Posted on 08/07/2014 8:36:13 AM PDT by jyro
>> I’ve wondered how they can handle it.
The good ones sleep because they’re exhausted from doing their job.
The bad ones avoid doing their job; stay busy playing golf, taking vacations, fundraising, getting head from an intern, etc.
Presidents deal with some pretty serious emergencies and huge history making events where they have to sleep well the night before deciding history.
I would say that everything is going according to plan. The country is in shambles and the divided are splitting. All Obama has to do is follow Valerie’s orders and let her go sleepless.
I don't particularly wonder how presidents sleep.
It is a little different when the next day is a day when you will be deciding future history, such as the most important meetings in history, meeting with the Soviet leader, or making the most important speech of your life to change the direction of the nation, or deciding war or no war, etc.
>> Too bad this thread will probably be frivolous remarks about Obama though.
Yeah! Cool, huh? Here are my personal favorites, in order of appearance. Thanks FRIends!
peteyd: “The present one sleeps upside down and is literally sucking the life out of us.”
yetidog: “This president sleeps on his left side.”
rightwingintelligentsia: “He has no conscience. Plus Val Jarrett handles everything for him”
Veggie Todd: “If he’s in the same room as Mooche, he sleeps with one eye open.”
SMARTY: “Valerie reads to him from ‘Das Kapital’”
I've had similar though not as dramatic results. When the mind is overstressed, you need to tire the body physically to sleep. Or at least I do.
And then it doesn't always work. Back during the first Gulf War was in charge of a major project in AK where I had to essentially build a business with 70 employees from the ground up and complete the project in six weeks. Got it done, but slept probably no more than 1-2 hours most nights.
Thank you for your service. I remember reading the Civil War correspondence from a Union officer who was at the Siege of Charleston. He wrote that whenever the shelling stopped, they’d wake up because it was so quiet. I can’t imagine being able to sleep while shells are exploding in the distance, but then again, I never experienced it first-hand. I’m sure you can get used to just about any noise in order to sleep.
What? It has already been established to my satisfaction that this creep is an Android. They plug hin into a charger and he leans back in his executory chair and puts his feet up on the Oval Office desk.
I was at a forward operating base the whole year there. I told my wife it was boring and when she found out about all the rockets and mortars she questioned my “boring” description. I told her that when it happens so often it becomes boring to an extent. It was only not boring if someone of something (vehicle/building) got hit.
The worst part was two weeks before leaving. That would be the worst time to get hit. Instead of flying out I ended up in a convoy which was even worse (you’re now a rolling target). We didn’t have a runway so the only other way out was by helicopter.
The current one sleeps like a baby.
He is seeing everything going his way.
The Devil does not sleep.
He sleeps well, think of everything that has gone wrong for you politically, economically, all those thing went RIGHT for Obama. He sleeps well, so much success.
“Presidents deal with some pretty serious emergencies and huge history making events where they have to sleep well the night before deciding history.”
Virtually everyone at some point in their life has serious problems (some that are even life or death decisions) that affect their own lives or the lives of their loved ones or employees. The effect is no different on the mind. So sorry, being a president is nothing special. It might even be easier because the president has a large support group of advisors that actually define the options and choices to be made. The group also takes the blame for some presidents who can’t take the criticism. Regular people don’t usually have support groups when deciding about a child with cancer or how to deal with a senile father or closing a business and putting hundreds of people out of work, many of whom could lose their homes as a result. Consider yourself fortunate that you don’t have to make decisions if you don’t understand this.
I know stress, but having watched the decisions that presidents have had to make over my lifetime, I think theirs must be worse.
For me, deciding life and death for hundreds of millions of people, and whether America would even exist a year after my decision, is even more stressful than my mother dying, or my child being sick.
Some things never change, even with the passage of time.
I guarantee Obama doesn’t have this problem. While sleeping his biggest problem is probably Moochelle nagging him. Heck, Obama doesn’t even get to his first meetings of the day until 11am.
Other presidents... I think the personality of someone who seeks that office is fairly egotistical or narcissistic to some degree and aside from the emergency interruptions they sleep quite well.
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