Madame de Rothchild needs to be booted out of the DNC, right on her rich ass.  Arrogant = Uppity.  There’s no place for this kind of nonsense in the Dem leadership.

Madame de Rothchild

Her correct title is Lady de Rothschild—her husband is Sir Evelyn.

And she thinks Barak Obama is an elitist.

For four years there were no expensive fundraisers with rich people… IN VIETNAM.

I’m sure it’s been said here many times, but elitist is the new black.

Dang, we’ve lost Lady Rothschild.  And when you’ve lost Lady Rothschild, you’ve lost mainstream America.

Fun true fact:  when I was a young word processor at a ginormous midtown law firm in NYC, Lynn Forester was a young attorney and woman-about-town, about to marry NY Dem fixture Andy Stein (which she did in 1983).  Back then, I said to myself, “well, sure, she seems nice enough now.  But just wait 25 years or so—I bet she’ll marry into the European aristocracy, throw her support to some incoherent, fundie-pandering Republican presidential candidate with nine or ten houses and zero clues, and call the Democrat of humble origins an elitist.”  Sometimes I’m just prescient that way.  And yes, I have witnesses.

Lady de Rothschild does not approve.

This is news?

As you said MikeEss said above, this beyond parody.

Oh, and a parting shot, isn’t “Sir Evelyn” an oxymoron?

Just asking.

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.

And she calls Obama an elitist. Ol’ Rothy is such a cutup!

LADY Lynn Forester De Rothschild??  When she goes to the McDonalds for her meal, unlike the elitist arugula-eating Obama, does she make people at the restaurant call her Lady de Rothschild?

Do people really take these honorifics thinking it makes them sound really cool and awesome?  If so, they might be interested to learn that instead people think it makes them look pompous.

Then again, what does she care?  She gets to sleep on a big pile of money every night. >_<

When she goes to the McDonalds for her meal, unlike the elitist arugula-eating Obama

Well, actually, McDonalds serves arugula:

http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/bagamcmeal/nutrition_ingredients.html#3

What, couldn’t they find any older money to endorse John McCain? Like the people who inherited the money Ogg made when he instituted the financial system on Pangaea?

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

The best reason for not panicking about this election is that the media thinks the best people to interview for their opinions have honorifics, but never actually visit campaign offices.  If they did, they would see Obama’s tremendous ground support and McCain’s tumbleweeds.

Titles of nobility make me sick.

Although, technically, she’s a Lady because her husband is a knight, and a knighthood (not being hereditary) is not a title of nobility in the British usage.  I mean, its the same title Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John possess.  Still elitist, though, tautalogically.

Wait, aren’t most Republicans the type of people who hate “Rosthschilds”?

I mean, that family is basically at the center of the Illuminati/Protocol of the Elders of Zion conspiracy theory orgasm.  They’re supposed to be the vile evil Jooz who secretly run the worlld.

Now they’re part of the right wing talking point machine?

The best reason for not panicking about this election is that the media thinks the best people to interview for their opinions have honorifics, but never actually visit campaign offices.  If they did, they would see Obama’s tremendous ground support and McCain’s tumbleweeds.

Here are a few pictures of the opening of Obama’s Los Angeles office right after the convention.  It made the local news.

At some point, it will be irrelevant whether a politician is called “elitist”.  It’s been so overused and misused the snap it once had is gone.  I think “maverick” will go the same way.  In fact, I think we should just call everyone and everything an “elite maverick” so that the terms become so common and hated, we never have to hear them again.

Examples:

A: “What time is it?”
B: “That clock is a maverick.  And elitist.”

A: “I love macaroni and cheese.”
B: “That’s such an elite, maverick food.  Traitor.  You hate America.”

A: “I like watching crime dramas but the dead bodies bother me.”
B: “Dead bodies are elite mavericks.”

Something like that.

Evelyn is a common, if old-fashioned, British male name. And so is Vivian.

Not knowing that took me from a 4 on the English Lit AP exam to a 3.  I would have gotten those questions right, plus the passage would have made more sense, if I’d known it was a man and woman talking, not two women.  (The questions used pronouns, the dialogue didn’t.)  Which meant I had to take a year of English in college.  Remember kids, knowing which American women’s names used to be British men’s names matters.

Well, actually, McDonalds serves arugula

The lulz keep rolling in

A: “I love macaroni and cheese.”
B: “That’s such an elite, maverick food.

Macaroni, historically, was considered a sophisticated, elite food, to the point that anything high fashion in the 18th Century was called, “macaroni”.  That’s why, when Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap, he called it macaroni . . .

Yup, my students always love finding out about macaroni subculture.  The joke about Yankee Doodle is that he’s such a yokel he thinks all he has to do to be in fashion is to stick a feather in his cap.

Evelyn is a common, if old-fashioned, British male name. And so is Vivian.

Not knowing that took me from a 4 on the English Lit AP exam to a 3.

I guess they don’t assign much Waugh in high school but it would be pretty hard to imagine him as a woman, at least for me. Of course my awareness of this came from NewsRadio; “it’s pronounced Eavelyn!”

@ Loneoak: I think you’re right about Obama’s tremendous groundforce. I just hope to whatever being resides above us that it’s what he needs to win this.

rea:

Macaroni, historically, was considered a sophisticated, elite food, to the point that anything high fashion in the 18th Century was called, “macaroni”.

Actually, the pejorative fashion term has nothing to do with pasta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse

Dan, that article mentions what I’d always thought, that the term “Macaronic” does in fact come from pasta, but that unlike the claim that it was an elite food, the whole spectrum of uses comes from the perception that Maccerone was, in fact, a food of the lower classes.