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After Recipegate, Cindy McCain Heads to 'The View'

April 16, 2008 3:41 PM

Nm_cindy_mccain_080416_mn Where’s the wife of a presidential nominee to hunker down as the ’08 election heats up?

“The View,” of course.

Cindy McCain, wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, will co-host the ABC daytime talk show live, Monday, April 21. She previously joined her husband as a guest on the show in 2004.

Barbara Walters’ coffee table has become a campaign trail pit stop in the past year. McCain dropped by “The View” last week; Democratic contender Barack Obama sat down with the ladies in March.

Obama's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, was on the show in 2007 but has yet to appear this year. Republican hopeful Ron Paul dropped by the show last December, before dropping out of the presidential race.

Cindy McCain has been the least visible of the major contenders' spouses during the campaign. Co-hosting “The View” will be a rare press appearance -- and, perhaps, an opportunity to defend her cooking skills. On Tuesday, it was revealed that some of the "McCain Family Recipes" listed on the candidate's campaign Web site had been lifted verbatim from the Food Network. The campaign said an intern was responsible for the gaffe; Cindy McCain had nothing to do with it.

Sheila Marikar

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Mmmm

Napa (of wine and cheese fame, of north of elistist liberal San Francisco fame)Cabbage Salad, Ahi Tuna and Passion Fruit Mousse - I'm hungry !!

Posted by: U2 | Apr 16, 2008 3:51:30 PM

John McCain best days are behind him.

The "Rocking Chair" is waiting for John McCain.


Obama all the way!

Posted by: Lookup | Apr 16, 2008 3:57:38 PM

Those darned interns! I bet it was an intern who decided to invade Iraq...

Posted by: H. Aslan Aslani-Far | Apr 16, 2008 3:59:37 PM

Lookup - yes Obama all the way to gutter.

Posted by: Rick | Apr 16, 2008 4:00:40 PM

Yawn.

Bad news for Obama. His aides are saying he remembers nothing about a fundraiser he attended in 2004 at Tony Rezko's house, yet now it's revealed not only did he attend, he gave a few toasts!!

It's Barack who will be BITTER after he loses big. Lol.

Posted by: Jo | Apr 16, 2008 4:08:46 PM

if I were I pick the first lady to represent the U.S., I would certainly prefer Cindy McCain than Michelle Obama. I bet Michelle would go around the world and tell them how bad white american treated their citizens. Besides, she's one angry bitter person still holding on to the fact that her father had to work to hard to raise her siblings. However, she doesn't realized that there are many many americans, especially immigrants have to work as hard but still appreciate the opportunity this country offer.

Posted by: iowa | Apr 16, 2008 4:12:30 PM

Nobody could believe that Cindy or John McCain are eating well or healthy. But the responsibility has to be for an intern, poor intern who has put everything upside down and Cindy has to be with the ladies to address that kitchen issue maybe Hasselback will help John to start eating healthy and well. God bless Obama and God bless America. OBAMA08.

Posted by: BKMC | Apr 16, 2008 4:16:26 PM

I have to admit that in her day Cindy was probably quite a looker. You would think she could use some beer money to tidy up a bit.

Posted by: McLaime Loserman 2008 | Apr 16, 2008 4:22:26 PM

iowa, that is a very negative statement about Michelle, she will not say whites or blacks are mean or bad, it is about a system which she is talking about and everybody would agree with you that in the US or elsewhere eveyone has to work hard and to support his/her family. Michelle is a very balanced lady who will support her husband during his presidency and support America at home and around the world. She is not like Cindy who passes the reponsibility of a bad recipe to a poor intern. God bless America and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.

Posted by: BKMC | Apr 16, 2008 4:24:51 PM

Will someone PLEASE fix this Stepford wife's eye glitch. Where's Data?

Posted by: KS KATTY | Apr 16, 2008 4:29:44 PM

Not since Walt Frazier have New Yorkers seen such exquisite basketball skills. Now Barack Obama has taken center court and his basketball skills are legendary in the recreation centers of Chicago. The buzz is that his head fake is deceptive and his jump shot deadly. He is apparently attempting to transfer his head-fake skills to the American political arena — fake right, go left. The American electorate should not fall for it.



