By Adam Pieniazek on November 6, 2008
Wow, I heart The Onion. Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are That video literally forced tears of laughter to roll down my cheeks. The Onion was really on point this year and especially down the stretch. Comedic genius. Check out some of their other hilarious stories: Black Guy Asks [...]
Posted in funny, Politics | Tagged 2008, barack obama, elections, funny, president, sarcasm, satire, the onion, USA |
By Adam Pieniazek on November 5, 2008
Photo credit to insunlight. Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama! Though I voted for Nader-Gonzalez and encouraged others to do the same, I am not disappointed by Barack Obama winning the United States Presidency. Rather I think he’s a huge upgrade over Bush, purely by being intelligent, eloquent and charismatic. He ran an impressive campaign and [...]
Posted in Government, Politics | Tagged 2008, barack obama, news, president, USA |
By Adam Pieniazek on November 4, 2008
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how to open up our political process and truly democratize it. When asked, many people believe that viable third party candidates (say those who can theoretically win) should be able to attend nationally televised debates and be covered by the mainstream press. In other words, the [...]
Posted in Government, Politics | Tagged 2008, ballot, democracy, elections, instant runoff voting, USA |
By Adam Pieniazek on November 2, 2008
As noted before, I’m a big proponent of equal access to debates for all candidates who could potentially win the presidency. As of today, there are six parties with access on enough ballots to theoretically win the presidency [Constitution, Democrat, Green, Independent, Libertarian, and Republican]. Tonight there will be a debate between the vice-presidential candidates [...]
Posted in Government, Politics | Tagged 2008, debate, elections, USA, vice-president |
By Adam Pieniazek on October 17, 2008
A few months ago I wrote a post here discussing my attempts to get a 3rd party debate going between Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin. Well, a few other parties have managed to get a debate scheduled for this Sunday, October 19! So far Ralph Nader, Chuck Baldwin and Cynthia McKinney [...]
Posted in Government, History, Politics | Tagged 2008, bob barr, chuck baldwin, cynthia mckinney, debate, elections, president, ralph nader, third party