[Corin Stormhands]

So...who plans to watch the debate?

I’m not sure how I’ll follow it. FR is too slow to follow the live thread.

I’m thinking though about the debate game. Rule is you have to take a drink every time Barry says “uh” or “um.”

We should be $#i!faced by 9:15 Eastern.

[JenB]

I think we’ll pull up a live feed on one of the offside computers while we’re gaming this evening.

No drinking games for me!

[ExGeeEye]

The DVD recorder will be running while we watch it.

[Ramius]

I don’t know if I’ll watch the debate or not. I’m actually not all that interested in them in general. I don’t think they’re worthwhile. They’re not ~really~ a ‘debate’ anyway, and the skills that make somebody good at them aren’t skills that have much to do with being President. Normally they all just re-package tidbits from their stump speeches and we don’t hear much that’s new, or frankly even responsive to the questions.

But that said, I suppose I’ll see at least some of it. The discussion about the debate will be interesting. And more than anything— maybe, just maybe, Hussein will truly blow it somehow. That would be fun to watch.

I suspect that McCain will do just fine. He’s good in that sort of venue. Hussein, however, isn’t so good off the prompter. But he’s been preparing and rehearsing for days now so he should have a little more polish on the turd than he usually does. We’ll just have to see.

It would be fun if they veer off the foreign-policy bit a little to discuss this finance fiasco. Then to have McCain blast the 0 with a nice tidy buckshot-laden vent on the true origins of this mess: Democrats in Congress. [sigh]

That would be nice.

[Ramius]

Oh— and my drinking game recommendations for shots at:

McCain says “my friends...”
Obama talks about his books
Obama points at the moderator
Obama points at the audience
Obama points at himself
Obama points at McCain
Obama talks about his connection to Africa
Obama talks about Rev Wrigh... uh... nevermind on that one
Obama talks about Bill Ay... nuts... nevermind that one too

I think my game will be more like:

- Locate and put self on barstool.
- Sip bourbon slowly but relentlessly anyway.

[Lil'freeper]

Rule is you have to take a drink every time Barry says “uh” or “um.”

How much for every stuttering episode?

[SuziQ]

I mentioned on the live thread that Obama is simply incoherent. He's trying so hard to be sure that all the talking points are covered, that he just keeps spouting things off.

I'm loving that McCain is schooling him right now on Iraq.