So Dear Boyfriend and I conceived a drinking game for the debate. We meant to do this for the Vice Presidential debate, but didn't have any alcoholic beverages on hand, so we waited until tonight. We bought a big bottle of Bohemian white wine and set up the following rules:
Drink when....
1. Obama says "Middle class"
2. McCain is patronizing
3. Obama says McCain is right
4. McCain smirks
5. Deregulation is said
6. McCain says "My friends"
7. Two shots if McCain brings up POW past
8. "Reform" is mentioned
9. The term "golden parachutes" is brought up
10. "Reaching across the aisle."
11. "Pork-barrel spending."
12. McCain says "I know how to..."
13. Double shot for openly derogatory comments.
Overwhelmingly, McCain's "my friends" rule got us pretty buzzed. These 13 rules got three people (one a regular drinker, one a rare drinker with good tolerance, and one a cheap date--the cheap date being me) most of the way through a big bottle of wine. Dear boyfriend and dear brother-in-possible-future-law can handle their drinks better than me, but never the less, I think this game speaks for just how too-much McCain uses the phrase "my friends" and his ghastly patronisim strangled the debate.
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