Open Bar - 1st Night Of Dem Convention
It seems like a good idea to provide a place for us to have a drunken running commentary on the first night of the Democrat Convention.
Suggestions for drinking games are encouraged.
We’re going to need all the fortification we can get.
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August 25th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
sounds like time to start the blender
August 25th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I just can’t force myself to watch any of the Dem convention this week. It will be a self-imposed media blackout for me except for the conservative blogosphere.
I might be able to make it if martinis were sold by the box like some wine is. Don’t have to worry about the “redneck” label since as a native Texan, I’m already one.
August 25th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
“Suggestions for drinking games are encouraged.”
How about we take a drink every time we hear somebody say “my friends.” –Wait a minute. That’ll be the other convention.
Gee, I’m afraid if we go with “Change” and “Hope” and the other idiotic Obama buzz words, we’ll all get alcohol poisoning.
August 25th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I couldn’t put better than these:
From the John McCain Ad Exec’s Meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
From the Denver Police Protestor Restraint File: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o-SuRXwK5o
From the getdrunkandvote4mccain.com website launch video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
August 25th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I do have bartender experience so if anyone needs help with making a Alabama Slammer, perhaps a Red Death or a good Singapore Sling. Let me know. I am planning to get as sauced as I was during Clinton’s ‘99 State of the Union address.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Can’t bear to watch
thankfully I’ll catch up with 20 minutes of the internet
have to go to work tomorrow anyway so one beer is all I can handle tonight
August 25th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
There is supposedly some kind of protester ruckus going on outside the Pepsi Center.
Here is a web cam of the area:
http://tinyurl.com/6jgfca
As usual, the action outside the convention if far more interesting than what is going on inside.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Oh, God. Michelle is bringing the sappy women in the crowd to tears. She must have been in all the high school plays.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Now if someone had suggested we drink every time Michelle said “see,” we would all be under the table.
Sheesh.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I tried to watch but decided a rerun of “Magnum PI” & “The Rockford Files” was the better choice. Saw clips from it on Fox & Friends and that was enough for me.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Is it still possible that democrats expect people to believe them when they say they respect those who disagree with their views????
August 26th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Ok, I watched it last night, and actually took a few notes, but it wasn’t pleasant. I felt like taking a shower when it was all over. Here’s what I saw on CSPAN last night:
So far, this has been one of the most underwhelming displays of Caroline sneer, Pelosi palsy, and Michelle makeover that I could have asked for. Sure, there are the typical players that we’ve been watching for years up on the stage, but I’m always distracted by the curious folks out in the audience at these conventions.
When I watch these shallow, fist-pumping knaves try to portray a party environment in the arena…I’m feeling as if I just walked into a birthday party at a retirement home. We’re all here for a “party”, but we have to force it a little for dear old gramps. We have to really demonstrate that we’re happy, having fun, and oblivious to the fact that there’s sad, miserable people all around us, and they smell bad. Let’s all wave our signs and try to dance to stale music, even though the whole affair is a crying shame.
All of the faces I saw in the DNC audience looked like patients in a sanitarium. Vacant, numb, wide-eyed grins that elicit more fear from me than joy. The women I see the camera flash to who are over 40 look like they are the stereotypical “cat lady” type. You know, the bitter old bitties that walk around the ammonia-filled rooms of their home, cussing everything around them, but loving their 16 cats. No one can stand to be around them, but they’re welcome at the Democratic National Convention! Old Eudora here hasn’t had a kind word to say to anyone in her life for 20 years, but because she heckles Republicans at her local polling center, we’ll make her a delegate! The poor kids who ring her up and bag her groceries will tell you: they’re glad she’s gone for the week, because for once they’ll get a break from hearing her complain about the price of lemons, or that they moved her favorite this and that.
I am just about to turn the channel in disgust when they pan to the Asian girl in the crowd who is crying. It wouldn’t be so bad, but she’s crying over the same re-hashed, hackneyed, “Barack-came-from-nothing” bs that his handlers have tried to peddle to us for a year and a half, now. Doesn’t the Asian girl know what real poverty is? What real American stories of strife, longing, and trials are? Apparently not. She and others like her will continue to live in the shallow waters of television=reality. When is the last time you saw someone legitimately cry over a Harvard/Columbia/Occidental educated graduate? If these two ivy-league agitators can be wept over, why isn’t Bush, who was all of that AND a serviceman for this great nation, worthy of such emotions? Is your moral compass THAT out of whack?
What’s the difference between them and us? Well, for one, I don’t practice arm-waving, yelling, and crying whenever election season rolls around. I don’t look at the president as a person who will come save me as if I’m a damsel in distress. It is almost embarrassing to watch people who get so starry-eyed and hysterical over these processes. You can practically feel the palpable disappointment they’re going to experience when the election is finally over…the actor begins to play his/her role…and reality sets in. These are the sad boobs who cry for “change” every four years, despite the fact that every election before has been the same hold-your-breath moment of “change”, threatening that those of us who aren’t going into a cardiac arrest over their candidate are really racist, sexist, or “against progress”. Who can listen to the boy who cries wolf anymore?
So cry, pump your fists, and shout your hearts out, you irrational nincompoops. You pollute the entire process of Democracy, because your caterwauling alone convinces the politicians that we aren’t a disciplined people, capable of making our own decisions for our destiny without government holding our hand all the way through it. Cry me a river…then go jump in it, for all I care.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:59 am
John Galt- What did you eat for dinner and how the heck did you manage to keep it down while watching so much of the DNC? Just listening to two speeches put me off food for the night.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
larddiet,
Lol…I had biscuits and sausage just before it started. It was a struggle, but I kept it down. With some Beck’s dark to help, lol.
I forgot to add this about last night: Did anyone notice the body language between Barack and the host family in Kansas City when they did the video cut-away last night? That family looked so stiff and uneasy, and Barack seemed awkward and off-balance. Just wondering if I was the only one who saw it that way. (kinda reminded me of the famous pictures from the first Gulf War, when Sadam was pictured with some little kid for a photo-op, and the poor boy looked petrified through the entire thing.)
August 26th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
John Galt- I think football players eat biscuits and sausage before their Sunday afternoon games. I think for the same purpose too.
Bourbon and black coffee should make Hillary’s speech far more enjoyable.