Kucinich does it right.

Kucinich totally wins.

Dodd looks way too old to have a 2 year old and a 5 year old.

1- that's why, like Becks, he could never be President.

Why, Chris Dodd. How vigorous of you, wink wink.

I thought if you were President you were allowed to get more sleep and read about goats.

I'm totally inseminating the womens, lol.

Somewhere, reacting to the well-known locomotive energy of Cousin Theodore, FDR said something like: "Cousin Teddy might have been able to get by on six hours, but I need eight." When are these people going to bed?

I hate to tell you this, but if that disqualifies you from running for president, it also disqualifies you from being a parent. Sleeping 'til 9:00 would be magical.

Bill Clinton keep famously irregular hours though?

I understand it's very commonly asserted of of larger-than-life political figures (Hitler, Huey Long, etc.) that they subsisted on a few hours of sleep a night. It might be true, or it might grow out of awe at their energy.

10: It certainly gives them a head start on the rest of us.

In related news, non-dictators resent all the free time that dictators enjoy, while dictators claim that it's just because non-dictators get more sleep, not because dictators do less work.

And it bites back. I've seen a great video (not sure how accessible it is) of an arms reduction conference where someone was droning on and half the attendees, including Reagan, were visibly dozing.

Yeah Dennis. Did his wife actually use the phrase "John Lennon and Yoko Ono style"?

it also disqualifies you from being a parent. Sleeping 'til 9:00 would be magical.

Word.

Also, Mike Huckabee had seemed one of the sanest of the Republican field, but I can now see that he's utterly insane.

If Kucinich's wife was the one running for president, with exactly his policies and priorities, how do we think she would be doing in the polls?

(is she even 35? what is he, 60?)

Huckabee seems a lot like my uncle Tom, whom I trust more than almost anyone else. If it wasn't that in the 21st century evangelical beliefs didn't lead to exclusively nonsensical and fascist policies once put into power, I might vote for him.

I think she's about my age (28)

Unnecessary double negative in 17.

60 and 28.

There is certainly some sort of Z factor that successful people have over the rest of us slackers. Being able to get by with less sleep, hyper organized or something else. Outside of Entertainment, of course. There, substance abuse is the order of the day.

She's not eligible, she's not a natural born citizen.

Isn't that even shadier than not being a naturalize citizen yourself? You don't have any choice in where you are born but you can choose to marry a patriot.

She's also 28. Needs a few more years.

Personally, I was looking forward to the Becks-style signing statements.

Getting back to Paris Hilton, I kind of expected something like this would happen:

Paris Hilton wants Arnold Schwarzenegger to terminate her jail sentence. The hotel heiress is pleading with fans to sign a petition that will be sent to the California governor, requesting he grant her a pardon.

I say extra jail time for her sheer unmitigated gall.

Where's the petition to lock up Paris Hilton and throw away the key? As a citizen of the state of California, I'm happy to pay my share of her lifetime incarceration if it means we NEVER HAVE TO HEAR FROM HER AGAIN.

I get up at 5:10 am most mornings. I feel slothful if I am still sleeping at 7am.

I'm happy to pay my share of her lifetime incarceration if it means we NEVER HAVE TO HEAR FROM HER AGAIN.

Since she almost certainly has an excessively large carbon footprint, it would probably be good for the environment, too.

Where's the petition to lock up Paris Hilton and throw away the key?

The Free Paris Hilton petition is here, with 6440 signatures.

The Jail Paris Hilton petition is here, with 9527 signatures.

Magpie, you don't get to sign the petition unless you have seen her porn tape.

I'm, like, the one person in the world who hasn't seen it but, really? She answers her phone during sex? Like, while he's still having sex with her? Damn.

A friend forced me to watch it recently. It just goes to show that even an arguably hot girl can make sex dull.

I clicked through the link and saw this image in the sidebar. Honestly, I think you're worrying too much, Becks. If John McCain can have a secret black child and still run for president surely you can, too.

Tom! Don't tell everyone about my secret black child!

Shit! I swear I thought that had come up in a thread here before.

even an arguably hot girl can make sex dull.

There is a second tape with a different fellow, not shot in nightvision green, that's much better.

I made a bet with myself that apo would post the link.

Damn, do I hate getting up early. I have to get up at 6 tomorrow, and I've been whining about it all day.

Perhaps foolishly, I've decided to start a running program, and my current plan includes getting up early to run on Thursday. We'll have to see how that goes.

I have to get up at 5 twice a week. It blows. But the problem is, I'm really good at getting up at 5. I'm also really good at getting up at noon. Anytime in between and I'm kind of a wreck.

Actually, the sick thing is that I get up at five because I leave the house at 7:15, and I likes me some leisurely time in the morning, making tea, watching the sun rise, reading the news. Even I disgust me now.

I get up at 5:45, and can be at speed in my car 45 minutes later. It's very useful for my commute, and I try not to wake anybody up, but my schedule is now out of whack with my wife's, and I end the week seriously sleep-deprived, and probably don't quite catch up on the weekends.

11: In related news, non-dictators resent all the free time that dictators enjoy, while dictators claim that it's just because non-dictators get more sleep, not because dictators do less work.

Heh.

Isn't this really a reason why Becks couldn't run for president? Nothing seems to suggest that sleeping in makes one less likely to be that one random cabinet-member who survives the apocalypse.

There's a 7 o'clock in the morning now?

10: I know Thatcher didn't need a lot of sleep, like four hours. She also spent most of her time working didn't have any understanding of her cabinet ministers, who obviously weren't as productive. She thought everyone but herself was a lazy bum.

So by my reckoning Huckabee is the only candidate that gets up early. I'm surprised. Bunch of lazy bastards running this country.

I understand it's very commonly asserted of of larger-than-life political figures (Hitler, Huey Long, etc.) that they subsisted on a few hours of sleep a night.

Lenin insisted on 10 hours sleep a night. Arise ye starvelings! Or alternatively, turn over and doze for a bit.

She thought everyone but herself was a lazy bum.

Rigorously-disciplined people are famously like this. It's like my grandfather, who smoked as a young man, abruptly quit somewhere around 30 (it may have even been because a woman said something to him, like 'You shouldn't do that, it's gross' - except in 1944speak), and spent the next 60 years viewing anyone who couldn't quit easily as a weakling.

I'm generally good with 6 hours of sleep, but I certainly appreciate more.

I've always felt, appropos of the FDR anecdote I quoted above, that it said something about him, that in an age of larger-than-life cults of personality, certainly among the dictators as referred to above, where the kind of worship of the superior man you get in say, The Fountainhead a roughly contemporary book was atmospheric, and where you might expect a man in a wheelchair to be into overcompensating in a big way, he knew himself well enough not to be shy about needing eight hours of sleep.

49: This is not in any way an endorsement of letting aristocrats run things generally -- mostly, they should be the first up against the wall come the revolution (e.g., the Bush family). But when you do get a good one like FDR, one of the strong points that sometimes shows up is that they don't need to waste energy on overcompensating.