The return of Lady Lynn....
Sep. 11th, 2008 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundBack on 9 July I commented on Lynn Forester's comment on CNN calling Sen. Obama an "Elitist".
I pointed out at the time that Ms. Forester was not the person to call someone an "elitist", since her full married name is Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Lady Rothschild. Third wife of British financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who met her husband to be at a Bilderberg conference, (the person who introduced them was Henry Kissinger), and who made her fortune in the telecommunications industry.
At the time I found it funny that a Rothschild AND Bilderberg was calling Sen. Obama an "elitist"
Well, she wrote an article (under the name Lynn Forester de Rothschild) in the 11 September edition of the Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Need to Shake the 'Elitist' Tag
"If Barack Obama loses the presidential election, it may well be the result of a public perception that he is detached and elitist -- a politician whose expressions of empathy for hard-working Americans stem more from abstract solidarity than a real connection to the lives of millions of citizens.
Suggestions that Sen. Obama has failed to relate to working- and middle-class voters in swing states have dogged his campaign for months. His choice of Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate only marginally corrects the problem.
While Obama supporters attempt to dismiss the charges about their candidate's perceived hauteur, they confuse privilege and elitism. Elitism is a state of mind, a view of the world that cannot be measured simply by one's net worth, position or number of houses. Throughout American history, there have been extremely wealthy figures who have devoted themselves to genuinely nonelitist principles. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt is probably the best-known example.) At the same time, many from modest backgrounds, like Harry Truman's foil, Thomas Dewey, personified elitism."
"Lady" Lynn, it may have escaped your attention while living in your chateu that Sen. Obama came from a working and middle class background. It certainly seems to have escaped your attention that someone who married into a family that has dominated European banking for over 200 years, who uses the title gained in that marriage, and who met her husband to be at a Bilderberg conference has no business calling ANYONE an "elitist".
I pointed out at the time that Ms. Forester was not the person to call someone an "elitist", since her full married name is Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Lady Rothschild. Third wife of British financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who met her husband to be at a Bilderberg conference, (the person who introduced them was Henry Kissinger), and who made her fortune in the telecommunications industry.
At the time I found it funny that a Rothschild AND Bilderberg was calling Sen. Obama an "elitist"
Well, she wrote an article (under the name Lynn Forester de Rothschild) in the 11 September edition of the Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Need to Shake the 'Elitist' Tag
"If Barack Obama loses the presidential election, it may well be the result of a public perception that he is detached and elitist -- a politician whose expressions of empathy for hard-working Americans stem more from abstract solidarity than a real connection to the lives of millions of citizens.
Suggestions that Sen. Obama has failed to relate to working- and middle-class voters in swing states have dogged his campaign for months. His choice of Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate only marginally corrects the problem.
While Obama supporters attempt to dismiss the charges about their candidate's perceived hauteur, they confuse privilege and elitism. Elitism is a state of mind, a view of the world that cannot be measured simply by one's net worth, position or number of houses. Throughout American history, there have been extremely wealthy figures who have devoted themselves to genuinely nonelitist principles. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt is probably the best-known example.) At the same time, many from modest backgrounds, like Harry Truman's foil, Thomas Dewey, personified elitism."
"Lady" Lynn, it may have escaped your attention while living in your chateu that Sen. Obama came from a working and middle class background. It certainly seems to have escaped your attention that someone who married into a family that has dominated European banking for over 200 years, who uses the title gained in that marriage, and who met her husband to be at a Bilderberg conference has no business calling ANYONE an "elitist".
