This Is Not a Laundry List: The Last State of the Union Drinking Game Under President Obama
12th January 2016
You, too, can play along.
Tonight’s State of the Union will be President Obama’s last, leading into a final presidential year that is unlikely to produce any major legislative action. And so, as multiple news outlets have reported, the speech won’t be a laundry list. Instead it will be more of a description of the sorts of outfits that he would like to see America wear.
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As a report from RealClearPolitics describes it: “Gone in Obama’s eighth year are sweeping legislative ambitions. In their place: political storytelling aimed at a hoped-for Democratic successor and a Democratic Senate in 2017; maneuvers to protect seven years of governance; and lofty rhetorical riffs for the history books.”
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Which brings us to the point of this post: Reason’s 2016 State of the Union drinking game—the very last under SOTU drinking game under president Obama! It’s the end of an era, folks. Drink up!