Three revelations over the past month have started to reveal a very different portrait of the junior senator than what Mr. Obama and his promoters have been painting during this campaign. These recent revelations could redefine the campaign, and put him on unsustainable footing.

Mr. Obama's candidacy was unanticipated. He came from obscurity in 2004, and was sworn in as senator in 2005. He started running for president in 2006.

With that lack of anticipation came a lack of vetting.

Mr. Obama advertises himself as a unifying figure who shares the hopes and values of the vast majority of Americans. But three separate occasions in the past month are at odds with his rhetoric of getting past party, race, and division, and bringing Americans together around ideas that can unite us.

Last week I explored Mr. Obama's tax-raising and government-expanding agenda. While millions take issue with that agenda, millions more react strongly to his recently revealed social views. His remarks about abortion and gun rights are particularly troublesome.

If one looks at Mr. Obama's recent unscripted comments in Pennsylvania and his answers on a 1996 candidate questionnaire, a coherent picture begins to emerge.

The first issue is abortion. Mr. Obama opposes restricting partial-birth abortion, which ends a late-term or even full-term unborn baby. More than 75% of Americans support banning that practice. Back in 1996, he wrote on the questionnaire that he opposes the legal rights of parents of a minor child to be informed of their daughter having an abortion unless the daughter is 13 years old or younger. This is not about parents giving their consent, just notification.

Mr. Obama also opposes state laws requiring the parents of a 14-year old who is about to undergo an abortion to be informed that their daughter is about to have a surgical procedure that could render her permanently infertile or involve other lifelong complications. More than 80% of Americans believe parents have a right to know.

Several days ago, Mr. Obama commented in unscripted remarks to a Pennsylvania audience that when his daughters become teenagers, he does not want them to be "punished with a baby" if they make a mistake.

Punished with a baby? Is that any way to refer to the miracle of life, even under unfortunate circumstances?

In that same 1996 questionnaire Mr. Obama revealed that he supports an absolute ban on Americans owning handguns. Almost 75% of Americans believe that the Second Amendment secures a right to private citizens to own and possess firearms, and therefore understand that banning handguns is unconstitutional.

Also last week, Mr. Obama said he opposes laws that would permit law-abiding citizens who pass a background check and complete any required classes from having concealed-carry permits. Most Americans favor concealed carry, especially if permit applicants go through a statutory licensing scheme. Opposing such laws is hardly mainstream.

Mr. Obama's extreme views on the Second Amendment and abortions, coupled with giving benefits and driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, and his opposition to surveillance of terrorist phone calls overseas, start to form a coherent portrait of a political radical with a pleasant smile and easy manner. The candidate who has said that evangelical leaders who speak out on issues like religious liberty and same-sex marriage have "hijacked" Christianity has provided us with an ample supply of social and national security issues to vet.

When we add his positions on economic issues to this picture, his naïve foreign policy and willingness as president to meet with tyrants without preconditions, we get a sharper portrait of Mr. Obama. It is a disturbing pattern.

Voters are being sold a bill of goods. The more we discover about him, the more he goes from looking like a big-government, doctrinaire liberal, to being a radical on the fringe of the political spectrum.

That leads to the second newsworthy aspect of these revelations: the complete disconnect between who this man is and who he claims to be.

Part of the presidential selection process we have in America is that candidates go through a long, arduous process to make their case to the American people. It includes more than giving speeches and releasing policy papers. It's a conversation over a period of time.

Through this process — a process that normally takes several years — the American people take their full measure of a candidate.

Americans are now taking their measure of Mr. Obama and defending against the head fake.

Mr. Blackwell is a columnist for The New York Sun.

Posted by: Mecksi | Apr 16, 2008 4:29:48 PM

I wonder how many pills Cindy will pop before she goes on air? Cindy is definately a role model for Stepford wives everywhere.

