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Posted by: ybdogsct 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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It seems that Cindy McCain, John McCain's perfect, blonde beer-baroness wife is about to find herself painted as the latest example of plagiarism on the campaign trail. At least three "McCain Family Recipes" posted on John McCain's campaign Web site and credited to his wife Cindy appeared to be direct copies of dishes created by the Food

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ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago

Cindy McCain, can I have a side of "family values" to go with these "family recipes"?
No? Then how about a side of plagiarism with a dash of copyright infringement?
LOL.
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  RickyDawkins4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  I tried all of the recipes. Most of them were very good, but a few were kind of bitter...
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      RickyDawkins4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      I was just being fresh
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        ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        After Cindy McCain attacked Michelle Obama by intentionally misconstruing Michelle Obama's words, it's poetic justice for Cindy McCain to be caught plagiarizing and committing copyright infringement -- an offense which is prosecutable in a court of law.
        The McCains were just served a big slice of Humble Pie. Tastes bitter, doesn't it?
        LOL.
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        ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        There you go again, misconstruing Michelle Obama's words. If you read her comments again in the context of the paragraph in which she stated it, you would not fall into this trap. The problem is that you are excising a single sentence and then interpreting that remark out of context.
        What Michelle Obama said was simple. She's finally proud that America--which has one of the LOWEST voter turnout rates of ANY free democracy around the world and which prides itself as being a "defender of democracy--is going to the polls and becoming involved in the political process. She's proud that the traditionally disenfranchised (minorities, the poor, the youth vote) are going to the polls and setting RECORD LEVEL voter turnout rates for the Democratic primaries.
        You can complain all you want, but there's no denying that what Michelle Obama said did NOT break any laws, while Cindy McCain's copyright violations ARE prosecutable in a court of law.
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        Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        So was Cindy`s stealing from a charity.
        Oh, and the drug abuse if we`re going to get technical.
        The being a home-wrecker and causing a divorce of a family with three children is not illegal, but many folks would say even more unforgivable than the drug addiction.
        And another irony here is that there is no way to misconstrue Cindy`s actions, while the Cons are completely spinning Michelle Obama`s comments totally out of context.
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        metempsychosis1 month, 2 weeks ago
        
        Such comments.. on such a story.. :)
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  libsRfunny4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "The McCains were just served a big slice of Humble Pie."
  There's a huge difference between an unpaid intern screwing up and improperly posting recipes on a Web site and a candidate like Obama flat out plagiarizing other speeches while delivering his "own."
  You can bet the staffer who screwed it up is gone.
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    2sidestoeverything4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    The speech he used was from a friend and it was his friend who told him to use it.
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not2needy4 months, 2 weeks ago

Does this woman know how to stay within the limits of the law? Then again, why should she.. when she has old Johnny going behind her cleaning up all her messes? EGAD
If the truth were really told, i doubt that this woman has ever cooked a meal in her life.
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    not2needy4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    PURR!!!
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  DoseASpinoza4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Why would she have recipes? Tweakers don't get the munchies.
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Charlson4 months, 2 weeks ago

The candidates misappropriate copyrighted songs for their campaign and plagiarize portions of their speech without citing the original author, so it doesn't surprise me.
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raats66624 months, 2 weeks ago

Anyone want to bet that this DOESN'T make the MSM unlike ALL the crap about using words from one of his supporters?
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  Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Agreed.
  The cons continue to attack Obama`s wife over their wild misinterpretations of what she meant by `really proud of this country`.
  But stealing recipes and trying to profit off them as your own by Cindy, the home-wreck thieving drug addict, nah, she`ll get a pass.
  She was born with a silver-spoon and a trust-fund future, we working class people just don`t know how tough it is for the idle rich and should understand, `when the idle rich break the law, they do it because they are victims`.
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dunkirk4 months, 2 weeks ago

lol, Well its nice to know another day another Republican fiasco is still the norm. I truly wonder if the beer baroness even knnows what a stove looks like much less fmaily recipes.
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Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago

How about some Home-Wrecker Casserole?
Or home-made Steal-From-A-Charity Chaluppas?
Maybe a sh! salad with family recipe for Drug-Addiction Dressing??
For dessert, Plagiarism Pudding!
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  Natureboy4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Oxycontin canapes, methinks.
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Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago

Funny though isn`t it, the cons are right in the midst of attacking the Clintons over their profits from book deals and here is Cindy McCain trying to do the same.
Classic wing-nut hypocrisy!
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  dunkirk4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  LOL, excdpt the Clintons didnt lift material from other sources and pass it off as "Family" recipes.
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texangelwings4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sad yet funny! The comedy continues!
I remember watching Nixon tell reporters that he would never run for another public office as long as he lived, after his lose to JFK. Then a few years later he runs again and wins, then only to resign later.
Thanks ybdogsct.
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ML20074 months, 2 weeks ago

