Obama ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ Deadly: Drinking Game

So, sometimes at work, when things drag and I wonder why the hell I didn’t go straight from undergraduates to graduate school I sneak off and watch Obama’s 2004 convention speech to remind me why I love my country. Usually makes me hopeful and energized to turn out a productive 8 hour day. Think I am being dramatic? You try watching it without being proud:

I started talking to a friend later and the question struck me, what else could I use Obama speeches for?

We started talking and of course it wasn’t long before the idea developed of an Obama drinking game.

We started sniggering and making rules and pretty soon it occurred to me that we weren’t the first ones to have this bright idea so I hopped on Google and searched “Obama drinking game.”

I was greeted with this lovely little quote straight off.

“We were watching Barack Obama,” said student Randall Caughlin, “and someone suggested we take a drink every time he says ‘Change’. Then we started drinking on ‘Hope’.”
“Next thing I knew, I woke up in the emergency room.”

I was immediately discouraged but there was one little heartening result of that search. No one had came up with much of a drinking game, most of them limited to drinking every time he says ‘hope’ or ‘change.’ Thats not a drinking game, thats just binge drinking. A drinking game requires binge drinking creatively. So we devised something better.

Before we start laying out the rules of the Obama drinking game, lets get some things straight. No drinking before age 21, drink responsibly (let’s face it, you just don’t start drinking and wake up in a hospital, if you woke up in a hospital, you drank with a mission) and if you are drinking under-age or irresponsibly admit to me now that its not my fault you have the booze or that you just would have played some other drinking game. With that out of the way here are the rules:

1. Every time he says ‘Yes, we can,’ drink.
2. Every time he says ‘Hope’, drink.
3. Every time he says ‘change,’ exchange your drink with the person next to you and have a drink.
4. Every time he mentions his tax policy, ‘richer’ people with more drink in their cup pour some of their drink into the cup of ‘poorer’ people with less left to drink.
5. Alternative energy, consume more biofuels. everyone touch their nose, last person to do so controls a waterfall, or drinks for a period of time, everyone having to drink as long as he/she does.
6. If he mentions the military everyone gets a miniature soldier on the cup that they have to make an overture of removing and replacing every time they drink. Those forgetting drink again. If he mentions Iraq after that point, the troop is gone.
7. If he mentions God/faith everyone shouts out hallelujah! First person to do so creates a rule.
8. For every mention of global warming or climate change, lose an article of clothing.

and if you are aiming for bipartisanship every time he mentions McCain by name, everyone says, “At least I don’t plaster on the make up like a trollop, you c*#t.” If you stumble or laugh while saying it, take a drink.

Remember, if you get close to your limit, STOP DRINKING. Otherwise, we appreciate creative additions to the game. We take politics pretty seriously here, but we kick back like everyone else.

UPDATE: Remember, political speeches are designed to cover a number of topics in a short period of time. Mixing and matching of rules for long speeches should be considered. Liquor not advised.