My creative juices tapped out last time around. Plus who doesn’t like interactive internet stuff?
Leave your drinking game suggestions in the comments and I’ll put them all together and publish them in another post tonight.
As a reminder, RyanR (also known in the comments as KnifeGhost) will be live-blogging the debates right here. We’re using a nifty live-blog thing, so the other Feministe bloggers may also be joining in (I’m going to try, as work allows).
And as always, you can follow my debate-watch thoughts on Twitter here, or the Feministe team’s Twitter updates here.
1 Drink for “that’s not change we can believe in”
1 drink for “i don’t question his patriotism, but I do question his ________”
1 drink for Ayres/Wright/Rezko mention…
and now I will let others play. :)
1 drink every time McCain speaks with his eyes cast-down, with the corners of his mouth curled up, or juts his tongue between his teeth. Or any other nervous gesture betraying dishonesty.
I don’t remember the rules to the first one, so sorry if these have been used.
1 drink for “politics as usual”
Refill every time McCain refers to himself as a maverick
1 drink for “foreign oil”
A sip every time Obama compares McCain to Bush
Finish drink if McCain refers to his time as a POW
A sip every time somebody says “change”, a drink if its McCain.
At the beginning of an answer drink until the candiate actually adresses the question.
A sip every time the truth is stretched, a drink for an outright falsehood.
We’re using coveritlive, which I highly recommend. You can have two people in it at once (just identify yourselves in chat), and you can promote commenters up into the live blog if they say something funny.
1 drink everytime someone says “the american people are tired of blah blah blah…”.
“this great nation”/America is the Greatest Country in the World
Macho-contest saber-rattling at Iran/Russia/the moon
One of those storms of blinking from McCain that says he’s holding back violent rage
Any time McCain slips and says something nasty (“horseshit” comes to mind), that’s a whole drink.
Anything about Obama wanting to sit down for tea with terrorists
Treacly anecdotes about Normal People and What They Want
Treacly anecdotes about brave soldiers
…hm.
I predict that we’re going to need a “drink if Obama mentions Palin.”
Just in case people would like a non-alcoholic option (and I sort of have to have one, since I have a cold and work tomorrow)–due to the success of Palin Bingo during the VP debates, I went ahead and made Obama & McCain cards, including blank ones so you can make your own. Feel free to distribute widely.
(Also, technically this could easily be incorporated into a drinking game. Just sayin.’)
/shameless self-promotion
Thanks mk!
(The above link the the debate bingo is broken, so here’s a working one)
1 sip for every time McCain sighs during a split-screen shot while Obama is talking.
(Well I feel dumb. I blame the cold. Thanks for the fix, Cara!)
Refill drink for every mention of a real live ordinary American (“as I was saying when I spoke with Delores H. Anyname, a mechanic/nurse/school teacher from GenericSmallTown, USA…”)
1 gulp for me if they mention Indiana.
Speaking of, Lauren, Hoosiers are going for Obama in November. You mark my word.
Oh, and here are my suggstions, cross-posted my debate post.
Sip for the usuals (maverick, change), but double if they’re used ironically by the opponent. Sip for Alaska, double if Obama mentions that he hasn’t been there. Sip once for each Rezko, Ayers, or Wright, twice for a “Chicago politician” or any other code for “black”. Finish your drink for a Keating.
I’ll eat my shoe if Indiana doesn’t go for Obama.
“my friends”
OMG yes, Morningstar, you got it. Anytime McCain says “…my friends…” I’m NOT your friend! Stop calling me that!
Also, anytime McCain gets uncomfortably close to a member of the audience, or copies down a question.
he was like a used car salesman.
Lauren, the most beautiful thing I will ever see may be a lone blue Indiana in a sea of “polls close at 8pm EST” on the evening of November 4th. That will be the earliest election ever called.
Just think of the contortions the networks will have to do to make it look like a horserace. “Well, if McCain takes Florida, and Texas, and California, which was trending McCain in the three days leading up to the election, then he will still be in play if Obama fumbles Nevada and Colorado. And New Mexico.”