Gosh, I wonder if she used the word 'bitter' in her plagiarism somewhere.
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  OnionHead4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Yes, pg 207 under Soups.
  "Bitter Lemon Soup w/ Parsley"
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mcgrievysr4 months, 2 weeks ago

Ah, well....:-)
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PsychoHosebeast4 months, 2 weeks ago

The recipe is one thing, but the bigger thing here is the friggin' text is exactly the same too!
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crespi4 months, 2 weeks ago

"What's cookin'?"
War.
Corruption.
Totalitarianism.
(Did you know John McCain STOLE his RECIPE for DISASTER from George W Bush? No? Well, maybe The Decider gave it to him...)
Something's burning...

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  Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  lmao! Good one!
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  tanglang4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  No crap Cat. Talk about grasping at straws. Obama talks down to Penn voters, has a racist mentor, Tony Rezko and a racist wife. Hillary is constantly under sniper fire and will have absolutely no staff to answer the White House phone at 3am.
  And This is what they can dig up on McCain? Pathetic!
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    It's laughable you would accuse Obama for his ties to racism and corruption yet pardon McCain who has HIMSELF uttered racist remarks and has been investigated for corruption.
    TANG:
    "This is what they can dig up on McCain?"
    You should know me better. Try this:
    http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/04/08/...
    "Here is a list of John McCain's Biggest Flip-Flops. McCain is veering ridiculously to the right in a shameless attempt to reinvent himself."
    http://news.propeller.com/story/2008/04/04/mcca...
    "Speaking at a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, John McCain said he was wrong to initially oppose a government holiday in memory of the civil rights leader. The comments were met with audible boos and interruptions from many in the audience, as he apologized for repeatedly opposing the creation of a holiday commemorating MLK."
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259282,00.html
    "McCain used the term 'tar baby.' He said he hoped it wouldn't be viewed as a racial remark."
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml
    "On his campaign bus recently, Sen. John McCain told reporters, 'I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.'"
    http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2...
    "Richard Quinn, McCain's chief South Carolina advisor in 2000, who edits a racially controversial magazine called Southern Partisan called Nelson Mandela a 'terrorist' and King a man 'whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul.' In another piece, Quinn said of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, 'What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?'"
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      Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      "temper, temper John."
      to which now we add "racism, racism John!"
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?AC...
    " In the 2000 presidential campaign, McCain reversed himself on the confederate flag first calling it 'a symbol of racism and slavery' but then pandering the very next day by calling it a 'symbol of heritage.'
    McCain campaigned in Alabama for George Wallace Jr., a
    popular speaker the Council of Conservative Citizens, whose mission statement reads:
    'We believe that the U.S. derives from and is an integral part of European civilization and the European people and that the American people and government should remain European in their composition and character. We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races.'"
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      Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      can anyone come up with a list of things that McCain hasn`t flip-flopped on?
      Marriage, nope
      immigration, nope
      taxes, nope
      torture, nope
      confederate flag, nope
      military funding, nope (votes for them dying, votes against them healing)
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        PainGoddess4 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        Breakfast with the Cheneys???
        Lunch with the Pope?
        Dinner at Golden Corral?
        Sunday brunch with Mom??
        :)
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    John McCain graduated 5th from the bottom of his class. McCain's repeated gaffes also reveal a lack of understanding and oversimplification of the geopolitical complexities of the Middle East. It appears McCain has learned little from all his "experience."
    http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan08/mccain_military_r...
    "McCain's grades were 'marginal.' He drew so many demerits for breaking curfew and other discipline issues that he graduated fifth from the bottom of the class of 1958."
    http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com...
    "Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school. He was a below average student and a lousy pilot. During his relative short stunt on flight status, McCain III lost five U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents. Robert Timberg wrote that McCain's 'performance was below par, at best good enough to get by.'"
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/04/100_...
    "The problem with John McCain's 100 years in Iraq formulation isn't that he's calling for 95 more years of combat--he isn't--but that he thinks you can have a long-term basing arrangement in Iraq similar to those we have in Germany or Korea. That betrays a fairly acute lack of knowledge about both Iraq and Islam. Iraq is--and has always been--volatile, tenuous, centrally-located and nearly as sensitive to the presence of infidels as Saudi Arabia. It is a terrible candidate for a long-term basing agreement. McCain's carelessness and oversimplification, and wrong analysis, when it comes to the situation in Iraq puts him in a surprisingly vulnerable position."
    http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicaltick...
    "When McCain was asked if there is a plan to attack Iran, McCain sang. 'Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.'"
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      Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      We all know that McCain is not calling for 100 more years of war like the Bush admin has failed at the last five years. Moreover, the thinking 70% of Americans also know that John McCain is so out-of-touch on defense that he actually believes we could have a peaceful occupation for 100 years.
      Four more years of morons in the WH! Go McCain!
      You could flip two die and even if snake eyes were your only winner, you would still win more often than McCain/Bush get their agenda right on Iraq/WOT.
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/19/mccain-...
    "Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, mistakenly said Tuesday that Iran was allowing Al Qaeda fighters into the country to be trained and returned to Iraq. After Sen. Joe Lieberman stepped forward to whisper in the candidate's ear, McCain said: 'I'm sorry; the Iranians are training the extremists, not Al Qaeda. Not Al Qaeda. I'm sorry.'"
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/856289,CST-E...
    "Even before Sen. John McCain got mixed up, Republican insiders felt he was in the wrong place at the wrong time on his visit to the war zone.
    GOP critics disapproved of McCain even making the trip to Iraq. They felt that no political purpose was served by the prospective Republican presidential nominee going halfway around the world to praise President Bush's troop surge."
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/us/politics/0...
    "McCain likes to present himself as the candidate of the "Straight Talk Express" who does not pander to voters or change his positions with the political breeze. But the fine print of his record in the Senate indicates that he has been a lot less consistent on some of his signature issues than he has presented himself to be so far in his presidential campaign.
    Mr. McCain, who derided his onetime Republican competitor Mitt Romney for his political mutability, has himself meandered over the years from position to position on some topics, particularly as he has tried to court the conservatives who have long distrusted him. His most striking turnaround has been on the Bush tax cuts, which he voted against twice but now wants to make permanent. Mr. McCain has also expressed varying positions on immigration, torture, abortion and Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary."
    LOL. Pathetic.
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      miklkit4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      Whew! I had no ideer he was so messed up.
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    NoWayMan4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    this isn't grasping at straws. it shows how unauthentic the McCains are when trying to pose as normal, hard-working americans.
    and it shows how stupid McCain really is. c'mon, stealing recipes? they couldn't come up with some on their own, or ask McCain supporters to let them borrow some for their website?
    but really its more funny than anything else. because while the dems are over here duking it out amongst themselves, all McCain has to do is appear competent and stay out of the fray. but he can't even do that. hilarious.
    
