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Cindy McCain, cookie thief? The wife of the presumptive GOP nominee has been accused of recipe plagiarism -- again -- but that only provokes a larger question: Why is anyone asking a potential first lady for recipes? Alex Koppelman [2008-06-18]

• "First, I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt here. "

  That figures, even though this is old news. You are a fool if you think blueblooded Cindy McCain has ever cooked anything ever. It just shows how ridiculous the "Good Old Boy" meme is, the meme that the GOP constantly tries to nurture and Glenn Greenwald has written books about. The reality is that the "down home" style everyman candidates are really blueblooded elitists who can't even cook for a meal for themselves.

  But I can see why you would give her the benefit of the doubt, seeing as how this was already "cleared up" as an "unpaid intern error" or something. I mean, there are only pictures of the pilfered recipes next to the ones on McCain's site, before they took the pages down:

  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/cindy-mccains-r.html

  But hey, she deserves the benefit of the doubt because she is the wife of an establishment politician.

  The whole thing was a pathetic attempt by the McCain camp to try and not be perceived as an elitist of the politico class and look more like Joe Everyman, aka George Bush circa 1999. His tactic of copying the idea of Ron Paul and Carol Paul's family recipe cookbook (or real, you know, recipes) failed, because THEY DON'T COOK.

  -- Chris Sinnard
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