If I had more time. . .

I would love to be more involved in politics. I was listening to a debate on public radio today during my lunch break. I know, I'm a geek. I really don't listen all that much, but it is a decent station. The incumbent democrat was debating a previous republican US senator for a US house seat. I only caught half of it, but there were statements from both the I liked and some I didn't.

My roommate during my second year of med school was really into politics. He sparked my interest during the 2004 presidential election. We had lawn signs, bumper stickers and even buttons for our backpacks. It's crazy how wrapped up in everything you can get when you actually emotionally invest in something like that. The whole process was really quite exhilarating.

I am not sure that I can really ever see myself actually running for office of any sort, but I will definitely get involved at some point in time. It seems like a lot of people scoff at politics, but they influence our lives in may ways, some blatantly obvious and some in ways that are more inconspicuous.

I really don't have anything to say other than politics are interesting and someday I hope to be much more involved.