…and if President McCain has taken an Ambien to help him sleep, which he does at some unspecified frequency, someone else is gettin’ the proverbial phone.
Now, I may be stretching here, but I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that if you have sleeping problems before you’re President, odds are those problems will get worse and not better in the new gig. Speaking as only a casual observer, the Presidency appears to be a tough job.
Anyway, I took an Ambien once. Slept like a rock in a tent pitched at about a 30 degree angle on lumpy ground 10,000 feet up a mountain. Woke up with my tent mate on top of me, in fact, because of the angle, both of us literally wedged into the lower corner of the tent. It made for some good laughs.
If that phone rings at 3:00 AM, and McCain is dosed, he won’t even hear it. And if his staff manages to roust (probably physically) President McCain, he’s going to have some slow-mo synapses firing until he gets needled with some uppers by the Dr. I assume will never be too far away.
It’s all very encouraging, though irrelevant. I don’t give a shit if McCain takes drugs. At his age, I’d be more worried if he didn’t.
The whole thing is at best plausible, but the commercial itself was stupid in the first place, so what the heck.
