The ultimate blotto: "My friend(s)."

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the distance between black & white is much further than i would like until now i never noticed that fascism has many disguises -d. boon, 1981

How about any of these:

Middle class
Bailout
Debt
Attack ad

~Russ

Been lurking here for months and it took Rachel to coax me out with this one. How bout "That's what this campaign's all about." Alternatively, there's "The American people." Half-shots for "change" and "maverick," because we'd die of alcohol poisoning before the end of the debate if we had to do full shots every time those came up.

Can't wait til election nite when we down one every time another state goes blue (after a few of those it seems that we forget which color we're supposed to toast and end up doing shots for reds AND blues toward the end).

And then it's morning (moaning) in America.

for each incidence of "mainstream media" or "media filter."

After this is over, we may have to have a Scotch tasting.

Double shots when "Reagan" is mentioned anyone?

Another $100 to the Obama campaign if McCain mentions Ayres by name.

(I would bet 10 shots of tequila, but it wouldn't be prudent.)

For our Republican friends I want to suggest "um" and "the" and "of"

Just sips each time, though, and lock the liquor. Drink that last case of owned-by-America High Life you've been keeping in the basement fridge, chilled on the coldest ice money can buy.

If you don't have a stash of true Miller, any can that changes colors when cold will do.

-Capital gains tax cut
-Colin Powell
-He/Senator Obama/ThatOne voted against it
-kitchen table

He's courting Florida and retirees. His tax plan favors these They are on his mind. Oh and of course the BIG one--TROOPS. He always manages to recognize them and squeeze them in somewhere. Choose your own overworn adjective to go with TROOPS.

"That One" would be the long shot. It would call for the whole bottle.

He is definitely going to mention capital gains tax cut plan. He might mention ACORN, but probably not.

Ok, I'm distilling (pun intended) this input down to:

$100 if McCain mentions Ayres by name
$50 if he mentions him, but not by name (as in "I don't care about a washed up old terrorist so much that I'll now spend the next 10 minutes talking about him")

$100 if he mentions ACORN by name

$10 for each mention of "I know how to... (capture Osama, fix the economy, etc.)"

$10 for each POW reference

$10 for every mention of how Obama will raise your taxes.

Ya'll feel free to add more; this is all I can keep up with.

Ya'll can also figure out how this translates to shots, etc. I've been fighting migraines for the last week, so will have to watch this one sober.

Steve: This format is three guys sitting around a table. If McCain does wander around the stage tonight, they may as well call the election off and go ahead and swear Obama in.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And when Hanoi John-boy McCain gets desperate he ALWAYS references his POW status one way or another.

Anyone want to do odds on such a reference?

It can be as subtle as "I know what it's like to suffer" as he's used in the past or something like "I've sacrificed for my country", another oblique reference he's used.

I say he's desperate and I'm willing to challenge. Sorry about the shots, I try to avoid drunkenness and betting against such a simpleminded man could easily get one drunk. Besides it would be a waste of great GlenFiddich to drink so irresponsibly.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson