yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 9/17/2008
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Irony truly is dead as Lynn Forester de Rothschild endorses John McCain on anti-elitism grounds:
“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 ...
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We've Got the Hills of Beverly, Let's Burn the Hills of Beverly!!
Obsidian Wings —
... Like Matt Yglesias, I can't help but tear my hair out scratch my head at the suggestion by Lynn Forester de Rothschild that Barack Obama is too "elitist" for her liking (what a name considering her charge!) , but John "Too Many Houses to Count" McCain is just regular folk. Then again, looking at Forester de Rothschild's bio, it's easy to see how McCain can strike her as an everyman: ...
Lies and Taxes
Bitch. Ph.D. —
... Tucker Bounds basically admits that Obama's plan will cut taxes more than McCain's, but that basically we should ignore his tax plan because "he's voted for tax increases in the Senate." Apparently Megyn Kelly is giving Obama "too much credit" by comparing McCain's plan to Obama's plan, rather than comparing McCain's plan to unfounded and untrue statements about Barack Obama. Isn't this supposed to be Fox News? All via Yglesias.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild Endorses McCain Because Obama Is “Elitist”
Comments from Left Field —
... ” 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? ...
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