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      cowboygrandpa4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      NWM:
      I'm sure she knows a bunch of chef's. But hey that is to much trouble. It's easier to take them from the Food Network.
      I'm still upset that someone took my Lemon Cajun Chicken Recipe when I was the head cook at one of the restaraunts I cooked for in the early ninties. LOL
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        Wolfie20074 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        cowboygrandpa
        Wish you would share that Lemon Cajun Chicken Recipe with the rest of us. It sounds really interesting, I'd like to try it.
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        cowboygrandpa4 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        I'll have to dig thru my cook's stuff. I'll try to locate it and put it on here. LOL
        I have to keep my wife away from my stuff, she thinks it's OK to use a spatula in my egg and omlette pans. LOL
        Just got done making homemade chicken and dumplings last Sunday for dinner. MMMMMMMMMMMM
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        NoWayMan4 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        lemon cajun chicken?!
        C'mon Cowboygrandpa!!! give us that recipe!!!!
        (just don't let Cindy McCain see it)
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    And let's not forget McCain's involvement in the Keating 5 scandal.
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/195559...
    "The Committee concludes that, given the personal benefits and campaign contributions he had received from Mr. Keating, Senator McCain exercised poor judgment in intervening with the regulators without first inquiring as to the Bank Board's position in the case in a more routine manner."
    Even your own Republicans don't support McCain.
    http://202.108.100.164:8080/gate/big5/www.nytim...
    "Mr. Rush Limbaugh said 'It's entirely possible I will go the distance without saying I support a candidate.'"
    http://202.108.100.164:8080/gate/big5/political...
    "'John McCain is not only bad for Republicanism, which he definitely is; he is bad for the country,' Ann Coulter said. 'He is not the choice of conservatives.' Rush Limbaugh said."
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      Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      Ann Coulter hates McCain so bad she promised to campaign for Hillary if she is the Dem candidate.
      I don`t know if Ann will keep her promise, but kudos to her for the rare moment of mental clarity in seeing past labels and in choosing the real conservative (small c) between McCain and Clinton.
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    http://202.108.100.164:8080/gate/big5/www.nytim...
    "'What he has got to be concerned with,' Mr. Limbaugh said of Mr. McCain, 'is all these Republican voters who say right now they're so fed up they're not going to vote at all.'"
    http://202.108.100.164:8080/gate/big5/abcnews.g...
    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4365942&...
    As for Obama's ties to Rezko:
    "Obama is not considered a target of the Rezko investigation, and the Obama campaign says it has donated to charity some $160,000 that can be traced to Rezko. Jay Stewart, the executive director of the Chicago Better Government Association, acknowledges Obama was 'a cut above' most state legislators and reliably supported ethics legislation."
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      ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      So much for John McCain's "family values."
      http://www.sptimes.com/News/022900/Worldandnati...
      "McCain has never denied that his personal life has a messy chapter. He always has taken responsibility for his divorce. McCain was a restless Naval officer with a stalled career who cheated on his wife (Carol Shepp) and left her for a younger, wealthier woman (Cindy Hensley).
      "McCain returned to Jacksonville in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war to find that his wife was a different person. Carol McCain, once a model, had been badly injured in a car wreck in 1969. The article recounts that her injuries 'left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she gained a good deal of weight.'"
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      ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      http://journals.aol.com/sazzylilsmartazz/TheCon...
      http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcaindiv.htm
      "While he was imprisoned, Carol was in an auto wreck (1969), thrown through her car's windshield and left seriously injured. Despite her injures, she refused to allow her POW husband to be notified about her condition, fearing that such news would not be good for him while he was being held prisoner.
      When McCain returned to the United States in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war, he found his wife was a different person. The accident "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she had gained a good deal of weight."
      In his book, The Nightingale's Song, Robert Timberg chronicled McCain's post-Vietnam military assignments and some of his "adulterous" behavior leading to his divorce from Carol and marriage to Cindy Hensley."
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    Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    >Obama talks down to Penn voters,
    Actually, as you already know, Obama was defending those Penn voters and the millions of other bitter, angry working class people like myself who live in small-town America.
    Like I have challenged the blithering tools on other boards, name one small town in America where there are no bitter, angry middle class workers.
    OR,
    Quit yer gawd-awful whining, apologize to Obama for being such a tool to the power elite, and get with the program.
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  HannibalBarca4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Good to see you back cat
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  Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Cat,
  That `bitterly clinging` you smell is not Cindy`s cooking, it`s John`s Depends.
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    ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    You aren't going to cry, are you?
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    Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    from the experts on stupid stories.
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argonaut24 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks for posting.
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dandt16124 months, 2 weeks ago

