For most of us we’ve heard about as many President Obama speeches as we can take. Four hundred twelve speeches is a little too much of ANY president to take. Since we already know what he is going to say and we can guess what tone he will take after the loss in Massachusetts last week I am proposing a drinking game to keep us interested – at least until we become too wiped out to care. Which is about the only way I can endure another of his speeches.
This is how it works. Choose your favorite alcohol to take as shots and line up the shot glasses. Then all you have to do is listen for the ‘drinking’ words. I’ll guarantee you will be wasted before the midway point of the speech.
The game has three key words – or shot words – to listen for in the speech. The first word is “clear.” It usually comes grouped with “Let me be CLEAR” or “I want to make myself CLEAR.” In any form it comes out it always means the same thing: “I am about to feed you a line of bull” or “I am about to screw you over.” Either way, it is President Obama’s way of ‘butching up’ for the American people so he sounds tough when he delivers whatever he’s about to dump on us.
The second word is “Inherited.” That’s code for “It’s Bush’s fault.” The blame Bush strategy has about worn out with all of us out here in America, but it’s something we can count on hearing in the speech. I can remember NO president that has blamed the previous administration as incessantly as Obama has, and certainly not a year down the road. He took the keys to the White House and the big jets, he needs to grow a set and get on with doing his job. He’s used “inherited” since he got there and we can count on hearing it again in the State of the Union speech. When the going gets tough – Obama whines and blames President Bush.
The third word to look for is “Unprecedented.” This is my personal ‘fingers on the chalkboard’ word every time I hear Obama utter it. There is nothing that has happened in the last year that has been unprecedented except the unprecedented use of the word “unprecedented.” Everything that has happened in his term has happened before and there are answers to solve those problems already available – it’s simply a question of using them.
By the end of the speech you will be BLITZED, so be sure you either have a cab, a designated driver or drink at home. It’s the only way you’ll make it.
And as a little warning, the morning after you’re likely to have a nasty hangover, but it’s much better to wake up with a hangover that will wear off than to have to make it all the way through that speech and have a hangover headache that will REFUSE to go away.
Enjoy the speech!! Cheers!!
This is how it works. Choose your favorite alcohol to take as shots and line up the shot glasses. Then all you have to do is listen for the ‘drinking’ words. I’ll guarantee you will be wasted before the midway point of the speech.
The game has three key words – or shot words – to listen for in the speech. The first word is “clear.” It usually comes grouped with “Let me be CLEAR” or “I want to make myself CLEAR.” In any form it comes out it always means the same thing: “I am about to feed you a line of bull” or “I am about to screw you over.” Either way, it is President Obama’s way of ‘butching up’ for the American people so he sounds tough when he delivers whatever he’s about to dump on us.
The second word is “Inherited.” That’s code for “It’s Bush’s fault.” The blame Bush strategy has about worn out with all of us out here in America, but it’s something we can count on hearing in the speech. I can remember NO president that has blamed the previous administration as incessantly as Obama has, and certainly not a year down the road. He took the keys to the White House and the big jets, he needs to grow a set and get on with doing his job. He’s used “inherited” since he got there and we can count on hearing it again in the State of the Union speech. When the going gets tough – Obama whines and blames President Bush.
The third word to look for is “Unprecedented.” This is my personal ‘fingers on the chalkboard’ word every time I hear Obama utter it. There is nothing that has happened in the last year that has been unprecedented except the unprecedented use of the word “unprecedented.” Everything that has happened in his term has happened before and there are answers to solve those problems already available – it’s simply a question of using them.
By the end of the speech you will be BLITZED, so be sure you either have a cab, a designated driver or drink at home. It’s the only way you’ll make it.
And as a little warning, the morning after you’re likely to have a nasty hangover, but it’s much better to wake up with a hangover that will wear off than to have to make it all the way through that speech and have a hangover headache that will REFUSE to go away.
Enjoy the speech!! Cheers!!
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