Talk:President of the United States
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President Bird
The expanded page is amazing; big props to Andrew. I have one quibble about the Big Bird section... The Sesame Place elections were for President of Sesame Place, and this implies that it was for President of the United States. I think the article should make that more clear, and maybe put it in a separate paragraph from the other campaign.
In other news, I went to the CTW archives again yesterday, and I found a great picture of Cookie Monster running for President from the same Sesame season... I'm going to track down which episode that was from, and post it soon... -- Danny (talk) 13:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, the Sesame Place elections article didn't seem as clear on that when I first read it. I went ahead and made the appropriate adjustments (since even as a mock-Presidential election, it's well worth noting). The Cookie Monster bit sounds wonderful. I look forward to your digging up details on it! -- Andrew Leal (talk) 02:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
More candidates
There's some more stuff to add to this page, if anybody can. Miss Piggy ran for President in the Muppet comic strip. There's also some Hallmark buttons with Kermit and Miss Piggy running for Prez, and some Hot Topic buttons campaigning for Gonzo and Pepe. -- Danny (talk) 17:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Done. To the best of my ability, anyway (someone else can research the Hot Topic buttons and so on), but I think this is enough coverage to take this out of attention. The rest basically will probably just be image adding/re-arranging. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 01:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Presidency
Months later, would anyone object to converting this page into a broader article on the President of the United States? For one thing, with the exception of John Adams (who I still need to get to), every president on this page now has his own article, and any left-over images can simply be moved to the appropriate page. Also, there's references to presidents, like Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy, which aren't strictly portrayals, but it's worth listing those occasions. I'd personally like to turn this into a broader article, both listing all presidents with known connections (via references or appearances, and name allusions like "Rover Cleveland"), but also the office itself (acknowledging The President, I Want to Be President, and the extensive spoofing of it through the Chief Elder). Any objections? It would make it easier, I think, both to link to from the relevant pages, and add any additional references to the US presidency that we come across. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 22:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
