More psychobabble from "Lady" Lynn Forester de Rothschild.....and two appropriate smackdowns

[marmar]

dueling posts from HuffPost:




Lynn Forester de Rothschild
Posted October 31, 2008 | 02:57 PM (EST)
Barack Obama's America


When Barack Obama announced that he was running for president he was very clear that, if elected, he planned "not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation". Twenty months after that statement in Springfield Illinois, we now have a much clearer view of what he means by "Change We Can Believe In". In a campaign of soaring generalizations on mostly centrist themes, Barack Obama has described the details of the transformation he would bring with almost surgical precision. What he offers may be, in substance and in spirit, a radical departure from the principles of the American Dream that has defined our nation over the last two centuries.

In the guise of a "middle-class tax cut", Senator Obama is actually adding a new tax in order to create a new welfare program that will add to the annual $400 billion that we currently spend on our welfare system. According to the Tax Policy Center, each year Barack Obama will take $70 billion from the 2% of small businesses and individuals who create over 16 million jobs and will send checks for almost $100 billion to over 40%, or approximately 60 million Americans, who pay no taxes at all. Cleverly, Senator Obama has called his transfer a "refundable tax credit" instead of "income redistribution". Indeed, to label as a "refund" a payment which the recipient has never funded is wordsmithing on steroids.

When Bill Clinton turned "welfare" into "workfare" in 1996 and created twenty two million jobs for Americans, he said, "We are taking an historic chance to make welfare what it was meant to be, a second chance, not a way of life". At the time, then State Senator Obama called this highly successful policy "disturbing". No wonder that the Chicago New Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Socialist Party, endorsed State Senator Obama in 1996 after he signed the pledge that was required in order to receive the endorsement. Now, if elected president, he will re-create a failed welfare system while calling it "tax reform". No candidate has ever been cleverer with words than Mr. Obama. But, does America want to "spread the wealth" as Mr. Obama advocates? According to the June Gallup Poll, Americans, by a margin of 84-13%, want our government to fix the economy and create jobs, not to redistribute wealth. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lady-lynn-forester-de-rothschild/barack-obamas-america_b_139762.html


......SMACKDOWN NO. 1......



David Rees
Posted October 31, 2008 | 03:23 PM (EST)
An Open Letter To Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild


After Obama wins the election and steals all the white peoples' money and gives it to the black people and then commands the black people to take our cars and our candelabras and forces us to work in the underground salt mines for fifty cents a day and then repossesses our caviar and our brie and holds them right in front of our noses to torture us . . . would you like to get a cup of coffee?

BECAUSE I THINK I'M FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOUR MIND.

Your new best friend,

David Rees


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rees/an-open-letter-to-lady-ly_b_139779.html


......SMACKDOWN NO. 2......



Beth Arnold
Posted November 1, 2008 | 10:52 AM (EST)
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild: The Female Joe Lieberman


Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild must be one of the worst sports that has stepped onto the political stage in a very long time. When Hillary Clinton lost her bid to the Democratic nomination, her Ladyship packed up her toys and jumped into the Republican sandbox with John McCain, and his platform of anti-choice, anti-gay rights, and all the other obstructions to progress the Republicans feel bound to impose.

What makes this even worse is Lady de R also lives (at least part of the time) abroad, which means that she personally knows how the international reputation of the United States has suffered, especially over the last eight years, and what the rest of the world thinks of this election--that it is hugely in favor of Barack Obama's candidacy. In fact, in the snap of an Obama election moment in time, our global esteem will instantly rehabilitate to an enormous degree.

This is what her Ladyship said a year ago in an interview on Condé Nast Portfolio.com:

And I think if history is our guide, we've had stronger economies, more wealth creation, under Democratic presidents than we have under Republican presidents. So I don't understand why all my capitalist friends aren't Democrats.

But now it is the Democratic party and candidate she is taking the time to trash in every media venue that she can get her hands on, including this Op-Ed that she wrote to influence Florida voters (face it, a lot of old people) that originally appeared in the Orlando Sentinel. Lady de R's newfound appropriate audience watches her friend Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and is now perhaps among the James Dobson crowd. Here's her interchange with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who, after the interview sort of apologized for being tough with her. (Why would he do this?) And her giggly teasing response was: "You're the liberal elite. Not me." ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beth-arnold/lady-lynn-forester-de-rot_b_139958.html

[nichomachus]

1. Is Lady Armpit de Douchebag even an American?

I thought you couldn't keep your citizenship and have a foreign title.

[47of74]

2. Another person who has her nose so up in the air

"Lady" Lynn Forester de Rothschild is another person who has her nose so up in the air that she cannot even see the disgust and contempt etched on the faces of other people. No wonder she has a crush on Grampy.

[gratuitous]

3. $400 billion spent on our welfare system?

Okay, she's either on drugs, counts every non-defense expenditure as "welfare," or has conflated the defense budget with welfare. Wotta maroon. And if I'm looking for ways to make society work better and more equitably for everyone rather than just for the overrich, I think I'll start with someone other than a Rothschild.

[The Magistrate]

4. Several Points Seem Worth Making Here, Sir, To Enlighten The Lady's Ignorance

First, the statement that this tax credit will go to "approximately 60 million Americans, who pay no taxes at all" is something to bring tears to the eyes and laughter to the lips. There are no persons filing an income tax return "who pay no taxes at all". They may owe no income tax to the Federal government once all deductions are figured in, and the Earned Income Credit is applied, but they certainly pay taxes. They pay excise taxes on their utilities, and on many common purchases; they pay sales taxes, property taxes (renters simply pay these for their landlord; it is a major component of rent), and a variety of other levies, including the payroll tax (in fact, they pay in truth the portion of that tax labeled 'employer contribution, since it is a cost of employing them, and otherwise would be part of their salary): in fact, these people generally pay over a third of their total income in taxes to various levels of government.

Second, Sen. Obama's tax credit proposals, however labeled, are in fact nothing more than an extension of the Earned Income Credit referenced above. This is hardly a measure with roots in Socialist or Marxist agitation. It was a proposal first bruited about by Milton Friedman, the arch-priest of 'free-marketeer' theology, and proposed and passed into law by that well-known proponent of world Communism, Richard Milhouse Nixon.

Third, let us be absolutely clear about what the Earned Income Credit actually is: it is a government subsidy to businesses that pay low wages, enabling the persons they employ to continue in employment that does not pay them sufficiently to procure necessities of life in our society. Those businesses would be unable to procure employees without it, or willing and reasonably contented employees, anyway. The difference between decent wages and what is actually paid, which is made up by the Earned Income Credit supplied by the Federal government, goes directly to the profit of the business, and the pockets of its owners and shareholders, as well as buoying the salaries of its managers.

[OHDEM]

5. Puhleeze!

This pampered Princess de bullshit actually had the gall to call Obama an elitist. She's no LADY!

[Dogmudgeon]

6. I'm madder than a dyslexic gay hippie in Sarah Palin's nucular chastity gun belt!

LFdR is Lady Huffington's version of Ed Anger.

Who is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Anger">Ed Anger? Just click.

Then we have ...

"When Hillary Clinton lost her bid to the Democratic nomination, her Ladyship (Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild) packed up her toys and jumped into the Republican sandbox with John McCain ..."

Considering that most of the HuffPo contributors have held (very) strong anti-Hillary sentiments for a (very) long time, it's clear why she is one of the mainstays of Huffington Post.

She's the cartoonish character who is sure to rouse half the readership to a fever pitch of political outrage. The Official Whipping PUMA of the Huffington Post.

--p!
... all the way to the bank.