October 18th, 2012
10:40 PM ET
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10 years ago

Comedic relief: Obama, Romney bring on the jokes at annual dinner

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New York (CNN) - President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were within arm's length for the second time this week, as they shared the stage at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner Thursday and delivered feisty quips at each other's expense.

Donning tuxes at the elaborate event, a traditional election-year stop for presidential candidates, the two paused at the Waldorf Astoria for a night of comedic relief with less than three weeks to go in the already-bitter race.
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Game on: Romney sends hecklers to Obama event
May 31st, 2012
05:33 PM ET
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11 years ago

Game on: Romney sends hecklers to Obama event

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(CNN) - Mitt Romney on Thursday took credit for sending a rowdy group of hecklers to disrupt an Obama campaign event earlier in the day, saying he was merely giving some tit-for-tat.

"If the president is going to have his people coming to my rallies, and heckling, why, we'll show them that, you know, we conservatives have the same kind of capacity he does," Romney said at an event outside Solyndra headquarters in California.
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Gingrich: Palestinians are an 'invented people'
December 9th, 2011
06:06 PM ET
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Gingrich: Palestinians are an 'invented people'

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(CNN) - GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich suggested in an interview aired on Friday that those living in the Palestinian territories are an "invented people."

"I believe that the Jewish people have the right to have a state," Gingrich said on The Jewish Channel. "Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, who are historically part of the Arab community."
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Filed under: 2012 • Israel • Newt Gingrich • Palestinian Authority