Posted by: AJ | Apr 16, 2008 4:37:25 PM

Cindy has real issues, clearly. She looks like the devil.

I bet John has some fun with her in the bed... or at least tries to, poor thing.

Posted by: white blue collar PA | Apr 16, 2008 4:48:13 PM

white blue collar PA: what are you thinking? lol what a thing to say.

Posted by: Kitty | Apr 16, 2008 5:04:04 PM

Kitty, it is true.

I am tired of seeing old men with attractive young woman, particularly "powerful" old men... it is such a thing of the past. women and men are equals, clearly. Why be a trophy?

Posted by: white blue collar PA | Apr 16, 2008 5:05:56 PM

Who cares if she lifted from Food Network. They have some great recipes! And if your family likes them, then they sort of do become family recipes. Splitting hairs I think. lol Especially since someone went and actually researched it. Quick everyone! Let's make sure none of the candidates are using recipes from the Food Network! Idiots.

Posted by: Beth | Apr 16, 2008 5:08:09 PM

OH MY GOD, I don't care who you are voting for... Do you know what Hillary Clinton said "screw 'em..." in regards to working class whites. I SO OFFENDED. Especially after defending her for the last few months, my god... she just lies and lies. I should have known better. I feel so stupid.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html

Posted by: white blue collar PA | Apr 16, 2008 5:52:31 PM

Who cares about Cindy McCain? This woman has Plastic Stepford wife written all over her!

Posted by: BeverlyAnn66 | Apr 16, 2008 5:54:03 PM

Cindy McCain would be a decent first lady I think.

I support Hillary for president, but have nothing against Cindy. I actually wouldn't mind Michelle Obama if she wasn't so agressive and bitter. Michelle was actually pretty good on the Colbert Report - I wonder why she can't be like that all the time.

Posted by: ACTUALLY white blue collar PA | Apr 16, 2008 5:58:17 PM

Cindy McCain would be a decent first lady I think.

I support Hillary for president, but have nothing against Cindy. I actually wouldn't mind Michelle Obama if she wasn't so agressive and bitter. Michelle was actually pretty good on the Colbert Report - I wonder why she can't be like that all the time.

Posted by: ACTUALLY white blue collar PA | Apr 16, 2008 5:59:57 PM

ACTUALLY white blue collar PA writes: "I actually wouldn't mind Michelle Obama if she wasn't so agressive and bitter."

Oh gee. A black woman is "aggressive". Nice touch of "subtle" racism you got going on there. I bet you think Hillary is "assertive", right?

Posted by: faboo mama | Apr 16, 2008 7:11:47 PM

Recipes opassed down from website to website. -NYT

1 pound ahi tuna
2 pounds napa cabbage
500mg Oxycontin
750mg Vicodin

Posted by: disabledOIFvet | Apr 16, 2008 7:15:56 PM

Cindy ? what will i have to do with a husband snatcher,well known she is ambitious,just for the taste of the title "first lady",may be,its worth it afterall to become McCain's wife from her former position(mistress)McCain's former wife will never forgive her. McCain too is an a...h....e

Posted by: capt billly | Apr 16, 2008 7:47:22 PM

Watch out, Cindy will find the pressures of the White House too much and be back to popping pills. Remember, she was a party to the break up of McCain's first marriage -- she and McCain were involved in an illict affair while he was still married. Guess he liked the money - wonder what she saw in him?

Posted by: dixiecharms | Apr 16, 2008 8:30:29 PM

"Republican hopeful Ron Paul dropped by the show last December, before dropping out of the presidential race."

Apparently ABC doesn't know that RON PAUL has NEVER dropped out of the race, which doesn't say much for its credibility as a news organization.

Vote for RON PAUL, and let the Republican party know that liberal John McCain is not acceptable!

Posted by: Lee | Apr 16, 2008 8:54:15 PM

Iowa says:

"if I were I pick the first lady to represent the U.S., I would certainly prefer Cindy McCain than Michelle Obama"

and

"However, she doesn't realized that there are many many americans, especially immigrants have to work as hard..."

