WTF? Lynn Forester de Rothschild doesn't like or trust Obama & endorsing McCain?

[AZBlue]

What's she being promised by the McCain campaign? What's her post-election payback I wonder?

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.

The announcement will take place at a news conference on Capitol Hill, just blocks away from the DNC headquarters. Forester will “campaign and help him through the election,” the spokesman said of her plans to help the Republican presidential nominee.

Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000 for the New York Democratic senator’s failed presidential bid.

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. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Why is this traitor on the Patform Committee??

[Hawkeye-X]

1. she's a confirmed PUMA

and a true dumbass.

Hawkeye-X

[Captain Hilts]

19. And now she's a confirmed idiot. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Who?

[MadMaddie]

3. Bye Bye and Good Riddance!

[geek tragedy]

4. Lady de Rothschild can go fuck herself.

Racist, elitist traitor.

[Captain Hilts]

15. She's a "racist?"

[geek tragedy]

30. Elitist=uppity, when coming from a freaking aristocrat. n/t

[Historic NY]

5. What a cunning stunt on her part. We don't need traitors in our mist.

[Liberal Dose]

113. Cunning stunt from a stunning.....

Nope, not gonna do it. :evilgrin:

[cliffordu]

6. And the diamond encrusted horse she rode in on....

[quiet.american]

7. A "de Rothschild" calling Obama an elitist. What a load of horse-shite. nt

[Emit]

24. heh

That was my very first thought, as well

[Blue_Tires]

88. +1

even she has to know the delicious irony in all of this...

[arKansasJHawk]

102. Yeah ...

I've been saying that on these threads all day. I mean, Jesus Christ. Am I the only one who hears the name "Rothschild" and immediately thinks of an international, ULTRA-ELITE European banking cartel?

[tsuki]

104. She is not a "de Rothschild." She married one. nt

[merh]

110. Oh, so she didn't pull herself up by her own boot straps

she married wealthy boot straps - FYI marrying old money makes you old money.

[tsuki]

112. And what happens when she is kicked to the curb. The de Rothschilds

are not the sort that drag themselves through the gutter of politics. They are quieter than that.

[merh]

114. Apparently she is political and has been for quite some time.

I don't know if she has been kicked to the curb or will be - I just think she has no room calling anyone an elitist.

[MarjorieG]

8. talk about elitist.

[boppers]

9. 1: Who? 2: Who cares?

Maybe she can be part of the massive thousand-stong group... not watching Oprah.

[Selatius]

10. I wonder if she is of the Rothschild banking family in Europe? They're quite wealthy over there.

They're considered "old money."

[PatGund]

46. She's married into that family.

Henry Kissenger introduced her to her husband-to-be at a Bilderburg conference.

[Starry Messenger]

53. How...romantic.

I bet those crazy kids loved telling that story as newlyweds!

MPK

[Virginia Dare]

76. So Obama doesn't play well with that crowd, very good to know..

thanks for the info.

[JI7]

11. she is a ROTHSCHILD ? part of that wealthy family calling Obama and Elitist ?

she may not have been born one but she married one and she is calling OBama elitist ???????????

WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKK ??????????/

FUCKING ASSHOLE.

[saracat]

55. So if you marry aristocracy it makes you elitist? Should the family have given up the title?

Lynn made her own money before getting married. Ido not agree with her chosen candidate but this is a silly argument.

[JI7]

60. and Obama made his own way up also

she is the one accusing him of being an elitist when she should look to her husband first.

kind of like Bush claiming to be some regular guy because of a phony ranch which is a campaign prop.

or dumbass Palin pretending to be the same shit while she gets tax payers to fund her stupid tanning bed.

fuck them all .

[Virginia Dare]

77. It sounds kind of silly for her to be calling somebody else elite..

I agree with that point, what is your point?

[PatGund]

89. Let's put it this way....

She married into the Rothschilds when she was introduced to her husband to be by Henry Kissenger.

At a bilderburger conference.

In her case, she was an elitist long before she married into that family and gained a title.

[DevonRex]

93. If Obama were her chosen candidate would you agree with that?

[LowerManhattanite]

100. Don't confuse poor “Lilimuffins” with facts and all that...

...they might threaten to leave here—for the nine hundredth and forty-sixth time. :)

[timeoutofjoint]

117. ?? who is Lillimuffins??

