Not many people have original recipes - especially for cookies - If it is food, it has probably been done. All the candidates are trying to do is to look like normal, everyday people like you and I - so that we can relate to them. The truth is - they are not like you and I and, more than likely, none of the candidates can relate to us. I highly doubt any of the candidates or their wives have actually cooked or baked anything in a long time. Their recipes will certainly not sway my vote - My Mom was the greatest and she can't cook worth a dime.

brian o'reilly is the mast of cut and paste. this post is attached to any article he reads apparently.

Didn't know they had internet service at the pine street inn.

brian o'reilly, you're a nut and an idiot. There is no George Bush Jr. You're not even funny. You're a fool.

Hi My name is Brian O'Reilly I live in Boston. In 2004 I worked for Partners healthcare at Massachusetts general hospital as a computer technician,I received a phone call from president George Bush JR at the whitehouse,I was told to leave my job, pay my bills, change my name, and leave the area,and never mention a word of this to anyone,9 people I worked with were there when the president called, People I worked with kept asking me If I knew him,and asked me why he called,I then contacted my manager and submitted a transfer to the Charlestown facility that M.G.H has,I was so scared after receiving that phone call from Bush I left my job and left the state,and ended up homeless,all because of a phone call from the whitehouse that I had no explanation for,president George Bush Jr turned me into a homeless person on purpose.and used his position as president to do so I have witnesses to verify he called.

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Funny how everyone seems to be blaming only Cindy and no one is saying anything about Bill Clinton doing the same thing. This is NOT news. When someone LIES under oath (like Bill Clinton did) now THAT is news.

This isnt news, and really who cares. How many people say when they bake cookies, oh I found it in this book. Most women dont keep thousands of books for a few recipes, no we write them down and share with family through the generations. I highly doubt that Hersheys originally made this recipe to begin with. So there fore it is not stealing. Gee what can we expect next big government going into the kitchens of every home arresting women for stealing recipes??? This is just stupid- no harm done and she NEVER claimed to have invited the cookie, like some claimed to invent the internet!

This has to be the DUMBEST article I have seen to date. Who gives a flip where a recipe originated. LOL

Every stinking time you take something to a dinner or pot luck, do you say "This is a recipe for potato salad that I found in a cookbook from Cretty Bocker on page 67 in the 1973 first edition" or do you say "Here's my potato salad"?

You know changing one ingredient or altering the amount of the ingredient makes it a new recipe! COME ON PEOPLE

And if it is such an issue, why didn't anyone bother to mention that one of Michelle's recipes was not her own either??

The "Chicago Against Obama" learned that Michelle has been passing off Mona Khalidi’s falafel balls as her own. Mona gave Michelle the recipe at one of their frequent dinner parties. Good grief.

She looks like Cruella DeVille from 101 Dalmations. And yeah, we all know Bill CLinton lies all the time, so now this chick is just like him.

Who cares ??? It's a friggin cookie recipe for crying out loud.

Seriously, that was not coppied. If it was plagerized then it would have been "word for word" and contained Hersey's. There are plenty of recipes for cookies that people claim are thier own, but in actuality are the same thing. Example, Grandma's Chocolate Chip Cookies. Maybe Grandma stole the product from Hersey's as well. OOO the horror! Personally this is just a publicity stunt that Hersey's should have kept its mouth shut about.

Who comes up with their own cookie recipe? They are not chefs!

Geez, if I have to look at this womans face as the First Lady I'm gonna barf. I couldn't stand 4 years of seeing this in the Whitehouse!

This is what US considers a 'Top Story'?? Cookie recipies certainly play a big role in my voting decisions. Give me a break!!

then why is it called Cindy McCain's Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies. She at least could have said..."this my family favorite cookies from the Hershey."

Family circle asked each spouse interviewed to submit their favorite cookie recipe for a bake-off. They did not ask for an original recipe, only a family favorite. She did not claim it as her own recipe, she acknowledged it came from friend. If this is the only thing anyone can come up with, she is better than most.