[Izzy]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...tions-elite/p/

Ferguson was joined in his harsh attack by billionaire real estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman. Both lambasted Obama’s trillion-dollar deficit spending program—in the name of economic stimulus to cushion the impact of the 2008 financial meltdown—as fiscally ruinous, potentially turning America into a second-rate power. The Elite Turn Against Obama

by Lloyd Grove
July 7, 2010 | 6:46am

Even the Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual gathering of the country's brightest lights, isn't Obama country anymore. Lloyd Grove on the president's waning support among the intelligentsia.

You’d think the well-heeled and enlightened eggheads at the Aspen Ideas Festival—which is running all week in this fashionable resort town with heady panel discussions and earnest disquisitions involving all manner of deep thinkers and do-gooders—would be receptive to an intellectually ambitious president with big ideas of his own.

In a way, the folks attending this cerebral conclave pairing the Aspen Institute think tank with the Atlantic Monthly magazine might even be seen as President Obama’s natural base.

Apparently not so much.

“The real problem we have,” Mort Zuckerman said, “are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interests of this country.”

Obama’s top economic adviser, Larry Summers, and his departing budget director, Peter Orszag, can expect heavy weather when they land in Aspen later this week to make their case to this civic-minded clique of wealthy skeptics.

“If you’re asking if the United States is about to become a socialist state, I’d say it’s actually about to become a European state, with the expansiveness of the welfare system and the progressive tax system like what we’ve already experienced in Western Europe,” Harvard business and history professor Niall Ferguson declared during Monday’s kickoff session, offering a withering critique of Obama’s economic policies, which he claimed were encouraging laziness.

[mr.videomen]

What kills me about all this is people still don't think he's doing this ON PURPOSE!!! The goal is to turn America into a second-rate power! That's been his goal all along. He is having a blast ruining the greatest country on earth. Why can't people see that???

[koebforfrn]

Well, why can't you see that you piss off everyone on this forum? At first I thought it was mental, now I think you're perhaps vision-impaired.

[Frjrbefd]

That's his goal. It's a need for attention that he can't feed elsewhere.

[BriKevin]

He doesn't piss me off. I find him almost amusing in his child-like acceptance of everything Rush says, and his kneejerk response to anything the President does.

[bpejjssoe]

He doesn't piss me off. I find him almost amusing in his child-like acceptance of everything Rush says, and his kneejerk response to anything the President does.

You are more easily amused than I am, then.