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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:00 AM

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?

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  • Wednesday, June 18, 2008 01:08 PM

    To Practical Dem

    Your mom owes me big time. I totally invented creaming a stick of butter with sugar and adding an egg and vanilla and then mixing in flour, salt and baking powder, and then folding in chocolate chips. No one ever would have thought of it if it hadn't been for me.

    Can't we please go back to criticizing Cindy for stealing vicodin from her charity? Now that's theft we can all agree about. And comparatively few of our moms go in for that particular hobby.

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