Cookiegate - it's not about whether or not Cindy McCain can cook.

[LynneSin]

I'm tired of folks posting "Well who cares if she can't back, it's not important". Cookiegate has nothing to do with whether or not Cindy McCain ever cooked a day in her life. Remember, Bill Clinton submitted his own recipe too and I highly doubt he has cooked in the last 30 years.

Cookiegate is about a woman born of privledge and who has spent that lifetime putting herself first. This doesn't mean that Cindy has never done service for others, but she is someone that if she sees something she wants she takes it even if it means lying, cheating or stealing to do so.

When Cindy needed a husband she didn't think twice that the husband she had in mind already had a wife.

When Cindy needed drugs for her addiction she didn't think twice of stealing the drugs from her own charity. Drugs that were meant to help others who truly needed them.

And when Cindy wanted to look all 'homey, domesticated' like to impress the readers of Family Circle she didn't think twice about passing off previously published recipes as her own.

This is Cindy McCain, hell she's almost making Judy Nathan Guiliani seem like a decent person.

[my2sense]

1. Cosign n/t

[Binka]

2. She Is An Unprincipled Narcissist

Cindy is mentally ill. She is the female version of somebody I used to know very well. Unfortunately!

[Joanne98]

3. It's about her values..She's a thief!!!!!!!!!

[papapi]

4. Cindy gives new meaning to the words "Stepford Wife".

[Binka]

5. Jaysus The Stepford Wives Are Mensa Members Compared To Sin-D McNasty

[blondeatlast]

6. Word! Not to mention, I can be politically wonky and enjoy fluff at the same time.

And I fully intend to. Here's a random lolcat, FWIW:

[bridgit]

7. Some people went to Warhol's house years back now, he served them Campbell's tomato soup...

They thought initially that he was being an effete, snippy snarky art-punk until they realized that, a) that was what his mother served him as a boy, and that by extension, b) soup, any soup prepared at home is the embodiment of wholesome warmth, nutrition, goodness, well-being, etc...now...

Cookies are able to be seen in a similar light. And if Cindy is prepared to 'lift' the recipe for wholesome, all-be-them; cavity producing 'good'ness...then she has fallen of her own volition into a nefarious bear's trap reserved for deceitful, lying humanoids, the poor dear

Cookies!!!!!!!!!!!

And yeah, 'cookie-gate' :eyes: has been on the web for weeks now...but, you know, some will take whatever credit they are able attain via similar means.

Why Cindy even bothered I'll never know when you can just get the dough in a plastic tube, squeeze it onto a cookie sheet n'toss it into a preheated oven, criminy!!

:rant:

[Cha]

8. You wouldn't think you'd have to explain why

cindy's cookie plagiarism is a factor in this campaign but I'm glad you did..thank you, Lynne.

The repukes think nothing of swiftboat for liars, purple bandaids, campaign buttons that ask if it will still be The White House if Obama wins, ad infinitim..the least we can do is bust them when they're trying to put one over on the American People.

Seems miss cindy is a serial recipe plagiarizer. Someone needs to stop her(Thanks Steph).

[Madam Mossfern]

9. She could have just said...

"My favorite recipe can be found on the back of the butterscotch chip bag." I don't think that anyone would have faulted her for that and it would have made her seem more 'human'. (I know that's the wrong word, but spare an old lady who's just come back from work and the supermarket and now needs to cook dinner and who can't think too hard right now)

[Stephanie]

14. I'm quite sure the intern did it - Cindy doesn't have a favorite recipe.

I doubt she even knew what recipe was submitted until after the fact. THAT is my point - the intern grabbed a recipe off the web, rearranged a few words ("Mix butter and eggs in a large bowl" vs. "In a large bowl, mix butter and eggs"). Then they wrote a little fairy tale to preface it:

Originally for special occasions only, these butterscotch-chip-studded cookies are now "an absolute must" whenever the whole family gets together, says Cindy. The recipe came from a good friend.

They just make stuff up, and they expect us to buy it. That's the issue, IMO.

[LynneSin]

15. My favorite was on the back of a Chocolate Chip bag

so who would I be to judge if she did the same.

[sufrommich]

20. You,me, and a gazillion other cookie eaters! nt

[Saturday]

10. There are only X amount of ingredients you can put into

oatmeal cookies. Face it, every combination of cookie ingredients known to man have already been used in oatmeal cookies. Why in the world would anyone think she had an original recipe? In fact it's silly for Family Circle to even ask her for one.

[LynneSin]

17. That's true BUT.....

She passed it off as her own when could have easily said her favorite was a classic from Hershey. I highly doubt that Hershey would have been upset with the publicity that people would try their recipe and buy their products based on a recommendation from Cindy McCain.

[Erin Elizabeth]

27. They didn't ask her for an original recipe.

They asked her for a "favorite" recipe. And if she had attributed the recipe to Hershey's, it would have been no problem.

