http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/thats_the_way_t.html [rquoter]"Cindy McCain’s oatmeal-butterscotch recipe received 54 percent of the readers’ vote, to 44 percent for Michelle Obama’s shortbread cookies, Family Circle magazine announced this afternoon. Bill Clinton, who submitted his oatmeal cookie recipe before Hillary Clinton dropped out, received 2 percent of the vote. The cookie contest between the potential first spouses has correctly predicted the presidential winner in every election since 1992, the magazine says: 2004, Laura Bush’s oatmeal chocolate chunks beat Teresa Heinz Kerry’s pumpkin spice cookies. 2000, Laura Bush’s Texas governor’s mansion cowboy cookies defeated Tipper Gore’s gingersnaps. 1996, Hillary Clinton’s oatmeal chocolate chips bested Elizabeth Dole’s pecan rolls. And in 1992, Hillary Clinton’s oatmeal chocolate chips also defeated Barbara Bush’s classic chocolate chips."[/rquoter]
This could be the turning point! Obama will have to be extremely careful when answering cookie questions.
Hillary submitted the same recipe twice? Fail. Anyway, Kerry and Gore set themselves up for failure. Ginger snaps? Pumpkin spice? You've got to come stronger than that if you are going to face off against some good old fashioned Texas chocolate. And all Michelle could come up with is shortbread cookies? Shortbread?
Do we know for sure this is Cindy's own recipe? I mean she does have a history of plagiarizing recipes.
I wonder how the fact that Cindy McCain has been busted plagiarizing recipes before will affect this trend. Cindy McCain's recipes exposed as web rip-offsBy Lincoln Archer April 16, 2008 11:00am Cindy McCain's classic recipes taken from web THE tantalising aroma of chicken roasting in rosemary wafts through the room as Cindy McCain helps her husband John shrug off another tough day on the campaign trail with one of her tried and true homecooking favourites. If you too want to eat like a Republican nominee, all you have to do is log on to the official John McCain campaign page, where the vast sum of McCain home dinners is available for to see. Or at least it used to be. The pages of recipes have since been taken down after it was revealed they were fake. An eagle-eyed web surfer hunting for kitchen inspiration found the recipes had been copied from celebrity chef, TV food show and other gastronomically minded websites. Ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw, farfalle pasta with turkey sausage, peas and mushrooms and perhaps some passionfruit mousse for dessert: it was all lifted from somewhere else. The McCain campaign has tried to laugh off the foul-up, which still robbed the focus of the day from Senator McCain's attempt to outline his economic credentials. "Apparently a Web intern added (TV chef) Rachael Ray to our policy team without her knowing it," a spokesman joked. "He was swiftly dealt with, and the page is down for revision." But on the Huffington Post, one of the first blogs to reveal the gaffe, that excuse was found hard to swallow. "I'm not sure how an intern can be responsible for messing up the McCain 'family' recipes," wrote David Weiner on HuffPost. "Did the intern lose Cindy's recipe box only to haphazardly try to replace them with Food Network recipes? If only we could all steal and lie and lay it off on the unpaid help." The campaign maintained the error was merely a "low-level unpaid staff debacle", but the conduct of wives is often an important part of a US campaign: Barack Obama's wife Michelle has been criticised for comments considered by some to be unpatriotic while Hillary Clinton has been blasted for not appearing "soft" enough. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23548406-5012572,00.html#
Cindy McCain's Butterscotch Trollops 1 1/4 c flour 1 tblsp mascara 2 cups unexpressed rage 1 tsp salt 3 units botox 1 box raisins Combine ingredients, cook slowly under dry Arizona sun. Just joshing, nothing against Cindy, I am sure she's fine. Oh, i forgot about that New Yorker piece. There is this weird thing where she refers to herself as the only child of her father when, in fact, she has a half-sister. Whatever.
Remember in 2004 when everybody brought up the fact that the Redskins winning or losing has correctly predicted the election since 1936? Debunked in 2004. http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/redskins.asp
I remember when the president elected every 20th year would die in office. Harrison, 1840 Lincoln, 1860 Garfield, 1880 McKinley, 1900 Harding, 1920 FDR, 1940 JFK, 1960 But Reagan survived and the streak was broken. I think basso's trying to say Obama's another Reagan.
I heard that Tipper's gingersnaps actually received more votes overall, but lost because more groups of kids liked Laura's cowboy cookies.
The trends don't lie. Ladies and gentlemen, in a surprise write-in vote, the next President of the United States of America, Ms. Betty Crocker!
