Biz leader: Obama "is the most anti-business president in my lifetime"

For three years I've been saying that Barack Obama is the most anti-business president ever. Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, comes close to agreeing with me in a Fox News op-ed:

But I believe the Obama administration has hurt job creation in two big ways:

First, President Obama himself is the most anti-business president in my lifetime. With rhetoric not befitting a president he has attacked oil companies, banks, airplane users, Wall Street and anyone who makes money. Yet, he seems to forget that if you are making money you are in the best position to create jobs.

When the president of the United States is using the bully pulpit to excoriate business at every turn and push the 99 and one percent rhetoric, he is leading by dividing. CEOs are understandably reluctant to invest and hire when they believe the nation’s CEO is out to get them.

To be fair, the president recently has tempered his remarks and his actions – but probably because it’s an election year, not because he has had a change of heart.

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