[sufrommich]

11. This "cookiegate" like the cookiegate before it,is about

making sure our first lady does the 'homey, domesticated' dance for the paying public.Whether it's Cindy McCain or Hillary Clinton,it needs to be relegated to the trash pile of history.It makes little difference whom it's being foisted upon,it's wrong.I doubt that Eleanor Roosevelt baked cookies either.There's plenty wrong with Cindy McCain,I couldn't care less whether she's ever been near a stove in her life.

[LynneSin]

18. Just so you know - Bill Clinton also submitted a recipe

so they weren't just looking for the potential 'first ladies' here.

[sufrommich]

23. Bill Clinton would not have been derided like Hillary was

for questioning the relevence of a cookie recipe.

[madaboutharry]

12. I agree

It is about the fact that Cindy McCain is an indulged, spoiled, and narcissistic woman who has nothing in common with most Americans. The McCain campaign wants to remake her into June Cleaver, thinking it will get McCain the "Betty Crocker" vote.

She certainly could never be Donna Reed, who was a big liberal.

[Lucinda]

13. I'm amazed at the ignorance I see on this thread..

Say what ya want about the lady but at least do your homework first.

[Erin Elizabeth]

16. So school people, then.

What do they have wrong?

[Lucinda]

22. Google is your friend.

[Erin Elizabeth]

25. YOU made the assertion. YOU back it up.

I'll consider your statement about Google to mean "I really don't have anything to back up my assertion that people are ignorant about Cindy McCain."

[Lucinda]

29. Sooo then...tell me what you know about her?

What is her masters in? What work has she done?

I still remember when Dems were the ones who bothered to be informed about the issues and their opponents.

[Erin Elizabeth]

30. "I'm amazed at the ignorance I see on this thread."

"Say what ya want about the lady but at least do your homework first."

1. I never posted in this thread until I saw your comment, except to correct some misinformation about the recipe contest.

2. I asked you to correct the ignorance you were supposedly seeing.

3. You told me to google. Weak.

4. I told you that was weak, and then you proceeded to try to give me a pop quiz--someone who DIDN'T POST IN THIS THREAD until you made your assertion about ignorance.

Why don't you go post by post and correct the "ignorance" or just address the OP instead of making unfounded assertions and giving pop quizzes? If you really cared about people knowing more about her, you'd do just that.

I've done it with other topics here before.

After THREE posts, you still haven't corrected any ignorance you supposedly see.

[Lucinda]

32. Soooo...you don't know anything about her then. We're done here.

Have a lovely evening. :hi:

[Erin Elizabeth]

33. No, *you're* done here.

Lesson for the future: don't call out people for ignorance and then refuse to correct it, darlin'.

[Erin Elizabeth]

34. Nothing? You're not going to correct all the supposed

"ignorance" you see here? Because you can't? Too lazy? Don't really know what you're talking about?

What a joke.

[LynneSin]

37. I'm sorry but the only ignornace I see is you being very vague

Yes, Cindy is an intelligent person, she was raised in a home where money could buy her the best education out here. But INTELLIGENCE and COMMON SENSE do not go hand in hand. Clearly she put no thought into request from Family Circle even though yes, the whole concept is a bit antiquated with asking first ladies to be homemakers. I think that image died with Nancy Reagan.

Cindy is nothing more than a spoiled woman who was given everything she wanted because she came from wealth. And it seems little 'family values' were instilled in here because she stole what she wanted but was not given when it came to her husband, her drugs and even something as basic as recipes.

I realize that it's her husband that is on the ballot but a first lady is a major ambassador to the presidency. Do we want someone like Cindy McCain representing us?

[LynneSin]

19. what ignorance because it comes back to me - the original poster

seriously!

[charlie]

21. It's about not being arsed to cadge a recipe

that's not printed on millions of bags of candy chips. That's just spectacularly lazy and dumb.

[FrenchieCat]

24. She's a thief.....and this is not even the 2nd time....

See----> http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/

[Raine]

26. I think it's cause she's a dishonest phoney

she should have just been honest and said that she didn't cook and doesn't have a recipe.

[ErinBerin84]

28. I caught the end of a segment on CNN tonight

in which they baked the cookies (both Michelle's and Cindy's) and handed them out to taste-test. They had a prolonged clip of some woman saying "Oohhh! That's an elitist cookie! It's elitist! See that dried fruit! It's elitist!" Sadly, she was being serious. And guess who's cookie they were talking about? Haha, that's right, Michelle's. They said that the taste testers were evenly split over the cookies, but the Elitist Cookie thing was so predictable.

[Olney Blue]

35. Since when did dried fruit become elitist?

:9 I was raised on raisins!

[Willo]

31. Thank you. And she didn't just steal the drugs

she jeopardized others by using their DEA authorization numbers (with and without their permission), to get the drugs.

[Swamp Rat]

36. Mannequins can bake?

[kaybea]

38. Cindy's original recipe called for vicodin chip cookies. Rush Limbaugh is the very good friend ...

from whom she got the recipe, some say.

[Imagevision]

39. Cindy is a sammmer and a liar, she should relax and take a vicodin