OOPS!!
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newbie04204 months, 2 weeks ago

This story is the definition of grasping at straws.
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jimdoze4 months, 2 weeks ago

Oh My Goodness!! Recipes that existed in whole, or in part, previously? Cooking and baking food that people have cooked and baked before?? For shame!! I just bet that Hensley & Co. distributes beer that is made with the same ingredients and the same portions as a lot of other beers!! Once again... OH MY GOODNESS!!! And down the slippery slope we go... John McCain's foreign policy will be all about making the world safe for beer.
Actually, come to think of, that gets my vote.
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Skanderbeg4 months, 2 weeks ago

I heard a group talking about how the only thing this people cook is their books and they live on the blood of soldiers and the their music of the screams of dying children in Iraq.. Pretty weird.. It not like they don't have maids or other paid employees doing everything for them...
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Wolfie20074 months, 2 weeks ago

So how does anybody know that these weren't Cindy's recipes and she contributed them to the Food Network? You guys do know that there aren't really any original recipes and all the recipes found on the Food Network came from somewhere else and not the television production company. I think you libs should stay on this story though, dig a little deeper, maybe you'll find some real dough. LOL
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  ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  WOLFIE:
  "So how does anybody know that these weren't Cindy's recipes and she contributed them to the Food Network?"
  Why don't you post some evidence to support your conspiracy theory? There's a reason why the McCain's pulled these "Family Recipes" from the website, and it's because they KNOW Cindy McCain's verbatim copy of Food Network's recipes constitutes a copyright violation that is prosecutable in a court of law.
  LOL.
  You and your conspiracy theories.
  Pathetic.
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tbkennedy534 months, 2 weeks ago

This story gets this much attention and an ex-president meeting with terrorists doesn't make the front page. What does that say about the people on this site? Clinton lied, Obama lied and McCain has lied. What a shock?
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  Lurch4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Except that Obama hasn`t lied.
  If you have proof otherwise, by all means share it.
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Wolfie20074 months, 2 weeks ago

ydogsct
What conspiracy theory I just asked a question. I think you must be off your meds today, huh? Your conspiracy theories made from my question, pretty silly and oh yes, pathetic. LMAO
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  ybdogsct4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  LOL. Still no proof to support your conspiracy theory?
  LOL.
  PATHETIC.
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tbkennedy534 months, 2 weeks ago

He stated prior to the race speech that he didn't hear and wasn't aware of the sermons the press was talking about. During the speech he said he had heard some but didn't agree with them. There was a survey he completed that showed very controversial answers. He said I never saw the form until it was shown to have his writing on it. I'd call both of those lies.
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