Big Bird is back. After suffering the debating slings and arrows of Republican Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election campaign, the iconic feathered star of Sesame Street is taking a big new role for President Barack Obama’s White House....
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Big Bird of Sesame Street in New York City.
Big Bird, Live, at the White House — Dancing with the First Lady
Vice-Presidential Debates Replayed (Part 1)
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan meet tomorrow at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky for their only debate, continuing a tradition of just one encounter between the major party nominees for vice president. Our retrospective of previous...
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Big Bird on the run in a scene from the movie "Follow That Bird."
Big Bird’s Budget: Obama’s Buddy
President Barack Obama might as well appoint Big Bird as a campaign surrogate. For a second day on the campaign trail, Obama mocked Republican rival Mitt Romney’s threat in this week’s presidential debate to pull funding from PBS, and by...
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Big Bird and other Sesame Street characters in New York.
Big Bird: Out with `Obama-care’ — Axelrod: all Romney’s Got
Big Bird may make for a good political punching bag. Yet there’s more to Mitt Romney’s threat to Sesame Street and other federal susbsidies than meets the eyes of debate spinners. David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama,...
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President Barack Obama with First lady Michelle Obama after the Presidential Debate at the University of Denver on October 3, 2012 in Colorado.
Obama, Clinton: TV Anniversaries
If it’s Debate Night, it’s Date night! Last night President Barack Obama wished wife Michelle a happy 20th wedding anniversary. For frequent watchers of debates it was déjà vu all over again. On October 11, 1992, Bill Clinton debated George...
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Candy Crowley, CNN veteran newswoman, in Bethesda, MD.
Presidential Debates: Moderators On
Jim Lehrer, Martha Raddatz, Candy Crowley and Bob Schieffer will be the moderators of this year’s presidential and vice presidential debates, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced today. Lehrer, executive editor of the PBS NewsHour, will anchor the first debate,...
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