Business community has felt "bruised" under Obama

[Enrique]

yeah, those record corporate profits really hurt! :cry:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/16/news/companies/bill_daley_barack_obama_business_ties.fortune/?section=money_latest

FORTUNE -- Bill Daley doesn't tweet. He's not a big fan of e-mail. When Daley wants to connect, he picks up the phone and, depending on the situation, proceeds to cajole, console, commiserate, counsel -- or some combination thereof. It is a skill he's honed in more than two decades as a counselor to restless lawmakers, presidential candidates, and CEOs -- and one he's now employing as President Obama's new chief of staff and unofficial troubleshooter of the administration's badly damaged relationship with corporate America. "I've always thought politics was about relationships and people," Daley tells me in a rare interview (over the telephone, of course) about himself. Practicing politics, he adds, is not like practicing a golf swing. "It's about engaging people, listening to them, understanding what motivates them."

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The willingness and ease with which Daley reaches across the aisle has earned him the respect of several key Republicans -- and the suspicion of many liberals. (His bipartisanship may be politically expedient, but it is also a family trait: Brother Rich kept a photo on his mayoral desk of George W. Bush beaming, with Rich and Bill on either side. "The rose between the thorns!" the Mayor quips to me.) Daley counts the Bush family as friends, and James A. Baker, who served as chief of staff to President Reagan and the senior President Bush, has only nice things to say about Daley: "Bill will be good at smoothing things out with a business community that really felt bruised, that felt looked on as greedy profiteers."


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[Ninga]

1. Ach!!! Badly damaged because the repubs say so and keep saying so at every juncture they can?????

So many brush fires to put out, so little time.

Hello? Who the hell is the "business community"??? Greedy banks? Hell Yes!

[Marsala]

10. No, Their feelings have been genuinely hurt.

Obama's been so meeeeeean to them with what he's said, so that all their millions and billions in bonuses don't ease the pain.

[tularetom]

2. They felt looked on as greedy profiteers, huh?

That's very odd because our liberal media has jumped backwards through their collective assholes trying to portray them as good old fashioned american job creators.

Maybe they have guilty consciences.

Maybe they'll be happy when their buddies the republicans pull the rug out from under the American economy.

[I owe]

3. The heart bleeds, does it not?

:nopity:

[TygrBright]

4. Oh... Oh, DEAR.... oh, those POOOOOR greedy corporate cobras. I feel so SORRY for them....

Not.

disgustedly,
Bright

[bowens43]

5. Brusied?

They should have the living sh*t beat out of them for what they have done to our country and our middle class.....

[Sheepshank]

6. Nothing tangible to offer that backs up the bruising?

Is there anything corporate America can whine about that they haaven't pepetrated on the public since Reagan's era?

Unless the nation and Obama is kissing butt, they are being bruised? Ask Chrysler about the bruising, ask Wells Fargo and AGI. Ask the small businesses that got all sorts of incentives to help with medical insurance for employees. The article is nothing but a whine-fest for those that never seem to recognize what they got and just want more without giving more.

Bunch of hooey.

[otohara]

7. They send American jobs overseas , pay few taxes

or no taxes at all, profits are up, and still they complain.

Besides more deregulation, what else do they want.

[alsame]

8. Meanwhile, the American people have been

beaten to a pulp.

[RiffRandell]

9. Just seeing the name James Baker says it all.

Barf fest. :puke:

[NICO9000]

11. Word!

He's always been one of the slimiest of the slimiest. Beware of anything that bears his name.

[KoKo]

22. Baker=Bush Fixer! n/t

[BlueIris]

12. Oh, please.

:nopity:

[woolldog]

13. I really don't get this meme.

Obama saved the auto industry. Bailed out the banks, while NOT nationalizing them. What exactly is their issue with the administration? I don't get it.

[Enrique]

15. they don't have any real issue

but by continuing to call Obama anti-business, they can get more and more out of him. Because that's what greedheads are after, more and more.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Me neither

They ought to be thanking their lucky stars he decided to toss them a lifeline instead of letting them drown in their own excesses (which would've ultimately hurt a LOT more people than just them). Like with the Bush/Cheney cabal, they should all be counting their lucky stars that the Obama Administration is not prosecuting the s**t out of them right now and THAT alone should be enough reason for all of them to keep their heads down and mouths closed about how "bruised" they've by President Obama, especially when they are back to making disgustingly exorbitant profits on the backs (and gas tanks) of the bottom 99% of the people in this country.

:eyes: :nopity: :mad:

[Blue_Tires]

19. Big business still needs that "anti-capitalist" talking point in the media

to get other Chamber of Commerce loons elected...

[ieoeja]

14. If they didn't want bruises, they shouldn't have convinced him to hug so tightly. nt

[flpoljunkie]

16. The truth hurts, greedy profiteers. The truth hurts.

[Arugula Latte]

17. They can go f@#$ themselves.

[BeyondGeography]

20. As if these people will ever be satisfied

Living in a state of permanent agitation is what makes them tick.

[JoePhilly]

21. Clutch pearls and then off to the fainting couch, I guess.

[msanthrope]

23. They should talk to Cornel West. n/t

[Vidar]

24. A shame they don't feel decimated.

[polichick]

25. Greedy assholes!