Buttadeus: I think the campaigning also sucks up far more of his time than the government job, and the associated travel is a bitch.

i don’t actually know this, this isn’t a rhetorical question, but, like, do other representative democracies expect that their heads of state maintain 14-16 hour a day, 7 day a week schedules, or is that just specific to our national obsession with looking busy?

combo head of state/head of government is a bitch

I think the campaigning also sucks up far more of his time than the government job, and the associated travel is a bitch.

But like ultimately, we don't really have ANY specific expectation for the president's working hours, and we don't have any real expectations for the president's *work*. What are you supposed to do all day? What do any of them do all day?

The central part of the job is to make decisions; that basically requires choosing between proposals by different subordinates on various matters.

And all the easy decisions have already been made by your subordinates.

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