From CNN:
Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN….
In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist….”
Forester is the CEO of EL Rothschild, a holding company with businesses around the world. She is married to international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Forester is a member of the DNC’s Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York.
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hahahahaha, thanks for starting my day out with a chuckle.
Elitist. Ha ha.
The price of participating in politics in a democracy. We are required to hate beautiful things, and brilliance is shunned in favor moose-hunting mediocrity.
Guess she won’t be a DNC member for long.
When someone like her thinks Obama is an elitist, maybe people will take the great unwashed bible-thumping gun-toting masses more serioulsy when they raise the same concerns.
If Obama is an elitist with one house, then McCain must REALLY be one with 7 (or was it 8?) houses. Or is it the fact that Obama put himself through Harvard and his Ivy League education that bothers you so much?? Where DID McCain go to college anyway?
Wait! Wait! He went to the US Naval Academy! That’s a pretty elite school, isn’t it???
This really is hilarious! How many houses do prominent Obama supporters Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Warren Buffet, Steven Spielberg, and David Geffen have and how big are they?
Um, nice try Chris, but it’s not Winfrey et. al. who are accused of being elitist. By the way, McCain attended the U.S. Naval Academy. I say good for him ~ but isn’t that a pretty elite school??
Chris
Try to keep up. Are ANY of those people calling anybody elitist? We’re talking about hypocrisy here.
Oh, so now McCain is the elitist? Now *that* is the hilarity of the day! McCain is about as anti-elite as one can get. I’d say someone who gets Babs Streisand out of retirement to have a $28,000 per person fundraiser at the Beverly Hilton co-hosted by Steven Spielberg and David Geffen is the one who is the elitist.
Max,
Are you saying Oprah is not an elitist? It’s pretty amazing you would think that considering that Oprah has become a billionaire by talking to middle-aged, middle-class, predominently white women yet she won’t have Sarah Palin on her show. That’s elitism.
Chris you certainly are a moron. I have nothing against elitists… but John McCain III,(yes he has numbers behind his name on his birth certificate) son of a Navy Admiral, Grandson of a Navy Admiral, owner of somewhere between 7 and 9 houses across the country is an elite. He has been a member of the Senate for some 26 odd years… something called the “most exclusive club in the world.” He was a legacy at Annapolis. You don’t get more elite than that. I mean Jesus on a bicycle at least try to keep your rants near reality… the same county any way.
His net worth (with heiress wife) is near a billion… meanwhile Obama grew up mostly with his single mom and was a scholarship kid. Sheesh… Obama has made his money writing books…
On another note, so the bailout of Wall Street is the largest interference with the Free Market in the history of the United States… done by a Republican administration of deregulators… what is up with that?
amuseinc,
Somehow I don’t think there is much of a comparison between Navy Admirals and Oprah Winfrey. Somehow I don’t think most Americans consider families with long histories of military service part of the elite. As for McCain’s wife, she’s worth about $100 million not near a billion and the 7-9 houses you refer to are hers, not his. The reason she has the money is because her family worked their whole lives to earn the money. What is really funny is that you people didn’t give a damn about John and Teresa Kerry’s houses and fortune. She really was a billionairess not $900 million short of one.
As for the bailout that’s going on now, who wrote the laws governing Freddy and Fanny? Who received the contributions from those entities? Not John McCain! In fact, Barack Obama is the second largest recipient of Freddy/Fanny contributions over the last 20 years combined and he’s only been in the Senate for three of those years! I challenge you to cite one deregulation bill promoted by this administration that’s led to the current financial crisis.
Again Moron Chris, I got nothing against elitists. Is Oprah Winfrey now running for some office as a Democrat? Who knew? And with Cindy McCain kind of money a billion or less don’t matter… see she and her husband are elite. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
You don’t consider Admirals elite? God you must be stupid… how many Admirals in your family? None in mine, in fact I could easily say Generals are easier to find than Admirals of the Navy. Care to point out exactly why Admirals are not elite sailors? Look you don’t have a clue… anybody who is called the Third ought to be considered fairly elite if nothing else. Not that being elite should preclude you from office.
Deregulation of the Financial markets has not been the standard plank of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so? Phil Gramm ring a bell… Ronald Reagan ring a bell… you got anything but complete fucking lies and stupidity? Didn’t think so. At least admit the reality of history…
Better check those political donations by AIG to McCain…
Minnesota Republican blogger Chris I agree 100%,
Everyone knows the K Street project had nothing to do with the crisis on Wall Street. I would challenge anyone to googe “K Street Project” and find out for themselves that the Republican party had nothing to do with Wall Streets lobbyists and influence.
Everyone knows, in fact, that the Republican party has always been the only party that endorsed government regulation to PREVENT this sort of financial tragedy from happening.
Unfortunately, people who disagree with Minnesota Republican bloggers have always said “let the free market decide”, and Liberal legislators have consistently blocked legislation that could have prevented this from happening.
Great Job Minnesota Republican blogger and Smartest Man In The Room Chris
Chris-
John and Theresa Kerry weren’t calling people of relatively modest means ‘elitist’. Your feckless nature is unbridled.
I seem to remember the nomination of Harriet Miers earned a lot of scorn from conservatives because she wasn’t elite enough. Why is being a part of the elite such a bad thing now?
BTW, I can’t help but think that Bill Buckley is turning in his grave over the elitisim sniping coming from his party.