[LowerManhattanite]

118. A cat...

“...a Cheshire cat.” :)

[muriel_volestrangler]

103. Well, here's her attitude:

But his strong-willed American wife, the former Lynn Forester, who’s been known as Lady de Rothschild since the two were married seven years ago, had very different ideas. “Can you imagine building a new house with hot and cold taps?” she says. “So that your hands burn on one and freeze on the other?”
...
Another rather un-British characteristic she’s been said to possess is an unembarrassed taste for all the trappings of extreme wealth, from private planes to chauffeured cars. “Is that said about me?” Lynn asks. “I hope not. I mean, I’m just who I am. I don’t think being rich is that important. I think not being boring is really important.”

http://www.wmagazine.com/artdesign/2008/01/rothschilds

Separate hot and cold taps? Can you imagine? Obviously not for the likes of Lynn.

And she does feel badly for her friend Conrad Black. It must be awful.

[ncteechur]

107. She is still an elitist. And a racist. And a (fill in your own blank.)

[Raineyb]

109. And marrying into the aristocracy of England makes her comments

less hypocritical how?

This is beyond unbelievable. Obama lives the American dream by pulling himself up to run for President without the help of monied connections or a famous last name and some bitch who married into aristocracy calls him an elitist but your problem is with the people pointing out the "Lady's" hypocrisy? Your line of thinking defies logic.

Regards

[ErinBerin84]

12. good.

She's exactly the type of toxic sour puss that the Democratic party does not need.

[faithfulcitizen]

13. given her a reason like....kiss her feet and tell her she's pretty? Who's elitist?

[berni_mccoy]

14. Correction: FORMER Member of the DNC Platform Committee... after this.

[MaineDem]

75. The Platform Committee is no longer

Her connection with it ended at the convention.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. Cram it up your piggy bank, Lynn.

[Cha]

17. Fucking disingenuous lying creep.."Elitist"..fucking Orwell shit.

"He's an elitist" sniffs rothchild has she turns her fucking nose up at the people.

What an embarassment to humanity..wonder how many women will follow her to mccain? 1? 2?

[redstate_democrat]

18. If she is working for the McCain camp then that means she is a mole

Why is she still a member of the DNC? She needs to be removed from her post. She could be delivering all kinds of confidential information to the McCain camp on strategy, donors, fundraising, etc.

REMOVE HER NOW!!!

[samuraiguppy]

20. bitter loser.

[Cha]

21. Yeah, too bad for her dried

up old bitterness.

[Number23]

62. She doesn't even seem to realize that her defection could be a blessing

The fact that this woman of immense and obvious wealth is defecting to McCain and for no other reason than "I don't like Obama" says more about her and the type of folk that are attracted to John McCain than she could possibly ever realize.

Let her go. It's no sweat off of Obama's butt either way.

[LooseWilly]

22. McCain and his 7 +/- houses/McMansions... the antidote to elitism.

No, really... it's about time those Elitist black folk get their comeuppance!!


P.S. What the Unholy Hells??

[sandspur]

74. Guess she does't want the lower and middle class getting a tax break. Those

are only for our betters. You know, old money and the people who marry into it.

[WolverineDG]

23. pot meet kettle

Excuse me, a ROTHSCHILD calling someone else ELITIST??? :wtf:

dg

[d_b]

25. who?

[Amonester]

26. Lynn who?

Whatever bad things happen to that racist if McLiar&Co was to steal it, she'd deserve all of it.

Problem is, we wouldn't. :grr:

[FLyellowdog]

27. Disgusting!

I better not see her name linked to Hillary's again in the future. I have a GREAT memory. Hillary asked her followers to support Obama. What happened here?

[Renew Deal]

28. Don't let the door hit her in the ass.

Another bim for McCain.

[Cali_Democrat]

29. Who the hell is that?

[kid a]

31. i hope mods are checking in to that rec

[AZBlue]

96. Read the responses

There's someone defending the attacks on her, it's most likely them.

[AllentownJake]

32. She's looking where her money is good to buy influence

It isn't good with Obama its good with McCain. Fuck her and I hope she goes to hell.

