I wish just one time a candidate's spouse would tell whoever the people asking for the cookie

[RB TexLa]

recipes are that they work and have a life.

They could report that whoever wife/husband of said her/his recipe for cookies is to take a tube of frozen cookie dough, cut it up and bake it.

[XemaSab]

1. Or respond

"Sorry, Barack does all the cooking." :P

[Cleita]

2. Didn't that start with the Republican attacks on Hillary Clinton when

she said in an interview that she didn't stay home and bake cookies? After that every First Lady and candidates wives seem to have to come up with cookie recipes. Enough already!

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. I think Clinton tried that--and she was attacked for it. I know that she was

trying to be a working First Lady and the media would have none of it. She had to back up and do the little woman thing or continue to be vilified.

And frankly, your recipe IS my favorite.

[MuseRider]

9. I remember that

and I remember smiling a little smile while pumping my fist. I thought that was the best thing I had ever heard, good for Clinton.

We are all judged by our cookies? Oh, I get it. It is still what goodies we can supply for "our men" :puke:.

I remember they were brutal with her after that. What kind of a woman is she if she does not have a cookie receipt? *snort*

[SoCalDem]

4. or just say.."Chips Ahoy" or whatever the bakery has on sale that day

Unfortunately, every election cycle the media tries to take us back to 1956..when Moms wore aprons & starched shirtwaist dresses & heels at home.. Moms DID cook & bake back then because it filled the time..and it was the NORM.....BACK THEN..

Some savvy wannabee first lady will set them in their place some day, but the SHE will be portrayed as ANTI-AMERICAN..and snotty...so until then, they all try their best to play the role..

I'd bet that Cindy's COOK does all the cookie baking anyway.. People with 6 luxury homes, and worth mega millions do NOT lounge around the house baking & cooking & cleaning..

They eat OUT or have dinners catered..

[Kutjara]

10. You reminded me of a great story Stephen Fry told on...

...the BBC show "QI":

"In the Second World War, they would have people from the Ministry of Labour going around checking on everybody, particularly on the big estates, to see if any of the servants could be released for essential war work. They went to Chatsworth, the Duke of Devonshire's estate, and met with the great man. 'Well, your Grace, we can understand that you need 47 gardeners and 13 under-gardeners, and you need grooms, and you need chauffeurs, and you need upstairs maids and downstairs maids and in-between maids and laundry room maids and stillroom maids and kitchen maids and nursemaids and housemaids and parlour maids. And we can understand that you need the boy to scrape the knives and boots, and you need the butler and the four footmen, and the under-butler. But we wonder if an economy might be made: does your Grace necessarily need two pastry cooks?'

To which the Duke apparently replied, 'Oh, damn it all. Can't a man have a biscuit?'"

I think Cindy McCain is decidedly of the "can't a man have a biscuit" persuasion.

[alarimer]

5. So do I.

This is 2008, not 1908. I am sick of this idea that the First Spouse has to be a stay at home and bake cookies type. It just goes to show how sexist this society still is.

[rurallib]

6. " I buy my cookies from the union bakery."

That would be good.

[sarge43]

8. Yes it would

Or "I wouldn't feed my family empty calorie, over processed, trans-fat, teeth rotting sugar pills."

[polichick]

7. Or give them the addy of your favorite local bakery...

Where your purchases support the community, as well as make you fat!

[LisaM]

11. Our family recipe boxes have lots of cookie recipes that were copied

from chocolate chip bags, oatmeal cartons, whatever. I don't think I've even made oatmeal cookies without using the recipe from the box of Quaker Oats. Why mess with perfection? I don't really see the big deal about saying such a recipe is "yours".

[housewolf]

12. Yea, a voice of reason,,,

I, too, figure that if I have a recipe that I like and use time and time again, then it's "mine." I have many "family favorite" recipes that I consider to be "mine" just because they are the ones I use. I have no idea where most of them came from... frieds, copied out of the newspaper or cookbook, or any other source. If the same recipe happens to exist on some propriety website.... oh well, it's still "mine" because it's the one I use.

[27inCali]

13. It's just a bunch of sexist bullshit.

that's all.
I'm not even one of those people who calls a lot of shit sexist.

but this is.

[Captain Hilts]

14. Clinton tried it and got fried. nt

[cynatnite]

15. Best way for Obama to win more women is for him to share his cookie recipe...

put in him in the kitchen.

My husband is the family cookie maker around here. He prides himself on his cookie-making skills.

[Swamp Rat]

16. cookie dough!

yum! :9