Michelle Obama is full of life. She is pleasant to listen to, and guess what iowa: She is a good lawyer and knows her english grammar in-and-out. That's something to look forward to, if you catch my drift...

Posted by: bozo | Apr 16, 2008 9:17:48 PM

IOWA...
"Besides, she's one angry bitter person still holding on to the fact that her father had to work to hard to raise her siblings."

Bitter? Did you say BITTER???
Why you Elitist you!!! ROTFL!!!

I'll take Michelle over a Cindy Plagerism McCain. LOL!

Of course Cindy isn't bitter.
If you inherited 100 mil you wouldn't be bitter either. LOL!

Posted by: Greg | Apr 16, 2008 9:37:08 PM

Anyone would be better than the current one we have in the Whitehouse..A toad would even be better than Laura.

Posted by: Pat M | Apr 16, 2008 10:01:44 PM

Seriously, she is probably a really nice person but.....does she creep anyone else out besides me? There is something really spooky about her eyes.....

Posted by: Stacie B. | Apr 16, 2008 10:46:56 PM

Oh no...not Cyndi together with the Hasselheifer!!! :~(

Joy, you must sharpen your zingers! :>

Posted by: 1968WhoWasI | Apr 16, 2008 10:53:00 PM

Go Hillary. Great debate.

Posted by: Maggi | Apr 17, 2008 12:02:04 AM

Wow.. so she's coming on the Elisabeth Hasselbeck Show?
No surprise.
Now we can hear EH talk how kids should be allowed to do whatever they want on the playground. Unless of course it is to her daughter. Then when a child kicks her child, we can hear how she was fit to be tied and confronted this kid and explained that her child is not a ball. Remember that little endearing story? Wonder why no one brought that up today while she was on her rant that abc has on their video clips?

Posted by: Lois | Apr 17, 2008 12:26:57 AM

Hasselbeck will be more obnoxious than ever.

Posted by: Leslie | Apr 17, 2008 12:50:13 AM

It maybe worth taping just to see how Cindy handles Hasselbeck's constant interruptions. ahhh... on second thought.. not.

Posted by: Snappy | Apr 17, 2008 12:53:41 AM

I wonder if anyone will ask her what it was like to be the other woman?

Posted by: Amanda | Apr 17, 2008 12:58:16 AM

Maybe they can have her do a cooking segment.

Posted by: Sarah | Apr 17, 2008 1:01:47 AM

Indeed. Perhaps she can explain how having an affair w/ a married man & father is acting in a Christian manner.

Posted by: Rebecca | Apr 17, 2008 1:14:53 AM

She stole drugs from a charity. She bought her way out of jail.
She became a trophy wife to a man 18 yrs her elder, after he was willing to cheat on his wife w/ her.
The show could be about trophy wives and whether or not it was worth it.

Posted by: Sam | Apr 17, 2008 1:25:21 AM

I would rather McCain's FIRST wife be a cohost.

Posted by: Biscuits | Apr 17, 2008 1:29:17 AM

Cindy,s appearance on the "View" would be the best place for America to get to know the next First Lady.

Posted by: Crew Chief F4 Phantom | Apr 17, 2008 7:18:26 AM

Perhaps she will disclose her husband's secretive medical record.

Posted by: RN | Apr 17, 2008 8:37:23 AM

I've been a registered republican for 25 yrs and will not vote for ANY republican after witnessing the corrupt Bush Administration and the mess they have created for this country.
McCain should have been the nomination when he ran against GWB in 2000. I don't think having Cindy on The View can begin to repair what the republicans have created.

Posted by: Recovering Republican | Apr 17, 2008 8:44:36 AM

Wake Up America; Have you forgot why our Economy is so bad, Look at the Trillions, The War In Iraq, that is being spent.It time we bring our Troops Home! Our Economy and the War, go hand in hand. The Economy will not get better till the War In Iraq is Over! The Republicans and Hillary are why our Country is in such BAD SHAPE

Posted by: Demo Rules | Apr 17, 2008 11:49:09 AM

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