How To Turn a Presidential Debate Into a Drinking Game

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Presidential debates are riddled with clichés. Keep the democratic process interesting, and use the political farce as an opportunity to get faced.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Friends who are 21 or older
Beer
The candidates' names in a hat
A televised presidential debate
Understanding neighbors

Warning: Don't drink unless you're of legal age. Drink responsibly, and never drink and drive.

Step 1: Gather your group

Assemble a decent-sized group of friends and a whole lot of booze. Give everyone a drink, have them pick the name of a candidate out of a hat, and turn on the debate.

Step 2: Drink for political niceties

Any empty rhetoric deserves one drink, starting with political niceties. Drink every time your candidate thanks an audience member, moderator, host, political system, mentor, or state.

Step 3: Drink for jargon

Take a drink each time your candidate uses jargon or one of their catchphrases — or states the obvious like it's a revelation.

Step 4: Drink for folksiness

Drink at any sign of folksy behavior from your candidate, including accent shifts, use of down-home phrases, or mentions of "small-town roots."

Step 5: Drink for the "average citizen"

Drink each time your candidate refers to an "average citizen" they've met in the course of campaigning.

Step 6: Drink for poor timing

Have a drink if your candidate's response goes over time, and have another for every 30 seconds after that.

Step 7: Drink twice when it gets personal

Drink twice every time your candidate makes a passive-aggressive slur or mentions a scandal. An outright character assassination means it's time for a "social."

Tip: A "social" means the whole room takes a drink.

Step 8: Drink twice for an audience reaction

Drink twice every time an audience member creates a disturbance by heckling or booing your candidate.

Step 9: Drink three times for Nazi comparisons

Drink three times if your candidate utters the word Nazi or Hitler. Drink four if they're used in comparison to an opponent.

Step 10: Call for a chug

If anyone in your group actually feels inspired by a candidate's answer at any point during the debate, everyone must chug.

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[robertisdude]

if u picked palin u would die of intoxication

[Phantomslaya]

get Mccain and you'll be drunk as fuck.

[halofreak908]

palin= death of intoxication

obama= drunker than ****

mccain= way to friking drunk

any one else= drunk in the gutter

[Erbasis]

Why does everything have to be made in to a drinking game?

- It's expensive

- It's unhealthy

- Many people do stupid things when drunk

- You'll be unpleasant to other people

I just find it weird why there is this game of who can get the most drunk, instead of sitting and enjoying a few drinks with friends and not fall over or do other bad things.

[jess3336677]

they are wasted this would be fun if i would ever drink beer in my life which i never will or want to

[bcinvincible123]

this is so useless...

[Silverfire321]

I'll drink to that.

[DescrySoul]

Here's a better idea.. How about we put all of the candidates on a polygraph machine when they are debating? And we drink while we watch the polygrapher tell the audience when one of them have lied or not. We'll base our drinking off of that. That would be so much cooler to see. Weather you're drinking or not.

[bglad4life]

My brother and I made a drinking game outta the Bush/Kerry debates in '04. Every time Bush mentioned weapons of mass destruction, we both drank. Needless to say, we had an 18 pack of Corona, ran out in 20 minutes, and had my wife go get more!

[wonmnky]

the greeks invented orgies