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Presidential Debate Drinking Game
September 25, 2008 by David H. Schleicher


DEBATE NUMBER ONE: Friday, September 26, 2008

MODERATOR: Jim Lehrer from The NewsHour on PBS

FOCUS: Foreign Policy (could be changed to the Economy given the circumstances)

GENERIC RULES THAT SHOULD APPLY TO ANY DEBATE:

TAKE A SHOT:

-When the buzzwords "change" or "maverick" or "hope" are used

-When someone says "I voted for or against" or "He voted for or against"

-When McCain refers to Obama's "inexperience"

-When McCain stammers and looks like he might have a heart attack

-When McCain somehow works in his personal story as a POW during Vietnam

-When McCain refers to the moderator as "my friend" or the audience as "my friends"

-When Obama somehow works in his personal story of being raised by a single mom and his grandparents

-When Obama makes a smirk, shakes his head, and says, "Now wait just a minute..." or "hold on there..."

-When Obama makes the case that McCain and Bush are one and the same or uses the phrase "more of the same"

-When Obama talks about "multi-tasking" or having to address more than one crisis at a time as president

-When anyone brings up "suspending the campaign"

-When either one lays claims to being "bipartisan" or working "across the aisle"

-It's a Social when Sarah Palin is mentioned!

-Finish whatever you are drinking if McCain loses his temper!

ECONOMY SPECIFIC RULES:

TAKE A SHOT:

-When someone mentions the "Bailout" of Wall Street

-When someone mentions Wall Street and Main Street in the same train of thought

-When someone starts quoting dollar figures (for example: 700 billion)

-When someone talks about mortgages/foreclosures/homeowners

FOREIGN POLICY SPECIFIC RULES:

TAKE A SHOT:

-If anyone uses the words "surge" or "victory"

-When anyone mentions a particular nation as being a potential "nuclear" threat

-When McCain talks about Islamic Radicals/Terrorists

-When Georgia and/or Russia are mentioned

-When Iran and/or Iraq are mentioned

-When Afghanistan is mentioned

-It's a social for al Qaeda or North Korea!

-Finish whatever you are drinking if anyone delivers specifics on how to get out of Iraq "safely and responsibly".

You trying to get folk wasted Homez..?!?!?! CDR

By the way, its the University of Mississippi, aka Ole Miss, MSU is Miss. State...Not a big deal, but some consider the confusion a grounds to commit a crime, lol...

Haha that sounds like a great way to wasted real quick...

trashtalkr wrote:Haha that sounds like a great way to wasted real quick...

I drank that whole damn bottle because the debate was so derailed by the concerns of the myopic american concerns. I mean what about REAL questions in a debate of foreign policy?

"Senators, the US is giving foreign aid to countries experiencing seismic disturbances such as Earthquakes and Tsunamis - Do you feel the American taxpayers should bear the burden of natural disasters in other countries? What kind of assessment would you require to provide that aid is needed and properly used? How is this reflected in your proposed budget?"

Jim was all saying "no one has seen these questions but ME!" and then asked all the questions we all saw coming.... pathetic. I was on debate team. i debated military leaders and lawyers in regulatory matters. I got a invite from congress to go debate FOR energy industry regulation reform. This was a crappy debate with so predictability I lost even more faith in partisan politics.

I still feel McCain won this so-called debate about FOREIGN POLICY, but it was too damn focused on the military. No mention of Canada, who is the second half of the world's largest trade agreement in the world. No mention of Mexico who is primed for all kinds of hell to break loose. And really, Obama sacrificed this one to make sure he has a head start in the debate on the American economy's impact in the lives and futures of America. A good move on his part, and some of his ideas sound good - in an isolated worldview. But I think most people expect him to take that one already.

I can see it now:

"Senators, what is needed to restore the faith of Americans in the economy?"

McCain: "Me putting more money in their pockets."
(That more that 60% of americans will mismanage the way the already mismanage their finances. Bet Mr. minimum wage goes and gets teevo with a tax cut before he buys a bond, and feels successful cause he made rent on time.)

Obama: "Change. Hope. Change. Yes we can. Change. Tax the rich. Change."


Me: "First and formeost, offer tax writeoffs for any American who offers residence, support, food and provisions for America's homeless. Draft insurance companies to make insurance provisions to protect those that offer hospitality. We as a nation should not be able to look in the mirror for as long as one American has nowhere to call home.

Next, we need to ween ourselves out of the mentality that the goverment can support us all. We don't need all the taxes we get if Americans know how to do more with their own money. We give people the freedom to pursue prosperity, but not the compass to find it. Offer *some minimum* Tax cuts contigent to every American who makes below 75,000 a year. Offer additional tax cuts for every American who will submit to a financial planning education and pass two months of full financial review, or show Academic or professional proof of an equivalent education, and pass by exam online. This will take place at community colleges and universities to promote people to look into education and finance, and be funded by cuts in the budget on tax enforcement and homeless relief. Tax enforcement costs more than it actually retrieves, adn homeless relief is exploited by special interest groups. This educational intiative would be implemented mandatory in High School, and the student gets to decide if they want it to effect their GPA. For those that make less than 30,000 a year this training is mandatory."


snore... wake me up when we get a real prolific thinker on the ticket.