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Cindy McCain Revealed?
Topic Started: Apr 16 2008, 01:59 PM (126 Views)
Dandandat
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Time to put something here
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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/0,23599,23548...5012572,00.html
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Hoss
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Don't make me use my bare hands on you.
That's it! I'm voting Libertarian.
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HistoryDude
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Shaken, not stirred...
Forget that, I'm voting Vegetarian!
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