2008 Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game

1 drink

• Either candidate mentions:
  • God
  • Faith
  • terrorism
  • the Internet
  • the financial crisis
  • Joe six-pack
  • Main Street
  • Hope and/or Change
  • an ordinary American by name
  • Hillary Clinton
  • the bridge to nowhere
  • executive experience
  • Wall St. and Main St. in the same sentance
• Palin mentions
  • Russia/Putin
  • Islamic Fundamentalists
  • Hockey Mom
  • any of her children
• Biden mentions:
  • The policies of George Bush
  • Scranton
  • Dick Cheney
  • his "friendship" with McCain
  • taking to train to/from work
  • firearms 

2 drinks

• Either candidate mentions:
  • Bill Clinton
  • rape kits
• Palin mentions:
  • a newspaper she reads
  • a supreme court decision
• Science and religion mentioned in the same response *bonus drink if an attempt is made to reconcile the two (e.g. science and religion are both equally important)
• The camera catches an audience member in mid-yawn
• Biden refers to himself in the third person
• An audeince member laughs/titters

Drain the bottle

• Palin's ear piece falls out
• The candidates get into a fistfight
• Palin cries
• Tina Fey shows up instead of Palin

*some rules shamelessly ripped from all over the intertubes:

http://www.slate.com/id/2089522/

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/stlog/2008/10/the_veep_debate_drinking_game_joe_biden_sarah_palin_everybody_take_a_drink.php

http://slander08.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/the-vice-presidential-debate-drinking-game/

http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N43/drinkinggame.html

http://wonkette.com/403206/palin-biden-debate-drinking-game-begins-now