The Presidential Debate Drinking Game
Necessary Pieces: A re-broadcast of the first Obama-McCain debate; a shot-glass or drinking cup, plenty of your beverage of choice
Rules:
At the beginning of the debate
Each time a candidate worms his way around Jim Lehrer’s persistent questioning about how he’s going to deal with a post-bailout economy – TAKE A DRINK
Each time Jim Lehrer tries to rephrase the admittedly difficult question – TAKE A DRINK
Throughout the debate:
Each time John McCain mentions a foreign country he’s been to, or a foreign leader he’s “looked in the eye” – TAKE A DRINK
Each time John McCain uses a stump-speech style anecdote that either fails to answer the question or has no place in formal debate – TAKE A DRINK
Each time a candidate whips out a sappy sentimentality-laden piece of jewelry – TAKE A DRINK
Each time John McCain uses the word UNDERSTAND to imply that Barack Obama doesn’t UNDERSTAND foreign policy – TAKE A DRINK
Each time John McCain gesticulates in way that, if he were playing an accordian, would allow him to play along with any decent cajun band – TAKE A DRINK
Each time Obama mentions that we should be in Afghanistan fighting Al Queda instead of occupying Iraq and spurring Al Queda on – TAKE A DRINK
Each time Obama mentions tax cuts for the wealthy – TAKE A DRINK
Each time McCain mentions something he did that Obama couldn’t do simply because Obama’s not MAD OLD – TAKE A DRINK
Each time one of the candidate makes it fairly clear which way they stand on an issue – TAKE A DRINK
Each time you hear a question that Sarah Palin wouldn’t have a chance in hell of answering – TAKE A DRINK
Each time you wish you could sit down and have a drink with Jim Lehrer because he’s so freaking cool TAKE A DRINK
The winner is the last person standing who can pronounce the name of Iran’s president better than John McCain did.
Filed under: General Observations, Politics on September 29th, 2008
No fair making up the rules after the debate!
We tried to turn it into a drinking game on the spot and we screwed up, hey wait a sec, you didn’t get this idea from me did you? We weren’t thinking about the fact that its a debate not campaign speeches so our plans of drinking for Change, Hope and P.O.W. didn’t work out so well. But in the end the important thing was that I was too drunk to feel the pain of listening to John McCain speak.
Really, I made it up the next day after the debate on the way to Canandaigua. Ask the Mrs. I showed most of the debate to my government kids. They loved it.
Yeah we’re having fun in my government class too. I think the world or at least the US has been too complacent for far too long. Those in power have been able to walk all over us by keeping the masses amused with iPods and flatscreen tv’s but I think maybe, just maybe they have f… messed things up so bad that people will take action. I’m not sure if that makes me an optimist or a pessimist?