[anonymous171]

33. She's still around? God she's so fucking stupid. Swallowing the primary BS so easily.

[demwing]

34. We Have Reached The End Of Absurdity!

A ROTHSCHILD calls an African-American of integrated heritage, raised by a single parent, weaned on the food stamp program, "Elitist"???

[MrsBrady]

35. if she's member now, she won't be if she does that n/t

[dansolo]

36. SHE thinks HE is elitist???

Why doesn't she say what she really thinks--that Obama is an uppity you-know-what.

[Left Is Write]

41. Someone like her calling Obama elitist fairly drips with irony.

[dgibby]

47. She thinks he should be her chauffeur, not her President. nt

[Beregond2]

37. Any chick from New Jersey who styles herself Lady

(no matter how she married) is obviously a douche.

[curious one]

38. Translation for "does not like or trust" is "because he is black"! What is not to like or trust?

Moron.

[Bleacher Creature]

39. Because nothing says "I feel your pain" during tough times like an endorsement from a billionaire.

This woman is a nobody. The only reason this is noteworthy is because she's rich, and she claimed to support HRC (although that claim is dubious in light of her endorsing someone who stands for everything Hillary has fought against). At the end of the day, this just reinforces the message that McCain is an out-of-touch rich guy.

And yes, when she calls Obama "elitist" even though it makes no logical sense whatsoever, it most certainly means that there is some other reason. Race.

[27inCali]

40. it was one thing for HRC folks to muse about the possibility

of voting for McCain when the primary and the wounds were fresh and the emotional letdown was strong enough to override logic for a while.

But at this late point in the game, when the stakes are so clear anyone calling themselves a PUMA needs to eat my shit on a paper plate. The future of this country, my child's future and her children's future are so much more important than this shallow bitch's selfish little game.

There is nothing more disingenuous, senselessly petty and below contempt as to turn against the very principles Hillary represented to act out a bitter, childish little temper tantrum.

Anyone calling Obama an elitist must be fucking ignorant beyond words especially when they use it as an excuse to vote for someone worth over $100,000,000, owns so many houses he can't remember and wears $500 fucking loafers. That bitch is a fake and she can keep her dirty money.

Fuck these people, let them go stand over there on the wrong side of History and lick Sarah Palin's asshole for all I care, they're dead to me.

When President Obama is done guiding this country out of the darkness, they can maybe realize the stupidity and selfishness of their behavior .

[ladywnch]

42. so she'd rather go for incompetent rather than elitist? she BELONGS with the mccain campaign.

she's about as bright as the 30%.

[vanderBeth]

43. They need to kick her the fuck out.

For someone who was on the Democratic National Platform Committee’s , she doesn't get the issues. She is bitter and/or racist, and the Democrats need her to fucking leave. People like her piss me off and tarnish the name Democrat and all Hilary supporters.

And where the hell do you get the off calling Obama elitist, Lady Rothchild?

</rant>

:argh:

[Virginia Dare]

78. Let her join LIEberman in oblivian...

don't ever darken a Democratic doorway again you POS.

[WinkyDink]

44. This will have exactly ZERO effect on voters.

[Lilyeye]

45. She can't trust Obama

..but she can trust that lying sack of crap McCain? She's a piece of shit. Not to mention she has a lot of damn nerve calling him an elitist.

[democracy1st]

48. Trust is the new racial code, I've never heard so much trust BS during

a presidential election in my life

[mrreowwr_kittty]

49. I hope McCain does a big splashy press release touting this endorsement

I'm sure it will go a long way toward assuring economically troubled Americans that he is keenly attuned to their issues.

[quakerboy]

50. Who?

And does this mean we can boot her from the party structure and put in a real dem? Or do we have to wait until we boot Lieberman?

[nam78_two]

51. He is an elitist and she is what exactly?

Looks like she got their roles reversed :eyes:

[cali]

61. she's a racist piece of PUMA shit. A pig. A fuckwad.

[LowerManhattanite]

101. As is anyone who supports her...

...or gives her cover for her perfidy here.

