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I'm sorry, it's not noon yet. I'll get back to you after I wake up. Of course, I'll probably be drunk then.
2
Could some Republican pundit please speculate that Dems are all ugly and look terrible with their shirts off?
3
I was going to get up before noon today to get my food stamps but that's tomorrow so I'm going back to bed.
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@2. Perfect.
5
Obama voter with gainful employment here, 7 AM-4 PM M-F.
6
I used to sleep till after noon, then get up and work the night shift.
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Who gives a fuck how early people wake up? Some of us are more productive in the evening, it's a normal human variation. Just because Benjamin Franklin wrote a trite proverb about early risers a couple centuries ago (back when people needed to wake up before sunrise to work on the farm) doesn't mean people who work the night shift are irresponsible or somehow decadent.

I'm glad there are some people who don't get up until after the arbitrary hour of noon, because they can serve my dinner, drive my bus, sort my UPS packages, dispatch 911 calls, keep factories running overnight, layout the next morning's daily newspaper, create art, or whatever.
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I get up at 8:30, but I also work 7 days a week, even holidays. And I paid more taxes than fucking Mitt Romney.
9
Hmmm.

I just have to ask: What's the point of this exercise? The entire idea that Obama voters are lazy moochers is so preposterous, it has zero legs and no hope of becoming any sort of a meme. It's just right-wing lunacy once again, the same kind of lunacy the country just resoundingly and forcefully de-pantsed on election night.

So why make a big deal out of it? There is no need to disprove it, or even make fun of it. We don't need examples; we don't need a counter-argument. The emperor not only has no clothes, he isn't even royalty anymore. The emperor is now a peasant.

One could argue that by running this weird campaign to find examples, you actually give this transparently ridiculous idea a small modicum of power. Why bother? It's so dumb, it's beneath incredulity. It's just not worth your (or frankly, our) time.

We won. Time to start acting like it.
10
lotsa white people. throw in some charles.
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I'm still in bed and it's almost noon. It's also my only day this week from eight-hour shifts at a 24/7 diner. I'd like these Republicans to try waiting tables for eight hours a day, six days on, before they tell me how to spend a day off.
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Per Josh Bis comment on the other post, what we need isn't anecdotal evidence of some dozen or so folks working on a federal holiday, but some cold, hard statistics.

How about getting the financial disclosure information of all the folks who contributed to each of the campaigns and break them out by industry?

If the GOP Meme machine is to be believed, the majority of those contributions would be coming from "Self-Employed Couch Potato." The reality will likely show something quite different.

If the whole country is too much, maybe just take the states that Obama won. Or, if that's too large a sample still, how about just those who contributed to the McKenna and Inslee campaigns here in WA?

Oh wait, I just did.

Of the top 5000 McKenna contributors who listed a profession, the top profession was RETIRED with 673 contributions. President/CEO/Owner types appear to be second in the 500-range, followed by HOMEMAKER in third with 225.

For Inslee the top three would appear to be RETIRED (834), Attorney (727), and then President/CEO/Owner in the 250s.

Retired folks not withstanding, I don't think attorneys and business owners are the types who sleep 'til noon.

I'm sure someone with more than 10 minutes to look at the filing data (here http://www.pdc.wa.gov/servlet/ContribSer…) and more experience with the data than doing a sort uniq could come up with a slightly more accurate and compelling investigation.

Maybe someone who works at a newspaper or something.
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Most shifts are nighttime, but at least two days a week I'm up at 4am to be to work throwing freight at 5am... Obama all the way!
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Actually, I *do* sleep til noon... because I work from 4pm to midnight.
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Sometimes I *do* sleep til noon. I'm gainfully employed as a writer/editor, and I don't mooch or receive any benefits even though I sleep til noon--imagine that! I'm wired to be a night owl, and that doesn't make me a slacker.

I have an awesome work from home job with flexible hours and global teams working in every time zone imaginable, so I have the ability to work later in the day when I'm at my most productive. This awesome flexible-hours job didn't just fall into my lap, either. I actually worked hard to find a job that fits my body's natural rhythms so that I can offer up 110% at work every day, which wouldn't be possible for me at 8 AM, that's for sure.

As someone who has never been a morning person, I must say that we do seem to have an odd cultural stigma about sleeping until noon, and it doesn't just come from the crazy right. What's up with that?
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These people are probably all lying. They can't be hard workers, because if they were, they'd be wearing either ties or hard hats.

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