{"id":387,"date":"2008-06-18T18:24:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/06\/18\/cut-the-cookie-crap\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T18:25:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:25:56","slug":"cut-the-cookie-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/06\/cut-the-cookie-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut the Cookie Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What got me most excited to support Hillary Clinton in her 2000 Senate race was payback for the backlash she received in Bill&#8217;s 1992 campaign. She was castigated for allegedly disrespecting homemakers with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\">this comment<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and then forced to quell the ensuing furor by participating in Family Circle magazine&#8217;s potential First Ladies&#8217; bake-off. A cookie bake-off: <em>are you kidding me<\/em>? No, and sadly, the magazine&#8217;s readers have <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5haqFOG4C6X_x1hB5c5kwSGzR7p9Q\">correctly predicted<\/a> the results of the last four elections.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise then that this year, two of the three recipes submitted so far turn out to be plagiarized. Just look at the contestants&#8217; credentials: a former President, a multimillionaire heiress, and a self-made corporate lawyer. Does anyone really expect that they bake cookies, much less have a favorite recipe? Clearly no one was surprised that the lone man, Bill, swiped his recipe, which helps explain why Mrs. McCain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/david-weiner\/re-heat-offender-cindy-ba_b_107428.html\">getting all the heat<\/a> for her purloined cookies.<\/p>\n<p>what century is this again?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and aren&#8217;t we having a national obesity epidemic? <strong>Cookie recipes?????<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What got me most excited to support Hillary Clinton in her 2000 Senate race was payback for the backlash she received in Bill&#8217;s 1992 campaign. She was castigated for allegedly disrespecting homemakers with this comment, I suppose I could have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/06\/cut-the-cookie-crap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}