[McCamy Taylor]

52. Rothschilds illegally held fundraiser for McCain in England this summer, link below

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/20/did-john-mccain-accept-illegal-donation-from-the-rothschilds/

I say let her endorse him. Having the mega-wealthy endorse John "I don't know how many houses I own" McCain at a time when we are on the verge of Depression is a good thing. Esp. when it can be used to remind voters that he went to Europe to attend an illegal foreign fund raiser.

[saracat]

56. They also held fundraisers for Democratic candidates.

[Starry Messenger]

57. Link?

[Starry Messenger]

64. here, I made it easy:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=72Y&pwst=1&q=Lynn+Forester+de+Rothschild+democratic+fundraisers&start=20&sa=N

something recent in there?

MPK

[Fran Kubelik]

83. are you defending this woman?

[wvbygod]

94. Here's a clue

Read post 52 and then read the post your finger is wagging at.

Sigh.

[BayouCajun]

54. Ouch

Can this seriously hurt Obama?

[Metric System]

59. No, of course not. Who cares what this woman thinks? If she wants to go against everything Hillary

stands for it will be her on her conscience.

[regnaD kciN]

58. This is the best the McCainiacs can do???

Get someone named Rothschild to accuse the son of a working-class single mother of being an "elitist?" :wtf:

What's next? Getting Prince Bandar to denounce Obama for not supporting Israel enough? :crazy:

[Franks Wild Years]

63. Well, it looks as though she is a deplorable racist.

There can be no other explaination, surely. The "eltism" charge is preposterous, given that she is throwing her support to McCain. News to fuckwads: YOU CANNOT BRAND OBAMA AN ELITIST AND THEN VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO IS ONLY INTERESTED IN FURTHERING THE WELL-BEING OF THE EXTREMELY WEALTHY, YOU STUPID FUCKS.

The world would be a far more pleasant place if bigoted shits like her were forced to spend their remaining days in prison. No one can deny that they deserve tha

[lamp_shade]

65. YAAAWWWWWNNNNN!!!! I don't see what the big deal is.

[WeDidIt]

66. I am stunned at the number of blatantly racist people in the Democratic PArty

It truly is a development I would have never guessed would happen.

[Blasphemer]

67. I wish I could say I was stunned

But I've heard statements like, "I've got black friends...", "I'm a democrat...", "I love of Oprah..." used in defensive context from Dems who haven't confronted the fact that the racist views that we have ALL been subjected to do influence them on some level. It's just a reality that hundreds of years of hate and oppression cannot be erased in 40 years. It is also not racially exclusive. As a black woman, I have to deal with it inside myself and amongst members family.

[Danger Mouse]

68. Fuck her. Seriously. PUMAs can go fuck themselves.

[polichick]

69. What an asshole!

[Coexist]

70. who?

[Vinca]

71. I trust the DNC has dumped her.

She must be out for revenge because there is no way in hell a true Hillary supporter could side with McCain.

[smartvoter]

72. Good. Rothschilds for McCain. That'll resonate. nt

[Virginia Dare]

79. She's probably got more houses than McBush and Miss Cindy..

that'll make them look good in comparison.

[Avalux]

73. She's a racist. No other reason for the trust issue.

Can't trust the black man. I hate to say it but that's what I'm getting from the stupid woman.

[WinkyDink]

80. When Obama wins, she's screwn, job-wise.

[flpoljunkie]

81. Now that's truly rich, coming from the 'elitist' Ms. Rothschild! Why did she support Hillary?

Hillary and Barack hold identical positions on the issues, so Ms. Rothschild is full of sh*t. Doesn't trust Barack Obama? Does she have any idea what kind of a hypocrite John McCain is, and with someone like Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency?

What is wrong with this petty woman?

[rox63]

82. I hope she will be tossed out of the Platform Committee for this

We don't need traitors like this undermining the election.

[Ganja Ninja]

84. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

Economic disaster is no problem for a Rothschild so if she thinks she doing this to show us she can go fuck herself. She belongs with the GOP and I'm sure this vote won't be her first GOP vote.

[secondwind]

85. Have been on DU only several weeks, have heard it all and read it all, and frankly

this is the single-most piece of information that has saddened me terribly. I just can't believe it.

This is potentially a bad thing for us.

