Fucking hilarious NYT put their "But her emails" correspondent on a Biden story, when they pay her a lot of money to maintain non-stop access to Trump's camp.
Why? I had a professor in college who went to bed at 8pm and got up at 3am. When I was a teenager, I worked overnight and slept from about 7am to 2pm. What difference does it make?
So ridiculous - you're plainly reaching for anything to anti-Biden. Say, bed 8pm, awakened at 2am for some emergency. Rather that, or one who's been up til midnight and now exhausted and not thinking straight?
Your random scenarios are no better than any other.
Having to think clearly on little sleep during an emergency, as the president of the United States, is not a random scenario. That is a part of the job.
They would rather try to retcon the entire concept of what a president IS than accept presidents can't just say they need more sleep and so are going to work less.
It's always been a little weird to me that they don't stay in the WH on the weekends. Jonathan Chait wrote an essay saying this is like finding out a partner was cheating, now you go back over everything asking if there was something you should have noticed before. I hate that. archive.ph/02GC0
Come on, man. Imagine that you're an independent, someone who thinks we're making up the danger of Trump because we think racism is just uncouth and J6 was just a riot. To you, these candidates are about equal, but one of them says he can't stay up past 8 anymore. You're not going to pick that guy.
Ppl in that mindset aren't going to pick Biden anyway, they're Trump voters.
I get you don't want Biden but he's a capable leader with solid performance. Any criticism falls on his comms team
That's bullshit. The only way anyone wins is by persuading enough independents, so no "write off all independents who require a president who can stay up past 8pm" is not a good plan. Stop. Speedily make your way through the stages and reach acceptance. We can't run a guy who can't stay up late.
Literally everyone who can truthfully say "Yes I can stay alert late at night, even pull an all-nighter if there's an emergency" is a better candidate. This is a basic job requirement that all voters are going to care about.
I suspect its a small percentage of independents who will vote against early bedtime over civil/human rights, healthcare, democracy, fidelity, honesty, respect, and overall humanity.
I'm sorry but that's totally delusional, to think that voters would just say "It's fine if the president needs an early bedtime." I'm not sure what you think people outside the hardcore D base think about things, but...they envision a president being on call at all hours to defend us.
