I don't mind this article, just the hyperlinks, really. All those digs at Cindy McCain for using a Hershey's recipe rather than a "family" recipe. Puh-leaze: it's humiliating and degrading that the wives of presidential candidates are still subjected to a "bake-off" -- as if their "family" cookie recipes determine their ability to be dependable and supportive partners in life and in politics. It is not the candidates' spouses who are running for office, and the candidates are not running on a platform of domestic tranquility, so why give their home lives any media attention at all? If Senator Clinton had won the Democratic nomination, would her husband be subjected to a "bake-off"? For crying out loud. Besides, if she overcame an addiction to prescription painkillers and worked out a way to continue contributing to society rather than spend her time in prison for it -- well, then, good for her. I wish that all of those who struggle with drug addiction could work out alternative sentencing and give back to our communities rather than sucking out taxpayers' money by wasting away in jail.

And you say you won't stoop so low as to "even get into" Senator Lieberman, yet you link to those who do (an article that prominently features the sidebar, "Bush Gives Dems STDs". Talk about a below-the-belt jab.)

I'm also struck by the way the Left has jumped on "Baby Mama" as a derogatory term. Certainly it doesn't apply to Michelle Obama, since she is legally married to the father of her children. So it's not correct. But to call it an insult is, in itself, an insult to the many women who are the mothers of children by men to whom they are not legally married. I have, many times, heard the phrase, "Baby Mama," or "Baby Daddy" used as a term of endearment. (Although I doubt Fox News meant it as such.)

And if the Left is so concerned with Obama's being seen as a closet Muslim, then why is the Obama campaign itself so quick to discriminate against Muslims? At a recent rally, two Muslim women reported being denied seats in the view of television cameras because they wore traditional head coverings. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080618/ap_on_el_pr/obama_muslims;_ylt=Ag38N...)

The whole thing smells.