Why Many Of President Obama's Supporters Are Feeling Exasperated

Mortimer Zuckerman

The Exasperation Of The Democratic Billionaire -- James Freeman, Wall Street Journal

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."

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My Comment: His disappointment is not an isolated case. My brother lives in San Francisco, and he and his wife are not only die-hard Democrats, but die-hard LIBERAL Democrats. But in the past two years things have changed. We now have a standing rule in our family .... when we meet we do not discuss politics. Fortunately .... my mom .... a former Liberal who has seen it all from Soviet Russia to now Canada.... ignores such rules and makes her own negative views blunt on President Obama and his liberal supporters. Yup .... family dinner times are rarely boring.

What is my take .... Mortimer Zuckerman .... like many others .... bought the rhetoric and believed that with Democrat control of the House and Senate in 2006 coupled with President Obama winning the White House in 2008 would result in a change for the better. At the time I strongly disagreed with this premise for the simple reason that what President Obama and his liberal supporters want is what I am presently living with in Quebec, Canada. High taxes, no encouragement of entrepreneurship and free markets, high unemployment, stagnant economy, high deficits, government corruption coupled with government seeking even more powers to rule over us, free health care but lousy and long waiting lists that makes you rush to the US for your health care in case of a serious illness (for now), and a society and culture where a sense of entitlement now runs the political process while ignoring those who pay for it (like me).

Is this America's future? For individuals like Mort Zuckerman .... they are clearly saying no .... but their way of thinking is now are a minority in America .... which is why President Obama now has a very good chance of winning a second term.