The head of Home Depot calls them out on it:
IBD: If you could sit down with Obama and talk to him about job creation, what would you say?
Marcus: I’m not sure Obama would understand anything that I’d say, because he’s never really worked a day outside the political or legal area. He doesn’t know how to make a payroll, he doesn’t understand the problems businesses face. I would try to explain that the plight of the businessman is very reactive to Washington. As Washington piles on regulations and mandates, the impact is tremendous. I don’t think he’s a bad guy. I just think he has no knowledge of this.
He’s being too generous. There’s little evidence that he’s a good guy.
That he may be a world-class jerk isn’t important. And it’s costless for his critics to say, “he’s a nice guy, but…” or “he no doubt means well, but…” One of the things the left got so wrong with George W. Bush (and Cheney and Rumsfeld and just about anyone else), is its insistence to say that their own political opponents are not only wrong, but greedy, corrupt, evil, stupid, ignorant, ill-intentioned, and just about anything else.
The problem is the logically impaired, emotionally unbalanced are large in number and get to vote. The founders knew what Plato knew… democracy turns into dictatorship eventually, which is why this country was never meant to be a democracy. Too late it may be before enough people figure that out.
Business is the good guy, not because of who they are, but because free people naturally regulate them. Government demagoguery violates this natural law. We need to loudly denounce those in government making business the evil boogie man every single time they do it (which is more than just daily.) The only truly evil business is the one getting government protection. It’s the people the government is established to protect. Those people are the only ones that should regulate business. They have all the tools they need except transparency. Promoting transparency might be a proper use of government (might, rather than should because everything government touches tends to be corrupted.)
Indeed, Rand, all of the evidence I’ve seen indicates he’s a very bad man.