Suddenly, business leaders fear Obama

Hot Air ^ | May 14, 2009 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

Barack Obama won an extraordinary amount of support from the business world in his presidential campaign, helping to tamp down accusations of redistributionist aims, at least until Joe the Plumber caught Obama off-guard. They campaigned for him, raised money to get him elected, and celebrated when Obama won. Now they’re in a much less celebratory mood after seeing him in action, the AP reports (via The Corner):

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Bunch of dopes!

[Albion Wilde]

What were any of his supporters thinking, much less the business community? He is their sworn enemy.

Morons.

[FES0844]

Too late. They VOTED for him.

[SE Mom]

Every day I wonder if and/or WHEN someone in the business world with some real guts is going to stand up and say NO to this madman and his cohorts. They’ve undermined the contract laws of business without narry a holler of opposition.

[gigster]

I want to see more of the names of these idiots.

Eat your livers, you bastards.

You could have easily found out what was in store for you,
but you had “strong feelings”,
and voted in a Marxist/Fascist.
I hope the UAW jerks are happy with ther non-jobs now.

[Milita volunteer]

I bet our CIC never ran a lemonade stand.

[nascarnation]

God bless Joe the Plumber.

Has he recovered from the vicious media thrashing he received?

Interesting to compare his treatment to that of Baraq’s illegal immigrant auntie.

/puke

[Nuc1]

Why would JTP need to recover? He seems a decent, honest man. How could the evil that is the MSM harm an honest man?

[nascarnation]

Perhaps you’re correct, I just wondered.
In the end we knew more about JTP’s bio than we did Baraq’s.

[Clock King]

Business schools have become almost as corrupted as Law schools. Filled with Leftist/Communist Do-Nothings.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[353FMG]

Businessmen supporting a socialist/communist? Where did they go to school?

[OrangeHoof]

No sympathy for them. Democrats are anti-business. They’ve been that way my entire life and become increasingly moreso every time I wake up in the morning. Anyone too dumb to realize that shouldn’t be running a business anyway.

[colorado tanker]

These maroons have been awarded the Captain Louis Renault Award:

Obama’s attacks on contract law undermine the entire foundation of the private sector, enabled by the bailouts initially hailed by the same people now worried about the White House’s approach to business. On both counts, the Captain Louis Renault award goes to those corporate leaders shocked, shocked! by Barack Obama’s hostility towards the business community. What part of “community organizer” didn’t you guys understand?

I'd be feeling a sense of schadenfreude right now if the same actions weren't damaging the overall economy so much and not just the buffoons who supported the Community Organizer In Chief.

[DCPatriot]

You should be careful.

Those union workers that are losing their jobs are going to be hired by the federal government.

No doubt,some of them will be wearing shiny black boots....looking for ‘trouble’ makers.

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DUH!!!

idiots.

[gigster]

Re: “Shiny black boots”.

Hey, I have some of those,too!

And, shiny, black guns!

[synbad600]

You reap what you sow, idiots.

A Pyrrhic victory, to be sure.

[TurtleUp]

And, shiny, black guns!

But the Obama voters have seen more gangsta movies than you have, and they shoot more wuz-up cuz cool than you do. They hold their guns sideways and snap them forward while pulling the trigger - I think that makes their bullets go faster than yours do.

The new trend is upside down (I hope they try turning them 180 degrees horizontally instead of vertically next time they're looking for something creative, but this is a start:

Do you really think your shiny black guns are ready to face their strike-a-pose tactics?

[Oatka]

Businessmen supporting a socialist/communist? Where did they go to school?

Probably from the Junkers in 1930s Germany aka "He's just a good crowd mover. We can control him".

[ArchAngel1983]

I’m sorry; I no longer have any faith or confidence in our nation’s institutions of higher learning. Come on, these people are supposed to be smart (Harvard, Yale & Princeton business graduates). You mean to tell me that that Obama managed to sell Marxism to all these ‘upper crust’ capitalist smart asses?

[gigster]

Hey, I like that up-side-downy thing yo brofer has got going fo’ his natural sef.

Looks like it would hit hiz sef in the face when dat big ol’
han’ cannon goz off.

Yuz guys iz killin me wif yo’ krazy a$$ $hit!

[Nuc1]

True enough. JTP has been investigated. A pity that President O wasn’t properly investigated. In my experience the minions of evil attack the purveyors of truth in direct proportion to how dangerous the purveyors of truth are to them. JTPs question was simple and direct. And judging from the response of the media quite damaging to the Chicago mob machine that now runs the White House. And in the end what was the result? JTP is respected and the MSM, well not so much. I’d say JTP won this dust up. Keep the faith FReeper Friend. The tide is turning.

[Entrepreneur]

Okay, I cry bullchips!

I’m a businessman (okay, businessperson, businessentity, businesshuman, businesslifeform, etc.). I opposed BHO from the start. Frankly, I thought HRC would have been better (thanks Rush for trying) because she has more documentation to call out.

Private sector supporters of BHO tend to be remarkably naive. I know a few. They focus on their companies, not politics and can’t tell you a darn thing about this guy’s background, beliefs, or potential policies.

“He’s really smart,” said one.

“How do you know,” I asked.

“He ran the Harvard Law Review.”

“Did he write for it?”

Blank look.

“Has he every written anything other than his ghostwritten books?”

“They’re not ghostwritten!”

“How do you know?”

“He was the editor of the Harvard Law Review.”

At some point you quit trying to use logic.

So what is the business community support for BHO, the Marxist-in-Chief? I don’t know for certain, but I suspect it’s from the left of center Wall Street types (e.g., Government Sachs) who think they can buy market share through government influence cheaper than through competition. Or, it’s the left of center manufacturing types (e.g., GE) who think they can create a market through the government for windmills, CFLs, and other profitable, but uneconomic products. Or, it’s the left of center software teens who know code, but not economics, and who vote for the candidate they perceive as more “cool” than the other.

I give my share of speeches to small business owners. I tend to talk about business not politics because small business owners can affect their companies, but not Washington. Plus, politics tends to be more emotional than logical for most (otherwise, BHO would still be an ACORN employee) so that political inferences are guaranteed to turnoff part of the audience. Yet, I’ve still tossed in a few asides about BHO since January and I would say the reaction among small business owners is 95% in opposition.

I hate to fall back on the “Where’s Reagan” mantra, but where are the conservative Republicans? The only conservatives (e.g., Palin, Jindal) I see are getting tossed aside. The GOP is little more than Democrats at a 10% discount, which is the Gerald Ford recipe for one party rule.