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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.