[AZBlue]

95. How so? It's not getting too much play in the news b/c of Wall Street.

I just want to make sure this woman is immediately made persona non grata in the Dem Party.

[tomg]

86. The opening of this article on her

says everything:
From: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/10/lady_lynn_forester_de_rothschi.html
snip

You knew that Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild was a mega communications mogul. You knew she was married to British banking scion Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and buds with Henry Kissinger and Vernon Jordan. But did you know she was practically, like, a philosopher?

"Back when John sold to Southwest Bell I said "Boy, you know, I want a net worth of $40 million. Because I just thought that was more money than I could ever imagine. I thought I would die and go to heaven if I ever had $40 million. And John gave me the best advice I've ever gotten in one sentence. He said, "Stop. Don't think at all about the net worth you're creating. Think about your vision for what you're creating, and that you wake up every day and you love it. The money will follow." And it was sort of so profound, and this rush came over me of "Oh my God, of course," and then I just went on from there. And that made a huge difference to me."
------------------------------------

And just in case, here she is on Rupert Murdoch

"I have so much respect for Rupert Murdoch, I cannot even tell you. I don't, of course, agree with his politics all the time, but I think that he is a visionary. I think he is gutsy. Everyone I've ever known who's done a deal with Rupert cannot say a bad word about him. He's honorable, and I think it's an obvious thing for him to do, and I think it was brilliant."
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So Obama is the elitist and he can't be trusted. There is another link at the above article with an interview with her from CondeNast
http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/the-world-according-to/2007/10/05/An-interview-with-Lady-de-Rothschild#page1.

[SoxFan]

87. You lost me at "de Rotshschild"

Homes in Manhattan and London, international banker husband, married into Euro aristocracy, and she has the stones to call ANYONE an elitist?

[SurfingAtWork]

90. So she is not going to back the eliteist Obama, and instead back the Non-eliteist McCain

So I suppose the moral of this story is that if you marry into eliteism, you aren't really elite.

[wowimthere]

91. LOL... WOW... So what... she's a stupid lieberman wannabe

[Thrill]

92. Nice try. Obama an elistist? But McCain who wants nothing but tax cuts for the rich

and can't keep track of how many houses he owns is not an elitist? Nice try racist

[MBS]

97. THIS woman calls OBAMA an elitist?

:wtf: Here's the end of the article:

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 . . . splits her time living in London and New York.

[AndyTiedye]

98. Rothschild Calling Obama Elitist? Are You Sure This Didn't Come from the Onion?

[samuraiguppy]

99. nasty PUMA bitch.

[and-justice-for-all]

105. A Rothchild calling Obama an elitist....LOL!!!

The same fucking Rothchild family that was nice enough to do some banking with HITLER.

[4lbs]

106. Somewhere in all of this is an Obama ad blasting McCain for associating with elitists.

n/t

[Earth Bound Misfit]

108. doesn't like or trust Obama ?

FUCKING RACIST POS... GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE...DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE...OOPS! TOO LATE...WHY AM I SHOUTING? I RARELY SHOUT. WHY AM I CURSING? I RARELY USE OBSCENITIES...

Sorry folks...lost it there for a second.

These people make my Blood BOIL.

[Liberal Dose]

111. Rothschild just doesn't have the guts to say "Because he's black." This woman has provided no

substantive reasoning for backing McShame other than "frankly I don't like him (Obama)" and "he (Obama) has not given me reason to trust him." WTF does she want? :grr:

[bread_and_roses]

115. On another note, what was someone like this doing on the D platform committee anyway?

I never heard of her before this hoopla, but given the quotes from her above, just who's interest was she on the platform committee to represent? International banking? Consolidated media? The upper 1% of wealth ownership? The corporations who's logos were all over the Dem convention?

If it were not that she had been on the committee, the headline - if there even was one outside of "Vanity Fair" - that publication so sought by the masses (!), it seems it would have to have been "Aristocrat Calls Obama Elitist" or at worst, "Aristocratic Hillary Supporter Calls Obama Elitist." It is only her having been on the platform committee that gives this whatever puny weight it has.

[Supersedeas]

116. the 2012 campaign strategy and operation chaos takes another turn