My New Drinking Game

Last night, as expected, the RLA, the Artist Down The Street* and I watched the second presidential debate. We decided to do shots whenever the President used the phrase "Wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time" in an effort to defame Senator Kerry. Since this resulted in me being shit faced by 9:30, I had to write notes.

*I finally made up a name for my girlfriend down the street, whose name I wouldn't use out of respect for her privacy(Yeah. Right) She will now be known by her acronym:ADS. Not to be confused with the RLA, or Reknowned Local Artist, my husband.

Keep reading my notes:
What was with the wink Dubya just gave after answering Kerry on the Canadian Drug issue? What the hell was that about? Did he think that he'd just won the point? My God, Kerry just spanked the President's ass like Dubya was a naughty schoolgirl.

If we actually provide healthcare to everyone in America, that would be a bad thing? That it would lead to healthcare rationing? Shock and Awe, Fear and Terror... What a one-note.

Kerry's got the proverbial fire in the belly tonight.

"I'm a good steward for the environment." -- George Bush.
"That's just an Orwellian name for your bad environmental policies. We wouldn't sign the Kyoto Treaty. You are a part owner of a timber company." -- John Kerry

"I own a timer company? You wanna buy some wood?" -- George Bush, like he just took a slam dunk, and he swaggers back to his podium. He's kidding, right? He cannot think he won that exchange, either. He's either delusionion, or stupid. Or both. Or on drugs. Or all three.

Who would Dubya appoint to the Supreme Court in his second term? He says: I haven't thought of it, but ... if I need them all to vote for me? And then he smirks like that was funny. Dude, you stole the election, and some of us in this country took issue to it four years ago, and we're still pretty fucking pissed off at you, your family and your chicken hawk administration.

The ADS asks if this is as insane to us as it is to her. What: that President Bush actually invoked the Dred Scott decision in an effort to prop himself up in re: race relations? Or civil liberties, or something like that. Yeah. Pretty fucking insane.

And then he says that there is no litmus test except how they interpret the constitution. I'm drunk, but I still think that that would then, by definition, a litmus test.

Kerry jumps on women's right to choose as a constitutional right that his America will not go backwards on. He explains his understanding of the constitution as being precisely about how he can have one opinion and the questioner can have another and neither of them can use the government to legislate what the other person can believe. Gotta live with it, because it's right to live with it. It's the bottom line in the First Ammendment. If you can say what you think, so can the other guy. Period. End of sentence.

Bush says some shit about a "culture of life".

Waves hand. These are not the droids you seek.

Final Jeopardy question is: Name three times you've made mistakes in office.

Bush puffs himself, can't name anything and says: "I'm prepared to take responsibility for whatever mistakes history accords to me."? What kind of bullshit is that? History?

Kerry says that he may have voted to support the war, and committed money to it, but Bush screwed up how it was spent, and which is the worse crime... He keeps comparing himself to Republicans like Eisenhower and Reagan. Is that because they were less repugnant Repubs or is it the war leader thing with Eisenhower....

In short: smarmy and smug -- Bush, intelligent and poised -- Kerry.

Then we changed channels from C-SPAN to ABC and discovered that because he didn't drool or physically go after John Kerry, that the President was seen to have at least held his own. They're kidding, right?

And so to bed.