The gift that keeps on giving

Speaking to CNN, America’s new Robin Hood, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, denied that she was bitter over Hillary Clinton’s loss to Barack Obama.

Indeed, with the word bitter dangling in front of her nose, she just could not resist taking a swipe at Obama for his, endlessly repeated, “Bitter Americans” remark. However, the world of effective political quips seemed to evade de Rothschild yet again. Hot on the heels of her failure to understand the definition of irony, de Rothschild struggled to consider that the people she sought to defend might not appreciate being called...“rednecks”.

"Barack Obama went and called the people who have guns and cling to their religion bitter. The people out who are the rednecks or whatever are bitter," she said.
Obama never actually called anyone a “redneck”, so it’ll be difficult for her to claim she was paraphrasing him. Is it a case that the middle class girl from New Jersey is so in tune with the sentiments of Middle America that she feels their anguish over being called “rednecks”? Or rather is the multi-millionaire, who divides her ornate internationalist life between the UK and New York, so out of touch she can’t help but insult those she’s trying to defend?

Who knows? In any case, maybe they’re all now “bitter” about being called “rednecks”.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump, not wanting to be outdone by the competitive Rothschilds raced to endorse John McCain last night. The premise behind the endorsement was Trump’s “knowledge” of McCain to be “a great guy, a tremendous guy”.

He also railed against Obama’s decision not to select Hillary Clinton as his running mate, and used a neat little anecdote of the incredulity of his foreign friend to diminish the fact that Obama even won the Democratic Primaries. Furthermore, not wanting to back the losing horse Trump said, “It looks to me like McCain is probably winning.”

Of course, Donald Trump did not try to use his endorsement to stoke the fires of class warfare. In fact, his real motivations were fairly implicit. “This is not the right time for tax increases,” Trump argued. “And Obama is going to raise your taxes drastically.”

That’s right Mr Trump, he is going to raise your taxes drastically.

Thus, McCain has gathered for himself quite the high-profile and wealthy coterie. Now, to cement the appearance of being gloriously aloof, McCain only needs the endorsement of President Bush. Oh wait, he has it.