{"id":1945,"date":"2008-10-01T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2008-10-01T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T13:11:00","slug":"debate-drinking-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Debate Drinking Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think my favourite part of any campaign is live-blogging the debate. So, you can be sure that I’ll be doing just that tonight (en francais<\/span>)<\/em> and tomorrow (en anglais<\/span>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But, with 5 leaders and few big issues, the debates might turn out to be rather dull. That’s why I present the 2008 Canadian Election Debate Drinking Game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Take a drink whenever someone…<\/strong>
-With no chance of becoming PM says “as Prime Minister I would<\/em>…”
-Tells a touching story about a senior they met on the campaign trail
-Says they are “surprised<\/em>” by something unsurprising an opponent says
-mentions “Canadian values<\/em>“
-mentions “average Canadians<\/em>“
-says “strong leader<\/em>“
-says “while I don’t agree with Mr. X, at least he has taken a firm stand<\/em>“
-says “Canadians are telling me”<\/em><\/p>\n

Take a shot when someone name drops…<\/strong>
George Bush
Julie Couillard<\/span>
Bob Rae
Brian Mulroney
Barack<\/span> Obama<\/span>
Ed Broadbent<\/span>
John Howard<\/p>\n

Take a sip of your shaken martini (or any pretentious drink that pretends to be cool) every time Stephen Harper…<\/strong>
-mentions past Liberal governments
-says “the fundamentals of the economy are strong”
-calls The Green Shift a “tax on everything”
-calls the opposition “reckless<\/span>” and\/or “irresponsible”
-tries to smile<\/p>\n

Take a sip of your wine (make sure it is a local wine, so as to minimize your carbon footprint!) every time Stephane<\/span> Dion…<\/strong>
-mentions past Liberal governments
-says something eerily similar to one of his Tory commercial lines (“it is not easy to make priorities”, “that is unfair”, etc)
-confuses you about The Green Shift
-mentions the environment in response to a question having nothing at all to do with the environment
-looks exasperated at something Jack Layton says<\/p>\n

Take a chug of your good ‘old working family kitchen table beer every time Jack Layton…<\/strong>
-promises “results for people”
-talks about “kitchen tables”
-scapegoats big banks or oil companies
-talks about ATM fees
-says something that makes you want to smack him<\/p>\n

Take a sip of a drink you liked a decade ago but have since outgrown every time Gilles Duceppe<\/span>…<\/strong>
-says “fe<\/span>-DE-RAWL<\/span>–lism<\/span>“
-makes an English pop culture reference
-scapegoats Alberta
-says something incredibly ironic [see his 2006 gem “Harper, you can’t keep holding votes on gay marriage just because you don’t like the result<\/em>“]
(notice how I don’t have “mentions separatism<\/em>” here since, let’s be serious, he’s obviously not going to)<\/p>\n

Chug a glass of beet juice every time Elizabeth May…<\/strong>
-compliments Stephane<\/span> Dion
-starts rambling
–inadvertently<\/span> insults Canadians
-says something hopelessly idealistic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think my favourite part of any campaign is live-blogging the debate. So, you can be sure that I’ll be doing just that tonight (en francais) and tomorrow (en anglais). But, with 5 leaders and few big issues, the debates might turn out to be rather dull. That’s why I present the 2008 Canadian Election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leaders-debates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}