Debate Drinking Game

[cmk418]

So for those of us not caught up in counter-programming tonight, let's find a way to make the debate fun -

All Suggestions Are Optional (and we don't encourage driving immediately after if you decide to play)

Take a drink
- Anytime a candidate fails to directly answer a question
- Anytime a candidate says something you disagree with
- Anytime you suspect a candidate isn't telling the whole truth
- Anytime one candidate claims the other doesn't understand
- Anytime one candidate claims the other doesn't have experience
- Anytime one candidate attacks the other
- Anytime a candidate references the current economic crisis
- Anytime the word "maverick" is used (from bitterfig)
- Anytime the phrase "straight talk" is used (from bitterfig)

Vice Presidential add-on
- Anytime Sarah Palin looks like a deer in headlights
- Anytime Sarah Palin references John McCain
- Anytime Sarah Palin is supposed to defend her experience (or lack thereof)
- Anytime Joe Biden makes eye contact with Sarah Palin
- Anytime Sarah Palin refers to herself as a "mom" (from bitterfig)
- Anytime Sarah Palin drops a "g" from a word ending in "ing" (from bitterfig)

Presidential add-on
- Anytime McCain references Vietnam or his POW experience
- Anytime Obama says "John" or "Senator McCain"
- Anytime McCain makes eye contact with Obama (aside from the opening handshake)

Got suggestions? Comment here and I'll add them in.

Comments

[cmk418]

My brother-in-law drank during the Presidential debate just when they didn't answer a question. He was pretty toasted by the end of it.

What I saw was actually pretty interesting, but I kept wanting Biden to get in there and jump on it. And that's really the other side of the gender issue. Like you said, it's okay for men to show emotion - in fact, it's probably a good thing. But if Sarah Palin had been a man, it would have been a "no-holds-barred" cage match between the two of them with Biden repeatedly knocking Palin down. But since she's female, any attack would be seen as such, an attack on the poor innocent girl. Hilary versus Palin, that would have been a fun debate.

They did invoke the names of their running mates quite a bit. And Palin's "you betcha" comment early on made me want to scream. Not to mention the phrase "predator lenders" (I thought I had a problem with the closed captioning cutting off the "y" in "predatory", but no). It was just too folksy.

I really wonder how debate teachers are going to explain this sort of thing to their students.