Lynn Forester de Rothschild Endorses McCain Because Obama Is “Elitist” (Cough_BS_cough)

Lynn Forester de Rothschild Endorses McCain Because Obama Is “Elitist”
Created: September 17th, 2008 | Written By: Kathy

I guess that sounds better than saying she is the “fantastically wealthy wife of an heir to England’s most influential and storied banking dynasty” and is supporting McCain because he wants to protect actual elitists like her from Obama’s plan to give the biggest tax cuts to those Americans who have the least, instead of to those who have the most. How dare Obama propose to hit her hundreds of millions when there are families living in Motel 6’s after the bank took their homes that he could be hitting up for cash?


Here is an interview with de Rothschild by Lloyd Grove at Conde Nast Portfolio. I particularly love the opening paragraph:

When 67-year-old British banking scion Sir Evelyn Rothschild first set eyes on 44-year-old Lynn Forester at the 1998 Bilderberg conference—the matchmaker was none other than Henry Kissinger—she was already a woman of major means.

The matchmaker was Henry Kissinger? The “smitten” Sir Evelyn Rothschild was married at the time — he divorced his wife, with whom he has three children, to marry the humble and non-elitist Lynn Forester:

A corporate lawyer and telecommunications entrepreneur, the sparkly blond ex-wife of former New York politician Andrew Stein had made more than $100 million from the sale of cleverly acquired wireless broadband licenses. She was also sexy, charming, and dazzlingly well connected. Two years later, after the smitten Sir Evelyn divorced his second wife, Victoria Schott, the mother of his three children, Forester became the third Lady Rothschild. After marrying in November 2000 at a London synagogue, they honeymooned at the White House, guests of Lynn’s good friends Bill and Hillary Clinton.

More irony (my emphasis in AP snip):

On the heels of his reassurance to blue collar Ohioans that he preferred their company to Hollywood celebs, McCain picks up the support of a top Hillary donor who happens to be a baroness.

Really.

The unintentionally ironic AP take:

Lynn Forester de Rothschild has said she thinks Democratic nominee Barack Obama is arrogant and has a problem connecting with average Americans.

Rothschild is a member of the DNC’s Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York

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