe because he didn’t get his way. Maybe.

And I got to thinking about the up-coming election. Last time out, the President-elect, Mr. Obama hadn’t even taken office, when a friend of our family was already denouncing him as a Muslim communist who was going to wreck the world. Remember, this was before a single day in office. It was because Bob didn’t get his way.  His man didn’t win.  He was sore.

Now sure, Bob was just echoing Rush, his favorite talk show host, but still.  I mean give the guy a chance.  Hell, I gave the W a whole first term, before I came down on him.  That’s four years of, ‘okay show me your stuff’.  That’s four years of you really didn’t win the election, but we’ll see what you got. And we gave him his space. (Now to be sure, I doubted the whole WMD thing from the outset, but still, the President has a right to be a fool. And W took full advantage of that right.)

So what this means is, regardless who is elected in November, he is going to be my President. (Yours, too.) I will get behind him and support him. I may not like him or all of his policies, but I’ll give him a chance. I will give him his space in history. That’s democracy. That’s how it is supposed to work.

I am not going to stand out in my front yard and complain that my guy didn’t win. And I’m not going to be so shortsighted as to think that the rain that is falling today, which we need, will end golf as we know it.  It may just slow things down on a Saturday.

I hope you can do the same.  Especially if you are on the Far Right, and Obama wins a second term. It is not the end of the free world.  And Christian women are not going to have to sleep with Islamic terrorists. The UN is not going to invade Lubbock and arrest their nutty sheriff. And you’ll still be able to own all the assault rifles you can stuff under your bed.

Regardless of all the Right Wing talk about America coming apart at the seams if Obama wins, I can assure you, life will continue. And America will be strong. And the Cowboys will still need a new quarterback at the end of the year.  Some things don’t change.

Same is true if Romney wins. (True, I haven’t heard a lot of talk from those on the Left advocating attacks and the killing of people and the starting of  the second Civil War just because we’ve got a Mormon in the White House. But I’m giving equal time here.)

So if it rains on your parade, lighten up.  It’s just rain.  It ain’t the end of the world.

It’s not even the end of golf.