PERHAPS THE LAST TIME anyone heard Hillary Rodham Clinton utter a spontaneous remark in public was the famous moment during the 1992 presidential campaign when she declared to a shocked -- shocked -- nation that she liked her job. Or, as she fatally put it, "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession." Pandemonium ensued, and Clinton was pounded nearly to dust for seeming to disparage domestic life and its coziest symbol, the cookie.
She never made such a mistake again; and thanks to Family Circle magazine, neither has any other prospective First Lady. Taking advantage of a rare national spotlight on home baking, the magazine promptly instituted a "cookie cook-off" between the wives of the major-party presidential candidates. Clinton and Barbara Bush submitted cookie recipes -- both chose versions of chocolate chip -- and readers voted for their favorites. Since then the magazine has staged a cook-off during each presidential campaign, and every time the victorious cookie has reflected the outcome of the election. This year Laura Bush's Oatmeal-Chocolate Chunk Cookies are pitted against Teresa Heinz Kerry's Pumpkin Spice Cookies, and the recipes can be found in the July 13 issue.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...erry_bake_off/
Hmm if it came to vote on cookies I am lost because I don't like Laura's or Teresa's cookies they chose.
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