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A Debate Drinking Game

Posted Sep 26, 08 4:14 PM CDT in Glossies,  Politics 

(Newser) – With tonight's presidential debate a go, and happily coinciding with TGIF festivities, Neel Shah rolls out Radar’s debate drinking game. Some highlights:

  • Take a sip when: John McCain calls himself a maverick; Barack Obama rolls his eyes as McCain calls himself a maverick; McCain calls viewers his friends; Obama calls viewers his brothers.

  • Take a gulp when: McCain contradicts his pronouncement that “the fundamentals of our economy are still strong”; Obama admits he can’t control what comes out of Joe Biden’s mouth.
  • Chug, chug, chug when: McCain announces he’s in fact proficient in HTML and C++; Obama says he was only looking for bikini pics when he hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account.

Source: Radar

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Down the rest of your drink if John McCain says he can't make the debate after all because he's supposed to appear on Letterman.   (AP Photo)
Take a sip of your beverage of choice when: John McCain equates Barack Obama with a lack of experience; Barack Obama equates John McCain with George Bush's 8 years of experience.   (AP Photo)
Chug that thing if Jim Lehrer asks Barack Obama how it would feel to be the US' first Muslim president.   (AP Photo)
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