What is astonishing and exasperating to me is how many of these supposedly
intelligent business moguls voted for someone with Obama’s limited
background. It makes me wonder what criteria they use when making
decisions and what kind of people they hire for their own businesses.
The Exasperation of the
Democratic Billionaire
Real-estate and newspaper mogul Mortimer Zuckerman voted
for Obama but began seeing trouble as soon as the stimulus went into the
pockets of municipal unions.
'It's as if he doesn't like
people," says real-estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mortimer
Zuckerman of the president of the United States. Barack Obama doesn't seem to
care for individuals, elaborates Mr. Zuckerman, though the president enjoys
addressing millions of them on television.
The Boston Properties CEO is
trying to understand why Mr. Obama has made little effort to build relationships
on Capitol Hill or negotiate a bipartisan economic plan. A longtime supporter
of the Democratic Party, Mr. Zuckerman wrote in these pages two months ago that
the entire business community was "pleading for some kind of adult
supervision" in Washington and "desperate for strong
leadership." Writing soon after the historic downgrade of U.S. Treasury
debt by Standard & Poor's, he wrote, "I long for a triple-A president
to run a triple-A country."
His words struck a chord.
When I visit Mr. Zuckerman this week in his midtown Manhattan office, he
reports that three people approached him at dinner the previous evening to
discuss his August op-ed. Among business executives who supported Barack Obama
in 2008, he says, "there is enormously widespread anxiety over the
political leadership of the country." Mr. Zuckerman reports that among
Democrats, "The sense is that the policies of this government have failed.
. . . What they say about [Mr. Obama] when he's not in the room, so to speak,
is astonishing."
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